What if Hendrix and Zeppelin played SELMER instead of MARSHALL?! 

Sounds super cool! Great demo Johan! Jim Marshall who was a professional drum started to sell drumkits to his drum students in late 1950´s. They eventually took their guitar players and bass players and other musicians with them to Jim who started to sell Selmer equipment. When Jim open his first music store the 7th of July 1960 he was already an Selmer retailer. He eventually hired Ken Bran to help him out with servicing all the amps. Later Ken Bran brought along his armature radio ham friends Dudley Craven and Ken Underwood and they suggested they make an amp themselves. So one night they copied the notorious American (Guitarist in UK talk about this amp but few had heard it) amp the Bassman that Ken Bran had in for service in the shop. In September 1963 (Not 1962) they demoed the first amp at the Ealing Club in London and the JTM45 was born…

That's like the most 70s sounding amp ever. Love it.

That is a very simple circuit. No wonder it sounds as good as it does. I hear all sorts of stoner/doom goodness in this thing.

Simply great video, as always Johan!

Awesome video Johan !..........what a great idea you got !!.......Sounds frikken Classic !.......and your playing for some reason was spectacular on this one !!................Thanks !........Lou

I've had a 62' croc Zodiac Twin 30 for forty years, best amp ever, channel 1 is straight EL-34 power/Marshall tone, channel 2 is multi push button tone selectors for some of the cleanest chime ever, more so than a Top Boost AC-30. Pete Townsend used Selmer amps during the "Pictures of Lily" era, Gerry & the Pacemakers had all Selmer amps, Steve Winwood in early Traffic, many more.

Sounds absolutely killer. The distortion is tight and gritty, no harsh fizziness on top, very nicely balanced and full. Selmer has made some of the best instruments of all time (vintage saxophones worth $$$). Seems their quality extended to amps as well!

Thank you for you contribution to the music community, it is appreciated greatly!

very cool I'd love to hear more off the beaten path vintage amps, Keep em coming Johan TY

Awesome Johan, and thanks for making my early 60s croc skin Treble and Bass more worth! You should try one of those!

Very impressive! I liked the sound more and more as the video was progressing. At first it sounded quite dark to me but them from 3:40 it began to be more of my thing. Beautiful sound. 7:30 is amazing too and it sounds fantastic when you boost up the highs. Funny thing is that it has some particular crunch I only get from a preset that I made on my begginer practice amp Line 6 Spider (on "Crunch" mode) when I was small. That thing, believe it or not, sings like this and resonates with the same tonality if you tweak it right. And now I can hear that very particular kind of crunch on a propper vintage tube amp! I'll keep the Spider! The reverb it had was nice too and reminds me of your room 😂Maybe that is an interesting thing to study too, killer tones from cheap amps. It sometimes happens Thanks a lot man! Very good job. I'll look forward to the next video! A hug from Spain :) Samuel & Sin In The Flesh

Great job johan ¡! Your skills are better every video and your tone is also fantástic Cheers dude

I think I had been told, that Kossoff played the iconic Riff of 'All Right now' through a Selmer Combo. Anyway, this Amp is amazing !

I'm curious to hear it with a treble booster or a fuzz!

Snyggt Johan! 😀 A Selmer thunderbird 50 MkII has been my main amp for 20 years. I love it!

Great tone Johan. Digging the new video work too.

THAT is a great sound! Wow! That sound was perfect compliment to your playing Johan! Love it. That should be a keeper for you. Would love to see you play it with a fuzz or a treble booster!

Very nice demo! Think I may have to take mine out of the cupboard and crank it!

have to agree with everyone here: this sounds absolutely awesome! diggin' that sunset too!

Thanks for introducing me to Selmer. All these years and never knew they existed. Sounds great!!!!!

Love Selmer's! I had 3 Treble & Bass 50's and a 120 Bass! All excellent amps after changing the smoothing(filter) caps! Leaving original electrolytic caps in any old amp is like having the original oil or spark plugs in an old Sixties car..

some gorgeous sounds here (not surprising from Johan! the riff and tone at 2:09 is stunning). To me this sounds darker/bassier than a marshall so might not cut through a mix quite as well, but on it's own is awesome. Great lead tone. Thanks for another banger, Johan, always excited to hear whatever you play a Les Paul through (would be great to see more of your black LP Custom again) Cheers!

