Amps that work well with fuzz

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I LOVE my 1963 Princeton with a JBL K110. Can take any/every pedal and make it sound amazing!!
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The blackface Vibro Champ is good with fuzz. Super Reverb too, if you run the normal channel w/ bass and treble at zero.
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I used to go watch The Pretty Things as often as I could. For the last few years of playing Dick Taylor was using a selmer combo, I think it was a Zodiac 50 (non croc) The bass player was using a Treble and Bass SV, what a sound!

Anyone know what Dick was actually using? I once read that he was using a rehoused Sola MKII, his tones were absolutely killer, it seemed like his amp was a really full and fat distortion and broke up early (with the fuzz mixed in and times) but I’ve read that Selmers are very loud and don’t break up that much

Anyone have much experience with Selmer amps? How much headroom do they have (I’ve read that they’re all quite different). The Treble & Bass amps are quite cheap, tempted to give one a go but like the look of the Zodiac croc skin!
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I really like this Siegmund Sound King with just about any pedal I can throw at it. It runs 300b power tubes and is rated about 30 watts. The speaker is a 15" Seeburg trashcan field coil.

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That looks fantastic! Must sound great through a 15” cone. How is the breakup on it?
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Bigfoot2000 wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:59 pm That looks fantastic! Must sound great through a 15” cone. How is the breakup on it?
The breakup is very smooth. It comes on gradually and adjusts well to playing dynamics. It reminds me of a brown Princeton when it gets cooking, but more dynamic and lots more headroom. It never really gets too compressed at higher settings running straight in.

Yes, the 15" speaker is pretty tight and balanced overall. It definitely has a different feel than the 12" I was running it through but once I got used to it I was stuck.
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Laservampire wrote: Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:12 am Not an amp per se, but having just moved into an apartment I can safely say that the Strymon Iridium amp sim and cab IR pedal handles fuzz like a champ, and reacts like a real amp would (can't say that for many amp-in-a-box pedals!!)

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I use the Iridium for recording and it really sounds fantastic with all my Tone Bender style fuzzes. I know it's blasphemy, but I dare say it sounds as good as with my actual Deluxe!
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rafmax wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 10:22 am maybe this one for a start... :badteeth:
https://www.vintageandrare.com/showroom ... -1969-3178
Yeah, I suppose that'll do. :wink2:
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I think the speaker has a crucial role in this part. Some speakers just have that "bright cap on" kind of presence that can't be dialed off. New cheaper ceramic Jensens comes to mind. But then again I love my original 8" ceramic Oxford in my SF Vibro-Champ with fuzz :chillin: My bigger go to amp is a WEM ER-15 which takes fuzzes like a champ. Can't really get a bad sound out of it and it breaks up nicely by its own.
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