My favourite moment of this video is Mick's dumbfounded "what exactly is real world about this?!" - I love how in awe you still are of the world you've built for yourselves, but also how aware you are of how far removed that is from the average person's experience. Also top vid once again chaps, thankyou!

Just want to say thanks for the countless hours I’ve watched you guys for like the last 7 years. Some videos like a dozen times. Thanks for all the hard work!

Dan, I am in total agreement. This is THE BEST tone I’ve ever heard from you. The Bassman is the perfect pairing with your Matchless, a character-filled-clean to compliment the Matchless’ wonderful breakup.

I'd love to see you do a show on 10" speakers. Everyone knows the Super Reverb and Princeton, but honestly I've never been happier than using a 4x10 with 10" Greenbacks. No issues with low end control, lighter and more compact than a 4x12. Underrated!

Extraordinary episode. Love when you experiment bravely and we all get to learn along with you and hear something great!

This could honestly turn into the wet/dry channel, and I wouldn't even be mad. Thank you guys for everything you do

The face you make Dan when the the matchless turns on… so happy for you - congrats on the rig! Sounds AMAZING

Great show with my favorite circuit amps! These amps are all based on the original 5F6-A Tweed Basssman circuit. I’ve built two amps like these with 6V6 power tubes for lower volume. If you use a 12AY7 in position V1, its a Bassman and has more headroom. With a nice 12AX7, it breaks up earlier. I use the latter as my dry crunchy amp and the first as my wet amp. The combination is glorious!

I loved this episode. Really awesome to see you guys try to find the right bit of gear for a specific purpose and go through a bunch of options.

Now we need a show with both our your rigs in the room! Great show thanks guys

Glorious tones. Truly. Well done. Enjoyed the process of selecting. Thanks for all you do.

What an incredible episode. In my opinion, this is some of the most interesting and most musical playing I've heard from Dan, and by far my favorite tone he's had since I can remember. Possibly the best yet. My favorite TPS moment for a long time has been Mick's playing in the "fall in love with your guitar volume control" segment of a fuzz episode a few years back. His vintage strat into a Hendrix Fuzz Face. Killer sounds. Now this episode is right up there with it as one of my favorite TPS moments.

That’s a lot of happy faces in that show! Probably about the best sounding guitar playing, ever! Glorious. Thanks guys.

Thanks guys great show today, congrats on that amazing tone Dan. Inspired me to setup wet/dry this evening hadn’t tried it in a while and it’s just epic! Happy weekend

Absolutely love TPS but its another level when you guys do the Amp comparisons videos.

Enchanting tone towards the end lads 🤩🤩🤘🔥🔥🎸🎸 thank you for taking us on this tone exploration journey 🤘

I always learn something from watching your uploads, thank you both immensely for the knowledge shared.

Great sound guys! Clarity, is the word that comes to mind with the Matchless and BluesBreaker which means tons of headroom! so awesome!

I love when y'all start playing long passages of music. Truly fabulous!

This made me think of the episode (vlog?) about setting Ainsley lister up with some delay. I think Mick has a gift for helping people work through options and figure out what they need. Great job, Mick, and congrats on the amazing sounds, Dan!

What a good pairing! Presence, transients, bite, but nothing harsh in the ears. Great W/D setup! Happy days!

Awesome show today guys! There's a Tweed for every situation! Haha 🤘🤘 Also, I'll take all the wet/dry content you guys wanna put out! Lol

This a great video Fellas! I really liked the JTM 45 tone by itself standalone, but for what you were trying to accomplish with your overall rig, you definitely got it right! This was a great lesson on looking past your preconceived bias to what really achieves the preferred end result!

Glad you’d got the Radial to work! This is a great “learning in real time” video.

Awesome show! Thank you for the content, gentlemen!

Love this. Videos like these keep me dreaming about leaving my apartment one day and then buying and cranking a nice tube amp. Always so enjoyable joining you guys on the journey. Thanks for another great video!

