I get it, you don't like Krank amps, and that's OK.
Krankenstein was approved by Dime and in production at the time of his death.
Yes, the amps were based on
the Revolution Series One and share components.
The amp he was playing at the time of his murder is a prototype Krankenstein, I have a picture of it somewhere.
If you really want to see it, I can dig around for it and host it on photobucket and post it here.
The changes that Tony Dow made to the the Revolution design, for Dime, that Dime requested, tested and approved are:
The tone stack, values are changed from the Revolution. Along with the voicing which is different from the Revolution Series One, Dime selected
the Texas Heat speakers for the cab. IMO Dime was going deaf from all the years of insane stage volume and couldn't hear high frequencies well anymore,
and over-compensated with these speakers and the 'stein tone stack.
As you say, the Dime channel and the clean channel have more preamp gain than the Revolution Series One.
The Global Master volume was added to the preamp side.
The ss loop amplification was added from the Chadwick series. The Revolution Series One did not have a powered loop.
Though not a ground up new amp, the Krankenstein does indeed have many changes from the Revolution that Tony Dow and Dime worked together on,
and to call the Krankenstein a Revolution Series One with "extra diode clipping" is disingenuous at best.
All products that bear Dime's likeness and/or name are approved and licensed by the family. Before you (edit: I mean "you" as "anyone", not yourself in particular or individually) accuse any company of "whoring" Dime's name, please understand that the family likes money too, and they do get paid.
