Danelectro D 152 Twin Fifteen

The amp was made somewhere in the 60's. It was used by a pro accordion player, and it has a lot of brightness for a tube amp. I had to have the caps changed out to remove the hissing, and it is now super quiet. It has two sets of vol/treb/bass controls, each with 3 inputs. It also has vibrato speed and rate, footswitchable. I suppose an entire band could plug into the thing. The two fifteens are original, and they have adjustment screws to align the voice coil if it were to get scratchy. The amp reads 180 watt on the label. I had a used gear shop look it up, but only the twin twelve was listed(60s). I play a Gibson ES125 doing a lot of country leads and 60-80s rock. I also play a Strat into it through a Boss BE-5 multi-effects box.

The amp sounds clean, and will not distort on its own. There are no channel settings except the vibrato. The sound is a bit thin playing my Gibson ES125 straight through it, but I'm usually using a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. It is a big heavy rig, and needs an effects box to make it versitile. I've mic'd through one channel and played through another, which is likely what it was designed to do. It doesn't have a ton of bass-ability in the speakers.

After about 6 hours of playing, some of the tubes get a bit tired and it quiets down a bit(it has 9 tubes). But I haven't done any extensive testing of them. The cap change was the only work I've done, plus aligned the speaker coils with their nifty adjustment screws.

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I've been playing some 30 years, and although I've never sold any gear I've owned, I haven't amassed a lot of it either. Just my old Gibson ES125, a Strat, and old Silvertone guitar and amp, and Hot Rod Deluxe. If it were stolen I'd buy a small tube amp, as I really don't play the thing that much. I love the look of it, the tube sound, and the vibrato sounds great doing Ghost Riders.