taken from my new book "the soul of tone -celebrating 60 years of fender amps"
"Viking of volume Ted Nugen, for whom a Twin Reverb is a practice amp. Excerpts from a 1979 Guitar Player intervew with this author.
- I'm using strictly Fender Twins now. I crave Fenders. I've always used them. Ive tried everything, adn Ive had amps built to my own specs. Nothing makes a guitar sound more like a guitar than Fender amps.
The way our band is spread out onstage, do you ever have trouble hearing yourself?
- People in the next county don't have trouble hearing me. I use six Fender Super Twins and six Fender Bottoms with two 18" speakers in each cabinet. Only two amps are miked for the sound system. The rest are just blasting stage volume."
or get an Alamo Fury, so you can be like teh stache and be playing though an old handwired 115 bass combo, they go pretty cheap on egay. tubez!! but 1 NOS tube will cost more than the whole amp. EH made replacements for a while that can still be found
I imagine playing ultraclean tones (maybe with a tremolo) from a Tele through a high-headroom Fender with 15" or 18" spekers would be a scene of sheer sexual delights. Strangely conjours up thoughts of iced tea on an arid California summer Sunday afternoon in the shade in my head as well.
or get an Alamo Fury, so you can be like teh stache and be playing though an old handwired 115 bass combo, they go pretty cheap on egay. tubez!! but 1 NOS tube will cost more than the whole amp. EH made replacements for a while that can still be found
you just showed me 2 amps with 15" speakers. I said 18" not 15" I already have 2 PA cabs in my room with 15's + a horn in each.
ultratwin wrote:I imagine playing ultraclean tones (maybe with a tremolo) from a Tele through a high-headroom Fender with 15" or 18" spekers would be a scene of sheer sexual delights. Strangely conjours up thoughts of iced tea on an arid California summer Sunday afternoon in the shade in my head as well.
I've read that those late-era, high-wattage-clean ... er... ultra-Twins (sorry) such as the 135-Watt variety (again, basically a Super Six but with a 2x12) are particularly popular with pedal-steel players, who will sometimes mod them with 15" speakers for the ultimate most in ultimate mostness. Enter the Vibrosonic Reverb -- same 135W chassis over a 1x15, iced tea optional.
filtercap wrote:Then of course there was the Super Six Reverb, basically a 135 Watt ultralinear Twin chassis in a hundred-pound 6x10 combo.
someone was selling one of those at the rose bowl swap meet last time i was there. i think they wanted $700 or $800 for it, which didn't seem too bad, but i didn't have that kinda cash on me.
besides, i was looking for an old pair of la lights in grown-up sizes. needless to say, i came away empty-handed.
The Nuge always carried a big Gibson and bag full of licks.
Nuge hate is S A F.
paul_ wrote:When are homeland security gonna get on this "2-piece King Size Snickers" horseshit that showed up a couple years ago? I've started dropping one of them on the floor of my car every time.
