![]() I had a '66 DR, but I never really warmed up to it and I eventually sold it. To my ears, it's hard to tell the difference between this amp and blackface Deluxes. To the right is a very clean 1970 Deluxe Reverb. ![]() Of course, the internal voltages are too high to really be a tweed circuit, but it sounds okay. ![]() I've got a '66 Blackface Champ and a couple of Silverface models, one of which I modified to "tweed" specs. Of all Fender amps, I prefer the sound of the tweed circuits and this Champ sounds good at any volume. On the left is my everyday practice amp, a 1963 Champ. Getting parts for these old amps is a challenge, but I recently came across a site that offers some parts for GA 20s. This is the GA-5 with the EL-84 power tube. The GA-20 and GA-50 are nice sounding but somewhat mellow amps, and the GA-5 is a handy alternative to a Champ. That's certainly what the previous owner used it for. The GA-25 is maybe better suited as a harp amp. The GA-6 is the best sounding amp of the bunch, one of the best I own. Finally, I found the time to build a small 1-watt stereo hifi amp. I also built a speaker cabinet for the JTM45 head. I've built a tweed Fender Bassman (5F6-A), a tweed Low Power Twin (5E8-A), another 18 Watt in a head cabinet, a Marshall JTM-45 clone. I made a clone of the Marshall 18 Watt amp and it turned out pretty well. ![]() When I first started out, I bought a bunch of old Gibsons and Fender amps, and amps by other, much more obscure, makers. The rest is occupied by some metal, a few electrical components, a speaker (usually), and some tubes. Guitar amplifiers are large boxes full, mostly, of air. ![]()
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