I was wrong BUT NOW it sounds like JIMI HENDRIX - UP TO SPECS Fender Showman Half Stack 

Eddie Van Halen was once asked what his favorite amp was, and he surprised everyone by raving over his Fender Showman head!!

"Dynamic and Brilliant" = Tone Meister Johan + Daniel Forsberg! Nailed it!! God bless and rock on 😎👍🎸

Love seeing you playing the Strat for a chance. Nice riffs and feel. What I love is that you are always striving to increase your knowledge while we ride along with you. Cheers and thanks for keeping the fire alive!

Great sound, thanks Johan for yet another great video! Vintage rock, vintage guitars, vintage amps, and vintage cabs: most important channel on RU-vid!

Well done Brother! Great Tones and Demonstration! Thank you so much for All You Shared this past Year! A Very Merry Christmas To You and Your Family and Viewers! Be Well All!

You are my go to fender amp guy! Cheers mate!

This sounds great in itself, Johan, but honestly not much like Hendrix: just a good Strat through a big Fender. The sound from 4:48 starts to be more Hendrix-like, but that's because of the way you're playing - the note choices and rhythms. A lot of the time, I think people think that there's a 'Hendrix gear' sound, and it's true to a point, but much more of his sound is in his musical choices and the way that he attacks the instrument.

I've an old Silverface Twin Reverb I play through for some of Jimi's tones. While he did use Fender amps in the studio like most Guitarists he didn't limit himself to any one brand of amp. Like all of us he used what was available as well as what he liked. Great tone from this Showman and a big improvement after its check up on the repair bench. Great content Johan, thank you.

Great sounding vintage amp. I would love to add one to my collection!!

Excellent tone, finally a strat into a fender

You nailed the Rolling Stones’ guitar sound from the song Midnight Rambler! Strat neck pickup sounded awesome! 😊👍👍

Really nice Johan. I don't hear much difference from before, but I am using a cell phone. This demo sounds good. Have a nice Xmas. Thanks

Excellent strat tones!

Funny I had the same reaction as Daniel Forsberg. I owned a 1964 Showman for years, and was quite surprised by the tone in your last video. Now it sounds right *and very nice*. These Showmans have a very linear OT, so they don't break up a lot, but are a great (and loud) amp and pedal platform. I usually preferred the Vibrato channel to the Normal channel personally (with the added bonus of having a middle tone control).

It does sound clearer & closer yes !! nice job !!

Great sound! Rings like a 2 ton 13Century brass bell with a velvet gloved monk pulling at the stays!!! Fantastico!!!

Wow. Your Bassman sounds awesome Johan! It sounded great before, but now it definitely has the bass and punch it was lacking in the previous demo video. And that’s with a Strat with single coils! I bet it is very flexible tone-wise and has a lot more headroom now. Mr. Forsberg definitely put the voodoo into it and made it sing! I bet if you wanted to you could put the right fuzz pedal in front of it with a wah or uni-vibe, to really bring out those Hendrix tones. Wishing you and your family healthy and happy holidays Johan! That goes for Daniel and the rest of your subscribers as well. Have a very Merry Christmas! 🎄 Rock and Roll 🎸🤘🏻

Sounds really amazing.

run .010, .013, .015, .026, .032 and .038. strings when you want to get a closer tone to Jimi. The smaller 3rd string is the " ah ha " factor. Also , having a lighter bottom end with the A and E strings is not something were used to hearing in the string sets marketed to us today. It rounds/balances out the sound nicely. I really enjoy the videos you make. Thanks for sharing with us.

killer! I love this amp.

Very nice, you captured the sound very well! I listened on my PC speakers and my Sennheiser headphones. I think you even downtuned to Eb like Hendrix - Strats sounds better downtuned.

Very nice, definite improvement. I think the guys saying it doesn’t sound like Jimi are probably thinking of his high gain tones, but I’d say this is totally reminiscent of his cleaner sounds

Utterly rockin!

Great tones for sure

I dunno how close to early Hendrix but I really loved the tone you were bringing up from that Showman (Dual?)... Have a great holiday and Happy New Year Johan

You should try out the Ashdown MAG amps, they're bass amps but i recently tried a MAG 600 with my guitar through an old 12" Yamaha speaker and it sounded surprisingly good when i cranked up the EQ knobs to get some breakup. The sound instantly reminded me of you.

Hi, Johan! Really rocking amp! But I was wrong too! I was just watching JH on Woodstock. He had one more gutarist. Only NOW I can understand his REAL sound. Before I was sure, they were trio. Well, something to know!:-) Great video! Respect! See you! Z.

2:44 sounds like "the house is rocking" by SRV! Great amp Johan. I own a 66 showman that needs service.

Great video Johan! Any chance of you reviewing the Marshall Studio Vintage? I refuse to buy an amp til its been proven to survive the Segeborn stress test

Wow! Beautiful sound - and just with room mics??? Even more impressed!!! Man, it must have been heavenly sitting there hearing and feeling that amp while you were playing 😊🤟🏽 if you don’t mine me asking I have a recording Q for you - I’ve seen the 500 rack in the background on a few vids - are you running the mics through those API style preamps? Thanks and have an amazing day Johan.

