Amp Demo Lazy J20 in brown Tolex with wicker grill cloth

This is Jesse Hoff's vision of the venerable Fender tweed Deluxe with the 5E3 circuit.

It's a 2 channel amplifier, normally featuring a pair of 6V6 valves in push pull and a single 12AY7 double triode with valve rectifier and 12AX7 phase invertor. The Lazy J20 however has a pair of 6L6GC power valves and a GZ34 rectifier and features a plate voltage limiter (VAC control) and a reverb tank add-on plus Celestion alnico blue speaker.

Quite unusually, it is covered with brownface era Tolex and a has a nice wicker grill cloth. You usually see them fitted with the traditional Fender tweed Tolex and the standard grill cloth, so this one is nice!

It came with a footswitch to turn the reverb on and off and has a control for the reverb. It will modify whatever setting you have on the wee unit fitted inside. I have it set half way there, so the full extension of the external unit is half reverb.

The VAC control works really well, reducing the available output by lowering the plate voltage of the output section but I'm using the Tone King Ironman II mini here as I love it!

So the amp is running at full power!

2 channels which have a weird relationship and even without jumpering the channels, you can modify whichever channel you are plugged into by altering the setting of the unused channel. It has a single tone control which is very useable and refreshingly simple.

I have never owned a tweed circuit amp and am blown away by Jesse's implementation of this classic Fender amp!

I play, in order, a Gibson Les Paul Junior, a Les Paul and lastly an SC Relics T-style guitar, showing the sounds you can get with 3 different types of pickups. The reverb is on a touch and I change the volume on the guitar only; not touching the amp at all for the whole demo.

What a sound!

00:00 Gibson CS Les Paul Junior 1958. P90 pickup. Various guitar volumes.
07:24 Gibson CS Les Paul 1957 re-issue. Custombuckers. Various guitar volumes.
12:27 Bass cut switch employed
14:43 SC Relics T-style. Monty's '53 Tele pickups. Various guitar volumes.

Recorded with Shure SM57 and Rode NT1-A into a Presonus Studio68C and Studio One. No processing or plugins and then edited in Vegas Pro.

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