Vintage, Modern & Modded amps
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We’re currently working on the amps below. If any of them grab your interest or catch your eye, then let us know.
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A 1972 Matamp SL120 ‘Slave’ amplifier, which has been converted to a beautiful blues amp by renowned UK amp tech Donald ‘Don Audio’ Healey.
1972 Laney Super Sound 100 watt PA amplifier in absolutley mint condition.
This 6 channeled, 100 watt beauty is from Laney’s ‘Super Group’ era & I can’t belive how clean this amp looks after 50+ years. It has the beautiful white ‘plexi’ front in almost perfect condition, just with the slightest crack in the top right corner (see pics), but otherwise comes with huge partridge transfomers, a full set of 70’s Brimar EL34’s & a mix of 60’s Brimar & Mazda 12AX7s in the preamp.
These amps are fantastic value, especially when you compare them against the 4 channel PA or 2 channel guitar amplifiers from the same series. The only difference between this & the others is the ‘console’ style control panel, a different preamp to the guitar version, a tube buffered FX loop (a definite bonus) & the larger size cabinet.
The design of the power amp,build quality and components is exactly the same throughout the series, giving you vintage Laney goodness without the vintage prices & an amazing base for modding & customisation.
Due to the rarity of the plexi fronted amps and the condition this one is in, we are selling this ‘as is’, however, we do have another of these from the slightly later ‘Klipp’ series which we’ll be looking to modify to be 3 channeled, clean, super-group & Klipp amp.
Sounds interesting? Send us a message!
Early 1970’s Sound City L120 MKIV head made in the Dallas-Arbiter era.
120 watts, with active EQ.
The modern version of the classic Vox AC15, upgraded by T&T to reach it’s full potential.
Provide your own AC15 for us to upgrade, or we can supply a fully serviced AC15 from our stock.
The Vox AC15 is currently one of the top selling amps in the world & for good reason. Stock, it comes in a hefty plywood cabinet, loaded with either a Celestion Greenback or Vox/Celestion Alnico Blue speaker & internally a quality double sided PCB.
As well as the usual T&T rebuild and component upgrades, we take inspiration from Lyall Cadwell (‘Psionic‘ audio channel on YouTube) and implement some of the ‘Psionic’ mods. These include changing the power filtering topology to the Vintage style for better playing dynamics & adding the ability to switch between the Vintage & Modern tonestack via a push-pull ‘Top-Boost’ volume control.
One major feature we feel is missing from the AC15, is being able to easily jumper the ‘Normal’ & the ‘Top Boost’ channels together, so we’ve add channel jumping via a push-pull ‘Normal’ channel volume control*.
Finally we add a some custom bling with handmade gold metal vents to replace the stock plastic/black ones.
Please note, the price includes T&T providing the stock AC15 for upgrading. If you have your own AC15 you want us to workon, please send us a message to discuss options and prices.
For more details on the T&T x Vox AC15 see below.
*Footswitchable control in development. Once it’s ready we’ll happily retro-fit this for no extra cost.
In recovery…
We’re currently working on the amps below. If any of them grab your interest or catch your eye, then let us know.
A 1990s build of the 4x10” Fender Hot Rod Deville. The big-brother in the Hot Rod series produces 60 watts of modern Fender tone through a mini-half stack.
With it's fantastic sounding clean channel the HR Deville is known as a great pedal platform & is a standard for backlines all over the world.
The Fender Hot Rod series is also known for some not so strong qualities. A poor choice in filter capacitors and a generally hated overdrive channel.
Luckily the first issue is fixed by the T&T component upgrades. In this case all the power filter capacitors have been replaced with F&Ts, as well as other key signal path capacitors and resistors upgraded to Orange Drops, Jupiter & Vishay.
To fix the second issue we've installed the Bill M/Frommel mods giving the amp a beautiful sounding overdrive. We also went a bit further and added switchable diode clipping on channel 2 via a push-pull pot on the volume control. We've also installed a push-pull pot for the channel 1 volume which, when pulled up, switches in the master volume to channel 1.
Accessories include a Fender foot switch.
A 1990s build of the 2x12” Fender Hot Rod Deville. The big-brother in the Hot Rod series produces 60 watts of modern Fender tone.
With it's fantastic sounding clean channel the HR Deville is known as a great pedal platform & is a standard for backlines all over the world.
The Fender Hot Rod series is also known for some not so strong qualities. A poor choice in filter capacitors and a generally hated overdrive channel.
Luckily the first issue is fixed by the T&T component upgrades. In this case all the power filter capacitors have been replaced with F&Ts, as well as other key signal path capacitors and resistors upgraded to Orange Drops, Jupiter & Vishay.
To fix the second issue we've installed the Bill M/Frommel mods giving the amp a beautiful sounding overdrive. We also went a bit further and added switchable diode clipping on channel 2 via a push-pull pot on the volume control. We've also installed a push-pull pot for the channel 1 volume which, when pulled up, switches in the master volume to channel 1.
The 2x12 Deville comes with it's original Eminence speakers, however, we do have a pair of Celestion Silver Series V30 speakers, which we think would be a fantastic upgrade.
