Fender Relic CS '60 Stratocaster with Victoria Golden Melody

[124slowhand]

Axis blackface twins also.

[noort56]

I own this exact amp now and can honestly say that it sounds way much better than on the Youtube. It`s the first amp that sounds best with tele`s. I also play it with strats and Gretsches. The sound with a DeArmond Starfire ( with the 2K`s ) is amazing.

[124slowhand]

This vic sounds nothing like a tweed twin. and none of the vics sound as good as the real thing counterparts. I have a 59 deluxe, none of the reissues, vics, richter, mission amps, none come close, i have had them all. My steel player owns a high power tweed twin..wow. the closest i have heard are the grammatico and the kendrick.

[ArjanLensen]

@124slowhand None the less it's a great sounding amp without the troubles of a vintage. I've owned them all too and this simply is a great amp. And i think it has common ground with the high power tweed twin. Peter van Weelden has built me the entire fender tweed range, i.ve played some vintage ones too and i think Victoria amps are the bomb for gigging amps.

[philbio66]

get you boney ass off that beautiful amp!

[gobeco]

I have this amp too. I don´t know if it´s the best but all guitars sound excellent like no one with this amp....and what a wonderful tremolo!!!!!!. Great,great amp!!!. I RECOMEND IT FOR ALL VINTAGE SOUNDS!!!!!

[motokev]

i have this amp, best sounding amp i've ever herd.

[Tommygrules]

Hey thats my sound !...check out Los Skeletone blues clips to see my Victoria G M with 62 Strat live !....I had a Vox ac30 and a Twin and liked certain things about them but felt a bit unsatisfied. I asked Mark B and he said get a Golden Melody. I did and its the best ever..... check it !

[gobeco]

@Tommygrules Yeah, I got a AC30 Heritage too for dirt sounds but for clean this amp is BETTER.

[penguindredg]

That sounds incredible!

[fartsallot]

Just got mine...Best Amp I ever owned...that's no joke.,

[iLik3c0o0ki3s]

nice strat!how much was the amp and were did you get it i cant find it in my town : (

[GunmetalG]

That is a great combo! btw is that John Mayer? If it is which song was it? Also nice phrasing. Keep Rockin'! :]

[ArjanLensen]

@GunmetalG Thanks! It's not a particular song, just a common cord progression i suppose..

[j0hn318]

@ArjanLensen the slow part sounded like sara smile by hall and oates

[BarnesSean]

@ArjanLensen What does it sound like strait through the amp when turned up ? It says on the Victoria site, Fillmore Gypsie sound. Is that true, like Jimi's band of gypsies ? Thanks. Maybe you never got a chance to crank it, it would be so loud.

[ArjanLensen]

@BarnesSean Well it ain;t no Big ass Marshall but it has got a big voice. Sound more like a tweed bassman with 12's and good sized transformers... Or is that Marshall?...LOL. I would say it's more of a fendery sound than a marshall sound.

[BarnesSean]

@ArjanLensen Thanks That's what I assumed. Although the Band of Gypsie's stuff is not the characteristic Marshall tone. It seems to me like the mids are scooped a bit and the speakers are really efficient. I think the rumors about the KT-88's in Jimi's plexi for the Fillmore newyears shows is not unbelievable at all. The right up on the Victoria website about Filmore Gypsie kind of got me a little excited because I think the tremolo effect built into the Golden Melody is rather univibe like.

[ArjanLensen]

@BarnesSean It is possible that hendrix payed his super 100's there. That's one of the first 100 amps marshall made. A somewhat weaker power supply and KT66's. A rather JTM sound. That would be the same circuit the golden melody is built upon. I know that Jimi played those amps on Monterey festival. Huge fat sound...

[BarnesSean]

@ArjanLensen Yes, Monterey was JTM45/100 watt from 1966 with KT-66's and 20 watt Celestion's with Pulsonic lead cones. Axis was Heavy magnet 20's with lead cones. Lots of later and live stuff was EL34 I think and 67 69 60 Marshall plexi's not JTM's with 25's and 30's with various magnets. I think some of the band of Gypsies stuff like the FIllmore and Berkelely specifically were plexi's with KT88/6550 tubes and high efficiency speakers like JBL's.

[BarnesSean]

@ArjanLensen I bet you can get a similar sound with the 6L6's and univibe-ish tremolo of the Golden Melody. KT88's are similar to 6L6 tubes. It says on the Victoria site Fillmore Gypsie like tones. I wonder how true that is. Golden melody is a Tweed Bassman circuit in a high powered tweed tweed cab with British (Celestion) sounding speakers with a Blackface reverb and a tan tremolo. The JTM 45 was originally a tweed Bassman circuit with British components. Minus the speakers GM is Fender.

[BarnesSean]

@BarnesSean tweed twin

[timmonsisbest]

You're thinking of Another Kind Of Green.

[Stratmaster17]

nice guitar brother true show of how amazing strat tone is

[TeaDjus]

Hey Arjan,

klinkt te gek!!

[hprofijt]

klinkt goed, zeg ik toch oude liefde roest niet

[eflatpanada]

Shit hot sounding amp/guitar.Killer tone.

[stekks]

Neck pickup sounds great!