Dynacord Twen 112 Combo

This has date codes from the late 60s, and is from 67-69. The original Speaker was long gone, so I found a Rola with a whizzer cone. I have metered 27 watts RMS out of this amp, and the external speaker jack is a blast to use. I have made 1 and 2 speaker cabs with Celestions, Wharfdales, Oxfords, Jensens, Phillips, etc. Feature wise that ext jack is a blast, but the rest is hum drum for the late 60s.

The onset of break up is early, but again I have used tube changes to mitigate what I saw as problems. With the ext cabs it is wonderful, and can sound like SRV or Clapton and the Bluesbreaker amp. I love the sounds this produces, and the caps are all Wima German made caps. Suhweet sounds all the way around, but I may put an Oxford in from a Fender Twin. It has more high end bite and with the tone control it can be rolled back. It really distrots early and is edgy/cruncy. Fun Fun and different than my other amps by far. Think class AB princeton on steroids.

Great reliability, but it did arrive in need of a capacitor, but I had one in stock, and the insides of this amp are beautifully laid out. The Wima caps that were not placed next to a hot power resistor all test great like they are all brand new. Again if it is looked after properly it is a reliable amp with very good components. The original tubes were long gone with this amp, so I found good NOS replacements.

Not much info out there at all, and Schematic Heaven has yet to get back to me on schematics I offered to them for various Valco, Dynacord, Stramp, and other amps. Still no snotty guy on the phone gets a 2.

I started playing at age 5. My mom taught, played pro, and her sister's husband owned Klesi Music. I have has a myriad of stuff to play with and through. I like this Twen, and would be reluctant to sell it. I have a lot of Valco stuff, and Fender amps and Guitars as well as Gibsone. I have a 67 melodymaker with a HSS pick up custom route, and Di Marzios, a few old Les Pauls and a 74 Strat.

Mid 60s. 2 x ECC83, 2X 6V6, 1 EZ81. Around 20 W. Volume, tone, speed and intensity.
Very simple. But has all the really necessary controls - tremolo being the only really important inbuilt amp effect, in my opinion...
The sweep of the tone control is quite limited. It??s either dark or bright, and goes from one to the other instantly, rather than gradually.

I replaced the original speaker with a Celstion Vintage 30. The amp is quite loud now. I play in a Blues/rock band. The amp is very well suited for this. On rehearsals I seldom turn it up above 4 on the volume! At that level there is some breakup. I use a Gibson ES-335 with original pickups (Classic 57s?). I also use a rosewood 1972 Strat. They sound very good. The amp takes pedals really well. Tube Screamer, Micro amp and Ibanez param. EQ, are the ones I use the most. I use Mullard and Telefunken preamp and rectifier tubes.
The sound is fat and quite primitive and punchy, and very vintage in a bluesy way. I play it on most gigs. I also use a JMI Vox AC30 head, with a 2x12, and sometimes a 70s HH head. I have had lots of gear, BF (DR, TR, SR, VR, PR) and SF Fenders, Marshall Silver Jubilee and vintage JMP, Koch Twintone and Studiotone, and others. But feel more at home with my Dynacord, my Vox and my HH IC1000.
The other day I turned my Twen almost all the way up, with my 335 plugged in... What a sound! Wonderful overdrive, sustain, singing tone, and easy feedback when wanted. Very similar to Claptons Bluesbreaker tone. If you dare, step on the Micro Amp as well...
But this is very loud. Too loud for rehearsals and most club gigs. But it sounds very good at lower volumes and overdrives easily. It doesn??t have any really clean tone.

Had it for 2 or 3 years. Usually no problems whatsoever. Had a loud hum for a period, but twisting the capacitor-can fixed it, and it hasn??t returned since.
Started to smell funny when I used a different pair of output tubes. Probably too hard on the OT.

Been playing since the 70s. I would try and find another one if lost or stolen. I like it a lot. Impossible to get a bad sound out of it.
I wish the tremolo speed would go just a wee bit faster at top speed.

This combo dates back to mid-sixties, and surprisingly enough, was in mint condition when I bought it about two years ago (forgotten in a storage, not used in about 30+ years, had even the original price-tag hanging on the handle) except for loads of dust. Bought new tubes, cleaned it up, and off we went... play bluesy/jazzy/r&b stuff; with a couple of effect gadgets like delay and tube boost or compressor I get all the features I need. The simplicity of the amp is the best virtue of it; you really do not need anything but volume and tone control with this babe, and naturally the vibrato controls that drive the manic tube-controlled vintage effect. This is a perfect recording amp, and works just as well live with mic->PA; the stage volume level remains low, however already by the mid-volume position it gives enough dynamic headroom for even demanding wristing.

Play the babe mostly with Fender Strato or DeArmond M75T. Especially the DeArmond vintage single-coil 2k pu-sound makes the amp sing, the natural sustain of the guitar is about to be enough for gadget-free use ('cept for the delay). The Strato is somewhat less sensitive, but perfect for its kind of stuff. Noisy? No, although single-coil ground hum disturbs sometime, especially with the Strato. But, that's a feature, not a fault. And, with careful mains grounding and coaxial instrument / effect cables almost avoidable. With about 1/3 volume setting the distortion lightly commences, with a 1/2 -setting it's perfect, still leaving ample headroom for dynamics.

So far, so good. Has never let me down (knock on wood), should really take it to a pro for a proper check. Ok, it's german manufactured, from the good old times when craftmanship still was highly valued.

Propably best off with some local tube amp pro.

