Vintage, Modern & Modded amps
Ready to rock out…
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.
Rolling on in…
Our latest purchases are enjoying a cruise from the UK. If there’s anything that tickles your fancy, then let us know. We’re happy reserve the first look (and play) for you.
Early 1970’s Sound City L120 MKIV head made in the Dallas-Arbiter era.
120 watts, with active EQ.
Gone to a better place…
Beautiful amps, gone to beautiful people.
This is our take on one of the top selling amps in the world, the Vox AC15.
A great amp straight out of the box, it comes in a hefty plywood cabinet, a Celestion Greenback speaker & internally a quality double sided PCB.
To improve on this, 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 & also adding the ability to switch between the vintage & modern tonestack via a push-pull ‘Top-Boost’ volume control.
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 and component upgrade, we upgraded the power filtering capacitors to Nichicon & in the preamp with Panasonic film caps and Nichicon ‘Muse’ bi-polars for the cathode bypass caps. Signal & power resistors we’re 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 wiring from the input to V1 covered with a grounded mesh.
Finally we added a little bit of bling with some custom made gold metal vents to replace stock plastic/black ones & updated the handle & protecter screws to match.
The T&T x Vox AC15 comes with the stock Celestion Greenback, however we did get our hands on a mint condition Vox/Celestion Alnico Blue speaker, which is available to upgrade with.
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.