Re: Tiny Amp Town

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by sandbagger1 » Thu May 03, 2012 7:50 am

This is my 1960 National 'Studio 10'. I've had this amp since around 1967.
It's a classic Valco 5-watt, with a single '6V6'.
I do 90% of my playing through this amp.
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Despite the name, it has an 8" speaker.
This photo shows the Wolverhampton 'Broadcast Fidelity' speaker that I substituted for the original Jenzen.
The Wolverhampton finally gave out and has been replaced with a period Jenzen 8".
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It has a wonderful clean sound that reaches full volume at about halfway and then gets progressively more warm and fuzzy as you go up towards crunch.

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by panoramic » Thu May 03, 2012 7:52 am

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by horizontalmode » Thu May 03, 2012 8:55 am

Hey! Could you all please turn down, it's to loud up in here!
Thoughts are no longer personal....

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by MrFingers » Thu May 03, 2012 9:03 am

Match made in heaven... Before this, I played for 7 years on a Roland Microcube.

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by COLLIDES » Thu May 03, 2012 9:33 am

Is that a Class5?

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by MrFingers » Thu May 03, 2012 9:49 am

Yes it is, and it is AWESOME!

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by Maggieo » Thu May 03, 2012 8:11 pm

Current state of TAT:

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Happy Machine, March 05, 2012 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr
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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by Fiddy » Fri May 04, 2012 12:15 pm

Maggieo wrote:Current state of TAT:

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Happy Machine, March 05, 2012 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr
Incredible guitar too Maggie. :-*

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by DerRoy » Sun May 06, 2012 2:25 am

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Of course it's alive - you cannot make music with dead Muppaphones.

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by doctorock78 » Mon May 28, 2012 3:43 pm

Hey DerRoy what's goin on with that Champ 600?

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed May 30, 2012 10:31 am

PJazzmaster wrote:tiny amp town, all from the 70's:

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tell me more about the vox?
offset guitars resident bass player.
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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by PJazzmaster » Wed May 30, 2012 12:17 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote:
PJazzmaster wrote:tiny amp town, all from the 70's:

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tell me more about the vox?
it's a 70's Vox Escort, a small solid state model, designed as portable amp, probably the 1st mass produced portable amp ever (mine is the battery-mains version with strap buttons, later models would have an amp handle instead), ...more info here:

http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/escort.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed May 30, 2012 2:22 pm

combo or head?
offset guitars resident bass player.
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Re: Tiny Amp Town

Post by PJazzmaster » Wed May 30, 2012 2:30 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote:combo or head?
combo:
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