I am blessed to own a Fender Reissue 57 Custom Shop Twin and I can see why Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa 59 Reissue, and others love the old and new reissue 50’s model amps. When you jump the channels it sounds fantastic no matter what guitar you play.
James Cordova Yeah, that makes sense, also scientifically speaking in. Age takes of some of the treble out of the tube amps. However, honestly I just really enjoy the reliability of new amps though. Can‘t tour with an amp that constantly needs to be fixed.
Got one and it is amazing . I can't enough about it . Glad Joe Fender decided to build and let us get a chance to have one Thanks Joe and Fender. See you at the show
I have a 2 year old Hot Rod Deluxe, single 12 inch speaker 40 watts. Sounds very similar to the twin. I also have a Marshall 50w twin. I find myself mostly playing the Fender, unless i want to make a lot of noise, then the Marshall comes out. Go Fender!
I think he highlights the fact that an amp has a sweet spot and if you don't like that you need different amp on its sweet spot. The joy is things get built different and little differences but only so few can truly tell.
Awesome we only need to more and Fender turns a profit! lol This amp really does sound good, but if you want that sound you gotta crank it... no ifs ands or buts about it...
I was watching the 'Nerdville' video yet again, yesterday and thought to myself that Fender are missing something by not doing a JB amp. But now we have a 'reliced' amp. That's started something. Wait and see. The aged 'Hendrix' will soon be here.
I love the hell out of my all stock Fender Blackface Twin Reverb R.I. and I would agree with JB that indeed the Twin is the best amp ever built but the simple fact is the Fender '59 BASSMAN actually is the best amp ever built!
The new one sounds wonderful, but it may be the age or something that the old one has a sweeter tone and I really love that. In both cases congratulations JB and the Fender team!!!
Isn't it amazing with all the technology we have today, they go back to the vintage design? It's what sounds the best! Always will! I think it's awesome! I would love to build tube amps all day! Then play through em all night!!!
Much cheaper than the original! But I hear ya, I can’t afford it either. Or more like I wouldn’t pay that much for any amp. Although my gigs are for $100 so...there you go! My price is $300-400 for my Peavey 2/10 Delta Blues, 4/10 71 Peavey Vintage or my Pro Junior!
$3500 pays for the name. I could build you one that's an exact replica of a 59 and I'd sell it to you for $1500 and it would be every bit as good, if not better, than Fender's reissue. $3500 is highway robbery.
I don't thing that the amps sound identical. In fact, I liked the new JB signature Twin better because there seem to be more overtones on every note (more sparkle). Great amp and great playing!
i had adored my marshall for so long but ever since I got a SF Fender I have been floored with how pure the tone is, a bit of a reluctant convert but god I love this amp & will probably use these amps primarily till I die
It may sound dull because the speakers haven’t broken in yet, and the amp is not biased correctly to be warm enough. I don’t think Celestion were the original company that made speakers for this amp either. The old tubes were better as well, it probably would sound very different with NOS tubes, and reproduce speakers from Ted Weber.
Joe has blown his high frequency hearing. The original 57 had twice the fidelity given that the amps were set the same; a remarkable difference.like night and day . only the looks were the same ; hell of a player.
I could tell the difference as well. The original was much "nastier" to my ears. It had a growl that the re-issue didn't. ~ Either way, not worth $3,500 in my opinion. I have a Fender M80 Chorus and several other amps including a Crate Blue VooDoo. Many guitarists like to get a good amp sound and let the guitars change their tone. I like to use both amp and guitars. Sometimes I use a dirty guitar with a clean amp, sometimes vice versa. ~ Still looking for that Peavey Mace, 160 watt head I've always wanted though.
A savant Mick Ronson worshipping friend of mine had one of these in the 70's and - in his hands with his Les Paul at least - it was the most bad-ass amp I've ever heard in my life.
Great sounding amp for sure. Joe has great ears and taste and it appears Fender has done justice with a beautiful reissue. The one thing about this amp though is how heavy they are, not to mention how wonderfully loud as well. Love it.
