I got some new shit. I got some old shit. OK, I got a '67 Fender Dual Showman amp head at Midtown Music for $250 in, oh I'd say 1998. It's the amp I started my experimenting with. It's been a good, reliable friend, and it's 'normal' channel is the quinessential blackface era Fender circuit. I love it, and I'm always eager to find an application for it. So I've been playing a little with some new people on the side, and I decided to put together a little rig for it. I'm running the Showman at half-power into a minty Mesa 4x12 Traditional Slant cab at 8 ohms. Now, a Dual Showman OT wants 4 ohms, but when you pull 2 tubes to halve the power, it wants 8 ohms. I picked up the cab a year ago for cheap from some yokel that lives near my pop in Florida. I sold the Vintage 30s out of it and put some 1980 vintage 80 watt Celestions in there that came from my first Marshall cab (the Wet Cat). They sound great and they're refreshingly smooth, but at least one of them is beat. I've been itching to try some Weber Jensen style 12s, so I procured 4 of Ted's 12F150s. It's basically a C12N type speaker, 1.5" voice coil, ceramic magnet, with 60's style American style cone and dustcap. They're all 8 ohms, wired series-parallel. The icing on the cake is my new guitar. Gibson Custom Shop 1954 Les Paul reissue, iced tea burst, wraparound bridge/tailpiece, a fat neck and P90 pickups. Yeah I know; don't cum on your monitor, tiger! Anyhoo, I swapped out the stock pups for some Fralins and the stock wraptail for a Faber lightweight compensated wraptail and that bitch is hot to trot. Long story short, that guitar straight into a very 60s Fendery amp and cab is new and exciting for me, but a tried and true traditional gain set up for many for 50 years!

RSMLDM