Let's OPEN UP and HEAR the NEW GIBSON FALCON 20 

Great job showing the entire amp! Shared!

Thank you for actually opening the amp, unlike every other "review" of this thing.

Thanks for showing us the inside of this $299.00 amp!

Very good demo showcasing how inspirational this little amp, great playing as well!

Best review of this amp so far. I'm subscribing!

Hey buddy, great review! Thanks for showing the inside. I’m not an amp tech, but one thing I wanna point out is that those orange drop capacitors near the tubes are not the high voltage ones. It looks like the standing ones are there too but as long as you don’t somehow stick your finger underneath it, it’s not dangerous. Great amp!!!

Good review. The amp sounds awesome! The reverb sounds super vintage and unique! Love it. Also, don’t worry about all of the “arm chair amp techs”. I have a Peavey Rockmaster pre from 1990 with 5 12AX7s, vertically mounted to PCB tucked into a one unit rack. Been flawless for 34 years. Brad the Guitologist has poisoned the guitar community.

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Thank You for sharing your experience with the Gibson Falcon Amp! Gibson nailed it this time around and I will definitely purchase the Falcon 5 the smaller version.

Buy whatever you want, ill happily keep my Victoria amps. Cool to see new stuff coming out though, thanks for sharing

Thanks Lucas and thanks Brad

P'haps The Falcon 20 instruction manual states "Dual" is because it can run 6v6 or 6L6's. I see the stencil on the back says 6v6 or 6L6's can be run.

I got one at my studio as well. The amp does not sound bad, but I still think it's pretty expensive for what it is. Good amp though, but maintenance is gonna be really hard with that PCB ... Thanx for your video !

They don’t want you to open the amp because when you see how it’s constructed you’re gonna cry! 😹

The one big concern that jumps out at me is that they are charging almost $2,000US for an amp that's construction and materials shouldn't have a retail price over ONE K! And that's accounting for the slightly more expensive speaker and handle! 🙂 The power supply/filter caps are rather tiny. Though not a fan of PCB's at all, they can be a necessary cost-cutting measure. But at this price-point, this circuit layout and hidden, board mounted tubes are inexcusable. This amp, cool as it looks, and nice as it maybe sounds, is a definite 'no' for me. Not at that price. Lastly, the fan. The simple fact that gibson found they needed to add a fan, where most all other amps never have, tells you that the design concept is incorrect.

People : Why cant you just be normal? MESA : REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Certainly on the pricey side….👀 I have several tube amplifiers, and none of them cost me nowhere near what this amplifier cost….! My favorite is my 1971 Twin …❤️🎶👍🏻

That cable has to be TRS for that two button foot switch. Cool cable for a stereo guitar I guess

Sad build quality for the money they expect people to spend. Ty for being honest.

For $1,800 I could buy an original 1968 Fender Bandmaster with original 2x12 cab.. Or how about a 1975 Fender Bassman Ten for a grand? Or a 1973 Fender Dual Showman Reverb head, for a grand?? Absolutely ridiculously priced thing, they haven't even relic'ed it ffs.. Gibson and Fender are just scam-corporations at this point.

Handwired in Petaluma CA.... LOL

Well I have had my Falcon 20 for a few days now, and yes at first I was put off by the fan noise but it really doesn't matter while I am playing. I do like the tones a lot, so I will be keeping it - I will just make sure not to look inside. 😉

Great job, very thorough. Good to hear clean single coil tones. I have same amp. My favorite guitars with this amp are Jazzmasters, Les Paul Jr’s,telecasters and jaguars.

The cool thing about these amps and all the other reissues, if they have any problems they’ll come soon. I’ve been working on amps for years so if something is going to fail you usually see within the first year. The Gibson amps(originals)are pretty basic so it makes sense there wouldn’t be much on the board, it just feels like there should be more for that price. Like the Fender Tonemaster series, only time will tell if the amps will last. Regardless they’re keeping me busy.

The tone reminds me of a 1962 Silverton twin 12" sold by Sear Robuck I played the heck out of it...and it sounded like heck...I think I was 14 or 15 YO

You mention controversy regarding these new Gibson reissues, you need to watch Brad "The Guitologist's" review of these Mesa Boogie units that Gibson has put their name on.

