1952 Fender Champ 5C1 amp, 1968 Fender Stratocaster with Brierley Pickups

[ImageRiver]

So THAT's what a Champ sounds like! Ugh the mojo is just dripping from that rig!!! Awesome tone and playing man!!!!

[superiansuper]

nice playing ^^

[awesomejohnnet]

I am at this moment awaiting the arrival of a custom set of Mick Brierley pickups,

Out of all the custom hand wound boutique single coil demos I heard on the net Micks pickups sounded "very magical" and thats why I chose to Buy them.. I am having a special guitar made just for Micks pickups. The first single coils I will play in years... they just sound "deep and multi colored" punchy and airy at the same time...

[holmes1978]

Very Cool !

[twirlyboggs]

you want a 5y3 rectifier - the most tube "sag"

5AR4=.2 sec

5Y3 = .44 sec !

thats alot!

i'm pretty sure the one in this video has a 5Y3 tube

sweet demo btw

[Roos15]

answer me this. What small fender amp has the most sag.I have a 5f1 ,Its great but no sag, even with an old rca rectifier.I want to have a fender kit built with vintage sag.Probably a princeton. Great playing by the way .I love your amps.

[shoolocomous]

@Roos15 Single ended amps sag intrinsically don't sag (well technically they should, but minimally). So look for one with more than one power tube if that's what you want.

[watcher33]

Nice playing! But why on Earth would you replace the stock pickups in a genuine vintage Strat?

[FenderAmpFreak]

because these pickups sound better than the originals, the originals are safely stored away in case I ever decide to sell the guitar (not likely)

[watcher33]

Fair enough! I guess not every vintage guitar sounds as good as it should.

[FenderAmpFreak]

This is the Champion 600, the only difference is the early ones were brown and tan vinyl and the later ones were tweed.Internally they are identical

[parrotoid]

Wow...that's some heavy handed blues. Cool vid. I like the way you demo all the positions. Can you post another with some easier picking and volume rolled back a bit?

[FenderAmpFreak]

I'm making some more videos soon, Will show more variety in playing next time... thanks

[sleepysam52]

thats a really good tone still need to get 8000$

[FenderAmpFreak]

these are around $1000 in original condition

[den098]

Sounds great, the only 5C1 on youtube. How does it react with the guitar vol rolled off?

[FenderAmpFreak]

it cleans up really nicely, you just use the controls on your guitar for variations.

[FenderAmpFreak]

The subtitles are done on iMovie before uploading

[Danielpoole2006]

that sure does sound good

how do u do that subtitle thing saying the name of the amp etc at the start?