FS: Fender Custom Shop Hand Wired Clapton EC Twinolux DROP!

Gassage · February 2015

Yup, the baby is for sale.

FOR SALE: Fender point to point wired CUSTOM SHOP EC Twinolux 40w with trem and power scaling. AMAZING Amp. £1250 collected Kew. Also would consider a Cornish TES Tape Echo sim with warble controls.

POWER SCALING- unique- it allows 40w, 10w 2 speakers or 10w one speaker- amazing attenuation and can use the amp anywhere- bedroom levels to the Albert Hall.

UTTERLY A1 CONDITION. NEVER GIGGED. UNMARKED.

The blurb.....Fender is pleased to introduce the first-ever amp built to Eric Clapton's personal specifications by FENDER® - the Fender EC Twinolux combo amplifier. The EC Twinolux is a sweet variation of the classic tweed '57 Twin Amp™, with a ton of unique twists. You get hand-wired all-tube ciruitry in a single-channel design, and dual Weber-designed Eminence-built 12" speakers. Four 12AX7 preamp tubes supercharge your signal, with two 6L6GE tubes in the power amp section. You even get the '50s era tremolo design, which has a more distinct throbbing pulse than later Fender designs. That's a serious recipe for classic tone.

ToneControl · February 2015

very nice

I'd go for this but I have a Victoria tweed twin

I'd assume your sounds at least as nice. Is it the bias trem that varies the pitch a little?

Gassage · February 2015

Tube Bias Trem- yeah

What's all the fuss about this 'Bias Tremolo' on the new Fender Eric Clapton EC Twinolux, EC Tremolux and EC Vibro Champ Amps? And what does 'Bias Tremolo actually mean? Keep reading to find out why we're so excited about it

In the late 1950s Fender were hand making some of the best Guitars and Amps in the world: In particular the very 1957 amps the new Fender Eric Clapton EC Twinolux, EC Tremolux and EC Vibro Champ circuits are based on. Now while Leo Fender was an undisputed genius inventor and designed he wasn't short of a few quirks: on of the most enduring was that he insisted that the whammy bar on his newly designed Stratocaster Electric Guitar should be called a 'tremolo' unit and the output tube-bias tremolo section on his line of tweed amplifiers should be called the 'vibrato' section. Where the mix-up occurred we'll never know but 50 years down the line we're still calling whammy bars tremolo units and finally we're welcoming back the original 'vibrato' circuit too.

Around the early 1960s the fabled output tube-bias 'vibrato' started to disappear in favour the more electronic tremelo circuits used in pedals and in amps today. The difference is in how 'organic' the tone is. Mark Hammer of diystompboxes.com explains the difference like this: 'Stompbox tremolo can sound like someone doing deep-knee bends or squats: up-and-down-and-up-and-down. It's not uninteresting, but if you've played tube bias tremolo, that method sounds like someone stretching and collapsing, instead of simply standing up and sitting down.' That's to say the sound is a little less sterile and predictable and that's exactly what has endeared players like Eric Clapton who insisted the new Fender EC Twinolux, EC Tremolux and EC Vibro Champ feature the original output tube bias 'Vibrato' tremolo circuits.

So if you're in the market for an amp with the highly sought after 1950s Tweed tone with authentic tube bias Tremolo that's hand made and wired in the USA there's only one place to look: The new Fender Eric Clapton Tube Amps.

ToneControl · February 2015

I never liked tremolo until I heard my tube-bias Tremolux.

It's quite intoxicating

I bought the Strymon flint to bring that to my other amps, but it doesn't get all the way there

Gassage · February 2015

As Inspector Clueso would say, BEUUUURRRMP.

Gassage · March 2015

Dropped to 1250- this is a wonderful thing

Namaqua · March 2015

If i didn't have a loaded Lazy J, I would have it. Nice amps.

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