This 1960s SELMER is one of THE BEST AMPS I'VE PLAYED!! 

love the clarity of this amp

Selmers have a gorgeous tone. Distinctive as Sunn or Orange. I'm a Marshall fan too, but there's a multitude of great tones out there

Hilton Valentine , guitarist in The Animals used a Selmer for the iconic riff from " House of the rising sun ".

British tube amps of the 60's so many great ones! The Selmer is way underappreciated. Thanks Johan for reminding the world of our incredible audio technology of the days gone by.

Syd's amp of choice in the 60s! \m/

I always love The Early Selmer amps.they have a great unique voice to them. Thanks for the demo! Cheers.

I love how Johan says "they're still affordable" when a video from him is often the kiss of death for cheap prices LOL

Perfect amp for a Rolling Stones style Band! Very CoOl sound!

I lived in Sweden back in the 70's and owned a Treble 'N Bass Mk II that was either a 65 or 66. Would kill to have that back now. Basically a Bassman with a few mods. It did have a very similar cracked faceplate above the switch. Would be funny if it is my old one, but maybe that's a common defect. I did trade it in for a pretty legendary other one, though. A 1975 Orange OR120. I modded that one with a master volume since it would take the grout out of my parent's tile work. I played it through a Laney 4x12 with Goodman elements (aluminum dust cap, don't remember the model) that may have been a contributing factor. Moved some serious air, those suckers.

This thing sounds gnarly! I dig it! Nicely done, Johan!

I believe Hilton Valentine used a Selmer in the studio-when they recorded 'The house of the rising sun

my amp rig is a 65 Amps Royal Albert and a 65 Amps Marquee, both of which take their preamp DNA from a Selmer TnB. i absolutely love the sounds of these amps! love this video. such killer tone.

Wow 😮, what an amazing sounding amp…. Sounds amazing on my crappy iPhone speakers can only image how great it sounds in person! Another great episode Johan. Thx for the info

This sounds amazingly good!

Johan you inspire me a lot. One of the greatest in my humble book.

Wow! What a very cool & incredibly unique tone! I love that!

I've never heard of this brand amp before. Thanks Johan!

beautiful amp, sounds punchy with that great JBL loaded cabinet. Thanks for sharing, Johan, take care

That's the best amp in the world, and I've got two of them. Both 1966 with the rectifier tube. Together with two 4x12 cabs, two Binson echorec2 and a '68 Stratocaster it doesn't get any better! I consider myself quite lucky to have achieved this stuff, but it didn't come for free. I don't know how many hours I have spent restoring all this old gear.

On a similar note SUNN PA's had great sound. at first they were all hand wired and came with 2 4-12 columns. Incredible sound. Used by Leslie West & Mountain on their huge hit "Mississippi Queen". Raw power, just like you have here with the Selmer. Good one Johan.

Selmer are great amps. Used in the studio and live back in the day. Steppinwolf "Born to be Wild"

Johan’s 59 is one of the nicest burst sprays jobs. It’s the perfect color and how the red bleeds into the orange. That’s my favorite guitar he tests with. What a great video. I’m guessing you won’t find one of these lying around just anywhere.

Wow, have always wanted to play one. Thanks for the video, and fine playing.

Really wanna pick one of these up. I hope you test it with a strat too, I think this amp would come alive! Great video as always!!

Sounds very good this amp and you drive it well. Nice crocs, too.

That sounds awesome, Johan! An amp with that circuit needs to be reissued.

Love those brit amps from that era... i would like to hear it through some celestion speakers too

Around 1980 I would jam with a guy who had one and played a Burns Guitar through it if memory serves. Sounded great! Nice job mate.

Oh, selmer! Love this company’s woodwind instruments. When I was in my high school and college wind ensemble most of the players used Selmer instruments. Charlie Parker used a Selmer “Naked Lady” saxophone on some of his greatest recordings. They merged with Conn and now they’re one of the biggest woodwind and brass producers in America. Tons of great brands: Selmer, Conn, King, Jupiter, Bach, you name it. Never knew they made Amos but these sound great. As underrated as the Fender Showmaster IMO.

Just as I was talking with a friend about the T & B, this great video shows up! One of my favorit amps as well and as Josh Smith puts it: It's his favorite Marshall. :P I picked one up a couple of months ago for 4.000DKR and the owner I bought it from happened to live just 500 metres from me, hah.

Great I've been Waiting for this. I know he did the 70s silverface one which was wonderful.

i like how you really get your vibrato going with your left foot there :)

Nobody seems to notice how much the JBL's in the 4x12 would affect this sound. Low amp power, high output clear speakers. That cabinet must required a forklift to pick up. I think Stevie Vaughan also used some JBL's, maybe E-110's in a Fender Super Reverb

This was the amp I used back in the day, really gutsy amps, esp in bass channel.

Now that Selmer really does sound full and warm even through the JBL's. Very impressive 👍 I love the tone when your picking and with a little bit of warm echo decay on there the picking would really sound beautiful, has a great vibe to it, imo. Like Randy's picking on "Diary of a Madman". Thank You Johan 👍👍

I think Kossoff used a Selmer on "All Right Now" for that lovely chimey tone. Classic stuff. Thanks for the demo!!

