Video of the funnest amp ever (Gibson Falcon) ...

[themusicboxstudios]

Nocaster > BarbEQ (Unity Volume) > Gibson Falcon (Volume Cranked, Tone at Noon) = <3 <3 <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaJ5QEIHQus

 

[michael.e]

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

 

[themusicboxstudios]

Oh, pull yer gol-durn pants up!!

i don't even sag! these pants won't stay on for the life of me. lol.

 

[le_plastique]

Awesome. Does this Gibson amp happen to be a cousin to a tweed Fender or does it have a relatively unique circuit?

 

[michael.e]

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

 

[tfunster]

Damn, I wish my Gibson Falcon sounded like that.

 

[themusicboxstudios]

Damn, I wish my Gibson Falcon sounded like that.

how does yours sound?

 

[goodtone]

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 !!

 

[themusicboxstudios]

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!

 

[tfunster]

how does yours sound?

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!

 

[JubileeMan 2555]

Thanks! We need more straight forward clips of relatively unknown vintage amps.

 

[themusicboxstudios]

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.

 

[Shamus]

Sounds like a perfect alt-country amp - twang, spank, gritty... Cowboy chords all day long

 

[themusicboxstudios]

Eeeeexactly!

 

[Ampegged]

Sounds killer......Nice to hear someone actually play where you can hear what the amp sounds like. Thanks for no "doodling" :AOK

 

[themusicboxstudios]

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!

 

[themusicboxstudios]

o man ... this deluxe is ssshhhhweeet. i love good gear!

back to playing!