Nocaster > BarbEQ (Unity Volume) > Gibson Falcon (Volume Cranked, Tone at Noon) = <3 <3 <3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaJ5QEIHQus
Sounds most excellent! I think it is awesome that after all the amps you have gone through that you are down with the old school. That Vibrato sounds great! Oh, pull yer gol-durn pants up!! emee
Awesome. Does this Gibson amp happen to be a cousin to a tweed Fender or does it have a relatively unique circuit?
I wonder how that Gibson [or is it the other way around] would sound compared to those Buffalo amps. http://www.buffaloamps.com/ They look and sound pretty cool! Emee
Very nice amp ! I never knew ! There's another example here from brother Leon as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12JEr04my0c Very cool !!
This is Leon's old amp! He had changed a cap value or something in the circuit that gave it a lot less volume and no gain. Turned it back to stock ... and ... VWALLLA!
Originally, my '64 or '65 Falcon was VERY bright and had virtually no distortion, even with humbuckers. I found a thread on the yahoo guitar groups on how to improve the crestline amps by converting them to "tweed" specs of the pre-Crestline models. This involved changing a few componants and removing a "tone and gain sucking network" that was comprised of a few caps and resistors. Well, now my amp has too much distortion and breaks up too early. It is still a bit bright and the amp just lacks bottom end. I'm not sure if this is due to the tiny transformers. There are a few really cool settings on the amp that give it a really cool old-school distortion tone, but I really want to have a tech try and mod the amp some more. But you're amp sounds great!
Hmmm ... that's too bad. This is a 63. But I have a 64 in my apartment in Boston and although I've never been able to crank it there, I actually think the cleans sound a LITTLE better on that one ... but they both pretty much sound identical.
Sounds killer......Nice to hear someone actually play where you can hear what the amp sounds like. Thanks for no "doodling" :AOK
UPS just dropped off my Blackfaced 70's Deluxe Reverb w/ Tone Tubby Alnico speaker ... a very nice/smoother/more polite alternative to the Falcon. Back to playing!
