| I'm
sorry to announce that the Amgard Studio Tweed 20 is no longer available.
It has been a pleasure to develop and build, and the owners who have snapped them up love them as much as I do.
I'm keeping the original description here for anyone interested enough to read it ;-)
This amp is based on a well-loved, traditional design but with significant
modifications to drastically reduce the noise floor, making this model
ideal for studio, close-miked applications.
It retains the vintage warmth and organic feel loved by so many guitarists,
but is also ideal for blues harmonica, given the right choice of speaker.
Speakers
options include :-
Jensen P12Q which has a very warm, mid-focused bite with clear, bright
highs. When presented with overdrive distortion the P12Q remains well-balanced.
Celestion G12M Greenback featuring a ceramic magnet structure. which presents
its own unique tonal characteristics. The Greenback has a loud and assertive
character that sounds great when pushed into overdrive. The speaker has
evolved over the decades and still presents that instantly familiar woody
tone, delivered with a knockout punch.
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What
people have said:-
"There are sweet spots to be found in it at all volume settings.
Clean, it chimes beautifully and, depending on your attack and how you
set the controls, crunches and distorts in a way that feels, for want
of a better word, very natural." - Sound
On Sound magazine (March 2015)
"Overall,
the Amgard Studio Tweed 20 is a responsive, well-voiced and tonally balanced
amplifier with an extremely low noise floor. This amp is a pleasure to
play through and rewarding to record." - Sound
On Sound magazine (March 2015)
"If you’re looking for a hand-built boutique valve guitar amp
that will cover all the bases and that won’t break the bank, then
you really should get your hands on an Amgard Studio Tweed 20. I’m
extremely tempted to hang on to this one!" - Sound
On Sound magazine (March 2015)
"Although this is marketed as a ‘studio’ amp, it has
more than enough volume for a small pub gig, and using a suitable DI box
plugged into the Tweed 20’s extension speaker jack would let you
feed your sound to a PA for that stadium gig." - Sound
On Sound magazine (March 2015)
"The amp is utterly fantastic. Wonderful rounded sweet 3D sound,
no flub on the low E, decent volume, the channels interact nicely, incredibly
low noise floor. Fantastic quality construction."
"Of
my amps, it sounds most like the Carr Sportsman, which is basically a
"warmer" Princeton but also has a mid control that makes it
quite tweedy when cranked. The Amgard holds its own against that. That's
saying something given the Sportsman's rep as one of the great amps. Maybe
the Carr has a sweeter high end, but that may be the difference between
the circuits rather than any actual shortcoming on the tweed."
"I
have no tweeds to compare it with other than my memories of the Cornell
Romanies I had, and a Fender Tweed Deluxe I tried years ago, and it wipes
the floor with all of them without a doubt."
"That's
amazing I want two!"
" You're
all searching for something; clean but still a bit ballsy; that can break
a bit. To get that when you get the old amps you get a load of other s**t
that comes with it, (but) with this you haven't got it, it really is a
studio amp!"
"Sounds just like an old Fender."
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