1962 Fender Tweed Champ- the best kept secret of the recording studio?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- Today I'm demoing my original 1962 F51 Fender Narrow Panel Tweed Champ amp. It has a replacement Weber Alnico Blue Pup 8" speaker, because of some tearing on the original Oxford 8EV.
Champs have been used in the recording studio by the likes of Keith Richards, Joe Walsh, Slash, Joe Perry, Billy Gibbons, and Eric Clapton on his magnum opus Layla. It is so simple yet so effective!
With one turn of the knob, you can go from spanky clean to edge of breakup. Dime it to 12 and recreate Neil Young or Exile on Main Street tones!
I'll be using several different guitars, and a treble boost pedal to see how many different sounds this amp can reveal. Then I will bypass the 8" speaker and see what the F51 circuit sounds like into a 2x12" ceramic speaker 1965 Fender cab
0:00 Intro
1:54 Zero to Twelve on the knob, Stratocaster- CLAPTON
5:27 Telecaster in Open G- KEITH RICHARDS
6:42 Treble Booster with Les Paul (and a sixpence..)- QUEEN
8:55 Comparing original 8" speaker vs. Champ into Bassman Cab (SG Special)
Guitars Used:
2012 Fender AVRI '59 Sonic Blue Stratocaster (w/2007 AVRI Maple Neck)
2007 Fender Vintage Hot Rod '52 Telecaster ('51 CS Nocaster Pickups)
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard (Alnico 4 Low Wind OX4 Pickups)
1970 Gibson SG Special
1965 Fender Bassman 2x12" Cab (2 original Oxford 12t6's)
1964 British sixpence coin
2019 Analogman Sunlion (Beano Boost side)
Mic'd with a Neumann TLM-103
Thanks so much for watching! Let me know what you think of it in the comments below, and...
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Also just realized we went to high school together. Hope you’re well, glad to see the world is enjoying your talent
JAMIE GARRY! Dude how are you? I’m gonna hit you up on Facebook
@@sampopkin good man I can’t go looking up gear without running into you or mike lemmo doing a demo haha
6:44 Now I'm Here, Queen!
Yep! I’m a huge queen fan. Huge
Absolutely brilliant playing thank you
Thanks!
Excellence
What a difference a cab makes. Always wanted to build a 5 watt into a large cab like a 2x12.
Such an awesome video and playing!!
I’ve been looking for a tweed champ strat combo layla demo for days, I hit the gold mine lmfao
No way it wasn’t tweed champs on that record. I’ve made up my mind, forums be damned
Had to have been!
10:00 fffffuck man that tone is crazyy. Early Clapton sound
Awesome with the tele!! Classic richards!
Gorgeous
ThankYou for playing Eric’s solo from the Johnny cash show! I have subscribed on the basis of that alone! 😀
Cool!!! Greetings from Mexico! 🇲🇽
Thank you!! Appreciate the support
I just got the 57 champ reissue and I love it. It does not seem to crunch quite as easily as yours does on the lower volume settings (might be due to the 12ay7 tube vs 12ax7).
Also I realized the Champ on Amplitube 4 is actually pretty freakin close if not identical when you mic the virtual cab up the same.
So I did some experiments virtually in Amplitube where I would pair other tweed amps with the Champ's cab or put the champ through the other Tweed amp cabs.
I've heard that the tweed amps are pretty much the same outside of the speaker and wattage variations. If Amplitube's models are accurate than it basically confirmed this: You could make a tweed champ sound just like a tweed deluxe (with the tone maxed) simply by putting it through a deluxe cab - Especially in the virtual realm where wattage and impedance mismatching doesn't matter.
I’d totally buy that- my tweed pro with the 15” speaker still has a similar midrange. Although smaller tweed amps like the champ and Princeton are class A, cathode bias. A tweed pro, super, bassman, twin are fixed bias and A/B so a little more clarity and headroom. The champ is just perfect for getting a natural crunchy sound at low volumes!
Nice amp
I like how you tried to keep it beatle related with Id have you anytime but eventually just started playing the whole Layla Album.
Haha, I actually filmed this before I did Beatles covers. Hard not to play harrison stuff all the time
Old bandmate had one of these. Great tone but it was always in the shop.
Haha yep
that bassman cab sounds insane
especially at like 10:32
@@jacobfolk936 More low end, less pokey mids? :)
yeah it sound huge
So Eric Clapton played that lead guitar part on "I'd Have You Anytime"? Why am I surprised? It has all those string bends consistent with his style.
Yep! Clapton was on a lot of All Things Must Pass- Wah Wah, Art of Dying, What is Life. Also George played a silverface champ and strat for Bangladesh concert
@@sampopkin How did they mic that thing onstage?
@@elirosen1391 Bangladesh was a whole lot of Shure MD421’s. Even on George’s vocals. It’s the same mic Jerry Garcia used on his amps
@@sampopkin I guess the better question is, how they were able to mic it without it getting lost in the mix.
@@elirosen1391 the original 1972 album didn’t have a great mix. The 2005 reissue sounds amazing though. I think george having 4 champs together helped it push through. If it was just 1 5 watt champ onstage with those two drummers and big lineup we might not have heard him well