Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

[kevlar3000]

Just got this lil amp in a trade, a 6v6 monster that likely spent many years sitting in an elementary school auditorium. It is tweaked by Leftee who is well known on various forums. It is a beautiful, 12 watt monster. Very fat, with a ton of sustain.. I am useing my Squier Thinline with the crazy good Duncan Design pickups. As good as any Tele pu I have ever played....

PACEMAKER
lo-fi URL:
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5615231&q=lo
hi-fi URL:
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5615231&q=hi

 

[Fresh_Start]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

The insides of that amp looked downright scary, but **** it rocks!

Thanks for sharing,

Chip

 

[firebirdV]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Ooh, some Jimi. It sounded great and it seemed a lot less loud than most of your clips, especially that bassman. That's not to say it doesn't sound great though.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Extremely sweet sound....very clear, and love how it rounds up the bottom!
The bite is very meaty and less pingy than the 6L6 amp...love it!

 

[Hot _Grits]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Very cool. I love 6V6 amps.

 

[Hoss]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

i totally dug that bro!!! NICE!!!

 

[larry_emder]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

wow, cool. that amp sounds angry! and the guitar looks cool too

very nice

 

[Freepressright]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

This thread gives me great optimism about my Bell Pacemaker PM-20. It's the same amp as you have recorded. I got mine for free. Someone was about to chuck it into a dumpster when I rescued it. I sent it off two weeks ago to an amp tech who is recapping it, replacing some out-of-value resistors and adding 1/4-inch input jacks on the mic and phono inputs and a 1/4 inch speaker output.

These are sweet amps for sure.

Was that clip the natural gain structure of that amp, or was that assisted with a pedal? I hope that was natural.

 

[DankStar]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

sounds cool!! I have a bell carillon I like a lot. you're making me miss my tube pa's. I don't have an extension cab and they're just sitting there, rats.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Necromancers on the loose eh??

Once again it was one cool clip Kev!

 

[kevlar3000]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Holy buckets, this from 2 yrs ago! While I do not have the amp anymore, I did really dig it.
The gain is completely from the amp, mucho ballz, which was a nice surprise for me. Tube PAs are often my favorite. Always cheaper and you have so many tonal options with the inputs. I always seek them out

 

[DankStar]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Holy buckets, this from 2 yrs ago! While I do not have the amp anymore, I did really dig it.
The gain is completely from the amp, mucho ballz, which was a nice surprise for me. Tube PAs are often my favorite. Always cheaper and you have so many tonal options with the inputs. I always seek them out

haha - freepress had some fun on this one.

 

[ES350]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Yeah---I got a pair of those from B&H 16mm projectors and they way too cool; put one in a 1x12" Kodak cab from the 30's and it sounds incredible. James Cotton used it on a Willie Smith record a couple years back and it sounded like a monster...

 

[Freepressright]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

My Bell is still with my tech, LOL. He got it recapped and updated, but the output tranny is on its last leg. I just ordered a new one last night and he's going to wrap it up. I can't wait to get it back.

Just out of curiosity, what mods will make this thing scream with gain?

And on the topic of tube PA amps, I've acquired two more of them since I last posted, and I re-capped the one myself. It was my first major project. It turned out sweet. I really dig tube PA heads. And you can find them, most of the time, for damn near nothing.

 

[Desert]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

Just got this lil amp in a trade, a 6v6 monster that likely spent many years sitting in an elementary school auditorium. It is tweaked by Leftee who is well known on various forums. It is a beautiful, 12 watt monster. Very fat, with a ton of sustain.. I am useing my Squier Thinline with the crazy good Duncan Design pickups. As good as any Tele pu I have ever played....

PACEMAKER
lo-fi URL:
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5615231&q=lo
hi-fi URL:
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5615231&q=hi

That is a damn nice tone, Kev. Sweet playing, too.

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

Re: Tele into a late 50s Bell Pacemaker amp

I always love your playing bro and your videos are sublime but this amp doesn't do it for me. It's really the only one you've posted I didn't dig.