miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
So in all the commotion of the day...I completely forgot to mention the new amp that showed up at my door.
I scored a Fender '57 Custom Twin Amp.
This is not the high-powered Twin...but the 40W Tweed, which has been called by many "one of the best amps ever made"...but that's subjective of course, though it certainly is a model that embodies much of the vintage Rock tone, and one of the amps that influenced the birth of the Marshall sounds, though the '57 doesn't sound anything like a Marshall, but you can hear underneath its tone how it influenced those later amp generations.
This is an all Point-to-Point hand wired amp, sporting some vintage designed caps and wiring, staying pretty true to the original, and it has a pair of 6L6 power tubes with dual 5U4GB rectifiers. A pair of 12AY7 tubes in V1 & V2 and then a pair of 12AX7 tubes in V3 & V4.
There are a pair of 12 Weber designed/Eminence built 8ohm Alnico speakers, wired in parallel and running at a combined 4 ohms.
There's the 1-2 Bright and 1-2 Normal channels, each with their own Volume control and there are Presence, Treble and Bass controls.
Unlike some other Tweed amps, because of its design, you can't jumper the Bright/Normal channels, but you can use a guitar Y cord and feed both at the same time for combination tones. You can also pull one rectifier tube for more sag.
The cabinet is a lacquered tweed.
I got it for just a bit over 1/2 price because it had a ding on one of the corners, and some minor handling smudges, and the amp doesn't appear to have been played at all. Well, the smudges all wiped off with a wet rag, and the corner ding is 100% fixable like it was never there.
So the smudges and the ding saved me $1400 off the total price, on a virtually new amp!
Anyway...this thing sounds absolutely marvelous!
I plugged a Tele into it and it was the most perfect marriage of guitar and amp I've heard in awhile! Here's a pic of the amp.
I scored a Fender '57 Custom Twin Amp.
This is not the high-powered Twin...but the 40W Tweed, which has been called by many "one of the best amps ever made"...but that's subjective of course, though it certainly is a model that embodies much of the vintage Rock tone, and one of the amps that influenced the birth of the Marshall sounds, though the '57 doesn't sound anything like a Marshall, but you can hear underneath its tone how it influenced those later amp generations.
This is an all Point-to-Point hand wired amp, sporting some vintage designed caps and wiring, staying pretty true to the original, and it has a pair of 6L6 power tubes with dual 5U4GB rectifiers. A pair of 12AY7 tubes in V1 & V2 and then a pair of 12AX7 tubes in V3 & V4.
There are a pair of 12 Weber designed/Eminence built 8ohm Alnico speakers, wired in parallel and running at a combined 4 ohms.
There's the 1-2 Bright and 1-2 Normal channels, each with their own Volume control and there are Presence, Treble and Bass controls.
Unlike some other Tweed amps, because of its design, you can't jumper the Bright/Normal channels, but you can use a guitar Y cord and feed both at the same time for combination tones. You can also pull one rectifier tube for more sag.
The cabinet is a lacquered tweed.
I got it for just a bit over 1/2 price because it had a ding on one of the corners, and some minor handling smudges, and the amp doesn't appear to have been played at all. Well, the smudges all wiped off with a wet rag, and the corner ding is 100% fixable like it was never there.
So the smudges and the ding saved me $1400 off the total price, on a virtually new amp!
Anyway...this thing sounds absolutely marvelous!
I plugged a Tele into it and it was the most perfect marriage of guitar and amp I've heard in awhile! Here's a pic of the amp.