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Traynor Custom Valve YCV20WR Traynor Custom Valve YCV20WR
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Tue October 30, 2012
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$537.50
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8.0
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Description:
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Traynor YCV20WR, 2 Channel, 15 Watt, tube amp with two 6BQ5 and three 12AX7A tubes, cathode bias, A Single 12-inch Celestion G12M speaker, plywood construction, Long-Style Accutronics reverb, with dual springs, DC powered filament supply on preamp, fully regulated solid state power supply, external speaker jack and selectable defeat for disabling the internal speaker, headphone jack, and D.I. Output for connections straight to the sound board.
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Posts: 155
Registered: October 2010
Location: Wyoming
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dhuber
Registered: October 2010
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 155
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Review Date: Fri November 26, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $475.00
| Rating: 8
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This amp sounds really good with a single coiled Tele! Lots of features!
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The Reverb is too sensitive, it worthless past 2. The bright switch is worthless being it introduces a lot of hiss
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I bought this amp new in the spring of 2005. This is the only 15W tube amp I could find with this many features. I think the amp is a real value especially if you pickup a up used one. The resale value on these amps are poor. I think if I could go back in time I'd try a Fender Blues Jr. I've never played thrugh the Blues Jr. but I'm making it a point next time I'm in a music store. When I first bought it I was disappointed and it just sat around in my living room as a display piece and I would use it for practice once in a while. There is really only one basic sound out of this amp. When using the clean channel set the volume to 10 and use the gain to control your volume level. The exception would be practicing at low volume, in which you can bump the volume down and turn the gain up to a desired tone. The overdrive channel can be really harsh. However I’ve learned that you must have the gain set low on the OD channel similar to channel 1. The boost can be used but again the gain must be set low. So you have one basic sound with channel 2 being warmer than channel 1 with these settings. I like this amp with regular single coil wound pickups such as Strat and Tele style guitars. I like Lace Sensor pickups but not through this amp. I don't like humbuckers through this amp either. I think this amp adds mid range so any pickup that is not bright and some what scooped in nature will not sound good in this amp. Being I mostly play Strat's this amp is a good fit for me.
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gndboy
Registered: October 2010
Location: north of Chapman Ranch TX
Posts: 165
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Review Date: Sun January 8, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $600.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Superb build quality and (most) components
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Difficult to change tubes; push switches are feeble
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I tried JJ's in the final and they were too hot for me; NOS GE 6BQ5's and NOS Sylvania preamp tubes worked well with this circuit and the excellent Greenback speaker. This amp is beautiful and exceptionally well built. I had to replace the pushbutton standby switch; Yorkville sent me a replacement overseas at no charge. Changing the power tubes requires partial disassembly of the unit. All that said, this amp sounds really good, and is very flexible tone-wise. Good tubes and a realistic expectation of 15 watts RMS are the keys to satisfaction. This is an excellent-sounding 1X12 combo of high quality. The straight-up clean is darker a bit than a Vox AC15, but less full-on surf than a Fender Hotrod Deluxe (not as loud as a Hotrod Deluxe, either). The reverb is very good. Everything is mounted to a PCB. I needed to replace a failed Stand By switch, which I was able to do without undue hardship. I likely got the one-in-ten thousand bad switch. Otherwise the amp was flawless. I played an American Tele through it, and the amp saw some hard use in Japan (105 volts@50Hz) with no apparent problems sound-wise. The Traynor amps are a bit of a different animal that do not go into our predisposed pigeon holes. By all means they do not sound weird or such; just not the same. I really liked this amp and sold it only because I left Japan and another needed it there. I wish I had kept it.
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dhuber
Registered: October 2010
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 155
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Review Date: Tue October 30, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
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I've tried the Reverend All Tone in this amp and I did not like it. I do like the Reverend All Tone in my Peavey Classic. I wanted to try an Eminence Legend GB128 in the other night. However of my power tubes will not fit in the amp with the GB 128 in the amp. Having the power tubes up front by the speaker is a bad design. I've never seen any amp maker do this.
I've brought this amp home from church because it's developed some intermittent noise issues. I re soldered the whole circuit board. Noise was still there. Replaced the power tubes and the amp is quiet again. I was putting to much trust in the tube tester. The tubes tested fine but started making noise after being on for 5 or 10 minutes. The tubes I took out were Sovtek and I just put JJ's in. They sound fine to my ears.
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