I can already hear the bedroom players complaining that it doesn’t sound anything like it! People need to remember to get this tone you gotta play LOUD!! Like properly loud! When you get the opportunity it would be insane
nice to see him rocking what to me looks like a road worn tele. one of the finest guitars 7ender is producing right now. not even considering price tag.
Got mine l got mine last week. I will be be eating peanut butter and jelly for awhile. Its worth it, I have played thousands of amps this is the best. Great cleans but turn it up and it gets a thick overdrive. Loves my Tele. Blues, County, and Jazz it does all. Does not need pedals other than a touch of reverb. Yes its loud as hell but sounds great halfway. For a handbuilt amp its worth it. Sounds alot like a tweed Bassman on crack.
Sounds Great Joe, but can i order one with out the aged look? I like the shinny new look and over the years it will look old. Plus i like the idea of that if i had a time machine and went back to 1959 and walked into Leo's shop and purchased one brand new and hopped back into the time machine and came home with it that would be the crazyest thing!
I love JB; I dig his playing, I find his live tone is second to none for that type of music (he's one of the players that does the multi amp rig well, and he's the reason I fell in love with the Silver Jubilee again after being estranged for 20 years), and I like his Signature gear. I've been Workin as a luthier in some capacity for 15 years, and have played and worked on a few of his Signature Goldtop Les Pauls and I think they're my favorite Signature LPs. I've been building, servicing and modifying amps and pedals for a decade as well. I mention that to qualify my opinion that $3500 for any 5F8A Twins is a ridiculous price. Actually, IMHO going much higher than $1800-2000 for ANY Tweed is too much. Of all the people I've known that have built amps: be it just 1 or 100, from a kit or from scratch, I can't think of 1 that didn't build some Tweed as their first one. There's a really easy answer as to why it's always first; it's the simplest circuit out there, anyone who's ever seen the inside of one knows how little is actually in there. I'm a Fender guy first and foremost, but I haven't purchased a new Fender piece of gear in over a decade, I just can't justify spending the money they cost for what you get. There Strat is my main guitar of choice, but it's still just a slab alder body with a simple maple neck bolted to it. Is when the David Gilmore Strat came out that I just threw my hands up. I found it almost comical that they were asking $4000+ for what's essentially a copy of a partsocaster with a crap '70-71 CBS era body. So it's a $4000 copy of a $300 guitar. Don't go me wrong, I love Tweeds, and while 80W in what would essentially be a clean- slightly driven is just WAY too much volume for my needs, if I did have a need to for one, this would probably be the one, but at half the price.
Just gonna throw the part out that it has JB's name on it and base my thoughts on what my ears heard. The old had the velvet touch to it, in response and sound. Basically, comfortably loose from being aged in the best of conditions. The new one was a little more angry sounding with a tighter low end. I think if you were a well to do working musician with a few pedals that had to cover a good amount of styles and sounds, the new one would just be fantastic if you could find a place to crank it up. The only downside though is that price, because now you are in the realm of just some top-notch boutique builds that have mastered being played at low and high volumes for great sounds and maybe even more sonic versatility. I'd like to hear this amp stacked against a few of them in an unbiased honest review. In a personal closing note, I'd love to have that old one and plug my strat straight into it and let the mood take me. Like the Merovingian said in the second Matrix movie, " It's like wiping your ass with silk."
It doesn't surprise me that Fender can make an amp just like a type they made 60 years ago. What surprises me is that they had to be pushed hard to do it right.
Thanks for the demo. I felt the new one has a more open sound. The vintage one sounded as if there is a boxy accentuated mid-range around 1.5 kHz. It might be the speaker difference. They sound pretty close to each other though.
I believe MR B in that the whole point of "Fender" amps was that they are supposed to be "plug in and play" designs..no mods needed.. the "Instant" Fender tone from one part of the World to another but times have changed, they want us to mod our equipment till we go full circle and just leave the amps as they were designed to be. Thsnks Mr B. BTW , what speakers were in the "59" ?
