1960 Fender Tremolux 5E9-A: Bias-Shifting Tube Tremolo Demo

Out of the many vintage amps I own, the tweed Tremolux has one of the sweetest sounding tremolos. The Fender 5E9-A Tremolux circuit uses 12AY7 and 12AX7 preamp tubes, a 12AX7 in the tremolo circuit, 6V6 power tubes, and a 5Y3 rectifier tube. These early Fenders were known for their bias-shifting tube tremolo circuits which sound incredibly round and gentle.
The guitar is a Banning Custom Heartbreaker strung with GHS Boomers. www.ghsstrings.com/
I used a Royer 122 Active Ribbon through a NPNG microphone preamplifier and Burl B2 ADC into Pro Tools. No processing in post.
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[@MutantShredder214]

This sounds really beautiful, Colin!

[@GuitarWithJamie]

Beautiful

[@Tonetwisters]

I LOVE the way this sounds! I HATE that it is so short!! How's that?

[@darwinsaye]

Rickencaster? Interesting.

[@dwaynedelario]

Wonderful sounding trem! Glad to know the sub bass heartbeat thump is normal, was wondering if there was a problem with my Princeton. Mine seems roughly the same re:signal to noise ratio.

[@joesimon2018]

Just buy an old Magnatone