Brian Plays a Fender Strat and a '57 Tweed Twin

[1976cyclist]

Brian, I purchased my 57 Twin RI 6 years ago & haven't even considered ever playing through anything else. Enjoyed your soulful playing man!!

[s1914]

I traded in an R9 for one of these amps and have not regretted it one bit. Fantastic amp. Nice playing btw. Good demo.

[holmes1978]

Excellent Amp great playing !!!

[TubeDepotTV]

@holmes1978 - Brian greatly thanks you for the kind words.

[UKToneKing]

That is a very sweet tone U got going on their mate, it has that bassman type chime with that sweet breakup the 57s are famous for, I love that kind of tone at the moment, I was more of a deluxe reverb type of guy, clean spank, but now I am drifting into that chime with plenty of grit, I have a silverface bassman 100, which has lot's & lot's of chime & also plenty of mids, and when I get it up to 6, it breaks up in that compressed way, the best way IMO, I am loving it at the moment,

[UKToneKing]

@UKToneKing I got rid of my HRDx3, it was just not cutting it tone wise, it sounded OK at best, overdrive sucked big time, at least this SF bassman 100 has 2 very good working channels, the bass channel I am digging at moment, as it is thicker sounding, breaks up faster to, I think U get what U pay for, in the UK fender gear is more pricey, due to being usa made, which is a little bit of a con, but vox & marshall are cheaper here, not either of them 2 amps type of guy tho, fender best cleans

[UKToneKing]

@UKToneKing I think your playing is just great buy the way

[UKToneHunter]

8.000 dollars for a fcking tube, which numpty would pay that, their are newer better tubes for 100 dollars, why do people think they stopped making them, because they were so good, I don't think so, because they were unreliable and flimsy at best, it's just snobbery plain and simple

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[AeolianSeventh]

@UKToneHunter No modern production tube company measures up to the old production, because there's no market competition keeping them honest. For proof, look at "tube matching." In the 1950s, if you got a pair of 6V6s, of course they were matched, because every tube was made to the same standard. Now even the tube companies admit how wildly inconsistent their products are. That said, what idiot would pay $100 for one tube?

[UKToneHunter]

@AeolianSeventh thats all well and good, lots of idiots like to miss mash their tubes anyway, so having some variety is all good, come on you do not seriously be leave a tube is worth 8.000, and your argument is they would be identical, well tube.com only had one of the 8.000 tube I looked at, not going to be that identical is it.

[AeolianSeventh]

@UKToneHunter I'm sorry, I didn't see your username and thought you meant eight dollars and zero cents and had put an extra zero. No tube is worth 8000 dollars unless the internal vacuum has been filled with the blood of Jesus. Still, for a reasonable price, I'd always, always rather have NOS tubes than new--besides the manufacturing consistency they were held to higher standards (f'rinstance old EL34s could be used with 900v on the plate, new ones might overheat with 600) and so on.

[TubeDepotTV]

@UKToneHunter - there are many tubes that sell for $8,000 USD ... but those are usually the larger transmitter tubes. There are many audio tubes that sell for $1,000 USD. However, those prices reflect the rarity of the tube more than the quality of the sound.

[luit13]

What's with the head?

[holmes1978]

SWEET !

[LukaszKomala]

Beautiful tone...

[TubeDepotTV]

@LukaszKomala - A good strat through a good tweed amp is a beautiful tone indeed. 

[holmes1978]

EXCELLENT !!!!!

[davec3487]

I agree, out of tune.

[TubeDepotTV]

@davec3487 - This is Rob - my bust regarding the tuning. We wanted to test the amp so I just pulled a guitar from stock and handed it to Brian without first setting it up. Before we sell a guitar, I usually set the intonation and the action but got in a hurry here. That guitar he is playing is now very well set up and plays like a dream. We all want to take it home.

[holmes1978]

Great playing great equipment !

[holmes1978]

Excellent !!!

[TubeDepotTV]

@holmes1978 - we (the employees of tube depot) go and see Brian play whenever we can.  He is incredible live!

[ArielsSmartyPants]

You fellows have some real nice quality videos, good image and sound, please consider doing complete reviews on some of the amps and guitars. :)

[roaringwaterbay]

so the amp was made in 1957?

[TubeDepotTV]

This is one of Fender's recent vintage series amps. This one is modeled after a 1957 tweed twin.

[jayscott49]

nice, but out of tune?

[TubeDepotTV]

This is Rob, my bust ... I pulled the guitar out of the box, tuned it up and handed it to Brian to play. Sadly, I didn't check the intonation which could have used a little adjustment. But other than the intonation, the performance is quite good which is what we captured here.

[777jordan]

Great tone!

[TubeDepotTV]

Brian is a great player and the amp and the guitar just cement everything together.