Fantastic, Johan! The styling isn’t as “sexy” as the classic Marshall heads, but the sounds are all there. Really nice demo👍🏼

Beautiful amplifier! And beautiful playing.

Really great demo of this underrated amp. Really nice cleans through to fat driven sounds

Sounds great!! I’m starting to think that you are set as long as you have a vintage Marshall cabinet to plug into.

Great Johan! I have the exact same amp, that Daniel have modded to the DF50 spec. Awesome amp, with very good output transformer.

Selmer has it's own distinctive sound. Different than Marshall, Vox, Mesa or Fender. Equally impressive sounding as the "bigger" names. To my ears, it has superb pick dynamic control that affects its voicing. Thanks for bringing this product to light.

Very wooly sounding! Super awesome amp. You raise a good question johan, yes I think that if those guys used other amps. Like this one. These would now be reissued sold for thousands and that would be the sound of rock n roll for sure. At the same time we don’t need jimi to tell us this amp is friggin sweet 😂 Kudos

Interesting tones. You do make anything and everything sound good though! Rock on bro!

Ive wanted one of those amps for a while but I haven't been able to find one locally. Great Video. What video editing software do you use?

Got a Selmer Zodiac head of the same style which sounds mean! The cat is yet to come out of the bag for these amps...

Johan I've been watching your videos and im wondering if maybe you could help me out with a question i have for you? I need to get a new amp and i cant decide which one. I really like the supro black magick and i also really like the silver jubilee 2525c. I was wondering if maybe you could give me your opinion on them? Anything would be helpful tks ....lets go!!

Got one of these babies paired with the same cab and run it dual mono with my original Budda 18w - Joe Bonna Wah - Gretsch Pro Jet....The cars full but I l love it... Running a Palmer attenuator when I have to on the Selmer....!!!! Thank you so much for sharing

Wow! Fantastic sound!

Does anyone know what speakers Selmar came stock with? There is a decent chance they were celestions if it's a British brand but I don't know much about selmar.

The Selmer Mk2 treble-n-bass has tube rectification hence the superior tone to this wave bridge rectifier model. Great video!

I have a couple of Selmers, a Treble n Bass RSV 50 watt like yours and a Zodiac 100 watt; this features a footswitchable tremolo effect aswell as spring reverb. I've done a full revalve on this amp (including changing filter caps and associated resistors). - This quietened it down and improved the sound significantly.

I like how you filmed this one Johan; it looks great. Great job! Do you think the older Selmer treble and bass amps sound any different?

Finally scored one of these amps John, mine has the tremolo and reverb on it. Great sounding amp. So, let's go.......

Nice unique sound!

I love the aesthetics of that head, and it sounds absolutely killer. The distortion is so rich and open to my ears.

Love your videos. I’m a drummer from USA but have an amp problem. My buddy and I are going to Winnipeg to relax, hockey and look for Garnet amps. We have one that’s just amazing. Also a couple Traynors that just kick butt. Please give Canadian amps some love. Lets Go!

sounds awesome. i love the sound of these - truly their own thing and to my ear falls somewhere in between the vintage Fender and Marshall sounds. it’s like a JTM45, a Super and an little bit of AC30 were blended together in one box.

Sounds killer !! ..and looks Soooo Cool.

I love my 65 Amps Marquee. Its TMB Channel is based on a Selmer Treble and Bass, but the power section is based on an AC30.

Like to hear that through some Fane speakers as and alternative to the 'stock' greenbacks.

There is a movie from 1967 call "Blow-up". In the movie Page and Beck have a Selmer on stage, Doesn't mean it was recorded for the tune used in the movie. But it's a Great Clip all the same! Thanks for sharing brother! Be Well Johan!

Sounds great! Selmer amps definitely could have been as iconic as Marshall amps are now!

There is a picture of Page with his les paul and selmer amp... Who knows, maybe he used it sometimes. Sounds great!

