There is very little out there in terms of any other
differences between the two, so I’d love to get
your take on the differences?
[Shane] I think it’s because, again, originally
Mr. Fender wanted people to be able to
get a very clean sound, and I think the guys
recognized even back then that if one guy has
a Telecaster and another player had, say, a
Gibson Jazz guitar, that other guitar is going to
be louder and stronger at the input, so we’re
going to give an alternative input so they can
stay a little cleaner. Very few people that I’ve
ever observed in my life plug into that number
two input, but it’s there if you want it.
I think another interesting thing is that so many
of the very early Fender amps were sold to
steel guitarists, and steel players tend to use a
volume pedal. So, the fact that something like
a Tweed amp could get really super distorted,
I don’t think the designers thought that people
wanted to play super distorted, I think they
thought that the steel player wanted to have
the volume cocked back so they could swell
in and have enough gain to sustain that note.
So that would certainly be why there would be
a high gain input, I think the low gain would be
and the slightly overpowered bigger speaker, I
about that?
for hotter instruments, or even microphones in
think that’s an interesting blend there. I don’t
that case. Lots of old photos of western swing
know if you’ve seen the interview or the artist [Shane] The more tone controls you add, the video with Chris on this, but his regular setting is more opportunity you have to set it wrong. For about halfway up the tone, maybe a little more a lot of players, you’ve got one volume knob, [WM] This amp features a custom Eminence
than halfway up. These amps can be pretty one tone knob, that’s it, you can figure out speaker. Can you tell us a bit about that
bright or pretty dark depending, you know, it’s pretty quickly whether you’re going to be able relationship and how this all came together?
got just one tone control. And then he always to make this work or not. Most people will sit leaves the tremolo on, but very subtle so that down, turn both knobs halfway up, and go, [Shane] Yeah, we have a great relationship.
you only hear it when it’s a quiet passage, “Oh, that’s nice, maybe I’ll try a little more treble. There are three main speaker companies that
when the band’s rocking you don’t hear the There it is, I don’t need to change anything.” It’s we deal with, and we have close relationships
tremolo at all, and that’s the way he likes it. It’s simple. Especially in an era where everybody with all of them, and we do customized stuff for
a very simple tool to get a harmonically rich, has got a bunch of pedals in front of them, I different products.
touch sensitive, dynamic tone, and at a volume think more and more guitar players are heading that most people can play without getting into back to really simplified amplifiers, because This was a great success story, Chris had
trouble. they’ve got many different ways on the floor to bought a 1962 Princeton that happened to
alter all of that, so they’re not really expecting it have a 12” speaker, and it doesn’t matter what
to be built into the amp. the brand was, it’s something that you can’t get
[WM]
The
single
tone
control
works
exceptionally well, and doesn’t suffer from the
guys with a microphone plugged into their amp.
anymore, a model of speaker that’s no longer
interactivity to some circuits which treble and [WM] Most Fender amps have two inputs, available. So we weren’t going to scour EBay,
bass controls do. What are your thoughts the second of which tends to be 6 dB quieter. because we want to build these in quantity
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