Fender 1960 tweed deluxe

[philthis]

OMG what an amp, it had the most punchy jangly cleans but with the right setting you could dig in and it got the most delightful fat breakup tone. It was glorious and extremely responsive to the pick attack. The distortion tone is fat, like the fattest tube screamer tone but you can dial down your volume or lighten up your pick attack to get it to clean up. this can be done on the fly so its a total blues machine. Think........Just got paid today.....or Thunderbird.......it has a fat sag tone so its not a pointed thin distortion clip but more of a rounded fat clip tone. The cleans are extremely jangly, percussive, and punchy. It just rings on the cleans but they too are fat and not thin and brittle. The goober that had it stuck in a 15inch speaker but I have to say, it really made the tone even bigger and after playing through it I am convinced its the best option if you wouldnt destroy an original amp but used an extension cab or a different baffle. If you can find a company that can reproduce this amp and it would sound maybe 90 percent the same I would say buy it. Its one of those holy grail of tone combinations for cleans and blues.

side note: remember the fat organ tone running through Celestion cabinets in Deep Purples smoke on the water? Thats how fat the distortion can get with this amp with that 15 inch speaker. Of course its already sold now. It lasted maybe 5 days.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Fender 1960 tweed deluxe

a tweed deluxe is a fantastic amp alright but honestly i prefer with with a 12. never been a big fan of 15's for guitar

 

[Boogie Bill]

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Tweed Fenders were there at the birth of rock and roll. Eric Clapton uses a tweed Twin, Neil Young a tweed Deluxe, and many of Billy Gibbons early ZZ Top recordings are a Deluxe or Champ...not a Marshall. The wide-open small amps sound huge.

And I've never found a pedal that can get that sound.

Bill

 

[jeremy]

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billy used a brown deluxe a lot as well

 

[philthis]

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wow you guys it sounded amazing. some dude rolled in with more dollars then sense and bought the thing for 3,000 but it didnt help that all us players were playing the thing all the time. we pratically demo'd the hell out of it for him wile he quietly sat in the corner of the room and listened. nobody ever heard him play it. some stinking Yuppy who now has bragging rights on his cool amp. Oh well, I got in at least 3 hours on it. those 6v6 tubes sounded amazing in that thing. It had new caps and a different speaker is all. The tweed was all frayed out on it but it sounded so good we were all tempted to hock our lives away to get it.

 

[newking70]

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i prefer with with a 12. never been a big fan of 15's for guitar

please to explain :?:

 

[jeremy]

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explain that i tend not to like the tone of a 15" speaker? the bass is too deep and steps on the bass player and kick drum. the highs tend to be pronounced and clear but voiced lower than i like and the mids are not as present as i like and tend to have a cleaner texture than what i prefer. i like my speakers thick sounding without much flub on the bottom and a top end that isnt too exaggerated but can be raw. i use a g12h-55hz in my 5e3 clone and love it although i have swapped the .1 caps to .047 to shelve up the bass a bit

 

[PFDarkside]

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wow you guys it sounded amazing. some dude rolled in with more dollars then sense and bought the thing for 3,000 but it didnt help that all us players were playing the thing all the time. we pratically demo'd the hell out of it for him wile he quietly sat in the corner of the room and listened. nobody ever heard him play it. some stinking Yuppy who now has bragging rights on his cool amp. Oh well, I got in at least 3 hours on it. those 6v6 tubes sounded amazing in that thing. It had new caps and a different speaker is all. The tweed was all frayed out on it but it sounded so good we were all tempted to hock our lives away to get it.

From the way you describe it, it sounds like he has dollars and sense....

 

[MetalManiac]

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I don't play in a band, but I once owned a Tweed Pro with a 15" Jensen that sounded amazing. Of course your Blackface Vibroverbs/ Vibroluxes are the most highly sought after 60's amps of all.And for good reason.

 

[jeremy]

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those are all fine amps but id take a tweed bandmaster or super or a bf super reverb or pro reverb in that power range. and the tweed deluxe and bf deluxe reverb are more suited to my needs these days so im pretty happy with what i have

 

[Chickenwings]

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Philthis...
You can always get a 5e3 clone if you love the tone but don't want to be the yuppy guy who just wants to have a 3 grand amp for bragging rights. There are plenty out there and im sure you can get one built with a 15.
Although as someone who has been using a 5e3 as my main gigging amp for the last few months, I' with Jeremy on the 12 and also changing a couple of cap values to trim off and focus the bass fwiw

 

[philthis]

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I may have to get something built or look around. its such a great spanky clean sound. I thought an old bassman or pro reverb was the holy grail of great clean tone but I have to say that amp holds its own against anything I ever heard. I still love those old bassman heads and pro reverbs too, I just think this thing in that power range sounds glorious cranked up

 

[MetalManiac]

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The only thing that floats my boat is the Tweed Twin. Of course I only have a custom built dead accurate to vintage specs low power Tweed twin with carbon comps, old transformers and all that. Sad to say its a low power, but i wanted a high power. I like the old Dlx's but coming from a Marshall full stack mindset, they just don't get it.

 

[MetalManiac]

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The only thing that floats my boat is the Tweed Twin. Of course I only have a custom built dead accurate to vintage specs low power Tweed twin with carbon comps, old transformers and all that. Sad to say its a low power, but i wanted a high power. I like the old Dlx's but coming from a Marshall full stack mindset, they just don't get it.

I can see two Bassmans doing the trick nicely, of course I dont play castrated club volumes.

 

[jeremy]

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a tweed twin is a fine amp if you play at home for your neighbors. haul that thing to a club three times a week and get told to turn down four times a night and you might reconsider. nothing wrong with a big loud amp but for gigging musicians its not practical.