Fillmore 50 - First Look with Andy Timmons, Randall Smith & Doug West 

Strongly Agree...….

The guys at Fender, Jim Marshall and Randall - pioneers and producers of the finest tones. I think Mesa has gone beyond being a boutique amp company and Randall's work and influence has inspired many a guitar amp design. People like Jim (Marshall) and Randall should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

total legend

@@Swampster70 Leo fender is in.

"Marshall was just a copy of the ol' Fender tweeds..." big WOW

I used to have a Mark IV which I miss very much.

@Don Prater I was thinking the very same thing. A shoebox guitar and a Fisher Price amp and it would still be a perfect rendition of Electric Gypsy...

True, players with great touch can make even a lesser amp sound great. The key difference, and I think this is true for even great players too, is you have to work harder on a lesser amp. You have to pick just right to find what may be a very small sweet spot, and find where the lesser amps weak points are so you can avoid them. For example, if an amp gets harsh on top if you pick too hard, you’d have to be careful to pick under that intensity. Of course Someone like Andy does this automatically, like her says when they adjust the the controls as he is playing it affects what he chooses to play as he adapts to get the best tones out of what they have done. So what’s intriguing here is how effortless Andy seems to be playing, along with what he is saying (it doesn’t get harsh on the top end, for example).

Jason Caputo dude, he's just amazing in every aspect of his playing. Very few players that I've seen, ever accomplish that. He is so good.

Does it handle high gain pedals fine?

Andy and amazing is a pleonasm.... :-)

Bought a Fillmore 50 combo!

I met Andy the first time when he was endorsing Laney amplifiers. I swear he sounded just like he does now, tone wise.

I agree, I ended up putting this amp on my bucket list when I heard this video. I don’t sound like Andy, but my tongue is vastly improved.

I love Marshall, Orange, Soldano, and Peavey, bug Ill always keep the Mesas and the Fenders around.

Hope it's making you money in addition to smiling:)

The blackstar is his adoptive son 😏👊🏼👍🏻🎸

Andy quit Laney as they were working on his signature amp. From his numerous interviews, the Lonestar IS his signature amp. You could slap "Andy Timmons" on it, there would be no difference. His favorite combination is the Lonestar 100 watts head with the 2 x 12 rectifier cabinet. That being said, in almost all the latest shows I have seen of him, he uses Lonestar combos, at least two, with external cabinets. Something that changed too, he no longer uses the drive channel of his amplifiers. His singing tone is now exclusively obtained with pedals in front of the clean channel. He said this combination offers more subtlety and variation options than the traditional dirt channel plus drive.

@@p6x2 ....that's right. Digitalized clean setting is always best I can conjure up!

Pisk Six maybe a modified lone star with no dirty channel since he never uses it anyway then

@@ajlsrv5490 That sounds good to me. But I would not trust Andy to stick to the clean channel exclusively. Since I have known him, his choices have evolved with his tone quest. At least, he stuck to that one guitar, the AT100 prototype; but amp wise, he seems to have gone from the 100 Lonestar head + dual rectifier cabinet, to the Lonestar combo. He is still stereo, before with the Lonestar and the Stiletto, and now with two Lonestar combos. I am going to make a video of the photos I took at his last concert, where he used more gear than usual. Andy Timmons and the Electric Truth. There, he also added a Lonestar special for the EL 34's. So back to a signature amplifier, it could be a dual 6L6 and EL 34 switchable?

JP hooked me on a Mark v 25. And I'm really thinking about the fillmore 25 for my more Larry Carlton moments. The MK V will do it but Andy is killin me with this shit.

voodootele too bad it probably won't happen. As, Brent has his own Signature Amp now. But, it'd be DAMNED MAGICAL!

Iv played Atleast 4 of the fillmores 50s and they all sound very different from each other with drastically different levels of gain and distortion. One was fairly bright and had a hard edge to clipping and a tighter bass. The others have been various shades of thumpy and dark , some with lots of distortion and sustain but very muffled . Another was pretty thick in the kids and clear sounding but didn’t have much gain in comparison or sustain. I think my fav was the first with the gritty distortion on tap, it had much more dimension than the rest. Kinda annoying , I almost bought it but it sold, I didn’t realize they’d vary this much until after it sold. I thought the other one I had tried next to it, that was used, was maybe “bad” sounding and that’s why it was a used item. But the used one doesn’t sound terrible it just wasn’t as good, nor are the others Iv tried, which is why I haven’t bought one . Also the identical channels seem to vary a bit too, one is usually brighter and less gainy. They sound too different for me to buy one new from factory. Ifi was rich if just buy a couple since they almost sound like totally different types of amps sometimes