Rickenbacker Transonic Model 200

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Fri Oct 13, 2000 6:31 am

Hello to all,

I have a Rickenbacker Transonic 200 Amplifier.
Serial #371, I believe it's from the mid 60's.

It has 350 watts, 1 Altec Lansing 15" speaker and 12" speakers.The speaker cabinet mounts in a chrome tubular stand. That way you could tilt the speaker back and forth to the audience. The solid state head is mounted in walnut, that too, bolts on to the speaker cabinet. The whole thing stands 5' feet tall. The grille cloth is kind of a black-charcoal with purple and green woven through out it. The amp has two channels, each with tremelo, reverb, fuzz and assorted Rick -O- Gain selectable tones. I have the sales brochure and the foot pedals and it still works and sounds great. I have owned it for about 15 years.

Does anybody know about this amp ?

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Fri Oct 13, 2000 9:55 am

Dan: Thanks for your comments and your willingness to submit photos of your TR200. I hope that you receive comments to assist you in learning more about the history and performance of this amplifier.

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Sat Oct 14, 2000 7:53 pm

There were several permutations of the Transonic Series amplifiers, most of them described only on price sheets, although there was also a Transonic 'brochure' describing most of what was available (somebody should reprint this; it's a killer period piece!). Transonics came in 200 watt, 100 watt and 70 watt versions. The only TR70 I've ever seen was a 2-12 combo, same size as the 100's but with limited appointments (no rocker switches, fuzz or Rick-o-boost). Somewhere, I have an original operation manual for Transonics. I suppose I should get that reprinted eventually.

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Mon Oct 30, 2000 8:41 am

If anyone has a Rickenbacker Transonic 200 they
want to sell or know of any sources for Transonic 200's, please contact me.

Thanks
Eric Hand
770-867-7480
850-224-9570
[email protected]

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Mon Oct 30, 2000 1:55 pm

Hello to all,

I have a Rickenbacker Transonic 200 Amplifier.
Serial #371, I know it's from the mid 60's.

It has 350 watts RMS, 1 Altec Lansing 15" speaker and 12" speakers. The speaker cabinet mounts in a chrome tubular stand and the Head bolts to the cabinet. That way you could tilt the speaker back and forth to the audience. The solid state head is mounted in walnut, that too, bolts on to the speaker cabinet. The whole thing stands 5' feet tall. The grille cloth is kind of a black-charcoal with purple and green woven through out it. The amp has two channels, each with tremelo,reverb,fuzz and assorted Rick -O- Gain selectable tones. I have the sales brochure and the foot pedals and it still works and sounds great. I have owned it for about 15 years.

This amp can be viewed at Rickenbacker's web site:
http://www.rickenbacker.com/images/cf68-8.jpg}

Last one I heard about, was for sale at $1200 (USD) and it didn't even have the stand.

Dan Kuraner
[email protected]

in Keene, NH.

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Sun May 26, 2002 5:23 pm

I have a Rickenbacker Transonic 200 but can't find a schematic for it. It is not working but in very nice cosmetic condition. Any help would be appreciated. Rickenbacker does not have schematics.

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Tue May 28, 2002 4:14 pm

Hmmm...that's very strange. I remember John Hall embarking on the noble quest of compiling as many Rickenbacker schematics as he could muster up, even a few of those that had been nothing more than sketches on scrap paper. Certainly they have Transonic schematics. It's possible that they don't want to be in the schematic dissemination business. If all else fails, contact me at [email protected] and we'll see what I can come up with. Best o'luck...

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri May 16, 2003 8:18 am

First of all, I love The Troggs too Dan, and secondly, I saw Led Zeppelin at The Boston Tea Party (it held maybe a thousand people or less and was on Lansdown St, and was full of those damn hippies) on their second US tour and they used these amps. My memory is foggy from those days, but they sounded great and the amps were huge. I don't remember if they used multiple amps (multiple amps were common in those days, PA's being what they were ((or weren't)) but you could definitely hear them well.