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So I have four real vintage (two of them were severely reliced by me) guitars from 1958 to 71. I have one vintage amp left. So is it just me or do these old guitars just sound better through a really old amp than they do through a copy of a really old amp? Don't get me wrong....I love my Heritage guitars and other guitars from the late 70s and into the 80s. They all sound damn good through an old amp. However, when old amps meet old guitars, there is something magical that happens. My friend has a 50s deluxe and a super. I get the same experience. Perhaps it is confimation bias or something like that. But damn! This is how the guitar and amp combo is meant to sound I believe. It could be that as a kid that is what I heard. And when the amp heats up, there is a certain smell it has that also goes with the sound. I once had a 1996 Prosonic that heated up and had a certain tube-y/tolex smell and sounded really old when it was in the non-gain mode.Somehow my newer amps just miss that certain something. I will not take an old amp on the road for obvious reasons but at least I can get the experience in my studio. This makes me wish I had an old Marshall or Vox....

That outro fuzz solo is wonderfully trashy tonewise!

Last year I had a choice of a 50% off relic'd CC or an H-150 for the same price. I like both of them but chose the Relic'd CC. it's kind of cool to have a new guitar that I don't have to worry bout dinging up.

Your collection is a good start! Welcome!

I think he was using Heritage Custom Shop 225s......

That's pretty cool. Like you, I love tube amps. I still play through them for the most part. However, I have done a couple of gigs on my Quad Cortex run through a Line 6 Powercab +. I hate to admit it but it is pretty damn good. While playing through tubes mostly, I have a back up system that I carry. I picked up one of those Carvin 100W stereo pedal amps a few years back. It seems similar to yours except this one is nothing but a power amp so I also carry a POD Express, so if amything goes wrong I have a complete amp and FX that fits in my hand. I actually had to use it at a gig once and it was a relief given that my recurring nightmare is one where I am on stage about to start and my amp isin't working. I fully accept that there my be a Freudian sexual interpretation to the dream about my equipment failing but I think it is about my amp.

I play more acoustic than anything lately. I still want to get into a loud rock band again before I die. I figure my ears are damaged enough so what the hell. There is a power in a lud amp that is cool. I can get a nice tone from a smaler amp or a modeler but still want them to be loud. Oops....totally hijacked a thread here.....

Says the guy who plays in a rock band......

Yeah, tone is in the fingers. I have a 1962 Casino with the 330 style headstock. It is a remarkable screaming rock guitar (ala' Beatles white album sound) guitar but I could never get a nice jazz tone out of it like I can with my L5 or H-576. The same goes for my old tele. If you listen to Canadian jazz guitarist Ed Bickert, he makes a tele sound like an L5. In my hands it sounds like Don Rich.

I am assuming that even though the tuner is covering the brand, it looks like an H-530. This guy gets a nice smooth tone on those P-90s.