Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

[B Bent]

What's up fellas?! I am going to try and post more here this year so what better way to start than with a little of what I have been up to.

I have become so pleased with my gear in the last 3 years that I rarely do any buy, sell and trade anymore. However, there are a few amps that will always get me excited enough to every once and a while buy.

That has happened recently with 3 amps.

I was fortunate enough to pick up 2 new (old) Supros- a 1606 Super and a 1x15 Thunderbolt ( on a UPS truck as I type). And lastly, but most importantly, a 1962 Brownface Fender Princeton.

Here they are in pairs with a few of my other staple amps:

Enjoy

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[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

Wow, that is some setup!

 

[Chris of Arabia]

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That's just obscene....

 

[DankStar]

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Awesome. Your DIY one holds it's own visually among those as well!

 

[jeremy]

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man i love brown fenders. good stuff man

 

[Artie]

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Is that a Sears Silvertone? I've heard those old ones are killer.

 

[Surgeon]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

Very cool

 

[B Bent]

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Is that a Sears Silvertone? I've heard those old ones are killer.

It is a Sears Silvertone. It sounds friggin phenomenal. I almost cant contain myself after dropping a Greenback in it! WOW!!!!!

 

[Gearjoneser]

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As an amp nut, I salivate over the choices you've made. I wish I could add them all to my stable, because your collection would fill all the holes in mine, and visa versa.

With a much larger expendable income, we'd be dangerous!

 

[B Bent]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

As an amp nut, I salivate over the choices you've made. I wish I could add them all to my stable, because your collection would fill all the holes in mine, and visa versa.

With a much larger expendable income, we'd be dangerous!

I know what you mean Joe. Since my gear has suited me so well for so long, I put my fun dollars towards acquiring guns these days. There are two or three more amps I'd like to own. Problem is, my tiny little man cave is so full now that I have a huge 650 pound gun safe and all these amps scattered about.

I would like to have something high gain. Problem is, I like small amps and old amps. I would want something that rawks on its own without killing me or saying Blackstar on it.


Since I posted this, I decided the original (thinking Oxford) speaker in the Princeton had to go. I put a spare Weber AlNiCo I had in and it retained the tone buy sorts out the weak points of the old speaker. For kicks and giggles I have a Celestion Greenback 10 in the mail now. I will try it in multiple amps to see where it fits best.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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Damn, those brownface princetons are so awesome. Niceeeee

 

[Hoss]

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NEW STUFF ROCKS!!! :headbang:

 

[jon the art guy]

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I got the new POD HD because it has a Gibson 185 and a 6x9 Supro emulation in it and I fear I won't be seeing one in person, ever. I simultaneously want to curse and beatify Jack White for introducing me to the department store amps. Wonderful scores, man. Obscene, as Chris put it.

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

Ohhhh yeah brown Princeton.

Don't turn your back on me when I'm anywhere near that amp.

 

[BloodRose]

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I was afraid to open this thread, cuz I really didnt wanna see anyones 'nads... haha but glad I did now!! Very cool! the sears amp intrigues me.. my first amp came from a Sears catalog and it was an udder POS... I assume this is either a very old unit, or a diff co..??

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

I was afraid to open this thread, cuz I really didnt wanna see anyones 'nads... haha but glad I did now!! Very cool! the sears amp intrigues me.. my first amp came from a Sears catalog and it was an udder POS... I assume this is either a very old unit, or a diff co..??

There was a couple of companies who cranked out MANY many different brand name amps from the late 40s to the 60s and early 70s like Valco, National, Supro, Silvertone, Kay....what else. Kalamazoo...

Anyway, it's a tube amp, but it's practically a cardboard cab, plastic knobs, car stereo speaker (6x9in). last-run technologies like tube rectifiers....And they sound effing awesome. They DIDN'T for a long time except for the tonefiends until Jack White introduced the mainstream to the nasal awesomeness of these old cheap amps.
Solid State was expensive at the time. As soon as technology caught up and made tube amps completely obsolete for cost-effectiveness, these awesome amps were killed....and replaced with Crate.

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

The Brown Princeton...

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Heh cool amps BBent!

 

[Aceman]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

dang...

 

[B Bent]

Re: Howdy boys. It's been a minute. Wanna see some NADs?

There was a couple of companies who cranked out MANY many different brand name amps from the late 40s to the 60s and early 70s like Valco, National, Supro, Silvertone, Kay....what else. Kalamazoo...

Anyway, it's a tube amp, but it's practically a cardboard cab, plastic knobs, car stereo speaker (6x9in). last-run technologies like tube rectifiers....And they sound effing awesome. They DIDN'T for a long time except for the tonefiends until Jack White introduced the mainstream to the nasal awesomeness of these old cheap amps.
Solid State was expensive at the time. As soon as technology caught up and made tube amps completely obsolete for cost-effectiveness, these awesome amps were killed....and replaced with Crate.

This is a Silvertone 1482 as mentioned above and is a *****in' amp. No 6x9 in this mother. It has a 12" speaker from the factory that sounds pretty good, but I dropped a Greenback in this one and sounds like a complete dream come true.