Life should be played through a JTM45. One of the best sounding amps ever. My old guitar instructor/tech always used a JTM45 he modded a bit to have a tiny bit more headroom, Red tolex just like Dan talked about at the start. Such a lovely sound, with so much warmth, perfect presence and levels of drive. Always wish I could have bought it off him but he loved it even more!!! Great vid as always guys.

That smile at 38:20 said it all. Absolutely brilliant sound. I plan to listen to this again tomorrow, as Dan’s inspired jamming and tone with this new setup is as good as I’ve heard on TPS, or frankly, anywhere. Cheers fellas.

Sounding fantastic, and I know I’ve said it on a video before but the diamond vibrato into the dry side of a wet/dry rig is such a great thing.

A entirely lovely episode. Informative and fun, fun, fun. These two leg ends know and appreciate each other so well. It’s a joy to behold. Just checked, in the states, Fender ‘59 Bassman LTD 4x10 45 watt Combo is $1999.99 at Sweetwater.

I've done many horrible and abusive things in gigs to a Bassman and just assumed it would be the default winner. until I heard that Sovtek. Very impressed that you did so much work that you changed my mind twice.

Love this kind of format video! 🎉

Ha, that grin on Dans face, when the first notes from the Matchless entered the room! Some epic noise there man!

Enjoyed that guys thanks for the sounds 😊

Great video as always gents! Running a JTM45 with v30s in the Low gain normal channel is definitely still worth trying. Treble all the way up and presence to taste should give you similar headroom levels to the bassman but with a warmer texture

Blimey O'Riley! This was a very interesting show. My personal favourite is the Sovtek, but all the amps sounded spectacular. Enjoy your new rig, Dan! ❤

A lot of magic goes down in this little studio! It would be interesting to get a tour of the whole place one day. It looks like such s nice setup!

Good Lord, that Fender! Delicious. That moment at the end where you kicked in the boost. What a biblical sound. It was fascinating watching you get there.

Oh, man. This was something else! I thought it'd be the Sovtek for sure! But, wow: that "Bassman" is just unbelievable - on it's own AND with that amazing dream amp of Dan's! What I think about is that in my own journey is how any 1 of these would have sounded perfect and I'd have left and gigged happily. There is no right or wrong - and certainly no judgment or critique. It is amazing to get here this kind of comparison. . . then turn around and hear my own rig and still be happy and even more inspired from your experience informing mind. I end up loving my stuff more somehow after hearing you both love stuff. I hope that makes sense. Great show and just as inspiring as ever!

What a show!! No bad sounds there, but that Bassman (Bassbreaker) definitely did the job required. Sounds killer!

Ah so cool to go back and see the old shows! :D

Wow, what a great sound, actualy from all amps. Great show.

I'm really not surprised this combination works well. I have a Vintage 30 and a Creamback in my 2x12 and they blend perfectly.

Good morning all! Coffee is ready and so am I. I have been Sovtek curious but know very little about them. Looking forward to being educated!

Love when you do amp-related videos 👍 (The amplifier is my favorite instrument!) If you ever come across a vintage Traynor YBA-1 (Bassmaster) from the late 60's / early 70's they are still a great buy for a vintage amp with outstanding transformers and a circuit in the ballpark of the Bassman and JTM45

Awesome episode lads. Man you guys have the best job in the world!

There’s something very Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance going on here: the search for “Quality” and that elusive yet necessarily real sound that exists in our heads.

Happy to hear that Sunface like that btw! I don't own one, but I have gotten to play a lot with one. Magic.

Comparison is fun. I think the reality is they are all great amps and this will inspire people to try out amps at volume. Great show.