I've payed whit that amp in a show once around the early 2000' 😊 it was incradible... it sounds amazing still remember it after 25 years!! It had tha 2 prong cord .. of course it shock me😂
2:45 I know the original tone from these things is amazing, but I'm always a bit flummoxed as to why nothing better has ever been made. Any one understand amps enough to explain why we've only gone downhill in terms of tone?
6:25 Dude, if you want to get nerdy about typefaces you shouldn't have used Arial as the typeface for all the settings on the amp. It was designed in the late 80's as a digital typeface for use on computer screens, not tweed amplifiers from the 50's. Otherwise the amp looks amazing. Shame the level of detail ain't there on the design front.
I really want one of these! I don't need one, and God knows I can't really use it in my apartment, but I still really want one of these. I just miss my big old amp sitting in my parent's basement....
It sounds incredible. I've always had a great respect for Twins, both tweed and blackface, but always felt they were way too powerful for me. I have a '64 Super Reverb and had to mod it to make it manageable at home. I can't imagine having a four 6L6 monster like this. I'm guessing it would be really difficult to get these nice overdrive tones out of it at home. But of course, I still want one.
Amazing that the amp is exclusive to Joes store, players would have to make a decision to buy based on the sound coming from what ever device they use to view you tube. Ofc they will all sell :)
Point to point hand wired...ya it’s gonna cost you. But it will be more reliable and easier to fix for certain. Plus its longevity will be far greater than its PCB boarded cousins cooking with hot tubes. These are professional amps and aspirational machines. These are the Things to dream, wish and save for!
The old one has a looser sound where as the new one has a tight sound. Both good just depends on what you prefer. Nice sustain in the new one, but then you rolled a knob up. When A/B ing amps, you don't get to change the guitar knobs.. so the test is really screwed from that point.
Would really like one. Being a disabled veteran, not going to happen on my budget. But you are my inspiration Joe, have seen you live 3 times. My favorite artist of all time. Thanks for sharing!!
Can we just take the time to appreciate that Joe wore a TWEED jacket for this... nice.
He looks like a trucker who just stole the jacket of a literature teacher.
Simon R lmao true all lit professor wear these jackets , men and women
@@simonr7097 lol good one.
He’s got the need...the need for tweed!
Wool
I like how Fender is open minded enough to let Joe play his Les Paul in their Fender showroom.
Nice gesture
Theyre about to go out of business I think fenders like whatever
Joe is most closely associated with his Gibsons, so of course they're gonna "let" him. Fender wants to sell amps to people with guitars, period.
Even Fender players love vintage guitars
Gibson owners buy Fender amps...
Not sure it is an type of gesture as much as they want to sell amps to Gibson players as well as Fender players...
That original 59 still has the edge in my opinion...man that thing sounds great!! That being said, so does the new JB 59!!
I am blessed to own a Fender Reissue 57 Custom Shop Twin and I can see why Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa 59 Reissue, and others love the old and new reissue 50’s model amps. When you jump the channels it sounds fantastic no matter what guitar you play.
The original sounds a touch warmer or broken in. Sounds sweet. Just my opinion. 🙂
James Cordova Yeah, that makes sense, also scientifically speaking in. Age takes of some of the treble out of the tube amps.
However, honestly I just really enjoy the reliability of new amps though. Can‘t tour with an amp that constantly needs to be fixed.
I agree but the reissue still sounds great. The original has had 64 years to break in.
Fraid so. Warmer and darker. That sustain was sublime. The other was a little reckless.
Finally, a scientific answer. But why is the treble affected?
Have alnico speakers if it’s completely original
It's cool that Murdoch from the A Team is like well wicked at playing the gataar
I pity the fool.
👊
Fine print reads: Amp does not guarantee that you will sound anything like Joe Bonamassa
I have one at 🏡 Joe does not lie. To our Monarch.
