Guitars and Amps

[ray_]

Stay... "tuned"?

 

😁😁😁

[zinz]

"The Ultimate Playing Machine"

 

They give no props to the M Sport stripes, nor do they give us the signal chain, but it sounds good

 

 

[zinz]

Princeton update…plus another one

 

Got the Princeton back and it looks phenomenal; unfortunately, the speaker needs to be re-coned. It sound lush at lower volumes, though. Ray’s gonna loan me an 10” Alnico while I send this one off to Weber. 
 

 

I couldn’t resist and put a low bid on a ‘68 Fender Bassman. The description said it wouldn’t power on, prolly why I got it on the cheap. Found that the 2 amp fuse had blown... I'm certain Ray can sort that out.

 

Though it’s a silverface, it’s early enough that it has the AB-165 circuit from the Blackface era. Awesome. Ray is gonna mod the bass side with a Dumble-style tone stack, and massage the normal channel, too. It’s rated at 50 watts. I bought a Burgera attenuator so I can play this and the Pro Reverb without disturbing the neighbors. Pretty excited to get this one back. 

 

 

Ed Z

Edited November 30, 2023 by zinz

[ray_]

Looking forward to watching you perform your cover of "Dirty Water!"

 

[saaron]

OMG that Princeton!  That is amazing.  It looks great.  I bet it sounds amazing.  I put an Eminence speaker in my PR…more on that later.  Here’s my amp odyssey.

 

Started with a silver face VibroChamp.  It is 100% stock.  It sounds great.  It might be my all time fave.  It records really well.  I played it on our albums.  

 

Then I bought a silver face Princeton Reverb - purchased from a pawn shop in Florida in the early days of the internet.  It is rough cosmetically - it was a house amp in a bar.  Took it to David Allen (of Allen amps).  He did some work on it, and replaced the speaker with the Eminence (Eminence is just down in Kentucky).  It sounds awesome.  I let one of my friends borrow it early on, and it was gone for almost a year!  A few artists have borrowed it over time, and they are like “that little thing is incredible”.  I do love it.  It’s great.

 

Then, I got a call from a former co worker - she and her husband were cleaning out her husband’s mother’s house, and they found his old “silver Fender things - boxes - do you want them?”  It turns out the silver boxes were a ‘69 Fender Twin Reverb w/factory gold foil JBLs, and a Vibratone, which is a re-branded Leslie of sorts.  Again, David Allen went through the TR and said it was mostly a blackface circuit, and it had the better built cabinet.  It sounds great, but it is way too much amp for what I do.  I got a Jet City attenuator so it can breathe a little.  

 

I will keep the two smaller ones and sell off the Vibratone and TR.  There’s a small Dr Z I’d like to get, and a small Vox I’d like to get.  Playing the long game on those, and enjoying what I have.  

 

Hopefully I didn’t post this stuff in this thread already, lol.  I probably did…

Allen Amplification - Quality Tube Guitar Amps, Kit, Parts, and Repairs

WWW.ALLENAMPS.COM

 

[zinz]

On 1/15/2024 at 7:54 AM, saaron said:

do you want them?”

Luckiest day ever!!!  Wow…

 

The Vibratone is so flipping cool. 😎 

 

I love of those!

 

I just went to the Allen Amplification website you posted.  His 10w Chihuahua amp looks a lot like the Tuxedo Princeton! 

 

Ed Z

Edited January 17 by zinz

[Vicleonardo1]

I have to go cheaper because, well I suck....

Epiphone Black Les Paul Traditional Pro

Bugera hybrid tube amp. 

Behringer Vintage tube monster pedal. (perhaps the most legal fun I have had for $50). 

When I got the amp, wife simply stated. "Now that we can hear you play, we all realize you are not really that good. Please turn it down"......

Edited Wednesday at 09:41 PM by Vicleonardo1