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I love old amps, I own some really nice vintage amps, and I have access to many great old ones. But I don't think they sound any better than a well built modern amp. I have a TopHat Club Deluxe that pretty much can hang with any amp that I've ever played. I'm in the middle of an extended recording project with my band, and we've recorded about 20 songs and not once did I turn on a vintage amp. It's mostly my TopHat, because to me, the TopHat sounds as a good as an amp can sound. The combination of my Telecaster (a partscaster that I built) and that TopHat is the sound that I've always chased, but could never get... till now that is. And my handbuilt (handwired) Marshall style amp that my buddy Ryan built beats the pants of off of any vintage Marshall I've played. It's the only other amp I've used besides my TopHat on the project. I've owned a few vintage Marshalls, but I got rid of them all. I will never sell the one I have now. Most everytime I plug into it I come up with something musical. Also my buddy owns two perfectly maintained tweed 5E3 Deluxes and another pre 5E3 Deluxe and they all sound great and a bit different, yet my Clark Beauford amp to me sounds as good as any of these tweeds, I think we are in a amp renaissance with many builders building some of the best amps ever made. I think there are amp builders out there now that have cracked the code of the originals, but you'll pay through the nose for some of the best ones:) Now I'm not saying there aren't any great vintage amps out there, because I've heard and played through a bunch of great ones. Recently I heard an early 60'd VOX AC10 that was just magic and had a sound I've never heard in a modern amp, but I don't know many of the modern Vox style builders.

I no longer have any vintage guitars but I do have 4 vintage amps (Brown Face Deluxe, Brown Face Vibrolux, Black Face Vibrolux Reverb, and a Black Face Deluxe Reverb). I can't acknowledge that a vintage guitar sounds better through a vintage amp. But I can confirm, that ANY guitar I own sounds better through my vintage amps verse new amps. There is a more 3D quality to the vintage amps. They sound like the sound is coming from 180 degree and don't sound boxy like a lot of newer amps I have played/owned over the years.

I'm pretty sure Brent sold it to him. I almost bought it from Brent. DOH! Just started the video, it was Brent's.

I tried get in touch with Scott some years back. He had been a DJ in West Virginia. Turns out he passed away in 2020. https://www.leavittfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Dowe-Scott-Fauley-II?obId=14987495

Just as Curly Howard says at the end of an episode. "come on in boys"

ah, I see all's well that ends well. I like the small block inlays too.

That was the best sounding Heritage guitar that Josh owned up to that time (and he went through quite a few). It had a headstock repair and he had it refinished. He jammed through it at a PSP and it sounded HUGE and AMAZING. But back then, Josh was on a BUY and THEN PURGE phase. I thought for sure he would keep that one because it exceptional. I am not bashing him, we have all done this. I am just here to witness what a great guitar it is. It has (or least had at the time) higher output pickups but they sounded huge and open. My questions are; Why did Heritage have it for so many years? Did you own it while Heritage had it? How did you get it back and why didn't Heritage fix/set it up for you? Does it still have those great sounding higher output pickups in it? But mostly I was here to say congrats on getting her back!

I guess that deserves a cake too!