MichaelW
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I can't believe I never posted a build report of this.
I had every intention to, and thought I did.
I just pulled this out again after sitting on the shelf all year and just floored at how great it sounds!
This is the early 50's 5B6 version of the Tweed Bassman, not the more familiar 5F6A circuit.
I'm not a Fender expert so I can't tell you what's different about the circuit. (@Tassieviking would be able to tell you!
)
It goes from a lovely pristine clean tone to a very round and almost fuzzy overdrive. I think this would be affected by what tubes are in there but at the moment I have a 12AT7 in V1 and a 12AX7 in V2.
I'm using it as a true preamp running into the fx loop return of my Frenzel DP525 that's currently running a set of Tung Sol 5881's.
I think where this pedal shines for me is in that gorgeous Tweed clean tone to edge of break up. From there I can goose it with an overdrive pedal.
When I ordered this board, @vigilante398 had stopped selling drilled enclosures. While I don't think 2 preamp tubes really require a lot of venting I decided to come up with some way to vent a 1590bb.
This is what I ended up with.
I used pipe screen that I cut up and hot glue to affix it to the inside of the enclosure. From the inside it looks like a "twatwaffle"....
...But it looks pretty cool from the outside.....
Highly recommended build! Between this and the Particle Accelerator I've got all my Fender sounds covered!!
Great job Nathan!
I had every intention to, and thought I did.
I just pulled this out again after sitting on the shelf all year and just floored at how great it sounds!
This is the early 50's 5B6 version of the Tweed Bassman, not the more familiar 5F6A circuit.
I'm not a Fender expert so I can't tell you what's different about the circuit. (@Tassieviking would be able to tell you!
)It goes from a lovely pristine clean tone to a very round and almost fuzzy overdrive. I think this would be affected by what tubes are in there but at the moment I have a 12AT7 in V1 and a 12AX7 in V2.
I'm using it as a true preamp running into the fx loop return of my Frenzel DP525 that's currently running a set of Tung Sol 5881's.
I think where this pedal shines for me is in that gorgeous Tweed clean tone to edge of break up. From there I can goose it with an overdrive pedal.
When I ordered this board, @vigilante398 had stopped selling drilled enclosures. While I don't think 2 preamp tubes really require a lot of venting I decided to come up with some way to vent a 1590bb.
This is what I ended up with.
I used pipe screen that I cut up and hot glue to affix it to the inside of the enclosure. From the inside it looks like a "twatwaffle"....
...But it looks pretty cool from the outside.....
Highly recommended build! Between this and the Particle Accelerator I've got all my Fender sounds covered!!
Great job Nathan!