Have been playing for about 35 years, have had Fender Bassman Ten, Ampeg V4 head + cabinet, Peavey 30, Fender Pro Reverb, have let them slip away, mostly due to being too heavy/loud/impractical - but have kept this Dynacord plus a Polytone Mini-Brute 15"150W and a silly small Line6 for hush-hush training at home. And a modified vintage Telefunken tube-radio as a very stage/street-credible blues amp. Would cry crocodile tears if I lost this Dynacord babe. Propably would not find as good replacement.

Well, there are not many knobs on the backside of this red and black colored tube amp, but there's all you really need: volume, tone and two knobs for dealing this damn cool 'vibrator' effect, which is some sort of a tremolo or something. Very vintage and pure... A twelve inch speaker inside, seventeen watts, two inputs and an output for external speakers. For me that's all enough and does well. I would rate it with a ten, but for others it might could be a little bit limited, so I give it a five. For more specs check out this site: www.el-me-se.de by searching 'Dynacord Twen' on google...

I'm mainly using my Fender Strat or Tele, but I own a lot of guitars, so I'm changing them very often with this amp because they all sound just great with it. The most significant thing about the sound of this amp is, that it's just giving you the sound your guitar makes, so never use cheap ones with it!!! I'm playing Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n Roll since twelve years now and I'm getting along with this amp very fine. But it's not the loudest one and it gets very fast distored at higher volumes like all little tube amps do. But it's that sound I love! Perfect for recording!

All I got to say is that it was made in the middle sixties in good old Germany. You can bet your life on it!

Never dealt with them... But I've heard they should be cool at Dynacord...

I own a Fender Blues Deluxe which is a great amp too, but you can't compare between both. So I once owned a Marshall VS 100 which was just crappy shit, anyway I hate Marshall... So this is amp's for recording and the Fender the one for the show. If I get lost of the Dynacord Twen I will kill myself...

how simple can tubeamp be? now i know=) four knobs(volume,tone and vibrator knobs) & couple inputs(low and high).dunno should i give it 10 or 1

i play this amp with variety guitars,but mainly with fender strato with emg set.maybe emgs and this amp is not right combination,but there is still that VERY smooth and sweet sound,what this amp produces.its sure not very versatile since its not for metal maniacs,but what it does...it does it good.maybe good studio recording amp like someone earlier mentioned

hehheh.its old,maybe early 70`s .i dont depend on it

hmm.very nice amp. im more of a marshall buddy,but when i catch nice amps like this,they allways find a place to my rig.if its stolen.i forget it,coz i know...i dont find other piece.there is nothing i hate about it.if i wanna do metal stuff,i play with other amps

Not sure when this was made, I'm guessing mid-late 60's.

There's a picture on this website (though mine is two-tone gray, not gray and red like this one) http://www.el-me-se.de

This is a one channel, two-input 1x12" tube amp combo with vibrato (it's labelled "VIBRATOR"), one volume knob, and one tone knob (plus speed and intensity for the "Vibrator") - about the size and shape of a Fender Deluxe or Prinveton (non-reverb). It runs on two 6L6 power tubes but is rated at 18W...that may be the European style of rating "real" Watts (like how a "50W Marshall" is really more like an 80W amp over here)..but it certainly does not put out the kind of volume you might expect from an amp with two 6L6....maybe just a very inefficient speaker, or the way it's designed.

besides the "vibrator" and very basic tone control there are no features to this amp, which is fine, since the one thing it does is sound good. One drawback is the "Vibrator" uses a six-pin DIN connector for the footswitch...not too easy to find, but not hard to wire a pedal up once you find the right plug.

This is a great little amp for reasonable volume, very smooth overdrive. It would be ideal for studio use to get a great bluesy guitar sound or something like the Velvet Underground, Stones, etc. guitar...definitely not clean, power section clearly working hard, but also not a crunchy or fizzy modern hi-gain type sound. Has a nice rubbery attack, too - it doesn't get all glassy or indistinct on the low end as it gets cranked up like, say, a Marshall

It has a really nice, complex, and (I'll say it again) VERY SMOOTH breakup, which happens after about the first quarter turn of the volume knob. It's proabably not loud enough to practice with (with a loud drummer and another guitar, etc) unless you don't mind having no headroom, and it won't be really clean at most volumes, but it sure sings! No graininess at all, like you'd get out of, say, a Fender Deluxe or a Champ. The amp is very touch sensitive and the overdrive/clean balance can be controlled either with your guitar tone/volume controls or with string attack...it's a very responsive and musical little critter.

can't say yet, though it seems fine and well built. Probably like any other 40 year old tube amp.

Dynacord makes sound reinforcement gear now, but I doubt they'd be much help with this...and I don't speak German.

I'm always looking for amps that sound great and can hover on that useful point between clean/overpowered and overdriven/pushed, while not causing me to wear lumberjack ear protection. Really tiny amps (Champ and so forth) can break up great but often lack cabinet space, speaker size, and sheer bass-producing wattage to really pack a nice whallop...but by 45W or so (Bandmaster, Bassman, Super, etc.)you are generally into the cagtegory of "mic it in another room and shut the door, please."

This amp is pretty close to being right at that point..I'd put it with early 60's Gibsons (like a BR-8, say) and Ampegs (like a Jet). A good thing to have as your main amp if you want that elusive 60's rock guitar sound all the time at lower volumes, or to keep around the studio to get that particular sound.

I haven't seen a lot of these but this amp is definitely an excellent value for the price.