Started watching this video late night Friday. Finished it on Saturday early in the morning because I couldn’t sleep. As it happens, this time of the year it’s my B-day today. Why that matters, well it happens that I get something for myself as well. This time around it was my decision to expand in house speakers and cabinets rig. Despite me ordering on time only yesterday everything was ready for the testing and obligatory breaking in of the speakers. When you design an amplifier, especially a head unit you have to make sure how it works with the different cabinets and you have to be able to demonstrate the difference cabinets and speakers make. At least you have to be able to give good advice how to proceed and what to expect on the volume level used. You can’t in print your taste onto the others and you can’t change the fact that they are going to use what ever cabinet they currently have. So you want to tell them what can they expect or even arrange to come to their rehearsal with your head and help them out. Mostly, what happens is that their cabinet is not at the amps level but the amplifier will sound better in their rig so they will say yeah right get the amplifier and use for longer time their existing cabinet. Then sometimes later some of them will call you and say they have tried really good cabinet and they couldn’t believe how much difference it made despite you telling them that long time ago 😊 So you have to design the amp and test it with the Vintage 30 as well because everyone has them. To add an insult to the injury every Vintage 30 is not the same and even same speaker will not sound the same in different cabinets. Vintage 30 differs in sound depending on when and where it was made as well as what impedance particular speaker is. In some cases it differs for whom is it made for as well. In my humble experience later made in China 16 Ohm models are hardest. Those tend to sound harsh very often. China made doesn’t mean bad. But they are all different. Actually for the people looking for scooped Vintage 30 sound made in China versions will be it. UK made versions, especially earlier production tend to have more middle spectrum and tend to sound more as earlier classic Celestion speakers. Why are they so popular or used so much? Well they are very efficient hence loud (louder is perceived as better very often), they have scooped sound with more top end (that helps amplifiers that lack details and the top end) plus they got good story behind them. They objectively improve lot of amplifiers. The work in most cabinets type and configuration. How about Vintage 30 powered with pure boutique point to point amplifier? Well on such amplifiers you start noticing Vintage 30 limitations. Then very things that make them improve some other amplifiers is working against them. With a top rig, while you need everything to be at the same level, Vintage 30 often fails showing that it is not at the highest level. Especially with brighter amplifiers it can sound way to top heavy. Switching directly to something that can play more complex material shows the limit for the Vintage 30. It is not my favorite speaker. Though I keep on recommending it in certain situations and it works there very good. Plus my taste is my personal taste and disregarding how objective I am trying to be it will be subjective view to a complex issue. With complex issues general simple proclamations tend to backfire a lot. For example, I would say Creamback H is just superior version of the Vintage 30. Then someone gets it and swaps his Vintage 30 in his rig with the Creamback H and goes ballistics while in his rig it sounds worse to him with million reasons why that might be and with heavy personal preferences. If his amplifier lacks top end and has to much middle well more balanced speaker might sound worse. Plus people tend to ignore break in period. Lot of speakers need longer breaking in period to reach their sound. With balanced good amps I like Creamback H, new Hempback and Alnico Cream. Hempback quickly becoming one of my favorite ceramic magnet speakers. Yes I do separate speakers by the magnet type. In my humble experience certain type of music profit from certain type of speakers. For a rough example, one might say that for early hard rock sound you want a ceramic magnet speaker. Even going deeper by requesting medium ceramic magnet speaker. Or generalizing that most of the Alnico speakers sound great clean but only some of them sound good overdriven despite how essential is to know at what gain level we are talking about. So simple statements are almost impossible. Best advise is use what ever works for you and at your gain and volume level. See me stating this speaker sounds like this means actually with my rig, at my volume and gain levels, in my cabinet X speaker sounds like that to my ears. Complex thing. That is why I like to see person playing with his rig at his levels and only then I can give my educated guess despite my experience, and pray everything will be at needed quality level or cabinet might kill the sound. That is why I say get great cabinet and great amplifier. Try to avoid any component that is at lower level than the rest of the rig. Funny thing I am pretty sure what amplifier would be perfect for Daniel but most probably he will never have the chance to try it.

A Magnatone might be a great choice. It has an insane amount of headroom, incredibly clear and articulate, takes pedals perfectly, and has almost a 3D enveloping sound.

Beautiful sounds, Gentlemen, congratulations! We others just got our work cut out for us…

This is so fun! I kinda did something similar with two Boss Katana 100 amps and an HX Stomp XL yesterday. Learned how to send a Plexi sim to one and a Deluxe sim to the other. Started to change amps and cabinets from there and shocked at the mix of sounds, some were really incredibly useable, notably the Matchless and a Deluxe vibrato channel - very jangly.