Why is it garbage? Is it because the Guitologist hated it? I would not spend 2 grand for the amp, because I can put together what I want for much less money. It sounds good and that’s what counts.

Timestamps are in the description!

It's clear you like your Amp and I wish you many enjoyable hours. I am also slightly worried about it's robustness. You probably can extend it s livespan by being aware of the weak points. E.g.always check whether the fan is running. Replace it at the first sign of making weird or mire noise. The other worry I would have is the horizontally mounted tubes without tube clamps. I would worry about getting them slowly out of their sockets by the cumulative effect of putting the Amp on the floor. The shock of that could maybe make the tubes wiggle out of their sockets. Obviously never putting the Amp down with a thud will help.

Came here from recommendation from guitogist

I saw some guy review these today & hating them a lot. There are some sketchy components & I wouldn’t take it out of the studio or bedroom.

I'm still waiting for mine to arrive but I bought a Tone King Iron Man II Mini attenuator so I don't disturb my neighbours in my Condo and bought an ABY box to run both Hi & Low outputs like a Two Channel amp.

The only thing I wish this amp had is separate Gain and Volume controls. It'd be nice if you could get a distorted sound at a lower volume, if you wanted. But it really does sound great! I'm glad I don't live in an apartment. 😂

I dont get having the 12ax7 preamp tubes mounted directly to the board, even if it doesnt get hot enough to cuase problems with the pcb, if a socket goes bad, you pretty much will have to change the whole board, if you over heat the board trying to get one socket out it could destroy the board. 80yrs of mounting them outside the chassis has done just fine. Trying to reinvent the wheel it usaul fails. Imo

How much noise does the fan produce?

I got a Fender reissue vibrolux reverb-amp 5 yrs ago and think its a good amp. It's there when I want 35 watts but in my apartment a line 6 works out better.

I had been working toward getting a Fender Princeton but after this amp was released I’m definitely getting a Gibson Falcon.

Mesa Boogie Falcon 20

Gibson is out to lunch asking these prices! For like a single ended circuit board Amp. You could get Vintage one's for like half the price too, now with these prices the vintage ones are also going up like triple what they were!

Check out the Guitologists review on this amp. Very expensive for a pcb circuit. The preamp tubes are only accessible by taking the chassis out.

Mesa boogers design lol ode to guitologist , it does sound good, i have an orig. 63 falcon, its hard to tell through youtube but mine sounds more compressed and more saggy.

At least mount the tubes vertically, preferably pcb on the bottom. Horizontally and gravity don't mix well.

I always find it funny nobody reads the comments before they leave a comment. They all say the same things. 😂

More like a Mesa Manual, their influence is showing

This or Vibro champ? New vs new

Epiphone Casino makes that Beatles sound.

These things are made like an origin amp but marked up as a studio classic… “hand wired” LOOOL 😅

$1799.99

Hate to be negative (but it's not you my friend, your obviously a good guy) BUT, there is no way this amp stands the test of time. Shame on Gibson for putting out this garbage at a crazy price. You could buy a 60's era Gibson amp that was well built for half the price if you look around enough and it will still be chugging along in another 60 years. They sure made it look nice on the outside tho!!! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Gibson teaming up with MESA for '60s-style amps seems off from the start. What's next, making mandolins with IBM?

Feel like they could’ve put this in at a lower price point and made way more money by selling more amps…

People can open the amp themselves to make a judgement call, however do they know what they’re looking at? Your review is more informative than most by opening the amp but you don’t actually show us what it looks like inside? One of the issues not talked about by most reviewing the amp: how do you quickly check for a bad tube in the fly during a gig or while recording? You can’t. At least with most Fender amps, you can acces the tubes without removing the back panel…unless there’s a cage over the power tubes. But at least you can see all tubes and visually inspect for obvious issues: broken/not lighting up. Also, nobody’s talking about if the PC board layout is easily serviceable Guitoligist gives the best review regarding the amp’s build quality. Everyone else suggests it’s built well without showing us the inside, or even looking inside themselves… and then back to my first comment: would they even know what they’re looking at inside 🤷🏽‍♂️

I sometimes found Brad to be kind of a hard on, but f that, we need truth now more than ever. Shame Gibson

The sounds is not special at all.. There is a lot of good amp out there and cheaper .. Skip

I've spoken with several amp manufacturers about tubes in PCB and the consensus is that if the PCB is done right and aren't cheaply made, there is no issue. In the past cheaper PCB's weren't designed to take the heat and caused all sorts of issues. This being made by Mesa, I'm not concerned about the tube placement.

