Best amp for country

[cbass]

Now thats country

[Teleguy61]

Now thats country

Thank you man.
Burton is god, Don Rich and Roy Nichols are Crown Princes,
Roy Buchanan is the Dark Lord, Danny Gatton is right there, Albert Lee is the second coming, and Brad Paisley is coming on strong.

[Colossal]

Now thats country

Thank you man.
Burton is god, Don Rich and Roy Nichols are Crown Princes,
Roy Buchanan is the Dark Lord, Danny Gatton is right there, Albert Lee is the second coming, and Brad Paisley is coming on strong.

Very cool clip!

[Teleguy61]

Thank a lot guys.
Here's a clip from about a year ago, bunch of old friends playing together.
I'm in around 2:50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erCqQdqIdJk

[Colossal]

Thank a lot guys.
Here's a clip from about a year ago, bunch of old friends playing together.
I'm in around 2:50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erCqQdqIdJk

I see what looks like a D-Lite variant and a Swart AST!

[Teleguy61]

I'm playing through my Ceriatone HRM 100 with 68 Twin iron, Dlator and TC
M300 into two TL806 cabs with EVM 12s.
Works good.
The Swart belongs to another player who got up later.
He's the guy standing behind the stage in this clip. Great guy, great player.

[rdjones]

I've been in Nashville almost 25 years and still, admittedly, know precious little about Country Music.

Having said that, I think you have to break down "Country" into the traditional and the modern styles.
Traditional would be the majority of acoustic (1) styles and the original electric guitar Nashville and Bakersfield sounds.
Modern being what's generally called "Modern Country" but also to include Alt-Country, Country Rock, RockABilly and their derivatives.

To my ear, a Deluxe Reverb nails the traditional sound with a Princeton Reverb very close behind for recording purposes and the larger Pro or Twin Reverbs for live use.

For modern rock based styles pretty much anything goes.

rd

(1) acoustic - defined as the natural sound of an unamplified instrument being picked up by a microphone (not a piezo contact transducer)

[renshen1957]

If you were gonna build yerself an amp or two for the Tele twang, what would you choose?Some players prefer the EL84-based sound, some the Fender-based sound.

EL84s
Vox - AC15 / AC30
Trainwreck - Rocket / Liverpool
Dr. Z - ZWreck / Stangray / Prescription ES /
Bruno - UG30
???

Fender Sound
Champ
Princeton
Blackface Deluxe Reverb
Blackface Twin
???

Which amp(s), speaker cab(s), and speaker(s) combinations do you prefer for the ultimate Tele country tone? Stereo setups, compressors, overdrive/boost, and delays welcome!

Hi Classic Country,

The Standel tube amps, the company that Leo Fender "borrowed" the most ideas from would be the amp if you were into Classic Country. Finding a schematic of those early tube amps would be a challenge.

Although not all of the Standel players were Tele players, the Amp was used to record quite a few artists including Gretsch endorser Chet Atkins.

(Not the Standel SS amps that Wes Montgomery played)

Honorable mentions, Tweed Bassman with a 12AY7 tube in V1 and Fender Twin with JBLs.

Modern Country,

The Matchless Clubman amp with a 6SH7 (not a typo) pentode preamp tube and substituting KT77 for the EL34s. The trick is to find a NOS low hum, non micro-phonic 6SH7. Mike Morse of the Roosters played some fine gigs in ND and Minnesota on that set up with a Spruce Hill T-Style guitar.

A frequently purchased and used amp for recording amongst a number of Nashville artists is the Vox AC-30.

Best Regards,

Steve

[Matt D]

There has been quite a bit of discussion on the Steel Guitar Forum about the Little Walter amps now favored by a number for Nashville A-listers including Paul Franklin and Vince Gill.

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... sc&start=0