I'm happy to have bought mine some time ago. You could still get them for €300, with original Brimar preamp tubes and Mullard EL34. Now it's more like €600 for one in good condition. They are so underrated, just like Carlsbro amps from the same era. I had a 1971 Super Lead,but eventually I sold it, the Selmer TnB and Carlsbro CS60TC are here to stay.

Sounds really good

Sounds EPIC!

I'm still waiting to find out if Hendrix ever used his Moog modular.

Which cabinet and mic used ? Sounds epic

Fine demo!

They got a certain sagging quality pretty cool. Sounds like bassman/jtm45 mixed with the chime of Vox.

Yes, more than good enough. Sounds fantastic actually! Cheers

Hi Johan. Can I ask where do you get your b footage from? For example the water fall in this video. Do you film it yourself.

I want a Selmer amp of any kind or size...can you guess why?

You're closer than you think. Hendrix _did_ use a Selmer when he first arrived in England...and _hated_ it. He went through several different amps before settling on Marshall as his main amp, but he would use any amp that suited his needs in the studio. Notably Fender. Led Zeppelin, on the other hand, toured with Rickenbacker amps for a while. Large solid state amps that sound...harsh. You might still be able to find one or two of them floating around. The ones that weren't thrown out. Certainly Page would have used a Selmer at one point or another in his career, or at least tried one.

Very cool demo-interesting "what if" comparison.Actually would love to see m0ore post like this-I think it's intriguing to see how certain situation's would on fold depending on different variables.For example I know Tony Iommi used a Strat in the early days (T.I. loved Jimi).So what would Sabbath sound like with Tony on a Strat /without the Iconic SG .Johan also sum real excellent playing very tasteful licks & rock solid/Peace

Amazing amp. Great playing as usual and great ending with "no class" what so ever. Greatings from Portugal. Cheers

Selmers are really interesting! From what I read - they're basically Ampegs (either a brand put onto products that came from the Ampeg workshop or merged with Ampeg at some point). This is a unique-looking specimen that you found. Every once and a while there's one that pops up on Craigslist or Reverb. These clips sound GREAT.

Amazing sounding amplifier. Harmonic overtones are very rich.👍😀

You have a gritty way about your playing that I really enjoy. Not run of the mill shit that every joe blow does. I’d like to see a vid of you breaking down some of your tricks.

Sounds great. You may want to check out Guytron, they use a EL83 in the preamp stage, very unique.

I haven't noticed at first... the echo unit in and out is a effects loop? Is this right? Not very common for this era.

Hey Johan, I wanted to ask you if you ever tried a Mk2 from the 60's with the pale blue Selmer logo plate, black tolex and "Vox" style grillcloth ? if yes, I would love to have your thoughts about the comparaison between the 60's Mk2 and the early 70"s "SV" mk2 ! Anyway, You Really have great tones and this one ! Thanks for all the golden infos you give here !

I played bass through a crocodile treble and bass 50 and two David speakers way back in the sixties. It was the best bass rig I ever had. How I wish I kept it. I played in the Millionaires one of Joe Meeks last bands. So much volume, so much tone but sadly it took up so much room. I so wish I still had it.

Those filters look awesome!

Glorious tone !

Johan why is a Marshall greenback cab twice as much as a peavey green back cab? It’s just a wood box with speakers right ?

Page used a variety of amps in the studio from Supro to Vox and sometimes Fender. Somewhere on those 1st 3 Zeppelin lps,theres a Selmer being used . Theres really no log of what he used on any given song,but Page is a tone geek so he probably never met an amp or device he didnt like or at least try to coax a sound out of. He even tried Robert Fripp's Gizmotron for the intro to In The Evening.

Sounds like a cross between a Hiwatt and a Vox AC30.

:10 I was won over :18 I was saying WOW! now I'll go and listen and watch the rest of it. Only Johan would have these things that many "guitarists" ask themselves. Great amp. Great!!!

Omg! I'm in love!