Dan - your intro.. well.. it was like when Andy Timmons was on TPS… I felt that way again listening to this.. Thanks!

What a great video, guys! Thank u so much for this.

The way those notes bloom when Dan strikes a chord playing through that Sovtek just does it for me. What a great amp. I need to get one of these in my life.

The presence control on the real old big tweeds is what makes that compression feel come in. High presence = more compression, low presence = less. It's counterintuitive but it's just a thing. It feels like a totally different amplifier with all other controls left the same from a feel perspective. Thank you Leo!

What an absolute delight to listen to this video. Inspiring and uplifting sounds. Congratulations Dan for this finding. It is so nice to watchyou guys work together.

Great show, I had the Bassman down 😀. On another note, would love to see a show on Tweed comparisons. 5E3, 5E7, 5F4, 5F6….

My big rig for a while was a badcat 30 paired with a victoria tweed bassman (both with 212 cabs) AND is was absolutely epic. Just too much of a rig for virtually all I do so I mostly use a single combo but I get it, those two style of amps paired, absolutely amazing

That tone! the combo of both amps driven....Best tone ever!!

Excellent timing. Busy day and finally home. Nice glass of South Australian red from Langhorne Creek and TP Freaking S

You ended up at a glorious sounding place. The 59' Bassman is hard to beat. I think the Mig 50 has a SS rectifier, which usually helps with the transients but the transients of the bassman weren't lacking. Just a little give from a tube rectifier can feel mighty good under the fingers. Great sounding Rig! Now I'm thinking about that 53 Fender Pro you guys had, and I'm wondering what a 53 Bassman might bring to the table. I love those 6SC7 preamp tubes in the early 50's Tweeds. Great show!

Who else thought Dan's intro was pretty epic? It felt like a new mood and a new pace for Dan. I really enjoyed that.

I've enjoyed this video. My at home rig is a Fender Bassman 70, mismatched into a cheap Marshall MG 4x12. You'd be surprised at how good it sounds too, haha.

I love the amp videos the most, thank you❤

There's a line of text missing on Mick's tee shirt. Guitars & Amplifiers & pedals & coffee ... 40 mins in and the look of "Oh yeah!" was worth waiting for. Great vid guys.

Love every episode,and all about TPS. Just to help me understand: A. Timmons is playing stereo and that is my favorite tone of all time. Wet /Dry is a thing, I get it. What I don't understand is why Andy can get away with "stereo" and you guys prefer Wet/Dry. What are technical challenges. Thank you guys for all this years, and many more to come.

I’m just happy to see Dan that happy.

Wonderful stuff, and as ever the answer is Tweed. It hit no brainer for me when you guys started using the wet effects into the amps. The Sovtek sounded like it was amplifying delay & reverb, whilst the Bassbreaker sounded like a gig; not needing a dry amp to sound epic. But then you added one and my gaaaahd.

The Bassman definitely fills in all the low end that the Matchless wasn't giving. Such a full sound!!!

Lot of love from Italy guys... thank you ❤

Loved the split second where I was certain that there was a HM2 at the bottom right of the board

Love my c/s bass breaker….glad to see it getting some love here too!

To me a vintage 30 is a great speaker for a bassman, fender absolutely knew what they were doing there. Can handle the punch of the amp and has a clarity that I love.

Those Vintage 30s can be used to bump the volume of almost any amplifier. I've an old 1987x with a 2x12" cab that was loaded with the Vintage 30s, it sounded great but was to loud for what I was doing. Switching to Greenbacks changed the tone/feel of the amp, but more importantly for myself, they lowered the sound pressure levels considerably. Great content.

Have a cigar, lads. Great show. Funny how my instant takeaway is to look up Matchless, having absolutely no practical justification for doing so...

