What's Your Dream Amp? - TGF Edition

[JerEvil]

Honestly, nothing.

I’ve got some bangers and they’re all pretty damn good.

I’ve got a few “nice to haves” that I’d like to add but nothing I’m really gaga for these days.

 

[FuzzyAce]

As someone with no EE background at all, I think it’s perfectly feasible.

Yeah, it's called MODELING.

 

[JiveTurkey]

There are such a WEALTH of killer tones every direction you look; I don't know at this point. My OG 5150 and Dual Rec I had in early 2000 were the amps I "should have kept" per my tastes but even that's a stretch.

 

[FuzzyAce]

As someone with no EE background at all, I think it’s perfectly feasible.

Seriously though, it is feasible. Using Nutubes could be an option to keep the size down.

 

[Achilles]

I'm gonna move the V:25 and have been e-window shopping hard the past couple days. Not necessarily a dream amp but an entirely new flavor that will help with exploring everything the new guitar and Mule pickups can do. The KSR really has the high gain thing covered - it's SLO meets Mark. The one that's really stuck in the head right now is a brownface Fender deluxe clone. The Mesa Lonestar thread got it started - it's probably the most LP style guitar friendly Fender amp Leo ever made - just ask Billy Gibbons.




Word has it the first 3 albums was all LP > Brownface cranked. Keep going back to look at one of these.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Word has it the first 3 albums was all LP > Brownface cranked. Keep going back to look at one of these.

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Great circuit. My very first amp build was a Brownface Princeton 6G2 circuit, which has some similarities. They love to be cranked -- throw some humbuckers and a boost at 'em and .

 

[Achilles]

They love to be cranked -- throw some humbuckers and a boost at 'em and .

The Suhr is only 18 watts so between that and the power load it'd be on 10 full time - and the BareKnuckle Mules have supplanted Lollar Imperials as my favorite PAF bucker. I've never spent so much time with my pinky riding the volume controls before. Between the 4 knobs and 3 way selector there's a billion tones in this sucker.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

 

[Achilles]

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Gonna play it that way, eh?
OK, I see your MK50 and call you a Colonial.

 

[Jarick]

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Gonna play it that way, eh?
OK, I see your MK50 and call you a Colonial.

I don't know that amp tbh

 

[Achilles]

I don't know that amp tbh

I didn't either until I got a Kemper and found it in a Michael Brit pack. Quickly became my #1 and stayed there for months until I sold the unit. Total diamond in the rough. Desinged by the same guy who did the OG Timmy pedal!

COLONIAL PACK – 35 Profiles – M. Britt Profile

mbritt.com

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I didn't either until I got a Kemper and found it in a Michael Brit pack. Quickly became my #1 and stayed there for months until I sold the unit. Total diamond in the rough. Desinged by the same guy who did the OG Timmy pedal!

COLONIAL PACK – 35 Profiles – M. Britt Profile

mbritt.com

Paul Cochrane designed it? I didn't know he'd designed any amps. Cool.

 

[Elf]

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I'm sure this is a great amp but but as a native Spanish speaker I could never own that amp, sounds so cringey to me!

From their web site: "... The purity of the signal path is part of Man’s beauty." HAHAHAHAHA on man!!!!!

 

[la szum]

Hahahaha I still V all my Mark EQ’s Minus the low end, I usually drop that quite a bit.

It's a freaking disease man! It's highly contagious. And yes, there is help for this.






I think it is really enlightening to see how Papa Het had his Mark GEQ set back then. Most of them
are essentially acting as post-EQ cuts and not boosts. Much like what a Producer or Mixing Engineer
would do.

 

[Desertdweller]

Gonna play it that way, eh?
OK, I see your MK50 and call you a Colonial.

That wood on the front makes the amp. Absolutely looks gorgeous.

 

[Achilles]

My very first amp build was a Brownface Princeton 6G2 circuit.

Couples questions for ya.
1. Do know the differences between the 6G2 and 6G3 circuits tone-wise?
2. Ever heard of these guys? They offer a BUNCH of different circuit options.

The ChocoPrince | Lil Dawg Amps & Pickups

 

[Axe]

 

[FuzzyAce]

Couples questions for ya.
1. Do know the differences between the 6G2 and 6G3 circuits tone-wise?
2. Ever heard of these guys? They offer a BUNCH of different circuit options.

The ChocoPrince | Lil Dawg Amps & Pickups

Well, channels can be jumpered on the 6G3 so you can push the signal more. Both amps are fixed biased, 6V6s.
Main differences--
Phase Inverter: 6G3 has the LTP type which offers more gain to hit the power tubes. Most amps use this type.
6G2 has the Cathodyne PI which can distort nicely when pushed.
Rectifier: 6G3 - GZ34 (less amount of sag), 6G2 - 5Y3GT (more sag)

The Deluxe will get you more distortion (and be louder) where the Princeton would need a boost to get to that level and have more sag on the back end.

 

[Achilles]

Rectifier: 6G3 - GZ34 (less amount of sag), 6G2 - 5Y3GT (more sag)

THANK YOU!
6G3 it is then. Less sag always works best for me.