New (old) amp
Monday December 11, 2006 – 12:44 pm
Herschel got me the nicest early Christmas present! A new (old) amp. I love it. It’s a ~1975 silverface Princeton Reverb, modded up somewhat… it’s got a 12" speaker instead of 10", and they got rid of the vibrato tube, so the speed and intensity knobs now control presence and master volume instead. It sounds sooo tasty with my 335… all I have to do is turn every single knob up to 10 except the last one, master volume. I plug in and start to play and the thing just jams, like it wants to jump up and hug me! I think it makes you play a lot better when the amp isn’t just sitting there staring at you, looking bored. My old amp (which I still have) is like that, just too much amp for me I guess. Too loud and too many knobs, I can never get the same sound twice. The Princeton gives me just 2 or 3 great sounds that are super easy for me to find… you got the clean sound, the reverbed one, the chimey one with presence turned up, the slightly dirty overdriven one. Also it’s about 3/4 or 4/5 the size of the Hotrod, so it’s a whole lot lighter and easier for me to carry.
