What is your favorite Tweed amp?

[Blackbear]

Mine is a Fender Tweed Harvard, love the tone that Steve Cropper got on all the Stax records from Memphis.

[mcbprs]

Carr Slant 6V - for me tweed equals 6v6s doing their thing and the Carr gives me tweed breakup black face chime or screaming overdrive at the kick of a foot switch and that' before you start playing with the bias options :-)

[Blackbear]

I just ordered a Marsh Trem-King amp that is a replica of a tweed Vibrolux. When I receive it I'll post a review here on the Forum.

[59Bassman]

I had a 59 Bassman but it wasn't enough for me so it went and in its place a Tweed Deluxe came along. However, if they were available at the time I would have preferred a 3x10 Tweed Bandmaster - Now Fender has *just* reintroduced it as the 57 Bandmaster..!

The other Tweed amps non-Fender that are more than worthy are the LazyJ amps... Forget those Clapton badged Fenders... too expensive and too technically complex. The essence of a Tweed is in its simplicity and rawness.



A Tweed and P90s is a thing of wonder!

[yankeebulldog]

I dig my moded Mojotone Tweed Deluxe 5E3 (on the far left).

I built it but then later swapped the stock ceramic Jenson for a Weber Alnico equivalent. I also did all the Mission mods (Paul C and the HB I and II mods) and I'm very happy with the tones. Although after the mods, I guess it's technically closer to a Brownface era circuit not a Tweed but I prefer the response of the amp now with humbuckers, a hint more clean headroom since stock it had almost none. Now it sounds closer to my Dallas II but still has more dirt and that 6V6 crunch in the tone.

[Blackbear]

I recently bought a Gibson 1956 gold top Les Paul VOS and when I match it with my Tweed Vibrolux the tone is sweet and very dynamic. Something about P90's and the tweed design is magical.