BILL WEBB: This is one of our amps. This is a Deluxe 36, and that's some of the wiring it basically is almost done. It's got, you know, the power section, you know, we got to put the panels on and the fuses and the power cord and the switches, and this one comes with a -- this one has the option of a high-low, a power switch which cuts out two of the tubes and makes it, you know, the 18 watts, and it's pretty versatile. And it's a variation of a Tweed circuit from about '58, '59, slight varied - slight changes on it, but this one is we come -- this one we came up with about a year ago.

About nine months to a year ago we came up with this, and it has become kind of popular. It's an interesting -- it's a very simple amplifier. It only got your volume and tone control, single tone control, two volume controls, and you -- they interact, you know, like a Tweed circuit with their -- as you turn one, it affects the other, and it makes a pretty versatile little amplifier that works well with pedals.

Yeah, it'll get its own dirt going in, you know, if you want it to. We tend to put a lower gain preamp tube in the first stage that gives you more headroom and it'll still get plenty dirty.

PATRICK OGLE: But you choose to, [OVERLAPPING].

BILL WEBB: Yeah, if you want to, you know, you could, you know, really drive the daylights out of it. Most people use like the lower gain one. You get more control. It's real sensitive to your playing style and to the guitar that you play. It's that most of our -- all our amps are like that. They have that kind of facility. Everything is on top of the board, and if you can, if you have a little bit of electronics, you have a meter, or, you know, somebody that is a repairman can figure that out. It's real easy to change the part if necessary. It's not really packed tight in there that makes it difficult to work on. Also, simplicity of the circuit itself is one of the reasons why, you know, the tone is better. There's less stuff in the way of your signal. The more complicated circuits get, it tends to sterilize the tone and the feel like if you run through a whole bunch of pedals, and even if they're on bypass like a bunch of Boss pedals or Ibanez pedals and they're on bypass, you know, but they're not, they're still going through a circuit, and it kind of feel that something's missing, you know, than if you just plug through one pedal or just go straight into the amp.

Some amplifiers have that kind of sterility to them and it's a choice of the parts, the type of parts, the way they physically lay their stuff out, and, you know, voltage values and stuff like that. It's all a balance of stuff like that.

You can, for example, you can take some of these production circuit board amplifiers like some of the Hot Rod DeVilles and stuff and by just changing some of the parts, not necessarily the values, maybe just a couple of values but replacing them with a different type of part then the amplifiers tend to, you know, get a little bit more of that responsiveness, a little bit better tone.