Tweed Overdrive Special

[DCbluez]

Hey guys,

I recently built up a Tweed Overdrive Special and with great results. Did it a little differently and used 6V6s since I already had the mags and tubes for doing it this way.

This is a crunch monster for sure. Really like the control and the switching from clean to overdrive. Tone is great on this baby and getting better as I adjust to my taste etc.

I have it sitting on a 4X10 cab with 4 Celestion G10 40s, nothing real special but man it sure cranks, even with 2 year old 6V6 tubes which are my test tubes. Will get a matched pair of JJ 6V6S tubes which I always use on mt Tweed Deluxe builds and will give some additional clean headroom.

Thanks Tubenit

[tubenit]

Thank you for sharing your success!  Glad you like the amp.

IF you have any pictures of the amp in the cabinet and/or the inside of the chassis ........... I'd love to see them?

And soundclips ......... IF you have a way to do them.

With respect, Tubenit

[darkbluemurder]

Congrats!


I will be attempting my TOS build shortly. The turret board from Hoffmann arrived last week. I just need to get the chassis work finished.


I plan to build mine with 4 6V6s.


Cheers Stephan

[DCbluez]

Hey,

4 6V6s would be very substantial. Its a good idea depending on how loud you wanta be, haha. This thing cranks as is with 2 6V6s. I actually added a 22 ohm resistor to the cathode bias point, total 412 ohm to get a cleaner clean tone. I am running 394v buss on this amp. They were running a little too fat before. Preamp gets things fat enough as is and especially with the fat pot. Can run the clean channel with a Strat and simply turn up the fat control and it really gets close to an SRV tone using a Chorus and no overdrive pedal.

I also use a TS808 and it really likes the tone. I added a low input jack and it helps using it at home and nice fat tone.

I like the JJs but sold the amps that had them and need to get another pair of 6V6S JJs asap before doing anymore tweaks to this amp. I just wired up the effects loop today and it works very well. Use a Boss chorus there and tone was very good and no overtones from the effects etc. Will try a delay/reverb pedal tomorrow thru effects loop.

I would guess you would get a lot more clean headroom out of the quad 6V6 arrangement.

Cheers

[DCbluez]

Thank you for sharing your success!  Glad you like the amp.

IF you have any pictures of the amp in the cabinet and/or the inside of the chassis ........... I'd love to see them?

And soundclips ......... IF you have a way to do them.

With respect, Tubenit

[DCbluez]

I dont have it in the cab yet. Have not decided whether a combo or head yet.

I will try and get you some pics. I will probably take the chassis to the pub and use it at a gig. The people there come up and take pics when I do this and thinks its cool to build your amps. They sound better at the clubs also, haha.