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Can these pedals do the job of the most revered amps ever?

Welcome to the show! Looking back through our old videos, it’s shocking to find that we’ve not done a Tweed Pedals show yet! So here’s the first one, largely in response to Origin releasing the Deluxe 55 and Reeves Electro’s new Leo Twelve.

What is a Tweed amp? Well as far as pedal emulations are concerned, it’s usually a mid/late-1950s Fender Deluxe or Bassman that wears that oh-so evocative light brown/yellow tweed jacket, hence the name. Outside of that we have the expected Princetons, Supers, Twins and so on that collectively make up THE most important guitar amps of all time, ever.

As always, getting an amp sound from a pedal is literally impossible, so instead what we’re looking for is a flavour of the beast when used with another amp.

Clearly there are loads more tweed-inspired pedals out there – no doubt the comments section will reflect that.

Enjoy the show…

Oh, and if you’re confused by the Bass Breaker that looks like a Bassman… It’s a Fender Custom Shop amp from 2002. It’s literally a ’59 Bassman circuit into 2 x Celestion Vintage 30 speakers. Nothing to do with the later Bassbreaker series.

Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
• Sonic Research Turbo Tuner ST-200
• Z Vex ’59 Sound
• Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer
• Greer Amps Tomahawk Deluxe Drive
• Reeves Electro Leo Twelve
• Origin Effects Deluxe 55
• Dan Drive Tweedy 5E8-A
• Ibanez Mini Analog Delay
• Keeley Zoma Reverb And Tremolo
• TheGigRig G3

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Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing
1:23 What are we doing today?
2:23 What do we mean by Tweed?
3:23 Today’s amps
4:56 Lazy J 20 sounds
7:00 New ones sound like old ones?
7:40 Fender Bass Breaker sounds
11:30 A Deluxe Reverb?!
12:15 What?! A Tube Screamer?!
13:18 ’59 Sound & Tube Screamer
14:17 TS9-Deluxe and Lazy J comparison
16:09 ZVEX ’59 Sound
20:00 Amp & pedal working together
20:56 Greer Tomahawk Deluxe
24:45 Reeves Electro Leo Twelve
31:55 Origin Deluxe 55
36:10 Quick TS9 & Deluxe 55 comparison
38:00 Dan Drive Tweedy 5E8-A
41:51 ’59 Sound, Tweedy & Deluxe 55
43:48 General thoughts so far
45:05 All of them with Strat
47:21 All of them with Les Paul (SG) Jr
49:00 All on!
49:55 What’s your favourite?

Guitars in today’s show
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnQ4OIJFTgY&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop Murphy Aged - no video yet:
• Fender Custom Shop ’62 Stratocaster Relic - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMHUQeHGRQ&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
• 1961 Gibson Les Paul Jr - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CORolxVmeY&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow

Amps in today’s show
• Fender Custom Shop Bass Breaker 212 with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers
• Lazy J 20 with Fane A60 speaker

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