RE: Tweed Twin

[John Kally <jkally3@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ray,
I used  a clone of this amp last week, while my Concert was in the shop 
(a Santa Ana, made by a friend of mine Marc Goebels some years ago).   
Mine has just one rectifier so it is not exactly a clone  of the two 
rectifier  originals (really more like the tweed Super but with two 
12s, 40 watts ).  It does have two alnico Weber speakers.  What I found 
is that it likes my TC electronic preamp a lot  (rolling off the highs, 
pumping up the bass)  and also the Shure 540 as both of these together 
take advantage of the bigger bottom that the 12s can give.  I also went 
with a 12au7 in the first position and a 12at7 in the driver.    It was 
sounding kind of bright previous time I used it with my astatic 
ceramic,, no preamp.  It sounds great with chromatic, too with this 
setup.   I wonder if two ceramics might be a good way to go also, not 
C12N but a pair of C12Q or something like that ( I had a 1950s alnico 
pair, but they needed reconing so I didn't get to try them out).
Don't know if this helps but it's something, I guess.   I am about to 
purge the collection of some of the big amps I have (too embarrassing 
to admit particulars right now, especially with another Bassman on the 
way in) , and this one was on the list to go as it didn't sound too 
good last time, but with these changes I might keep it around.    I do 
need to get rid of some stuff, maybe in a few weeks when school is out.