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."
Re: the Nuge
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:17 am
by Mr Mustache
robroe wrote:taken from my new book "the soul of tone -celebrating 60 years of fender amps"
Ted probably traded his soul for his NRA membership
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:26 am
by paul_
The Nuge is a double douche.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:29 am
by robroe
im most amazed at the fact that he is playing thru 12 total 18" speakers in those cabs.
wehre the fuck can i get 18 inch shit
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:37 am
by Mr Mustache
robroe wrote:im most amazed at the fact that he is playing thru 12 total 18" speakers in those cabs.
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
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:05 am
by gaybear
paul_ wrote:The Nuge is a double douche.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:12 am
by filtercap
The Super Twin -- 95 pounds of Fender MADNESS -- 180 Watts from SIX 6L6 tubes thru a 2x12. Sported a tube-powered active EQ to boot.
Check out the size of the transformer on that thing.
Then of course there was the Super Six Reverb, basically a 135 Watt ultralinear Twin chassis in a hundred-pound 6x10 combo.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:50 am
by ultratwin
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.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:14 pm
by robroe
Mr Mustache wrote:
robroe wrote:im most amazed at the fact that he is playing thru 12 total 18" speakers in those cabs.
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.
NO HELP STASCHE
FIND ME BIGGER SHIT PLZ
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:56 pm
by Sloan
as much as the nuge is kinda douchey, he's still badass.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:27 pm
by filtercap
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.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:05 pm
by Justin J
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.