The amp is like every other amp made with the cheapest components, there are only a couple of manufacturers who can pull that off, mesa booger and criptsom are not in that small room but are the elephants in that room, there is much more to building a great sounding amp than just making something that works for a bit, the things that matter are lost to most and the components that are manufactured today just do not compare with what used to be cheap, ymmv.

6 minutes in and I can't stop thinking "this guy is incredibly impressed by the fact that their manual comes covered in the same material as blue book exams in college (like $3 a piece), that they suggested settings (feels pretty commonplace), that they give you a patch to advertise for their company, and that they throw in a cable. Like these are, at worst, an excuse for a subpar product, or at best, nice lil extras. They have nothing to do with the amp, and I've still heard nothing from or about the amp. Why are we talking about these?

This is the angrier Princeton I've always wanted! The Supro Amulet is another great choice.

My fender excelsior is better made than these new “Gibson” amps at least the pre amp and power amp valves are mounted on the chassis.But I’m sure there will be plenty of people blinded by the Gibson bullshit about Handwired lol 😂

I have an original Gibson GA amp, this one sounds no where like it. This things sounds quite generic compared to mine, which has a very pronounced character. The original is mid heavy and in your face, a can be agressive. You need to tame it and takes time to dial in a sound because it has so much personnality.. it's not at all versatile and shows every single mistake in your playing. It gets there when he dimes it at around 18 minutes.. but that's how this amp sounds most of the time.. But when you find the way to use it, and clean up your technic, it's unique and fabulous sounding.

This expensive should be hand wired. Getting lots of bad reviews

Brad sent me

look inside shill.

I am an amp tech....At the price point these amps are at one could buy an original Falcon, have it serviced, and have a more reliable system. PCB board and heat is what gives people with Fender reissue amps...ie...Blues Jr....problems all the time...I know I have to work on them

Are you kin to Jose?

Avoid these amps. Unless longevity and money isn't a concern, avoid these amps. If, by some chance, a few survive a few years and you can pick up a used one for a hundred dollars or so, then I'd think about getting one. But that is some of the worst construction I've seen outside of the very cheapest amps made short of using SMD construction.

OMG 😳😟 can one say remake of the Peavey's Classic 30/50 , Fender's Juniors / Deluxe s amp crap circuit board layout !!! 😢😢 What's Hand Wire about this Radio Shack Toy 🧸 connection of switching??? Cheap Amp Quality equals Stupid High Prices 😉😀😉😀😀. Wait, l solved the mystery,, these amps are Mono Price Amps Knock Offs !!!!! 😅😅😅😅

A reconditioned Gibson Falcon is half as much, and the new ones are not worth the money, another Gibson cash grab.

This is a classic Mesa Boogie product ... great marketing and look ... crappy insides ... Mesa Tubes are not even a real thing.

It's a $500 amp, max.

Yikes. No thank you. Bummer.

I'm here because of @TheGuitologist! Thanks!

Not a fan of the design not one bit.

What a mess

Mass produced, cheap crappy construction and highly overpriced. Spend half the price and buy the original from the late 1950s or 1960's now that's an amp!

Mesa Boogie junk!

Way over priced...Mesa saw their best years quite some time ago...and make no doubt this is a Mesa amp!

Poorly constructed and way overpriced

Just another overpriced PC board amp ... It won''t last ... More Gibson BS ...

5x overpriced and should be hand wired with turrets for that price point. I won't even say toi much on the tone stack or lack of. FAIL

Garbage! Expensive boat anchor that will crap on you in a few years…

This is cheap crap, it is not ”well built”.. sorry to break it to you

Looking inside an amp when you are not a tech isn't really useful. people here are praising you for doing so and praising this amp when what a tech will tell you is that this is a badly designed, cheaply made and overpriced piece of disposable tech. It's also blatently deceptive unless you call putting quick connects into sockets "hand wiring". Actually there is no controversy among techs about this amp, theater is a consensus that it's crap made for those with large amounts of disposable income and little sense. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pVmmur_Y-xA.htmlfeature=shared