Review: Tube Depot's Tweed Champ Kit
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2012
- Joe Gore from tonefiend.com demonstrates a tweed Champ guitar amp kit from Tube Depot. The guitar is a 1963 Fender Stratocaster.
Full build report here: • Review: Tube Depot's T...
Manufacturer product info here: tubedepot.com/kit-tweedchamp.html 
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I just completed this kit tonight... it does indeed sound fantastic.
Man I always love to hear your playing! You really demonstrate all of the different qualities of this simple amp. Bravo!
Killer little amp and one hell of an amazing guitarist! Match made in heaven!
Man I hate internet. Now i must have one off those little amps. Incredible playing btw.
I must have watched this video thirty times over the last couple of weeks. I play metal through a blazing 100W Marshall, and he just blew me out of the water with a 5W kit and bucketloads of technique.
I'll just go and put my guitar back in its case...
ive seen this video like a dozen times, love the sweet fingerpicking. keep up the great work man!
Superb playing and sound!
I love the way you play. Very different, but very enjoyable.
Super demo ! You Show all what we Need to know !
Nice playing and nice demo. Thanks!
Great time watching you play.
Love that sparkle too, in expense of tightness.Sweet and crazy playing
So intersting voices and chords. Nice!
Honest, righteous tone!
This video has me buying the kit! Am also trying to make a decision for my 335 between Lollar Novel 90 and Gibson p94 neck pickups and stumbled on Joe’s fantastic Premier Guitar review....
Love the way you play.
Great review. Just stumbled across your blog and channel by way of the vintage strat pickup shoot out. And I bought the mojotone 59 clones btw. Love how you place the review text over the clip of you playing it. Just subscribed...thanks!
Great playing!
Wow. That sounds nice. Can't wait to finish my kit now!
Wow... a year already! Still my favorite home amp. Even better with my new tele!
The guitar is super cool.
The playing is superlative.
The finished amp sounds fantastic.
The songs/tunes are very tasty.
All togther..... just gorgeous!
I love your play!
Yep that's the stuff !
I Just finished building its older brother the 5E3.
I never get tired of watching this. Congratulation, sir.
Nice demo. Thank you for micing the amp and playing some chords.
I love champs, do you reckon you could squeese a 10" speaker into that enclosure?
Nice start
Don't forget the (tweed) Princeton 5f2a which is also single-ended, class a... Though it IS basically a Champ with a tone control and I believe more filtering... Awesome tone, and playing. U are really good... in an inspiring way... Not in a way that makes me wanna quit the guitar, but instead a way I aspire to play. Seems you express yourself perfectly. Good shit.
I tried the Fender Clapton VibroChamp in a store. Apart from costing near 1k euros, it sounded very very nice to me, despite the little speaker. The tremolo was fabulous! The overall tone blew me away. Dynamic and rich, so fat with my les paul!
I want to build one of these so bad. The 18 Watter they have is pretty sweet, as well. Great sounds. What kind of speaker does it come with? I would like to hear this with a Weber Blue Pup.
What did you do with it Joe? Did you keep it? Or did they want it back after you built it? Sounded really cool!
I have a Fender stage series 112 se, yet know nothing more. I have talked to a few people and heard it is a great amp and should keep it working. I've heard this one is roughly from the 90's. I would like to know if anyone knows what the output would be. It's got a 1x12 for speakers...
I just bought a similar 5 watt amp with the 6V6 and I love it! 5 watts doesnt sound like much, but for at home it's plenty. I can drive everyone out of the house, it gets so loud!
74dart man that’s why people also build athenuators😂😂
wow just wow
Joe Gore is the best
Has some similarities to a banjo but in a good way. I'm assuming the size of the cab and speaker makes it that way
Wow!
Finally got around ordering a kit from Tonefactory in Holland today (i live in europe, shipping a kit from the us costs me a lot of taxes and stuff like that), i got a cab+speaker on the cheap last year with a Jensen MOD 8-20, wich i believe is the same speaker you have, or did you swap it out? If mine sounds anything like yours i'll be happy :).
+omegalen
So did you get the tonefactory amp kit?
Are you satisfied?
+picajoool Yeah, it was pretty easy to build and it sounds like a beast! Pure raw tweed sound, probably the amp i play the most at home.
The Jensen MOD 8-20 sounds pretty good and i'm satisfied with it.
+omegalen
Thank you for the fast reply.
Im looking at their 18W kit but I cant find any reviews/opinions on the interent...nothing...and thats kinda a problem for me....
+Joe Gore
I cant find anything on the tonefactory kit :-(
Where did you find it?
