of the room likes New York style, it’s almost
anything we’ve ever built.
[Shane] We revere Leo Fender, but he got it
like Fender versus Vox or something, you’re
wrong. He called the thing on a Stratocaster a
not going to convert those guys because they [WM] Noting that this is a bit of loaded tremolo when in fact it’s a vibrato with changing
found what they love. Now that we’re on the question, there is a bit of confusion as to pitch. What was put in the amplifiers he called
Fender side its, do you like Princeton’s, do the specific differences between vibrato and vibrato, which is in fact changing amplitude
you like Deluxe, do you like Twins, do you like tremolo. Would you care to speak to this? louder and quieter, back and forth, and that is
Brown ones, do you like Silver ones? It’s all of
tremolo.
these little subtle flavors and subtle ingredients
that add up to the recipe. I think the person As far as Fender lore there are three or four
that would like the Stapleton regardless of circuits that people always talk about, the
what music they play, I think it’s going to be a most common ones are output tube bias
player who is attracted to simplicity and who is tremolo, which is what’s in the Chris Stapleton
attracted to a beautiful rich tone, probably not Princeton. And that’s turning the volume of the
super clean or super dirty but somewhere in power tubes up and down. The other really
the middle. The ’62 Stapleton Princeton does common one is what’s in most of the Blackface
that kind of middle ground richness as good as
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Shane Nicholas demos the ’62 Princeton
Chris Stapleton Edition
May 2019
and Silverface amps, which uses a little light
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