Today i have been practicing blues licks through a Fender tweed blues junior Limited Edition with Jensen speaker. It has some of the Bill M. mods which give it a good tone. I am enjoying this amp.
Today i have been practicing blues licks through a Fender tweed blues junior Limited Edition with Jensen speaker. It has some of the Bill M. mods which give it a good tone. I am enjoying this amp.
Last edited by Trav-ler; 02-06-2016 at 10:24 PM.
I have held off responding to this thread, as I knew everybody would be jealous of my treasure!
I played through it this weekend, and it is a really easy to get any sound you want. I generally dime the amp, and set the level with the guitar, it can be beautifully clean, or really singing! I bought it used in 1968, and carried it with me while in the Navy, rediscovered it about 10 years ago, and went through it, and recovered the cab. Ted recommended his 12A125A speaker, and it is great!
http://images.lilypix.com/displayima...622&fullsize=1
Originally Posted by Bill Moore
More, More, More Details shouted the angry mob, lamenting their loss of QDT!
Quality Drool Time, that is.
Please tell us more!
What happend?
Who let the magic smoke out?
I have one just like that with virtually all the BillM mods as well. Lovely little amp. Does both BF tones and Tweeds.Today i have been practicing blues licks through a Fender tweed blues junior Limited Edition with Jensen speaker. It has some of the Bill M. mods which give it a good tone. I am enjoying this amp.
My post was of course tongue in cheek, but I really do like the old amp for low volume applications. Here's a rear view:
http://images.lilypix.com/displayima...625&fullsize=1
What happend?
Who let the magic smoke out?
this little amp really boogies
For the last week this one has really hooked me (and reeled me in). Richter RS-33. It sounds really just like a full Tweed Bassman with one 12" speaker. Same controls as a Bassman facing forward. Priced unbelievable low for a boutique. A steal really. And at 33 watts you get great tones before deafness sets in.
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Nice amp renderit. It's similar to a Blues Jr. albeit on steroids. Old school circuitry seems so simple why don't they still build them this way. What is the pedal?
After a few mods these bj's can really make some sweet tone. This one has the Jensen speaker. It will make sweet vintage warm dirt tone or clean up nicely with a turn of a knob. I am enjoying this amp.
Been tooling around with this that I got last week. I just love Matchless'es ss s i whatever. A lot.
Last edited by renderit; 08-12-2017 at 06:59 PM.
those are killer amps.
my new toy:
Ohhhh! I like those.
Last May I bought a much needed upgrade; I went to my local guitar shop quite innocently scored this for £589.00;
A Marshall SL-5 Slash Signature Combo Amp... 5 Watt/1 Watt amp.
Rockbottom of Croydon said this was the last one for sale in England;
I would have bought it regardless but, the gentleman was right.
I went home, found one online and then to my amazement discovered was the very same/ from my local guitar shop and was this amp I bought..
Which made that all the more cool.
Limited run Marshall SL-5
I run my guitars direct through to this. No multi effect required really for what I want.
Got a footswitch for it from Denmark Street, Soho, London recently, it has reverb so I got the correct footswitch with channel & reverb switches.
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Ampeg Mini SVT, and it KILLS!!! Been playing it at Church as we have a very low stage volume, and it has an XLR DI out
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
I worked on this one a while, got the trem to work, sounds great!
Those Gibsons are tasty amps! Especially the trem!!!
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
Some SWEET gear here.
Most times I play through the Mustang I
But I did acquire a new beastie......hand wired Champ copy forged at the foot of a Vulcano in Panama
Its hiding behind all these freaking FENDER shaped geetars.........
HEad
and cabinet
5watt BEAST
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
T. Roosevelt
And this little beastie -----USA MADE 1997 Randal 15 watt combo witha 10" speaker.
got it for 20.00 at a Pawn Shop. ;)
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
T. Roosevelt
That Collings is pretty sweet, too! An I-35 LC? With a Bigsby!For the last week this one has really hooked me (and reeled me in). Richter RS-33. It sounds really just like a full Tweed Bassman with one 12" speaker. Same controls as a Bassman facing forward. Priced unbelievable low for a boutique. A steal really. And at 33 watts you get great tones before deafness sets in.
Soco Mahogany P90. I like the fact it is a tiny guitar. I have never been a fan of Bigsby's though...
