My main Amp setup:
1965 Fender Princeton Reverb. It has a padded line out taken off the speaker (a fender reissue alnico which stays on) and can then be fed to any other amp in order to get the Princeton’s tone, reverb and tremolo at any volume for stage work…This setup is a variation on the Neil Young/Ry Cooder live set up. The mod was done by Lawrence Fellows-Mannion.
1959 Alamo Titan amp. This lil’ ‘dumpster find’ really screams. It’s set up pretty much like a tweed Deluxe, but not as loud. I put a late 50′s Jensen P12 in there and it really gets that super-compressed Neil Young tone when turned up full. Great trem too. It has the same line out mod as the Princeton.
’71 Hiwatt Custom 100 head. The Heavy Artillery. I usually use it as a slave amp for the combos feeding two old Bell and Howell film projector speaker enclosures with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers. I sometimes face the cabs towards the back corners of the stage for a more even sound dispersion – really huge and full sounding. With the Hiwatt on its own (very rare) my choice would be an original Hiwatt cab with Fanes or perhaps a THD 2×12.
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Hi Lucio, After reading this, I’m inspired to use my ’70′s Fender Bassman 100 head for bass and guitar. For Bass my 450 watt ampeg B2RE has a preamp in. just got to figure out what kind of out to use from the head. I hope I can use the regular speaker out from the Bassman head. I’m such a novice with all this stuff. If not, I’ll have Frank Torres (Frank torres engineering, San Mateo) rig the connection for me. It would be sweet having vintage tube sound for bass and guitar.
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