Yeah, I just left a comment on the other video about the Fender. Now it makes sense. Merry Christmas!

I've heard Hendrix used a Dual Showman (4 ohm transformer) on a lot of Are You Experienced but with aided by a germanium boost (probably like a MK1 tone bender) and sometimes the earliest germanium Octavia on top of that.

My bluesbreaker and Jazzmaster with a univibe sounds very much like Jimi. Unfortunately I do not...... great video once again bud. Merry Christmas from the states! Also, I had a Bassman 70 in the late 90’s in high school. My biggest amp sell regret. If you get a chance to try one, check them out.

Getting some bold as love vibes for sure.

Got get me one the 70's strat's lol maybe the reissue a good 73 is going to cost to much lol great guitar tone brother!!!

We need a YT mash up. Somehow Matthew Scott and Johan.. How very good that would be

That speaker is just massive.

I hear some shades of Electric Ladyland in there. Nice!

Really got a voice of its own! (I’m wondering now if this was the same amps as Daddy Cool 🇦🇺used on their early recordings 🤔) Good stuff Johan 👍🇦🇺

Have you played Bass through that yet? You can find twin reverbs for pretty cheap these day since everyone want the little amps, they sound great with new baffle and a single 15". I always wondered what the tone ring does different compared to a closed or open back (future video perhaps?), and why Fender stopped using them. They are such a cool design. I have a 1x12 tone ring with my '61 bandmaster, but I haven't gotten to check it out because I'm still in the middle of restoring that amp.

Fuzz face in, will be insane 😱😱

Do you think my black face showman would work great with a bassman 15” cab?

This time the Showman +its Cab sounds much more like a JTM45 , now the comparison With the Bassman +Marshall 4x12" would be Fair and even more interesting!Cheers Johan!

Almost sounds like the Are You Experienced? Tone! I wonder if that Fender also could get the sounds from sanfranciscan psychedelic bands with a Gibson SG or a ES-335.

4:48 is a killer jam!

Hello Johan, I’m planning to by a cab for my 2061x Marshall. Do you think a vertical (sv212) or a diagonal (2061cx)Marshall will sound the best (Botha with 20watts heritage greenback)? Thanks for all your videos!!!

Great video Johan. Now if you have an Ampeg amp like the one Jimi played on the Dick Cavett show, I’d be really interested to hear it! You could play your SG Custom into it.

I have to say - on the really clean settings, the tone has both a very nice clarity and punch to it. But I do wonder if you'd get the exact same tone if the Strat was in standard tuning?

OHH MYY GODDDD Does this sound good

awsome

The only kind of shaky cam I approve of ^^

So, what was wrong with the amp before? Do you know what Daniel Forsberg fixed? It really does sound great now! Nice playing, as always, Johan

Hey johan whats your favorite kiss studio album?

Very cool Still wanna hear that baby thru the 4/12 😁

Does that D130 give up anything to a 12” Celestion? It sure sounds like it has all the highs a typical 12” speaker would.

This and the Dual Showmans are more reasonable for a vintage Fender because they are loud. I traded my 68 DS for a 76 Princeton. The DS can often be found for under 7-800. Less if you're lucky.

Are you keeping this amp?

👍👍

If I had all that great gear... I wouldn't sound as good as Johan Segeborn.... 🎸👍🎸

On with the Showman….

Metall översadel på stratan? :)

It sounds great. I am guessing those who say "it isn't Hendrix" don't realize it sounds way different in the studio than it does after being processed for You Tube and then played through a laptop or cellphone. Then again, if you could bring Hendrix back and have him play off camera, someone would be quick to point out "it isn't Hendrix".

HYPE

Nothing like Hendrix tone. No blooming interactive 3D tone around the lower mids blending seamlessly into crispy but warm upper harmonics. The showman is too stiff and clean in all the wrong places for Jimi's tone. Yes Jimi very occasionally used similar fender amps to this one but it was hardly his signature sound and there is a good reason why he fell in love with Marshall amps and was happy with them enough to never bother with fender amps unless he had to or on very rare occasions used them for a change in tone. I can't see what the point of this experiment is, except that it is usually misunderstood how jimi used his Marshalls and how they were set up, slightly modded and biased to his taste. Post Van Halen and ACDC, most people haven't got a clue how to get those classic old school tones of Hendrix, Page and, Kossoff, but especially Hendrix.

Just proof that Jimi could have gotten his tone out of a first-act. Wasn't til 4:45 that you started playing his techniques and style that it sounded like Jimi. Throw a fuzz, univibe, wah and use Jimi's techniques on most amps and it will sound good. Playing like Buddy Holly on Jimi Hendrix's actual rig will make you sound like Buddy Holly.

I'm going to risk my life here - but don't fender amps just kick serious Marshall arse?

Fender showman "half stack"?. It's not a Marshall, they're only ever used with one cabinet.

It doesn't sound like Hendrix to me,.but is sure sounds DAMN good!

I tough Hendrix play marshall almost every live pictures i watch is showing him with marshall no ????

Ummm... no, it doesn't.

Sounds nothing like Jimi. Back to the drawing board.