Accessories include a Fender foot switch.
Rare, 100 watt Elgen amplifier from 1973, with Partridge transformers, original mustard & tropical fish capacitors & hand-wired throughout.
Like Marshalls, the early Elgen amps were based off of the 6G6 Bassman Circuit. However this is one of their later builds when they had settled on a more consistent design with the Lead (guitar) & Bass 100 watt amps.
It’s powered by three 12AX7 for the preamp & phase inverter & four EL34 in the power section & the insides of the amp is all original, complete with 1973 dated Partridge transformers, mustard and tropical fish capacitors & hand wired throughout.
Whilst this one is labled as a Bass amplifier, from comparing the schematics with the internals, we know that elements of both designs have been included. Conveniently, as this amp has both Bass & Treble EQ in the preamp & Top Boost & Presence controls in the feedback circuit, it works just as well for Guitar as it does for Bass.
The amp is available as just the head unit, it can converted to a combo, or can come with a matching T&T cabinet to your specification.
LTD edition 2018 Blues Junior III, in a lovely Burgendy Red & complete with Cannabis Rex speaker. Updated by T&T to the latest BJ-IV spec, with a few extras thrown in.
We’ve carried out our usual upgrades, replacing the stock filter capacitors with high quality F&T’s, and signal path capacitors with Orange Drop and Panasonic film caps.
Stock parts which are know to cause issues have been replaced & voicing wise we’ve kept to the latest Blues Junior IV spec, apart from increasing the reservoir capacitor to 100uF for a firmer bass response.
Finally, we modified the Bias circuit so you can switch between original ‘fixed’ and latest ‘cathode’ bias, allowing a choice between higher headroom or more compression/earlier breakup.
All work is covered by T&T’s 3-month guarentees.
From the company who created the Fuzz-Face and who were behind Sound City amps, we bring you this crazy 150 watt beast.
Yep, it’s from the folks at CBS-Arbiter (previously Arbiter, then Dallas-Arbiter), and we are assuming it’s an early 70’s model from the ‘louder is better’ era, possibly after Dave Reeves left to start Hiwatt.
The design of the amp is pretty unusual for the time. It uses 6 EL34s to produce an awe-inspiring 150 watts of power, but the only 12AX7 is for the phase inverter. The preamp is a solid state FET preamp with active tone controls which were also a feature of the Sound City MK IV amps.
What’s cool about this amp is that it has a 4-band EQ with useful ‘low middle’ and ‘high middle’ controls.
The transformers are typically massive for the time, but the lack of 12AX7 preamp tubes means the overall size of the head is nice and compact for it’s output. You could almost say it was an early ‘lunch-box’ head.
Rare 1960’s Carlsbro CS40 amplifier with stunning plexiglass control panel, heavyweight iron and all the mustardy trimmings.
60 watts of glorious, harmonically rich, chimey & crunchy British vintage power!
You can read more about Carlsbro amps here, but the specs for this beauty are:
60 watts of power from 2x EL34s, in a fixed bias, class AB push-pull arrangment.
Dual input Treble and Bass channels, with independent two band EQ, and a master ‘Top Cut’ control.
Two 12AX7 in the preamp & a single 12AX7 in the phase-invertor
If I had to describe the sound, I would put it in between a Marshall & a Hiwatt. It’s got a lovely chime to it, but can be push into a crystal clear crunch/bark when the channels are jumpered together.
It’s a real late 60’s early 70’s rock sound & perfectly conjures up the raw tones of AC/DC.
How do you improve an already improved amp? Well with this one we’ve upgraded the speaker to a Vox/Celestion Alnico Blue.
Otherwise, it’s had the same treatment as our ‘stock’ AC15, we took inspiration from Lyall Cadwell (‘Psionic‘ audio channel on YouTube) and implemented some of his ‘Psionic’ mods. These included; changing the power filtering to the vintage AC style to improve playing dynamics, adding the ability to switch between the vintage & modern tonestack via a push-pull ‘Top-Boost’ volume control, & rebalancing the ‘Normal’ output to match the ‘Top Boost’ channel.
One major feature we felt is missing from the AC15, is being able to easily jumper the ‘Normal’ & the ‘Top Boost’ channels together, so we’ve added channel jumping via a push-pull volume control on the ‘Normal’ channel *.
As part of the usual T&T rebuild/refurbish, we upgraded the power filtering capacitors to top-quality Nichicon, preamp/signal film caps with Panasonic, & our favourite Nichicon ‘Muse’ bi-polars for the cathode bypass caps. Signal & power resistors were also upgraded to 1 watt or greater Vishay metal film.
To minimise the noise floor, wiring has been dresssed & re-routed where needed, shielding added to the back of the cabinet & the seneitive input to V1 wire replaced with a grounded coaxial.
Finally we added a little bit of bling with some custom made gold vents to replace stock plastic/black ones & updated the handle & protecter screws to match.
Other included accessories are a cover and dual footswitch controling the Reverb and Tremolo.
For more information you can check out the build blog or feel free to send us an enquiry.