[Mr. Mojo]

Yeah, to get good power amp distortion out of Blackface or Silverface Twins you need to play a very, very large venue. And wear earplugs to boot. So one either has to get a good distortion pedal or get a smaller, lower-wattage Fender like a Deluxe Reverb to get the nice natural distortion. So much easier to haul around too.

[right way right]

I have a 65 Deluxe Reverb where the tag on the back says ‘ ‘Colombia’ Broadcasting Company, it’s spelled wrong. Correct is Columbia. Adjust to new ownership at the time. It’s my favorite amp.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

i worked with the sound guy at Roy Buchanan's last concert at Grafitti in Pittsburgh. We gave him a Twin. He turned all the knobs up to 10. He then went over to the board, and pushed all the sliders up to full and told us Your adjustments are: Master up, master down, wherever it feels good for you. Don't touch anything else.

Grafitti was a concrete block building. It took about a week for my hearing to come back...the Silver Face Twin puts out about 140 dB at 135 Watts.

To this day i don't know how Roy managed to control the feedback.

i had to do some customisation on my tele. Put in a DiMarzio Dual Sound Humbucker in the bridge position with a Strat non-tremello bridge (easier to get the intonation right, i HATED the Tele bridge, you could never get the D and G strings right), and a series/parallel switch between the tone and volume controls on the Tele. That thing really screams, and you can get some nice low end stuff when you drop down the tone and run both pickups with the DiMarzio in the parallel position.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Yeah, to get good power amp distortion out of Blackface or Silverface Twins you need to play a very, very large venue. And wear earplugs to boot. So one either has to get a good distortion pedal or get a smaller, lower-wattage Fender like a Deluxe Reverb to get the nice natural distortion. So much easier to haul around too.

Right now i'm working on an analog universal filter/preamp setup. When i get it done, i'll be able to shape the sound spectrum of the guitar any way i want it with the filter, and have a nice preamp for the guitar when i don't want the filtering. The filter will have all available shapes (low pass, high pass, band pass, notch), and independently adjustable bandwidth, center frequency and gain.

Maybe i'll market it in the future. i can add a feature where all the parameters are controlled by a foot pedal.