Anyone Rocking Vintage Blackface?

[StrummersOfThunder]

Grant B, Conway - you boys wind them up, or keep them clean?

Robbie - Bandmaster would stay pretty clean right? Maybe a little grit at the top of the dial?

Twins scare me.

Bandmaster is not mine and not stock. I spent a month with it. I got no break-up. None. Significantly louder and cleaned than my Deluxe Reverb. Also not as scooped as I expected.

Maybe some of the tube rectified large bottle 40w-ish offerings would suit you ?

[robthemac]

Grant B, Conway - you boys wind them up, or keep them clean?

Robbie - Bandmaster would stay pretty clean right? Maybe a little grit at the top of the dial?

Twins scare me.

Bandmaster is not mine and not stock. I spent a month with it. I got no break-up. None. Significantly louder and cleaned than my Deluxe Reverb. Also not as scooped as I expected.

Maybe some of the tube rectified large bottle 40w-ish offerings would suit you ?

Presume you're not talking to the guy heavily attenuating two low-power tube amps.

[bender]

I had a Bandmaster for a while (transitional model- BF circuit with SF panel). It was surprisingly brash in the midrange- especially upper mids.

[TmcB]

I like my PRRI

[GrantB]

Grant B, Conway - you boys wind them up, or keep them clean?

Robbie - Bandmaster would stay pretty clean right? Maybe a little grit at the top of the dial?

Twins scare me.

Usually played at early break up, but yeah, sounds great cranked. I have an attenuator because it is still a loud 12 watts

[robthemac]

I haven't found my Mike-C Deluxe Reverb to do its best work when fully cranked. It sounds great at 5-7 on the volume dial, especially when cutting bass and/or adding Klone/TS in front. But diming the volume just doesn't sizzle my bacon. That's in distinct contrast to the Plexi and Tweed, both of which love getting the shit kicked out of them.

[blackstratblues]

Had a ‘67 Pro Reverb with G12-65s that I gigged for a few years. A truly great amp, but the need for regular maintenance and a step down transformer prompted me to sell it and get a Suhr Bella 44. Equally happy with the sounds, and it’s built like a tank.

[Litterick]

I have a Princeton Reverb II, in Champagne Beigeface and oak panels.

[StrummersOfThunder]

I haven't found my Mike-C Deluxe Reverb to do its best work when fully cranked. It sounds great at 5-7 on the volume dial, especially when cutting bass and/or adding Klone/TS in front. But diming the volume just doesn't sizzle my bacon. That's in distinct contrast to the Plexi and Tweed, both of which love getting the shit kicked out of them.

i agree. I dont like the sound of cranked blackface and I dont really think they were designed to do that. Edge of break up yes. Cranked usally just gets to mush or fizz town

[murky]

I haven't found my Mike-C Deluxe Reverb to do its best work when fully cranked. It sounds great at 5-7 on the volume dial, especially when cutting bass and/or adding Klone/TS in front. But diming the volume just doesn't sizzle my bacon. That's in distinct contrast to the Plexi and Tweed, both of which love getting the shit kicked out of them.

i agree. I dont like the sound of cranked blackface and I dont really think they were designed to do that. Edge of break up yes. Cranked usally just gets to mush or fizz town

This is why I'm curious about well setup/tuned vintage!

The RI BF's I've tried/owned sounded terrible when cranked, and passable but not great in the noon-2 o'clock sweet spot. Went around the block a few times and got to the point where I concluded the BF wasn't for me.....

Now..... find myself d*cking around with some modelled (yeah, I know...) BF (Fractal -> PS100 -> EVM12L's) which sound great both dimed and in the sweet spot, and superb dimed but rolled back on the guitar vol. This got me wondering.....

[robthemac]

I haven't found my Mike-C Deluxe Reverb to do its best work when fully cranked. It sounds great at 5-7 on the volume dial, especially when cutting bass and/or adding Klone/TS in front. But diming the volume just doesn't sizzle my bacon. That's in distinct contrast to the Plexi and Tweed, both of which love getting the shit kicked out of them.

i agree. I dont like the sound of cranked blackface and I dont really think they were designed to do that. Edge of break up yes. Cranked usally just gets to mush or fizz town

This is why I'm curious about well setup/tuned vintage!

The RI BF's I've tried/owned sounded terrible when cranked, and passable but not great in the noon-2 o'clock sweet spot. Went around the block a few times and got to the point where I concluded the BF wasn't for me.....

Now..... find myself d*cking around with some modelled (yeah, I know...) BF (Fractal -> PS100 -> EVM12L's) which sound great both dimed and in the sweet spot, and superb dimed but rolled back on the guitar vol. This got me wondering.....

I think it was Pete Thorn who suggested running the bass on 0 and treble somewhere above midday. This is what I do when I have the volume past midday. Breakup is a lot more pleasant this way. But my 2x10 speakers don't love the amp breaking up, so I often end up going into the 2x12 Bandmaster if I'm thrashing the Deluxe Reverb.

[AiRdAd]

Some of the old jansen amps are blackface territory. Could be a cheap option?

[Conway]

Grant B, Conway - you boys wind them up, or keep them clean?

Clean. It was too loud at home past about 4. Lovely clean though.

[robthemac]

Some of the old jansen amps are blackface territory. Could be a cheap option?

This.

[NZTone.e]

there’s a couple Jansens on fb down Wellington way…