Like all vintage spec non master volume amps, the more you turn up the volume, the more tube overdrive you get. Experiment with turning the amp up and lowering your guitar volume to get clean tones, then you can turn use your guitar volume to get different shades of overdrive. This amp is best used by utilizing the volume and tone knobs on your guitar a lot.
The drive toggle switch will give you more overdrive, brightness and touch sensitivity. You can use it to get more gain or treble at lower volume settings and give you even more gain at higher volumes. This switch will get you into Mucho tube distortion with the volume knob up between 8-12.
The “Standard Spec” position is with the toggle switch flipped over toward the volume knob. The middle setting is the “No NFB” position that defeats the Negative Feedback (NFB) to bring in more gain and brightness. The “High Gain” position is with the switch flipped over toward the pilot lite. This position adds a small capacitor to the cathode for even more gain and brightness.
Input 1 is the high sensitivity input and Input 2 is the low sensitivity input. Volume goes to 12!!!
You can try a 12ay7 or 5751 preamp tube for more clean headroom.
Features:
Cabinet made with solid pine with handmade ¼" finger joints. The baffle board and backpanels are 100% void-free Baltic birch ply. Original style tweed with amber tinted color.
Weber 8” Alnico speaker. Classictone output transformer built exactly like the originals. Classictone reversed engineered this by taking apart and dissecting an original champ transformer. Weber power transformer.
Amp is wired point to point with original style fiberboard eyelet circuit board and cloth covered wire for a traditional look. NOS carbon comp resistors are used in important tonal positions and metal film and carbon film resistors in other circuit positions for noise reduction and reliability. Mallory signal capacitors.
Comes with NOS Sylvania or GE 6V6 power tube, NOS 5E3 rectifier tube and new production TungSol reissue 12ax7.
El Charro 999.00 + shipping
El Charro
The Texwest El Charro is a customized spec of the traditional 5F1 Narrow Panel Tweed Champ amplifier. El Charro is intended to pay full tribute to this classic design while making a few subtle enhancements. It is built with a slightly larger cabinet than the original 5F1 to get a more open bass response and avoid the small boxy sound of the original. A 3 position drive switch is added to both brighten up the amp and add more gain, while preserving the original 5F1 circuit in its “standard spec” position.
Contact Wes Howard for more details
weshoward@gmail.com 217-417-2080