Speakers sound very "Honest" great amp if you've been to Detroit Michigan, catch one of our fav's Danny Kroha ripping some garage music through one of these with his many projects Thanks for the tour Johan!

Wow! This sounds killer! Damnn

Hi, Johan! I never saw this amp. Its not too much agressive, as it can do Randall or Fender, the overdrive is a little weak, but with the bedal it will be not bad. But its very rare amp. For Pink Floyd from the early years its going well. Maybe one day I will meet that amp. Hope so! And... Yeah, you was right: V30 is very versatile and strong speaker. With my Washburn G5V 1987 USA , the best superstrat I ever played on, this is amazing, so thank you for your advice! I really appreciate it. If you say, I trust you! See you! S.

My favorite amp that I own is a 65 AMPS Marquee, which its TMB Channel is based on the Selmer Treble N Bass preamp with a midrange pot added.

Love those amps ✨

I've got one of the really ugly MkIII Silver versions. As far as I know, it's the same circuit. It's a simple amp, cleaner than any old Marshall I've played. My amp tech (Vintage himself) remarked on how these old Selmers were considered a bit cheap and basic back in the day, and finds it interesting to see them gaining a following. He did also then remark, after servicing the amp, at 'how good it sounded'! Looking forward to this!

Great amp.great player.nice video king.👍👍⚘⚘👍⚘⚘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤨

What a fantastic sound through those JBL's... I've managed to get my hands on some well-priced EV's and Altecs which bring out different aspects of my Marshalls and other amps, but I haven't come across the right JBL's... at least, not yet!!

The cabinets that came with those were a choice between either a 1x18 or a 2x12. Sometime around 67 or so they switched from using Goodman's to celestion greenbacks.

Everything sound better through a vintage marshall 4x12 cab. No? Thick around 300hz. love it

One of the best tone ever! Hear " interstellar overdrive" of pink Floyd

According to an old guitar world article from the seventies and a early 2000's guitar player issue on the fifty top tones they both state all right now featuring Paul Kossoff used a selmer treble and bass 50 not a Marshall on that track , oh and I can hear it , nice work

In the 70s the Selmer guitar factory went on strike and all the good amp techs went off to form Kelly. If you ever find one grab it, they sound amzing.

Never heard of Selmer but it sounds great

rad!!!

The Syd Barrett amp!

Let's go !!!!

These amps were all great but I think that there was a bigger difference in the speakers than the (relatively simple) amp circuits. It would be great to see you do some speaker shoot-outs.

Sounds brutal

Really great tones!!! Thanks for share.. Johan did you’ve seen the prs hdrx20? Would be interesting a comparison with svh… Greetings from Chile

Would be very interesting if you could lay your hands on Vox UL4120 ! .. the Whole Lotta Love amp 😇

I got a T and B 50 reverb model of this, but its an orange colour head branded "FLAME", something to do with Pat Nolan or something.

I wanna hear you demo a Sunn O))) Model T.

Nice. Try a Carlsbro CS60TC next time!

I had two of these.. one was stolen in 2002 from my luggage on American Airlines and the other I sold to Dave Cobb(the producer).

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah !!!!!

these sound great through a telecaster, ever play a Kelly MK2?

Supposedly Macca used a Selmer on the Lovely Rita solo on Sgt Pepper.

I had a chance to buy one a few years ago for $400 aud. I have a feeling I would regret not buying it

Monster

Ever played an "Oliver" ?. Another diamond in the rough. (From Jesse Oliver after he left Ampeg.)

What’s the main difference between mk2 and mk3 in terms of tone?

i can get close with a slight cranked vox with a rangemaster

Hi Johann. It sounds fat through JBLs which can sometimes be too trebly. Does this mean this amp sounds dark through greenbacks and similar?

I wish I could get a mason dixon Fillmore East Duane Allman head to Johan to test.

Johan! What strings do you use on your gibsons?

I'd like to see a comparison with a Selmer and a Kelly. They are very closely related.

I hope you are bridging the channels somewhere in the demo :) These amps are perfect as pedal platforms, have insane amounts of bottom end. Put a rat infront and you should be able to use it as a demolition tool. I have had one (mkIII 1968, not the ugly silver version, thank god) for ages got it in a second hand store for about $30 including a 2x12 cab :) The guitarist in the Norwegian band Undergrunnen uses TnB's exclusively :)

How does it compare to the '66 Vox AC50 that you really liked?

Cool. A Selmer was used on house of the rising sun.

Pls staph Johan. I've been lately checking those out waiting for a bump in my bank acc so that I could pull the trigger. Damn it lol

That’s a Champ Electronics sticker on one of the transformers. Chamobino.

It sounds vintage

With all those vintage celestions(perfect match), why would use jbl’s?!

Price before this video around $500 after video $1200

John would you look in to sharing some of your amazing tones with the new IK TONEX software. It really does work well.

...and it's the best amp you will ever play cos 99% of new amps are rubbishy characterless boxs...okay maybe a couple are ok. That amp is magic!

i don't like it

Hello Mr. Segeborn, i´m selling my Selmer 1962 or 1963 Selmer Bassmaster 30. Are you interested ?