The vintage one sounds, well, vintage! A touch saggy / barky but in a very musical way. The new one will be there in 60 years’ time!
When he started playing, I forgot he was A-Bing them. I was just so enthralled in his playing that I didn't care about the tone. Such a great player.
What a tone and what a guitarist, great inspiration! Great Joe!
Got one and it is amazing . I can't enough about it . Glad Joe Fender decided to build and let us get a chance to have one Thanks Joe and Fender. See you at the show
When I get rid of the kids I'm going to get a twin. What a amp!!!
Love the way it feeds back so easily on those clean and clear single notes. Awesome. Brilliant demo from Joe.
Notice the ever changing sm57 in the lower left. at times it isn't even on the amp. I love it!
Joe playing his signature guitar on his signature amp loaded with his signature speakers while he wears his signature underpants. Cool!
1979 jmp is the best of the best. so glad you are part of bringing the tweed twin back.
Waiting for
Fender Joe Bonamassa Les Paul
Sir, this made me lough so hard and really made my day! 😅
Warmoth will be able to put the parts together for you to build it I bet. Have you seen the bonnabyrd?
JM and JB Barbie dolls would be great tools in the fight against gender wiring of females.
"Joe Bonnermassage " signature series
Lol 😂😂👍
Bonamassa is growing on me, after all, he's everywhere! But seriously, great video again. I need to see his self-deprecating funny video again.
I have a 2 year old Hot Rod Deluxe, single 12 inch speaker 40 watts. Sounds very similar to the twin. I also have a Marshall 50w twin. I find myself mostly playing the Fender, unless i want to make a lot of noise, then the Marshall comes out. Go Fender!
I think he highlights the fact that an amp has a sweet spot and if you don't like that you need different amp on its sweet spot. The joy is things get built different and little differences but only so few can truly tell.
That amp is like an experienced woman. I would not know what to do with either.
Well you start with a plate of beans and take it slow from there mate.
Id take the amp and send the woman somewhere else.
Hahaha
@Kiedy Silniejsza it was a joke, bud. TMI…. Thanks, though.
That is because you are gay and tone deaf?
Damn he’s daring bringing a les Paul into a fender factory lol🤪😂
Great sounding amp indeed, for the 5 of us able to turn it up loud enough to use properly, lol...
"reactive load"
I am one of those 5! Thank God
well we just need to find 3 more lol
I can and WILL turn it up! Got one on the way! :) Wife approved purchase even! LOL
Awesome we only need to more and Fender turns a profit! lol This amp really does sound good, but if you want that sound you gotta crank it... no ifs ands or buts about it...
I was watching the 'Nerdville' video yet again, yesterday and thought to myself that Fender are missing something by not doing a JB amp. But now we have a 'reliced' amp. That's started something. Wait and see. The aged 'Hendrix' will soon be here.
That original '59 Twin sounds so, so sweet.
Jesus, this is the best sounding amp demo I’ve ever heard
Just love to hear how a artist with such a great respect for music feels about his personal connections with instrumental equipment....
I love when each Amp is slightly different . It’s amazing to have this option, of guitars and amp with individual character .
I love the hell out of my all stock Fender Blackface Twin Reverb R.I. and I would agree with JB that indeed the Twin is the best amp ever built but the simple fact is the Fender '59 BASSMAN actually is the best amp ever built!
The new one sounds wonderful, but it may be the age or something that the old one has a sweeter tone and I really love that. In both cases congratulations JB and the Fender team!!!
Isn't it amazing with all the technology we have today, they go back to the vintage design? It's what sounds the best! Always will! I think it's awesome! I would love to build tube amps all day! Then play through em all night!!!
Can't beat an analog tube amp for sound!
Gregory Veenhuizen that's for sure!
kemper is just as good at this point
74dart man
Well the Vinyl album freaks have always backed this fact!
Grimm Day I see why now after having one. I just love the tone. Totally different than solid state!
