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

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

 

Damn, I wish my Gibson Falcon sounded like that.

 

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 !!

 

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!

 

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

 

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

 

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