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August 9th, 2007, 08:10 PM
Ritchie Fliegler explains Eric Clapton's Tweed Twin:
RF: ...Clapton’s
amp was modified, like that means better than the way it was.
That thing was a mess. The transformer set is like from a
1978 Super Twin, with two CTS speakers out of a 100 watt
Bassman – a '73-74 type of thing. That was it. That’s
Clapton’s amp. Clapton loves that amp. It’s one of those
things that you’ll hear, “Hey,
Clapton’s amp was modified.”I
guarantee you that if someone
came to me and said, “Hey man,
I want you to modify my amp,”
and I say, “Great, I’ll put in this
1978 Super Twin transformer set
and two speakers from this 100
watt silverface Bassman,”that’s
not what they’re talking about.
They want the full snake oil
treatment. So when he wanted a spare for it because he
absolutely loved the sound of that amp, we made him another
one exactly like it. We found a used Super Twin and we took
the transformer set out of it. We bought a 100-watt Bassman
for $50 from someone who was about to throw it in the
garbage. We cleaned the caps up and threw it in there and he
said, “Yeah, that’s it – that’s great!”and we would all kind of
laugh and send it on its merry way.
TQR: I was told by somebody that particular ampli-
fier was a mid '50s Twin which had two rectifier
tubes and two 6L6’s, and the two rectifier tubes
were taken out of the socketry wiring and four
6L6’s were put in.
RF: That certainly sounds legit. I’ll buy that, but I don’t remem-
ber.
RF: ...Clapton’s
amp was modified, like that means better than the way it was.
That thing was a mess. The transformer set is like from a
1978 Super Twin, with two CTS speakers out of a 100 watt
Bassman – a '73-74 type of thing. That was it. That’s
Clapton’s amp. Clapton loves that amp. It’s one of those
things that you’ll hear, “Hey,
Clapton’s amp was modified.”I
guarantee you that if someone
came to me and said, “Hey man,
I want you to modify my amp,”
and I say, “Great, I’ll put in this
1978 Super Twin transformer set
and two speakers from this 100
watt silverface Bassman,”that’s
not what they’re talking about.
They want the full snake oil
treatment. So when he wanted a spare for it because he
absolutely loved the sound of that amp, we made him another
one exactly like it. We found a used Super Twin and we took
the transformer set out of it. We bought a 100-watt Bassman
for $50 from someone who was about to throw it in the
garbage. We cleaned the caps up and threw it in there and he
said, “Yeah, that’s it – that’s great!”and we would all kind of
laugh and send it on its merry way.
TQR: I was told by somebody that particular ampli-
fier was a mid '50s Twin which had two rectifier
tubes and two 6L6’s, and the two rectifier tubes
were taken out of the socketry wiring and four
6L6’s were put in.
RF: That certainly sounds legit. I’ll buy that, but I don’t remem-
ber.