Have You Bought Any Amp Heads / Combos & Cabs In 2026 ?

JiveTurkey said:
2026 coming up real soon! :guiness
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I ALMOST made it. Got a message this morning that my low ballish offer on a 1962 Brownface Pro got accepted. Doh!

It appears to be all original except it as a replacement baffle and non original but period correct JBL D-130 which was a pricey upgrade at the time. It will need new electrolytics, but I can handle that mostly with parts on hand.

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The brown Pro arrived amidst a blizzard today in mostly good shape. A few quick fixes and DAYEM! The cleans on this thing with the big JBL are pretty dang sweet, not at all blackface, but also not Tweed or Marshall either...and the harmonic vibrato is something I could get lost in for hours.

It needs a cap job and I can tell some of the yellow Astrons are leaky and need replacing ASAP, but given how it sounds already, this thing is going to be a monster when serviced and dialed in properly.
 
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The brown amps are such a nice middle ground between tweed and black panel. The Pro is probably too much amp for me but I’d def go for a 6g3 brown deluxe.
 
EOengineer said:
The brown amps are such a nice middle ground between tweed and black panel. The Pro is probably too much amp for me but I’d def go for a 6g3 brown deluxe.
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If you don’t want it to break up, it sounds great at moderate volume levels, and takes pedals very well. A really good clean amp if you don’t want the big mid scoop of the BF amps. If you want it to overdrive, it is going to be loud, and the JBL is a very efficient speaker so even louder.

The Deluxe is a very different beast, much closer to a refined tweed circuit with little in common with the BF or even the larger Brown amps. There is much less headroom before it crunches especially with humbuckers. With a LP it is like instant early ZZ Top tone.
 
Chocol8 said:
I ALMOST made it. Got a message this morning that my low ballish offer on a 1962 Brownface Pro got accepted. Doh!

It appears to be all original except it as a replacement baffle and non original but period correct JBL D-130 which was a pricey upgrade at the time. It will need new electrolytics, but I can handle that mostly with parts on hand.

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Nice dude! That's very clean for its age. Congrats!
 
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