I built a 5f1 tweed champ a few years ago. Thing has sat under a cover for a while. Busted it out last night and cranked it. Glorious! It's got some major tube rattle, but it records like a champ. Love it.
I installed on input 1 another master volume and is a push pull pot with resistor for more saturated and bass sound and can open at 12 and have a normal output quiet practice volume! Good mod!!
You'd want to cut the speaker cable, wire it to a couple of 1/4" inch jacks, and then send it to a 4 ohm attenuation box. Absolutely don't do this unless you 100% know what you're doing. I also wouldn't recommend it with a vintage amp.
@@planej6315 Probs for using in a flat. These bad boys still get pretty loud for the house, a cranked 5 watt amp is around half as loud as a cranked 50 watt amp. Eliminating all other variables like speaker configurations, valves of course albeit a LOT of variables
Greetings and thank you for this! Really great demo. One question if you happen to remember: do you recall around what volumes you had the guitars set to? Were they all set to max / 10 volume or more medium? Thanks!
For $250 I just scored an all original 1959 Lectrolab r200b, makes tones like a tweed fender champ (this particular model mistakenly says 25 watts on it when in reality it is 5 watts). So the actual biggest difference is the price-4 months ago an all original ‘59 champ on reverb sold for $4300 🤯
It is! - for what it was built... I love the cleans and break up sounds. Dimed only works occasionally for me, but others only play the dimed.. it’s all personal taste as always ;)
Fantastic video! Great playing and tone. I just got a Fender Tweed Champ as well. Love the clean tones, but to get the breakup sound I have to crank it WAY TOO LOUD for home. Looking for an overdrive/distortion pedal to get that sound without having to crank the amp. Any advice? Thanks!
Thanks a lot! You have some options - you want the cranked amp sound just not that loud? Go with a transparent overdrive or put an Attenuator between OT and speaker. For a bit flavor I loved my Janis Miesnieks overdrive and Klon style Pedals..
They get very farty on the bottom end when cranked due to the large coupling cap and in the Champs case the 8 inch speaker doesn't hold the low end down well. It's a certain sound some like and some don't. To me it excels when around 6 or 8. Anything above that and it just starts getting a bit undefined. 6 or 8 would be great for a tube screamer imo cause it gives you a push into more gain but also cuts the low frequencies out a bit helping the low end remain tighter. Just mu opinion.
Well, if anything this showed why the strat is the best guitar. Jk, LP:s probably just need an amp that can take a bit more input without breaking up into mud. The tele was too shrill for my taste.
Can you send me a link to the cheap overdrive pedal your talking about? I'd be stoked if i could find a cheap pedal that sounds like a 50s tweed. Thanks in advance
