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Originally Posted by Yoni
Hey owners, talk to me about why you like your amp, why you love it? What you play and how it handles pedals. I ask all this because I'm thinking about joining this club and am just really curious.
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Neil Young all over your playlist and you don't have a tweed Deluxe?!!
I don't use pedals. The tweed Deluxe is simple and it yields a wide palette of useful tones. The normal channel yields a nice clean tone that helped me kick my addiction to reverb.
The bright channel keeps my Marshall cravings in check. The distortion tone is its own thing. It's a cathode biased amp so the attack is a lot softer than fixed bias. I sometimes miss the hard attack of a bigger fixed bias amp but I get over it pretty quickly.
A common 5E3 complaint is "flabby farty bass". I have my own simple recipe to tighten up the bass. I use a modern speaker with a ceramic magnet in my Deluxe which goes a long way towards helping the bottom end.
I should qualify that with what I use for guitars. I use Strats or Teles into the normal channel usually using the neck and middle pickup (Nashville Tele or SuperStrat.) I work the volume knob on the guitar. Bridge PU is too bright on the normal channel IMO. Neck and middle are oh so perfect. The bridge PU tends to drop the bottom end out and leave the top. That might work for slithery funk chording but I don't use it much.
Bright channel: I love it with a bridge humbucker. (SuperStrat.) Either way, singles or hums it's a great distortion tone. A hot humbucker pushes the sustain a little better, I have to work at it with single coils.
All of the above are merely my observations. Season to taste. It's just about a miracle that a simple amp with three knobs has that many tones in it. Leo didn't call it "Deluxe" for nothing!