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Just taken delivery of one of these. Excellent build quality, plywood cab, Celestion speaker, Sovtek valves, high quality parts including spring reverb, with an excellent clean channel producing really nice Shads tones. All for £265 delivered with proper foot switch included...

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P.S. You won't believe the quality and price of this man's guitars...

Nice looking amp David

Which speaker does yours have ?

I came across a similar smaller model (5w) & it was full of what looked like quality components (orange drop caps etc....) needed a bit of work to clean up the hum but a very nice amp 6v6 output

These chinese amps are getting scarily good lately, it will be a very good base amp that is easy to mod........nice

Dick.

It's a Vintage 30, Dick...

Oh no ! I daren't go there, I'm thining down my stuff and buying more already . . .

David Martin wrote:It's a Vintage 30, Dick...

Hmm find that a bit unusual to get a "shads" tone easily with octal output valves & a V30 speaker ?

Interesting to say the least as the V30's have a pronounced midrange boost. The more usual speaker is Jenson, Weber & Eminence in these "fenderish" amps.

Just goes to prove that it either works or does not & until you try it for yourself never rule it out

What do I know eh !!

Dick.

Twang46 wrote:

David Martin wrote:It's a Vintage 30, Dick...

Hmm find that a bit unusual to get a "shads" tone easily with octal output valves & a V30 speaker ?

Interesting to say the least as the V30's have a pronounced midrange boost. The more usual speaker is Jenson, Weber & Eminence in these "fenderish" amps.

Just goes to prove that it either works or does not & until you try it for yourself never rule it out

What do I know eh !!

Dick.

The guy who imports them requested a slight mod to the circuit and the V30... Gets a good Burns tone too with mid off, bass 2/3, bright on and treble to bite!

(Not saying it's as good as my sorely missed '64 Vox Top Boost - now residing in Old Hat - but better than most... and on the gain channel, a Les Paul just oozes!)

30 Selmer-Zoidiac Mk I-type watts with two EL34s?

Or two 6L6s á la Pro Reverb?

Two 6L6s...

It'll be the tone mod that earths out the middle tone control at minimum giving more tone variation which would explain choosing the V30 I suppose.

Easy enough to check by turning all 3 tone controls to minimum, if there's no sound that's what has been done, helps a lot with Les Pauls & such when looking for overdriven tones in the scooped way so popular these days .

Good to see a supplier thinking about what they are selling & offering just that bit more for your cash

Dick.