Fender® ’57 Twin Amp™ Tweed

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This gorgeous all-tube combo amp is completely hand-wired using premium components. This unit effectively reproduces the 1955-57 edition's low-powered 5E8A circuit, which produces 40W into a pair of 12" Alnico-magnet speakers. Its harmonically rich, clean tones are great for authentic rock, blues, and country playing; when cranked up, the Twin-Amp®'s fat, sophisticated distortion tone works wonderfully in many modern musical situations.

The '57 Twin-Amp® gets its power from a pair of USA-made GT6L6-GE output tubes. The power supply includes Fender®'s rarely-seen '50s dual rectifier arrangement, which uses 2 - 5U4 rectifier tubes. With this design, power amp compression, or sag, is more subtle than it is in many Fender Tweed designs. The preamp contains 4 high-gain 12AX7 tubes, 3 of which may be substituted with 12AY7s for the original '50s low-gain sound, if desired. There's also an internal bias pot that allows easy substitution of various 6L6 tube types.

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Fender® ’57 Twin Amp™ Tweed