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Ah apparently the 5F1 is also called the Tweed Champ :D
 
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Yes, the one I pasted a pic of is also a Tweed. The only difference is the larger caps on yours and the earlier version has a cathode resistor bypass cap on first stage which I would have left off anyway like I always tend do whenever possible.

Otherwise identical.
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according to wiki all after 5C were tweeds

it's a good article(wiki) and explains the super champ in great detail - a real imposter
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IMHO, don't expect the front of the amp to give the overdrive if you are after a bluesy (whatever that means, but I think I know) sound. That will give you more of a modern post mesa high gain sound. A typical (especially tele sound) is much more about the output stage, power supply speaker doing its thing. The actual levels of distortion you need is not that great. Take for instance a lot of Hendrix playing, you may imagine its all overdriven marshalls, but listen to the guitar sound at the start of this, its generally clean. As is most of the guitar parts.

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Yes, I read elsewhere too. It's a nightmare.

Just have to treat it as fun I think.
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please don't laugh, but....

what is a
modern post mesa high gain sound
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Nick wrote:........ is much more about the output stage, power supply speaker doing its thing. The actual levels of distortion you need is not that great.
I think this is what SRV was getting at and why his technician fitted low gain 5751's (I think) in the 1st stages of some his amps so as not to overdrive the early stages of amplification but still be able to get the output stage to drive hard and get 'that' sound he heard/wanted. I think our-ChrisMangler knows a bit more about this, I think we had a chat about it all in the early days at an EggyFest or summat.

SRV also used pretty heavy gauge strings that created a much higher output so the 1st stages were always gonna get hammered by signal but the lower gain early on didn't clutter the sound so much. Clever stuff. SRV also had brilliant (IMO) damping technique and huge strength coupled with dexterity. Bending that gauge strings that far down the neck next to the nut..... awethumne.

Witness his chugging rhythmic damping awethumnessesssessessssess....


I must update my musical carreer goal's. I wanna play geetar like SRV, Drums like James Gadson, bass like Jaco/Marcus Miller/Rocco Prestia/Colin Hodgkinson and have a voice like Paul Rogers and play keyboards like Jimmy Smith.

Writing songs better than Bill Withers might come in handy too! :-)

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You have much to learn glasshopper.

Now if you spent more time doing your homework and less on that stupid plank with wheels you'd be sounding like Paul Rogers playing the Occarina already.

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*Salutes* yessir! :lol:

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Once upon a time, an innocent teenage Simon and Garfunkel fan was taken to a concert in a small venue in Plymouth. He'd never heard of the group that was playing. They were called Free. At the end of the evening he was seen leaning against a big loudspeaker at the edge of the stage. It had Marshall written on it. On his face was a look of seraphic bliss. In his ears was a loud ringing noise that lasted for several days.

For the next two years, I wanted to BE Paul Rogers. (Still do, a bit).
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Not sure I was ever that thin, though

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I've just learnt an awful lot from that vid.

It's not my ability thats holding me back from sponsorship/fame/money/adoration/notoriety/various addictions.

It's my name. How on earth am I ever going to get anywhere being called David.

From now on I am (Mr) Tharg 'nibbles' Gripnorth.

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How about Chief Inspector Harry 'Snapper' Organs ?
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The tone I would like is like the track "A man and the blues" Budy Guy.
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