Last edited by renderit; 08-12-2017 at 07:04 PM.
Wake up!!!!!
This thread died too soon.....
Carvin Vintage 16
A Strat, Carvin V16, an FD-2, a Vox Wah, and a DD-3 has been my small venue rig for a about 9 months now.
A good, screaming Strat just might be the greatest guitar sound of all..... -Slash
too early for today but yesterday
house: '69 Princeton non-reverb, DOD 250 OD, FRV-1, tuner, Les Paul
GC: BF Deluxe RI, mim Strat, then Squier Strat. The Squier was better. Fender Noir P-bass, MarkBass 121 combo (I think)
(whole lotta broken links from photobucket popping up)
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A couple actually...
Trying to get back in the swing of things...no pun intended.
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"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
Very cool NT!
Me, not so much.
Work is crazy, home improvements, heat indices over 105 every day.
The best amp I've ever heard sits lifeless, cold, and sad atop my favourite 4X12 in the living room.
A solitary tear slowly runs from its 2nd channel gain knob.
What happend?
Who let the magic smoke out?
my silverface Princeton NR, DOD 250 OD, FVR-1, tuner
second week in a row I had the reverb pedal plugged in but never turned it on.
Tiny thing... Yamaha THR10x modeling amp.
Love the Princeton Reverb that was posted above.. Such an awesome sounding amp.
Last night, I played through my practice amp. It's a Vox AD50VT. I've had that thing for like 10 years now. I set the two channels to something I like (clean and OD) and then use the wattage knob in the back to control volume. I can get the same tone either at ear bleed or mouse fart volumes. When I get tired of those sounds, I simply erase my two presets and make 2 more.... or put it in manual mode. It gives me the illusion of getting a new amp every so often. It's the only relief I have from amp GAS.
A good, screaming Strat just might be the greatest guitar sound of all..... -Slash
The last couple of nights was a tweed Fender BJ. Nice little amps!!!
A good, screaming Strat just might be the greatest guitar sound of all..... -Slash
I bet you had it rockin'!
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
I just picked up another Tech 21 Trademark 10. I replaced the pilot lamp and cleaned the pots and jack and brought it to my weekly Friday lunchtime jam. It sounded great! Not a great clean sounds but some decent semi clean sounds. This amp has kind of a "plays itself" feel. You feel like you can do almost anything with no real fight from the amp. You don't have to work it like the Champ that I normally bring. Overall, I prefer the Champ, but the Trademark 10 is a fun amp.
These two guys today, with the Strat and my new-ish Les Paul. Saw a thing on the Tim Pierce Masterclass website where he likes to roll off the bass entirely when recording, so I was messing with it today on both amps, and WOW what a difference it makes to fit the guitars into a mix. Also sounds great just practicing/jamming in the studio. I usually dial the bass back to 3.5 or so when I play live, but dialing it all the way out on both amps was killer. Learn sumpin' new er'ry day.
I'm in the two amp club this weekend too. Stereo'ed out to my two favs - Classic 30 and DRRI.
Last weekend we did a promo gig for the House of Guitars and we used an AC15. Love those amps too.
Rickenjangle will love this - the TAMA drum kit that was in the top window of the HOG for decades - we used it! Sounds great even though it has faded from blue to gold.
Chuck
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Gonna take the 5E3 too band practice tonight.
been playing this guy a lot lately. I have it set next to my computer now so it gets most of the play time these days just out of convenience.this little amp really boogies
I've never played through a Mesa, but I've been impressed by the tones I've heard when I've heard guitarists using them.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
I only use the clean channel on this one it sounds like a blackface bandmaster but with more mids and more headroom. very very clean punchier even than a Twin.
if you spend the time dialing them in boogies can sound great. they're a little finicky and complicated for me, though. Especially the newer ones. Only boogie I really liked was an early IIb + that was at Earcraft Music in Dover for a surprisingly long time before somebody finally bought it to remove the temptation. I played my '65 closet classic strat through that amp and boy howdie did that sound great. Had a JBL greyback in it. HEAVY. 60/100 watts, four 6L6s. believe me, I thought about that amp for months.
for the most part, I don't care how they sound the way most people use them. that said, I don't care for how a lot of people set their marshalls either so it isn't really a brand thing.
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