Brett, I've watched this video about 100 times and I love it. What an amp and as always, you do such a great job of demoing it. I think I just might make the purchase. The original Bandmasters are so high priced and this one is as good as any vintage one I've heard and have played through.
As I was watching your video, my new Bandmaster cabinet from Mojotone showed up at my front door. I loved your video and was amazed at all the tones you have available in this amp. I considered building the Twin Super, but thought I could always convert the Bandmaster to two speakers with a few modifications to the circuit. After all, the only difference is one speaker and a resistor. Thanks for the great demonstration of the sounds available from this rare tweed.
Beautiful sounding amp. I might be wrong but i think the 5E7 and the 5f4 circuit from the tweed super are the same. Bandmaster has 3 10s and the super 2 10s. Great amps
Great video! Many, many years ago, I visited a vintage guitar store in St. Louis. They had a 3x10 Bandmaster in white tolex and it was glorious. I tried to buy it, but it wasn't for sale...
I have heard that Gibson had an innovative thinline semihollow guitar in the works with PAFs humbuckers back when Fender put this amp out. Suppsedly Gibson shelved such semihollow guitar plans in 1959 because of issues it could be used to amp up rock, which all the stores and radio stations were pulling from their shelves and trashing in 1959 until 1963. I also heard that brittish blues rocker Eric Clapton got a hold of a prototype of such in the sixties and used it his band, Cream, thru a stack of screaming 60's Marshall's. I keep checking demos of amps from about 1957 to maybe get to hear one such Gibson semihollow the way Gibson guitar builders had in mind. But, I guess Gibson built so few of such prototypes that nobody ever comes across one and demos it. Unless someone like Joe Bonamassa takes an interest and persuades Gibson to finally put them into production, I doubt it'll ever happen. Maybe Collings will someday do so. Instead people just demo solidbodies thru fender tweeds of the late 1950's.
in other words....jumper bright/normal high/low with the little cable, and it sounds like an early 1970's Ampeg V9 or V4, only quieter...Rolling Stones sound....lol
Agreed. Hopefully Brett still has new stuff coming through to him to demo and ideas for Axe-FX presets but if that starts to dry up then a personal 'rig rundown' would be fascinating. Especially as I'm pretty sure Brett has multiple rigs for use in different gigging situations.
What a sweet amp! As a sucker for most of the tweed Fender amps, this one sounds killer! I bet that thing was cookin on 8 and full up. My little 5E3 clone will make my ears ring at far lower than 8 on the volume haha. Loved seeing the camera struggle with the volume. Thanks!
Better than sex? Well, some of the sex I’ve had! 😂. Seriously... that thing rawks!! While you still have it.. run it through whatever power soaks you have for demos.. would love to hear a UA vs Waza Craft shootout... I mean an amp like that needs to breathe... what better excuse??