Another amp I’ll never be able to afford!!! $3500+... Amazing tones though. Thanks JB.. you’re incredible.
Much cheaper than the original! But I hear ya, I can’t afford it either. Or more like I wouldn’t pay that much for any amp. Although my gigs are for $100 so...there you go! My price is $300-400 for my Peavey 2/10 Delta Blues, 4/10 71 Peavey Vintage or my Pro Junior!
$3500 pays for the name. I could build you one that's an exact replica of a 59 and I'd sell it to you for $1500 and it would be every bit as good, if not better, than Fender's reissue. $3500 is highway robbery.
love the appearance of that BASS VI at the end!!
I don't thing that the amps sound identical. In fact, I liked the new JB signature Twin better because there seem to be more overtones on every note (more sparkle). Great amp and great playing!
That is a beautiful amp - glad to see JB and Fender working together on this one.
i had adored my marshall for so long but ever since I got a SF Fender I have been floored with how pure the tone is, a bit of a reluctant convert but god I love this amp & will probably use these amps primarily till I die
It may sound dull because the speakers haven’t broken in yet, and the amp is not biased correctly to be warm enough. I don’t think Celestion were the original company that made speakers for this amp either. The old tubes were better as well, it probably would sound very different with NOS tubes, and reproduce speakers from Ted Weber.
That Les Paul bridge pickup sounded killer.
Great job, Fender. 🙌 Awesome amp!
that is just so fkg cool and from the heart...right on
Joe has blown his high frequency hearing. The original 57 had twice the fidelity given that the amps were set the same; a remarkable difference.like night and day . only the looks were the same ; hell of a player.
I could tell the difference as well. The original was much "nastier" to my ears. It had a growl that the re-issue didn't. ~ Either way, not worth $3,500 in my opinion. I have a Fender M80 Chorus and several other amps including a Crate Blue VooDoo. Many guitarists like to get a good amp sound and let the guitars change their tone. I like to use both amp and guitars. Sometimes I use a dirty guitar with a clean amp, sometimes vice versa. ~ Still looking for that Peavey Mace, 160 watt head I've always wanted though.
Thank you, Mr. Good Morning! Something I just cant explain...you Rock!
This “secret bunker” looks like my local guitar center’s acoustic room hahah.
A savant Mick Ronson worshipping friend of mine had one of these in the 70's and - in his hands with his Les Paul at least - it was the most bad-ass amp I've ever heard in my life.
Great sounding amp for sure. Joe has great ears and taste and it appears Fender has done justice with a beautiful reissue. The one thing about this amp though is how heavy they are, not to mention how wonderfully loud as well. Love it.
I can already hear the bedroom players complaining that it doesn’t sound anything like it! People need to remember to get this tone you gotta play LOUD!! Like properly loud! When you get the opportunity it would be insane
nice to see him rocking what to me looks like a road worn tele. one of the finest guitars 7ender is producing right now. not even considering price tag.
Nothing better than watching an ad to watch an ad
Got mine l got mine last week. I will be be eating peanut butter and jelly for awhile. Its worth it, I have played thousands of amps this is the best. Great cleans but turn it up and it gets a thick overdrive. Loves my Tele. Blues, County, and Jazz it does all. Does not need pedals other than a touch of reverb. Yes its loud as hell but sounds great halfway. For a handbuilt amp its worth it. Sounds alot like a tweed Bassman on crack.
There are two kinds of guitar aficionados.. those who love JB's playing and tone , and then there are those who are wrong ;-)
I was ready to tear him apart on the price expecting it to be around $7,000...but it's half of that, I'm impressed!!
Perfect amp for small gigs and worship! 😇
Words can’t describe how stupidly good JB plays and sounds on the Signature 59 twin. Superb.
Do my eyes deceive me? Beyond all of that impeccable taste for vintage guitars and amplifiers, is Joe wearing a Kiton of Napoli blazer!?!?
