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Hard to come up with a title, but that's about what it is.
So here's the skinny on this particular build.
The Fender 75 is the last of the handwired builds from FMIC.
Whether Paul Rivera had something to do with it or not is kind of unclear.
But Fender was well aware they were on a steep slide at the time with Mesa and Marshall capturing the market with their high gain amps.
So they took the Twin, an already bastardized model that had found itself in ultralinear territory pushing far too much voltage and suffering by choking the resulting noise issues by adding myriads of circuitry just to tame their own errors.
Any Tech who has run into the late seventies Fenders should know what I mean.
Great, classic disco or chickin picken cleans are there, but to drive an amp like that into classic rock required pedals and mods.
Fender had simply lost its way!
In the "75" they added overdrive but on the wrong platform and these amps have a matching reputation along with the resale value.
So the owner enlisted me to do what I could.
He liked the cleans, but really wanted the Soldano inspired Cygnus sound for the drive side.
I told him I could not simply mod it...it all had to go.
So what we have is a very Tweed Pro-Amp clean side, with channel switching to my own Cygnus-30 on #2.
I enlisted help from a master pedal manufacturer to keep it simple (he saw it and volunteered) for channel switching.
Made space, there is room for further tweaking to maybe get reverb or effects loop in but I will just build the basic idea and see what works.
So here's the skinny on this particular build.
The Fender 75 is the last of the handwired builds from FMIC.
Whether Paul Rivera had something to do with it or not is kind of unclear.
But Fender was well aware they were on a steep slide at the time with Mesa and Marshall capturing the market with their high gain amps.
So they took the Twin, an already bastardized model that had found itself in ultralinear territory pushing far too much voltage and suffering by choking the resulting noise issues by adding myriads of circuitry just to tame their own errors.
Any Tech who has run into the late seventies Fenders should know what I mean.
Great, classic disco or chickin picken cleans are there, but to drive an amp like that into classic rock required pedals and mods.
Fender had simply lost its way!
In the "75" they added overdrive but on the wrong platform and these amps have a matching reputation along with the resale value.
So the owner enlisted me to do what I could.
He liked the cleans, but really wanted the Soldano inspired Cygnus sound for the drive side.
I told him I could not simply mod it...it all had to go.
So what we have is a very Tweed Pro-Amp clean side, with channel switching to my own Cygnus-30 on #2.
I enlisted help from a master pedal manufacturer to keep it simple (he saw it and volunteered) for channel switching.
Made space, there is room for further tweaking to maybe get reverb or effects loop in but I will just build the basic idea and see what works.
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