It's got Mercury Magnetics Transformers and Weber Designed Alnico speakers but sounds murky when over-driven and harsher and duller clean in comparison to vintage amps and my custom builds. While they are well built they sound nearly as good as an original Tweed or as the amps I build. They are fairly expensive and boast quality components and hand-wiring. Killed it.Fender Custom Shop 57' Lower Power Twin Modsįender has been putting out a number of Tweed models through their Custom shop. John Herrington into a Princeton reverb.Sweetness!! Who cares what pros use. Life is far too short to play through crappy amps!
If the Tweed Twin is your dream amp then settle for nothing less. is rated at 18w and it easily hangs with my 40w rated Super Reverb (with almost the same clean headroom!). With 6V6's the amp is at a comfortable 28 "Z-watts" which in reality makes the amp probably around 35-40w easy lol. His Z-28 model is crazy good and to these ears gave me the best Fender Tweed tones I've ever heard. Both are GREAT prices for those amps! In the end I decided I already have a bunch of amps that blow my socks off everyday and it wouldn't make sense lugging them all to gigs.īTW if you are into the Fender Tweed tone with some "magic sauce" on top, I would check out some of Dr. For that uber articulate, super clear but never harsh tone, the Two-Rocks/Carol Anns EXCELL at this! I almost jumped on a minty Custom Reverb Signature for $2700, and a OD2100 for $2200. For the coinage of the Fender '57 Tweed Twin RI, I would try a Two-Rock or Carol Ann first.
I'm going to go completely left field here and recommend something else that you'd likely LOVE. Its just an amp you've really gotta try properly whilst cranked, I went into the shop with the intention of buying a Fender Deluxe Reverb RI and came out with something totally the otherside of the spectrum. Then theres the volume its so simple after about 4 it stops sounding thin and anything above 7 is just beautiful and it doesnt sound dry even though it has no reverb if you get what I mean. Overall it has a nice quality about it and feels really well built (should hope so for the ££) the simplicity of the amp is what really gets me going though, Tone and Volume if you roll the tone up the treble gets added and bass taken away - roll it down bass gets added treble taken away - leave it around the middle and its like having them both up. It weighs the same as a fender blues deluxe and is around the same size, the only real issue I have with the amp is no reverb and my Les Paul I just cant seem to get a nice clean with it, however it growls real nice Well however you look at it, when I crank my 1974 (volume on 8-10) it sounds very clapton era bluesbreaker.
The tone stack on the Bassman/Bandmaster are closer to JTM in terms of "Based on" but even so- they sound different though you are correct about the Tubes/Speakers playing there part. In fact- those cathode biased 1974/2061x are more Vox like (EL84) are not like the JTM45s. If you get a dual showman then you will be a bit closer to a High Powered Tweed Twin.but not much This is not correct- they were not Carr- though I think someone else pointed this out.Īnyone who buys a 57 twin expecting to have a sound anything like a Bluesbreaker or JTM 45 will be severely bummed. Makes since he would use that amp seeing how the Bluesbreaker is very similar and it was named after his stent with the bluesbreakers. But his tour in 2006 he started using the Reissue Twins and reportedly liked those better then his custom shops that he had. Thats when he started using the Carr amps he helped design. I heard that those amps have gone bad since then and in early 2001 he was trying the Vibro king but didn't like them. He had some old Twins that he used up basically and the custom shop built him some amps out of pine floors from a old church. I think the tubes make a difference and the speakers are a big difference too. Those 2 amps are based off the same circuit.
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