what is tweed sound/tone?

[dani]

can someone describe what a tweed sound/tone is?

thanks!
dani

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

This thread might be helpful

And check this thread starting with post#9

 

[BigDaddy]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

To be very basic about the answer, simply put.

Tweeds have a tendency to have a lot of compression, breakup early and have very little clean headroom. That's great for raunchy, primitive chord sounds to more singing, fatter soloing. Think Neil Young or Clapton's most recent sound.

BF fenders are mid scooped and don't overdrive or compress as much. They are cleaner and louder, silverfaced amps even more so.

Some people like to use a tweed deluxe and BFDR at the same time, best of both worlds.

There is a lot more to it but I think that sums it up.

 

[flank]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

yea, think Neil Young tone

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

Some people like to use a tweed deluxe and BFDR at the same time, best of both worlds.

Or you can get Scott F. to build you an Evan-Rude. There's a Tweed channel("Twister") and a blackface Fender channel ("Mudslide").

Best of both worlds in the same amp.

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

^ shameless self promotion at it's finest

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

^ Or, at least, shameless promotion of Scott's amp biz.

Guilty as charged, yer honor.

 

[Artie]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

Or you can get Scott F. to build you an Evan-Rude.

I heard that those amps suffered from some "motor-boating".

(Sorry . . . someone had to say it.)

Anyway . . . all I can say about the the "tweed" sound is: my J-Station has about a million different settings. Mine stays on the "tweed" setting 99% of the time. Great tone, even if it is artificial.

 

[Corbic]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

All of the Layla album is tweed sound. Specifically a tweed champ.

I haven't really listened to much Neil Young. I've heard good things about his new album, and I'm going to have to check out his stuff.

But Tweed Fenders are somewhere between a Blackface Fender and a Marshall Plexi. They don't have all the sparkle of the blackface when clean, but have amazing fat, juicy cleans that still sparkle a bit (especially with a Strat). When pushed over the edge into distortion they have a very beautiful tone to them. There's a bit of compression due to the rectifier tubes in all tweed amps. Very-Marshall/Classic rock crunch type tones. They also have a great bluesy/on the edge of distorting sound.

I just wish Tweed amps came in head form (without having to build them!) because Tweed amps along with Marshall JTM-45s are my ideal type of amp! And Scott makes great sounding amps, and great sounding Tweed and JTM-45 type amps especially!

 

[jdm61]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

To be very basic about the answer, simply put.

Tweeds have a tendency to have a lot of compression, breakup early and have very little clean headroom. That's great for raunchy, primitive chord sounds to more singing, fatter soloing. Think Neil Young or Clapton's most recent sound.

BF fenders are mid scooped and don't overdrive or compress as much. They are cleaner and louder, silverfaced amps even more so.

Some people like to use a tweed deluxe and BFDR at the same time, best of both worlds.

There is a lot more to it but I think that sums it up.

Or a Vibrolux and a tweed Twin if ya want a bit more volume and fat bottom.:bigthumb: My Twin can get very Marshallesque and more importantly, I seems to like ALL types of guitars.

 

[dani]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

thanks for the wonderful response guys.

i've been hearing people mentioning tweed sound for years but still no clue how tweed is suppose to sound till today!

cheers!
dani

 

[jdm61]

Re: what is tweed sound/tone?

Those old Western Electric WW II vintage circuits that Leo used are the core of the rock guitar sound. Without them, no Fender, Marshall, Boogie, etc, etc.