I love seeing you on top of the game. You are so smart and I LOVE IT WHEN YOU SMILE DOING WHAT YOU LOVE ! ❤️😎❤️
um abraço do Brasil.... você é fera .... toca muito ....🎸🇧🇷
Wow! , fantastic amp. I loved the first reissue too.
Thanks Joe for making my life much more enjoyable.
I love the classic, harmonic ghost notes popping out the way a classic Fender should. 🔊🤠👍
Not only is he a great guitarist, he's a fantastic salesman.
Man, when Joe pulled out the -Baritone- Squier 👌
Raff Pajarillo I think you the mean the Fender Bass VI?
Mistar Wayne Oh, that's why it doesn't sound like a guitar lol
its a Squier
brich2929 bass VI mate
That original 59 makes me want to cry
Darn want one of these over in the UK!!!!
Sounds Great Joe, but can i order one with out the aged look? I like the shinny new look and over the years it will look old. Plus i like the idea of that if i had a time machine and went back to 1959 and walked into Leo's shop and purchased one brand new and hopped back into the time machine and came home with it that would be the crazyest thing!
Joe 'B'. A new level.
joes suit coat, why is no one talking about THAT? god damn. #stylinjoebonamassa #theampisnicetoo
that jacket is dope. facts.
That Amp is SWEET! Just ordered a Blues Deluxe yesterday but if I can sell off a Marshall half stack and a Strat I'll order one of these monsters!
i could listen to it everyday for breakfast and before the bed.....fantastic. I think fender will make a les paul model soon :)
I love JB; I dig his playing, I find his live tone is second to none for that type of music (he's one of the players that does the multi amp rig well, and he's the reason I fell in love with the Silver Jubilee again after being estranged for 20 years), and I like his Signature gear. I've been Workin as a luthier in some capacity for 15 years, and have played and worked on a few of his Signature Goldtop Les Pauls and I think they're my favorite Signature LPs. I've been building, servicing and modifying amps and pedals for a decade as well. I mention that to qualify my opinion that $3500 for any 5F8A Twins is a ridiculous price. Actually, IMHO going much higher than $1800-2000 for ANY Tweed is too much.
Of all the people I've known that have built amps: be it just 1 or 100, from a kit or from scratch, I can't think of 1 that didn't build some Tweed as their first one. There's a really easy answer as to why it's always first; it's the simplest circuit out there, anyone who's ever seen the inside of one knows how little is actually in there.
I'm a Fender guy first and foremost, but I haven't purchased a new Fender piece of gear in over a decade, I just can't justify spending the money they cost for what you get.
There Strat is my main guitar of choice, but it's still just a slab alder body with a simple maple neck bolted to it. Is when the David Gilmore Strat came out that I just threw my hands up. I found it almost comical that they were asking $4000+ for what's essentially a copy of a partsocaster with a crap '70-71 CBS era body. So it's a $4000 copy of a $300 guitar.
Don't go me wrong, I love Tweeds, and while 80W in what would essentially be a clean- slightly driven is just WAY too much volume for my needs, if I did have a need to for one, this would probably be the one, but at half the price.
The new sounds away better , clean and more like added compressor ...love it
When are we getting one of these for the Dual Professional? 😏
Been playing metal through a '58 tweed bassman (through a 412 cab) since I was a teenager in the 70's. You should have just asked...LOL!
Just gonna throw the part out that it has JB's name on it and base my thoughts on what my ears heard. The old had the velvet touch to it, in response and sound. Basically, comfortably loose from being aged in the best of conditions. The new one was a little more angry sounding with a tighter low end. I think if you were a well to do working musician with a few pedals that had to cover a good amount of styles and sounds, the new one would just be fantastic if you could find a place to crank it up. The only downside though is that price, because now you are in the realm of just some top-notch boutique builds that have mastered being played at low and high volumes for great sounds and maybe even more sonic versatility. I'd like to hear this amp stacked against a few of them in an unbiased honest review. In a personal closing note, I'd love to have that old one and plug my strat straight into it and let the mood take me. Like the Merovingian said in the second Matrix movie, " It's like wiping your ass with silk."
