2024 Tweed River 5w 1x12" Tube Amp Combo

Tweed River amps are built right down the street in Pittsfield, Vermont. This one is clearly a take on the classic 5w, 5F2-A tweed Princeton circuit and it's built with precision and quality components throughout. It has a solid pine cab (purpose-built), Eminence speaker, and sounds and plays like the very best old tweed Princeton you've heard. It goes right-up the gain scale with clarity and also that "radial airplane engine" warmth of drive that I love to hear out of such amps.

The builder's "amplifier features" notes included with the amp are like a grocery-list of the specs you would dream up for whatever high-end amp you might want to build:

• Hey Boer USA power and output transformers
• steel, polished chassis
• Sprague Atom USA filter & cathode bypass capacitors
• Jupiter USA vintage coupler & tone capacitors
• gold-plated Belton USA tube sockets
• VOS USA fuse holder, pilot lamp, and chickenhead knobs
• Switchcraft jacks, LED pilot light, diode rectifier backup
• 3-way main power switch with middle "standby"
• USA flame-resistant resistors & filter capacitor bleed resistor
• volume & tone controls with high and low inputs
• 8-ohm output for speaker
• JJ tubes: 5Y3, 6V6, 12AX7
• power cord with dual strain relief
• solid pine, dovetailed cabinet made in California
• natural tung-oil finish
• leather carry handle
• Eminence USA 10" Patriot 75w 8-ohm speaker
• hand-stamped, bespoke copper ID plate

I will note that in the "middle positon" of the power switch (standby), a small amount of volume bleeds through and you can sort-of use said position as a "quiet midnight strummer" setting. This is sort-of a nice happenstance, though, heh heh.

As the builder notes, this is not a modified kit amp but rather purpose-built from scratch but using a 5F2-A schematic as reference. We've been enjoying it here at the shop and it's the first amp I've been directing folks to when they say, "do you have anything tweedy on hand?" since it's been here the last few weeks.