1962 Fender Tweed Champ- the best kept secret of the recording studio?

Today I'm demoing my original 1962 F51 Fender Narrow Panel Tweed Champ amp. It has a replacement Weber Alnico Blue Pup 8" speaker, because of some tearing on the original Oxford 8EV.

Champs have been used in the recording studio by the likes of Keith Richards, Joe Walsh, Slash, Joe Perry, Billy Gibbons, and Eric Clapton on his magnum opus Layla. It is so simple yet so effective!

With one turn of the knob, you can go from spanky clean to edge of breakup. Dime it to 12 and recreate Neil Young or Exile on Main Street tones!

I'll be using several different guitars, and a treble boost pedal to see how many different sounds this amp can reveal. Then I will bypass the 8" speaker and see what the F51 circuit sounds like into a 2x12" ceramic speaker 1965 Fender cab

0:00 Intro
1:54 Zero to Twelve on the knob, Stratocaster- CLAPTON
5:27 Telecaster in Open G- KEITH RICHARDS
6:42 Treble Booster with Les Paul (and a sixpence..)- QUEEN
8:55 Comparing original 8" speaker vs. Champ into Bassman Cab (SG Special)

Guitars Used:
2012 Fender AVRI '59 Sonic Blue Stratocaster (w/2007 AVRI Maple Neck)
2007 Fender Vintage Hot Rod '52 Telecaster ('51 CS Nocaster Pickups)
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard (Alnico 4 Low Wind OX4 Pickups)
1970 Gibson SG Special

1965 Fender Bassman 2x12" Cab (2 original Oxford 12t6's)
1964 British sixpence coin
2019 Analogman Sunlion (Beano Boost side)
Mic'd with a Neumann TLM-103

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