Awesome we only need to more and Fender turns a profit! lol This amp really does sound good, but if you want that sound you gotta crank it... no ifs ands or buts about it...
James Cordova Yeah, that makes sense, also scientifically speaking in. Age takes of some of the treble out of the tube amps. However, honestly I just really enjoy the reliability of new amps though. Can‘t tour with an amp that constantly needs to be fixed.
I am blessed to own a Fender Reissue 57 Custom Shop Twin and I can see why Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa 59 Reissue, and others love the old and new reissue 50’s model amps. When you jump the channels it sounds fantastic no matter what guitar you play.
I was watching the 'Nerdville' video yet again, yesterday and thought to myself that Fender are missing something by not doing a JB amp. But now we have a 'reliced' amp. That's started something. Wait and see. The aged 'Hendrix' will soon be here.
Much cheaper than the original! But I hear ya, I can’t afford it either. Or more like I wouldn’t pay that much for any amp. Although my gigs are for $100 so...there you go! My price is $300-400 for my Peavey 2/10 Delta Blues, 4/10 71 Peavey Vintage or my Pro Junior!
$3500 pays for the name. I could build you one that's an exact replica of a 59 and I'd sell it to you for $1500 and it would be every bit as good, if not better, than Fender's reissue. $3500 is highway robbery.
I don't thing that the amps sound identical. In fact, I liked the new JB signature Twin better because there seem to be more overtones on every note (more sparkle). Great amp and great playing!
Isn't it amazing with all the technology we have today, they go back to the vintage design? It's what sounds the best! Always will! I think it's awesome! I would love to build tube amps all day! Then play through em all night!!!
Joe has blown his high frequency hearing. The original 57 had twice the fidelity given that the amps were set the same; a remarkable difference.like night and day . only the looks were the same ; hell of a player.
I could tell the difference as well. The original was much "nastier" to my ears. It had a growl that the re-issue didn't. ~ Either way, not worth $3,500 in my opinion. I have a Fender M80 Chorus and several other amps including a Crate Blue VooDoo. Many guitarists like to get a good amp sound and let the guitars change their tone. I like to use both amp and guitars. Sometimes I use a dirty guitar with a clean amp, sometimes vice versa. ~ Still looking for that Peavey Mace, 160 watt head I've always wanted though.
It may sound dull because the speakers haven’t broken in yet, and the amp is not biased correctly to be warm enough. I don’t think Celestion were the original company that made speakers for this amp either. The old tubes were better as well, it probably would sound very different with NOS tubes, and reproduce speakers from Ted Weber.
He always talks about how deaf he is. Watch some of the Norm’s Rare Guitar vids and he mentions how people always complain how loud his amps are, but they don’t seem loud to him.
I can already hear the bedroom players complaining that it doesn’t sound anything like it! People need to remember to get this tone you gotta play LOUD!! Like properly loud! When you get the opportunity it would be insane
Bonamasa had a single hit ? Or a platinum album or something ? Cause all these years I've heard of him but never a famous song !!! I understand why to make a the edge amp, or a jimmy hendrix, or a somebody else but why this guy ??? 🤣. No disrespec is only I don't get it.
so after years of ignoring our greatest guitariero of our time .. the old business recognizes him for his salesmanship. impressive on JBs side. and then exclusively sold on jbs website. fuck jeah.
All cool would love one but would never buy a signature amp or guitar or anything... I look up to these players but would never wanna be them I dunno extra price for name ain't my thing
Only $3,499. I would love to have one, but Im too old to schlep it around. 1 of a kind. Scuh..rewed..you! but nice amplifar! I remember when pawn shops were full of these oldbassturds for nuttin. Sch..rewed..myself! Ol Swami what is my future? Scuh..rew...you!!
Joe I have an original 59 hi power I got from my dad who brought it new. My health is going badly so I need to sell it and a couple guitars. If your interested get in touch.
The old one has a looser sound where as the new one has a tight sound. Both good just depends on what you prefer. Nice sustain in the new one, but then you rolled a knob up. When A/B ing amps, you don't get to change the guitar knobs.. so the test is really screwed from that point.
Ok yeah. But what about the Joe Bonamassa Ford Van to get to the gig. And the Joe Bonamassa Egg McMuffin you ate after the gig. And the Joe Bonamassa Pepsi and the Joe Bonamassa Hanes underwear you have to have.. And your Joe Bonamassa Ray-Bans? Does anybody shop at Joe Bonamassa WALMART? There's Joe Bonamassa 66 gas station nearby, thank God. Get to your gig. Follow Joe Bonamassa Highway 76 to the Joe Bonamassa bridge and take the first let on Joe Bonamassa Dr. You'll see the club's sign it says...........
