Gunny47
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Those are pics that were sent to me before the amp shipped. I'll take more with my guitars and stuff later.
http://www.vintagesoundamps.com/
Vintage Sound Amps (headed by Rick Hayes) out of Florida put this together for me. Got it in a few days ago, sounds amazing. It is all handwired PTP, merc magnetics transformer, mojo cab and a 12" Ceramic Weber California speaker - noice! So it is Rick's take on a 1964 Princeton Reverb, called the VS112P (VS for vintage sound, 112 for speaker config and P for princeton). It differs in the speaker (heavy duty 12 instead of the 10), cosmetics, standby switch and the power tubes are wired up like a Deluxe Reverb.
I am very impressed with the work Rick has done, the amp looks amazing with the white chicken head knobs and the blue/purple amp jewel. The weber makes it sound much thicker than the typical princeton reverb, more clean headroom also. It overdrives nicely with single coils when you wind up the volume to the sweet spot at about 8 or 9. Has a dirty kinda crunch tone. But stays clean when you play lightly like most good tube amps. As for humbuckers, it gets kinda bitey in a good way with the volume high. It nails this Warren Haynes Gov't Mule tone on High and Mighty on the instrumental track called 3 String George.
I love playing jazz with my Les Paul on this amp. Gets a nice warm tone. This amp has a fantastic clean sound, that's where it really shines in my book. Volume around 4 or 5 is perfection. Treble slightly higher than the bass, reverb between 2 and 3, speed lower, intensity higher. The reverb and the vibrato are top notch. Holy crap, the vibrato is the best I've ever heard. Not as flexible as a pedal, but if you want those classic tones, this cannot be beat. It comes with the historically accurate footswitch as well.
Speaking of pedals, it takes modulation pedals pretty well, but I like it best as a plug and play sorta amp for the most part. One exception would be playing slide or lead tones with humbuckers, I like it with the volume at a great clean sound (4 or 5) and the AC Booster (souped up Tube Screamer type pedal) engaged with lower volume and higher gain. That gets the closest smooth lead blues/rock sounds for Clapton or Derek Trucks or Warren Haynes and so on.
Built very well, and sounds incredible, I'm very happy with this. I'll use it to record my college demo and for band practices from now on!
