Doc Electro CLUB 212: For Those Who Have A Thing For Twins
Double your pleasure and double your fun with the Doc Electro CLUB 212. Doc goes over his two channel amp that pays shameless homage to the classic Fender Twin amp with an added bonus. This amp also has some growl to it on the second channel. Also of note, a sloping control allows you to sweep the entire range while still being able to independently tweak your highs, mids and lows.
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DOC ELECTRO: Hey! I'm Doc Electro for Doc Electro Amplification in Jeffersonville, Indiana. I am a warranty station for 70 brands of professional music everything from Allen & Heath to Yamaha.
About 5 or 10 years ago, I decided to start building my own amplifiers.
That's the CLUB. It's a 212, 140 watts. We use the KT88 power tubes and run them right on up to the top. The front end is similar to a Fender Twin, which is the standard as far as most musicians for cleanliness, clean, and power. The Twin is an age-old design it's excellent, and that's what we patterned this out. In respect for Fender, it's a Twin all the way, and that's what most folks want.
Now the crunch is extremely diversified. We've got two levels of input gain. One is driving the first tube, the second is driving the second, and then there's a slope control which basically takes the classic Fender tone stack and varies the relationship between the high, mid, and the low controls by varying the resistor that sends signal into that tone stack, so it's a parametric bubble to an extent. So, you can take the whole tonal range and move it up to scale or move it down to scale. It's great for some players that like a brighter sound; they can just turn the slope up and the whole thing goes up into the end. You still have control over the high and the mid range and the bass, but it just rides up the scale of it and then it rides back down, and then of course there's the master control for the output for the current so it's a clean/crunch two-channel amp.
PATRICK OGLE: What would be the difference between that and one of the old Fenders? I'm not talking about the new twins but one of the old ones.
DOC ELECTRO: Actually that's a great question. The old Fender does not have the crunch capability. There's -- you can't get it to crunch. And if you can throw pedals in front, don't. It's too perfect to begin with. Leave that Fender alone. Don't change it. If you want a crunch amp, get one made or buy one because there's just no way to get that Fender crunching and still do it justice as far as I'm concerned.
PATRICK OGLE: So this is the Fender plus crunch?
DOC ELECTRO: It's the best of both worlds. You get the crunch today, you got the 212, high-powered 212, and you get the cleanliness of the old days.
these videos would be so
these videos would be so much cooler if you did demos of the amps
hey this is Patrick
We didn't do demos because, on the road, I do not have recording equipment that the audio will be true. Look at Doc Electro's comments on one of the earlier amps. Unfortunately the only way you get to really hear what one of these sound like is to be in the room with them. SO some great guitarist jams out...what does that tell you really?
exactly.
keep the videos short, sweet, and informative. don't screw up a demo if you know its only going to be mediocre. i'm really liking doc electros amps and the videos of them. keep up the great work.
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