It doesn't surprise me that Fender can make an amp just like a type they made 60 years ago. What surprises me is that they had to be pushed hard to do it right.
What suprises me is why didn't they choose to build it after one of the many guitarist that used it and made it famous instead of this alley cat.
He's like yo man I'm about to make another million on this
Thanks for the demo. I felt the new one has a more open sound. The vintage one sounded as if there is a boxy accentuated mid-range around 1.5 kHz. It might be the speaker difference. They sound pretty close to each other though.
Looks and sounds great.
The amp sounds great. Can’t wait to hear them live
God bless Leo but I hear some incredible amps these days. Can't stop innovation
Hmmmm.... I'll stick to my blues deluxe with a celestion vintage 30 and 12ax7,at7,au7 tubes! Clean tone for days 😎
Who died made Joe so great? Eat it Joe. . .
What a great amp. Grateful I got the chance to own one.
They made him a jacket from rest of the tweed. A magic tweed cape.
I believe MR B in that the whole point of "Fender" amps was that they are supposed to be "plug in and play" designs..no mods needed.. the "Instant" Fender tone from one part of the World to another but times have changed, they want us to mod our equipment till we go full circle and just leave the amps as they were designed to be. Thsnks Mr B. BTW , what speakers were in the "59" ?
I've payed whit that amp in a show once around the early 2000' 😊 it was incradible... it sounds amazing still remember it after 25 years!! It had tha 2 prong cord .. of course it shock me😂
2:45 I know the original tone from these things is amazing, but I'm always a bit flummoxed as to why nothing better has ever been made. Any one understand amps enough to explain why we've only gone downhill in terms of tone?
Congrats Joe for bringing these back! Sounds amazing!!
The old one had a distinct honk that the new one didn't Think that's the lovely old alnico's giving that throaty roundness to the notes
guys. The tone is coming from his tweed
jacket
6:25 Dude, if you want to get nerdy about typefaces you shouldn't have used Arial as the typeface for all the settings on the amp. It was designed in the late 80's as a digital typeface for use on computer screens, not tweed amplifiers from the 50's. Otherwise the amp looks amazing. Shame the level of detail ain't there on the design front.
Joe is a wonderful player. My boyfriend really likes him and he knows a lot about the guitar.
I really want one of these! I don't need one, and God knows I can't really use it in my apartment, but I still really want one of these.
I just miss my big old amp sitting in my parent's basement....
It sounds incredible. I've always had a great respect for Twins, both tweed and blackface, but always felt they were way too powerful for me. I have a '64 Super Reverb and had to mod it to make it manageable at home. I can't imagine having a four 6L6 monster like this. I'm guessing it would be really difficult to get these nice overdrive tones out of it at home. But of course, I still want one.
@Opiti72 Jesus, and possibly disturbing the peace territory. Thanks for the info. 👍
Amazing that the amp is exclusive to Joes store, players would have to make a decision to buy based on the sound coming from what ever device they use to view you tube. Ofc they will all sell :)
Point to point hand wired...ya it’s gonna cost you. But it will be more reliable and easier to fix for certain. Plus its longevity will be far greater than its PCB boarded cousins cooking with hot tubes. These are professional amps and aspirational machines. These are the Things to dream, wish and save for!
Joe is great on the Telecaster
The old one has a looser sound where as the new one has a tight sound. Both good just depends on what you prefer. Nice sustain in the new one, but then you rolled a knob up. When A/B ing amps, you don't get to change the guitar knobs.. so the test is really screwed from that point.
How much is the speakers?
The old one has 'run in' speakers. Unless Celestion pre 'run in their new speakers
Would really like one. Being a disabled veteran, not going to happen on my budget. But you are my inspiration Joe, have seen you live 3 times. My favorite artist of all time. Thanks for sharing!!
Doing an official Fender demo with a Gibson Les Paul is a priceless satisfaction.
Just what I need ❤️.