Product: Fender 1959 Twin Amp
Price Paid: USD 3000.00 USED
Submitted
11/27/2008
at
04:52pm
by
Jules Carracci
Features
:
9
It's a 59 so what it has is mostly just tone to melt your brain. There's no frills it's 80 or 85 watts. What it does have are two channels but the thing is it has bass, mid, and treble knobs also a presence knob. The only thing missing is Reverb. You can play anything on this amp except metal and by the way this is the amp Keith Richards used on Brown Sugar. It gets a 9 cause of the lack of reverb it didn't exist in amps in 59
Sound Quality
:
10
I play a 69 Tele with Two Gibson PAF's along with an Analogman Sun Face pedal. This amp can pretty much do it all. This is the high powered Tweed Twin. It has a beautiful clean tone and once you turn it up and start overdriving it you almost soil yourself. There is a slight buzz but the amp is fifty years old. It is also very loud, it can go toe to toe with an old Marshall Super Lead 100, therefore the reason for the pedal. I don't want to offend anyone but to sum it up if God were an amp he'd be this one
Reliability
:
10
I've had this amp for fifteen years and I leave at the Plant in Sausalito so bands recording can use it. They just don't make amps like this anymore :-(
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
It's fifty years old, Come on
Overall Rating
:
10
I've been playing for twenty years. my style is Stooges, Stones, Johnny Thunders, old British Psych, British Invasion. I only play vintage gear with the exception of my Analogman pedals I also own a 59 Magnatone Custom 280, a 62 Magnatone Custom 480, a 63 Ampeg Super Echo Twin And an Ampeg V4 head. The Twin is by far the best sounding in a bunch of great sounding amps. If it were lost I would be screwed as these amps go for 25 to 30 thousand dollars now. This amp along with my Tele and my daughter are the only things I truly love. I wish everyone could have this amp