It doesn't surprise me that Fender can make an amp just like a type they made 60 years ago. What surprises me is that they had to be pushed hard to do it right.
It's the speakers. They should have used something like the Jupiter Condenser 10LA, those speakers are accurate clones of the old Chicago Jensen P12N. Those new ceramic Celestion JB85 speakers sound completely different from the old P12N.
The original Amp sounds deeper and had the magic mojo. The new version is ok. Absolutely NOT mind blowing or a holy grail! If the original had 50 years of breaking in... What’s the point of a recreation? It doesn’t and won’t sound the same. Reliability and a modern build are of course nice features on the new amp... But the sound of the original is NOT there. And for the price... Cricky!
I love the hell out of my all stock Fender Blackface Twin Reverb R.I. and I would agree with JB that indeed the Twin is the best amp ever built but the simple fact is the Fender '59 BASSMAN actually is the best amp ever built!
Sounds Great Joe, but can i order one with out the aged look? I like the shinny new look and over the years it will look old. Plus i like the idea of that if i had a time machine and went back to 1959 and walked into Leo's shop and purchased one brand new and hopped back into the time machine and came home with it that would be the crazyest thing!
2:45 I know the original tone from these things is amazing, but I'm always a bit flummoxed as to why nothing better has ever been made. Any one understand amps enough to explain why we've only gone downhill in terms of tone?
Nice sounding tube amp with some different guitars. Just too expensive for a poor old (72) feller down in OZ . If only I could find the JB embossed toilet paper roll. I might be able to afford that :)
I think he highlights the fact that an amp has a sweet spot and if you don't like that you need different amp on its sweet spot. The joy is things get built different and little differences but only so few can truly tell.
Just gonna throw the part out that it has JB's name on it and base my thoughts on what my ears heard. The old had the velvet touch to it, in response and sound. Basically, comfortably loose from being aged in the best of conditions. The new one was a little more angry sounding with a tighter low end. I think if you were a well to do working musician with a few pedals that had to cover a good amount of styles and sounds, the new one would just be fantastic if you could find a place to crank it up. The only downside though is that price, because now you are in the realm of just some top-notch boutique builds that have mastered being played at low and high volumes for great sounds and maybe even more sonic versatility. I'd like to hear this amp stacked against a few of them in an unbiased honest review. In a personal closing note, I'd love to have that old one and plug my strat straight into it and let the mood take me. Like the Merovingian said in the second Matrix movie, " It's like wiping your ass with silk."
Got one and it is amazing . I can't enough about it . Glad Joe Fender decided to build and let us get a chance to have one Thanks Joe and Fender. See you at the show
The old one 'original' had 'dirty' sound and that gives him a vibe and the blues. The new one is too clean and sounds like a computer processor amp. Sorry, Joe but Finder didn't achieve a goal. Overall, it is a good amp but this is not sound of '59 model.
I love JB; I dig his playing, I find his live tone is second to none for that type of music (he's one of the players that does the multi amp rig well, and he's the reason I fell in love with the Silver Jubilee again after being estranged for 20 years), and I like his Signature gear. I've been Workin as a luthier in some capacity for 15 years, and have played and worked on a few of his Signature Goldtop Les Pauls and I think they're my favorite Signature LPs. I've been building, servicing and modifying amps and pedals for a decade as well. I mention that to qualify my opinion that $3500 for any 5F8A Twins is a ridiculous price. Actually, IMHO going much higher than $1800-2000 for ANY Tweed is too much. Of all the people I've known that have built amps: be it just 1 or 100, from a kit or from scratch, I can't think of 1 that didn't build some Tweed as their first one. There's a really easy answer as to why it's always first; it's the simplest circuit out there, anyone who's ever seen the inside of one knows how little is actually in there. I'm a Fender guy first and foremost, but I haven't purchased a new Fender piece of gear in over a decade, I just can't justify spending the money they cost for what you get. There Strat is my main guitar of choice, but it's still just a slab alder body with a simple maple neck bolted to it. Is when the David Gilmore Strat came out that I just threw my hands up. I found it almost comical that they were asking $4000+ for what's essentially a copy of a partsocaster with a crap '70-71 CBS era body. So it's a $4000 copy of a $300 guitar. Don't go me wrong, I love Tweeds, and while 80W in what would essentially be a clean- slightly driven is just WAY too much volume for my needs, if I did have a need to for one, this would probably be the one, but at half the price.
