New Amp, New Sound, New Recording

After many years my vintage clean amp sound from my Peavey Classic has now been dumped. It’s been a great work horse but was no longer giving me the sounds I wanted for how I’m playing currently. After talking to my trusty amp tech Trev at TipTon amps he suggested  look at the Fender Blues Deluxe range.

Fender amps have never really been one of my favourite amps partly down to an old school teacher I had who had a Fender amp, and his tone was awful, it was like a more trebble based Hank Marvin sound – yes, it wasn’t good. The sound suited him and his playing but it still haunts me to this day. Based on Trev’s advice I went to my local music shop and tried the Fender HotRod Deluxe amp, and the Fender Blues Deluxe amp, I was lucky as they had both in. I liked both, but prefered the Blues Deluxe amp, it had a better gain channel and I prefered the clean channels sound, it seemed warmer. I’m sure you’re aware that guitar amp prices are through the roof now thanks to our weak pound, so I decided to hit the second hand market. I found one for a good price local to me, when I turned up to pay for it the amp was battered to hell and had a few obvious faults and potentially a few less obvious faults. I lowered the price down to what was almost robbery due to the condition of the amp but it still sounded good. I took it to my amp tech at Tipton Amps who find out there was more problems than the obvious battering. After some solid repair work, the amp is now back in my hands sounding better than ever. Expect some new recodings, I’m already working on a sound that this amp is perfect for.