Tight crunch and smooth cleans. That thing sounds great! Don’t think I’ve ever seen a Selmer head before, only the different combos. How loud is that thing? I’m guessing that you’re playing it a ”johan a’clock” (full throttle) 😅🤘

SOUNDS AMAZING

If you can get your hands on it, you should do the same video but with a Vox AC100 mk2 or a AC50 mk4

Tja Johan, Kul att få höra lite Selmer! Läste att paul kossoff ev använde en Selmer vid inspelningen av bla all right now, nåt för segeborns mythbusters ;)

@Johan Segeborn I had a treble and bass head but it was an earlier model with black faceplate and knobs all horizontal not verticle like yours. It looked way different than this but it also didn't sound as good as this. It was kind of boring and too clean. Didn't break up like the one in this video. Not even close. Maybe closer to a Fender blackface but not quite. I like this one. Are they under a grand?

Hi Johan. To my ears it sounds with less treble and mids than Jimi's Marshall, and also maybe it has a little more gain, like a fuzz. Other than that it sounds brutally wonderful. See you friday. Cheers.

Great Tone !!!

Snap crackle and pop! very versatile; moulinex of amps. Huge bottom at some clips. 6/5 overall. Your mics/micing skills needs an applause also.

Salvation Audio makes this circuit for MTS and Synergy amps. It's really good

Pretty kicking sound!

Awesome. Your favorite "modern" series of Les Paul? Go!

nice!! only Selmer amp i've ever seen in person was a saxophone amp

This was my first amp back in 1970. I never liked it, dumped it for a Marshall. Sounds not so bad here though. I played Cream and Hendrix numbers back then.

With the low end girth it’s probably more comparable to an Orange?

That sunset looks just like Mercyful Fate's 'Into the Unknown'

Syd Barrett used a Selmer TnB MkII when he was with Pink Floyd. I'm surprised you didn't plug a Telecaster in the Selmer.

Sounds like a great amp for some doom/stoner rock. Treble booster in the bass channel would be nice as well.

Yes, let's go! Selmer is king. I have a tnb 50 mk3 and it delivers bucketloads of punch.

SORRY I missed the Prem Johan! Had it open and ready, then went to get a cup of tea whilst waiting, went to check on my dog and cover her up as it's still cool at night here, and found she'd been sick all around her bed! MASSIVE spew all over the place, poor puppy! :o( At least she had the sense to vomit over the side of her bunk onto the tiles. Took me 1/2 an hr to clean the mess up! She's tucked up in bed now asleep! Anyhoo, to the video at hand! Sounded good, but I thought the bass channel was just TOO bassy for a guitar, esp on the neck pick up. Very flubby! Maybe cut the bass and crank the treble further. Treble channel sounded PERFECT however! Classic crunch! Rockin'! \m/

This was my first amp besides the toy Marshall that came with my first guitar. My grandad gave it to me when I was 12/13 years old. It was so loud my parents wouldn't let me switch it on claiming "I can hear the strings fine without the amplifier". I actually didn't think it was a 'proper' guitar amp when I got it because he was an accordion and keyboard player and unlike my toy Marshall it didn't have an 'overdrive button' or gain knob. I didn't even have proper guitar speaker cab for it. It ended up going back to him but I got it back many years later when he passed on. By then I was much older, moved out of my parents house and knew a lot more. I got it with a gutted WEM cab utilised just for it's 15" Goodman's guitar speaker. To me it's a LOUD 50w. Take it somewhere where you can link the channels together and dime it - wow. I've always wanted someone like yourself with lots of experience to do a video on one so chuffed you have. I actually used mine to play Metallica and ran a Blackstar Dist-X preamp pedal into the normal input. I replaced a bunch of the pots too and fitted some black metal knobs. Came with Mullard El34's

This amp reminds me of my old Ampeg V4 in its thickness and the brutal way it overdrives. The Selmer is dirtier though.And its been,oh, 40 years. Time flies!

Great demo, Johan! I just bought a 1967/68 Selmer Treble N Bass head. Wonderful amp. Rumor has it that Paul Kossoff in fact used a Selmer TNB when recording the studio version of "All Right Now". Do you know if there is any truth to that? Takk for alle videoene du legger ut. Utrolig mye bra!

It sounds like it could do whole lotta love pretty well, especially if you add a wah for the solo