Hey Joe, Great review and video. What mic are you using to record the amp? It sounds great. Also, did you do any post processing on the recording. Sounds tasty. Great performance too btw
Class stuff. Thanks for that joe. Going to order in one of the kits
I don't understand why Tube Depot's PCB doesn't allow for the use of radial caps. It would save the builder a little bit of money. I mean it's a PCB so why not use modern caps?
Im not sure if i like the amp the guitar or the playing better... all just lovely. Brings zoot horn rollo to mind, with some other pixie dust thrown in. Makes me jealous.
0:49 no no no no...... you're an amazing guitarist
Hi !
I am seriously thinking in buying either a
Fender 57 champ reissued 5 watts
Fender junior "pro"
Or a Victoria 518 , also 5 watts. www.victoriaamplifier.com/amplifiers/tweed-amplifiers/victoria-518/
It's for playing only at home, got me a Roland JC 22 (for the clean tone) and don't regret it. But I feel that I need the feeling of a good tube amp. And what the he'll you only live once. Thanks in advance for any suggestion!!!
Sounds smooth. I would love to hear it with a high-gain pedal playing metal! Joe? :P
how well does it handle fuzz pedals ?
hahahahah nailed it mate...yeah i thought of the amps distortion in high volumes too, if some time i want to crank it up the sound i wll get very muddy. Am also wondering if it woud be possible not to buy the speaker and put a higher watt speaker with the same amp?
Is it tube rectified? Clones are 550$, 900$ assembled. If you add shipping and your time to build it, it costs the same as a fender tweed champ. So I’ll wait to buy the real deal, and if I really feel to assemble it myself, I’ll rip it apart marking every part to be sure to rebuild it correctly👍😎 nice demo by the way😀
tonefiend by joe gore they do sound good and it would be a lot of fun for me to assemble it but the thing is as I said I don’t really want to mod it since I don’t have money to buy other parts and for resale value the big names are first, and no one can see the difference if you disassemble and rebuild as long as it still sounds awesome
The ultimate studio recording amp hahahaha. I usually do conversions with the sf champs.....so I have the switch to go from the bf/sf with the tone stack that I add the middle pot to and a mid boost switch...….but a flip of the switch send it to the tweed era champ...and while in tweed mode...another switch puts it to the Princeton mode with the single knob tone control....but that is the simple version...there is more to it as its the kitchen sink concept. Best performance.....use a Russian 12ax7 LPS tube and a NOS 6v6......and a Jensen reissue alnico 8 inch......and bias up to maybe 50 to 60milliamps on the 6V6 bias. But this type amp is what I'll be building in my specs as a studio oriented amp in head form so you can use any speaker cab and size speaker between 4 & 8 ohms for a multitude of exploitable characteristics. When it comes time to swap out the power filter caps......use a Sprague 40uf Atom as the first in the power rail, then a 30uf or a 20 uf for the screen supply and a 16uf or a 10uf for the pre-amp tube. I currently have a Weber alnico speaker in mine.....I like it but the Jensen alnico is where its at in the 8 inch. Based on my ears and experiences...….and totally delightful with single coil fenders they were originally designed for and scary with P90's or humbuckers...….screaming but not deafeningly loud....perfect sound pressure for recording. Where's the Princeton Reverb ????? I'm contemplating a dual channel champ with added solid state reverb......I like playing off reverb and the thickness of a bridged channels amp really hitting a power section......for the AB/Y switcher in the equation for the textures it can produce as a simple amplifier circuit
Dat sounds like Ice Cream and Pie Man,,,,,keep up the good work,,,,
3:05 that sounds awesome.........
Ceriatone's are gorgeous sounding amps, but the shipping is pretty significant. I do hope to grab one, someday. An 8" speaker obviously isn't going to give ya the growl on the low end, but in an open-back cab, it really does just fine in a low watt, class A design. Of all the mods I've added to my Vox AC4TV, other than perhaps the speaker upgrade, porting the cabinet completely changed the character of the amp so strongly, it literally blew me away. It gave a small speaker an entirely new voice.
Clean is nice, overdrive.. well...very week.
You look like the Edge from U2.
Thank you for not playing Lenny or Little Wing 🤣
@@joe_gore nooo... everyone plays those. Good to hear something else. 😉
They make obscene amounts of money on these kits. There are no reliable vendors for inexpensive 1~5 watt tube amp kits, and I mean complete kit with everything you need to have a finished working amplifier. The sketchy stuff that's out there is either incomplete, lacking information and just a joke. Nobody knows how to market these kits. It's a gold mine waiting to happen for someone with some common sense.
orange70383 indeed!
Tube Depot doesn't strike you as a reliable vendor?
www.ampmaker.com ;-)
I agree, they all have shitty JJ tubes and Mod speakers. Some of the chassis are not coated etc... Don't get me started about sterile orange drop caps..now this one is PCB. Meh....