I got mine for $600, on the same day the Soviet Union went away in August of 1991. I got home with it, the news was on TV, and there was Boris Yeltsin on the screen in front of their new flag. I had to watch that before I got to play my new old amp! Mine's an October 55, and it has roughly the same rehabs done to it as this one. It also sounds remarkably the same. No flips here, or anywhere else in my universe. The next time mine changes hands will be at my estate sale. I just hope that whoever gets it next will understand and appreciate it.
Agree. Picked up a '60 5G9. Better gig amp than any I've had before. Not too much like a Bassman, and holds it's own against a drummer, unlike a Deluxe. Too bad the gigs are gone!
If it's truly a 5E9 like he said, with the paraphase PI it's a circuit very similar to an early Deluxe and might not have very much clean headroom at all. The later 5G9 circuit was a completely different amp with more clean headroom.
The tube chart in the cabinet will tell you the month and year. First letter is the month. A=January B=February C=March.........etc. The second letter is the year, starting with: A=1951 B=1952 C=1953.........etc. Example: my Princeton is stamped FH That means 1956, August. It's that simple.
@@musicofanatic Might be why it doesn't sound as good as one I have heard on RU-vid, that just blew me away. I have been playing for 59 years, and I have a theory that old amps sound best when they are still running the original electrolytic capacitors, before they have gone too far over the dying edge. It seems, the more electricity that runs through those things, the better an amp sounds. Just my opinion, of course.
@@musicofanatic Yes, I came close to doing that. But the harmonically rich beauty of these things comes when the parts have been used and used and used, and have had hours of electricity running through them, which is true, I believe, with speakers and even guitar pickups. I could very well be wrong; but that's my conclusion after playing for 59 years ...
The disparity in the prices of great vintage amps vs great vintage guitars is mind boggling. Great vintage Tweed Fender? Here ya go - $1500 to $3000. Great vintage Strat? Umm… that’ll be $10,000 to 20,000… Great vintage Gibson? Better off just spending that towards a a house.
Shameless piggybacking (theirs likely sold anyway): I have a '59 5G9 Tremolux for sale, the final and best version of the tweed T-lux.Mostly original and sounds like a million bucks for a whole lot less than a million! Message me!
Would have loved to have heard it without so much distortion. Tweed amps just go to mud when they are pushed that hard. Sorry. That all-out distortion does NOT sound good. Can't believe anyone would think that it does ...
If you didn’t watch the video all the way through then yes it sounded muddy at first. Gotta let the tubes warm up before they start getting fat and creamy sounding, which this amp did. Sounds beautiful!
@@jsdhesmith2011 Well, the treble to D strings sound real fine. But the A and E just are too flabby, for my taste. But I am essentially a clean player, having begun back when the objective was to eliminate all distortion. I HAVE heard a Tremolux that was just wonderfully warm and harmonically rich, and didn't travel so far into pure mud like this one does. THAT amp was the best sounding amp I have ever heard. Perhaps, he just had this amp running too loud ...
I got mine for $600, on the same day the Soviet Union went away in August of 1991. I got home with it, the news was on TV, and there was Boris Yeltsin on the screen in front of their new flag. I had to watch that before I got to play my new old amp! Mine's an October 55, and it has roughly the same rehabs done to it as this one. It also sounds remarkably the same. No flips here, or anywhere else in my universe. The next time mine changes hands will be at my estate sale. I just hope that whoever gets it next will understand and appreciate it.
