Fender Relic CS '60 Stratocaster with Victoria Golden Melody

Fender Relic CS '60 Stratocaster with Victoria Golden Melody.

Trying out my new Victoria amp with my Strat, no effects, straight in. Volume on amp 3-4.

Let me know what you think!

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Music

Tags:

• Victoria
• Golden Melody
• Stratocaster
• Strat
• CS
• Relic
• 60s
• Rosewood

[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.

[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.

[BarnesSean]

@BarnesSean tweed twin

[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]

@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.

[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 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.