Winner winner chicken dinner! Sounds amazing, Dan. As a pretty heavy Tremolo user, I find that the transient response in the wet amp becomes more apparent when I kick in a hefty bias-style trem or a thrubby harmonic type. It's as if the peak of the amplitude waves throw the transients into relief. I suppose it makes sense, given the literal amplitude modulation happening with Tremolo.

What a glorious noise. Great playing aswell.

Dan need to try out the silverpanel bassman aswell. ❤ ty for the fun!

I had a Bassman years ago that I was in love with, but it was stolen. I couldn't find one for a decent price and ended up with the Mig-50 as a replacement. My mig-50 has a ton of headroom and gets louder than I will ever need and I'm very happy with it, but I have to admit that Bassbreaker sounds amazing. Either one would have been a good choice. Great video guys.

Sublime playing in the intro, Dan!

I run a wet/ wet stereo with two Marshall plexi amps. I love it and both cabs are loaded with Ev12L speakers.

Astounding sound!

Very tasty intro Mr. Dan!

Tweed is the answer! The more I play my Deluxe, the more I love it. I am so looking forward to the tweed show coming together (Working Title: Need for Tweed)!

Seeing the V30s in the Bassman warms my heart. I've been running my fender champ clone head and also my Twin with V30s for a decade. Glorious and miles more headroom than Jensens, which while not a 'fender thing' suits me perfectly. Also the wet/dry and stereo 'thing' is fascinating. I've only tried stereo and while I love it, I just can't deal with the faff of having two amps and swapping pedal cabling when I need to run a single amp.

Love the idea behind this, very fun comparison! Also as a tip regarding the Bassman/Bassbreaker. In all tweed bassman circuits the bass pot massively effects the clean headroom that the amp has to give. Getting the most headroom wise out of these amps has everything to do with finding the least amount of bass that you can live with. Admittedly not ideal when trying to get a large and full sound for wet effects with a Telecaster 🤷‍♂🙂

Congrats Dan. Sounds great.

Nice complimentary cohesive amp marriage you have there sir(s). From my chair you two have done well to step up to the next level of your journey into personal sonic nirvana. And contrary to it's name, the Matchless has found a match, or at least partner.

Absolutely unreal guitar sounds from Dan.

Hi That Pedal Show! I am massive fan for many many years and I'm so hyped when I get a new notification for the latest video! I have an idea for future episode. For years now I had troubles with my rig, changing amps, cabinets, pedals, cables, strings, picks etc. but the thing that really made the difference in my sound was PICKUP HEIGHT. I don't know how I overlooked this part of the rig but I think it's really the important one. Can you make a video on the topic of pickup heights of different pickup/guitars so people can learn more about it? Thank you!!!

This was really really special! The sounds Dan got out of the Bassman were really killer. And the wet/dry sound was sublime. I definitely love the "pedals" part of TPS, but there's something really nice about listening to amps or guitars going head to head. Btw, any idea when the TPS takeover of Anderton's will come out?

the big winner here is mick , why understanding , midrange , speakers , open back cabs , vs close back , well done mick & dan

Proving once again that the Celestion Vintage 30 is fantastic in open-back combos, even though it is so often associated with closed-back cabinets. So many people associate the Vintage 30 with hard rock and heavy metal tones that it's easy to forget that the original design brief of the Vintage 30 was to make it sound as close as they possibly could to the AlNiCo Blue with a higher power handling and a ceramic magnet. If you listen to the various Celestion offerings, you'll note that the Vintage 30 actually sounds more like the AlNiCo Blue than the other AlNiCo drivers (Gold, Cream, Ruby).

Do you mean to tell me that Dan performed Lay Down, with the Million Year Girl, on Hey Hey It's Saturday??? Cool as, man. I remember that performance. It made me go out & buy the CD. Before long, you're going to tell me that he was on The Garden, String of Pearls, & Shiver. Oops! I forgot. G'day. Andrew here. Thanks for a great show. It's good to see a show with a host who knows how to pronounce "Melbourne" & "Brisbane" properly. Keep up the good work. Catch ya next week Andrew

This is fantastic!

That was EPIC!

I owned a MIG 50 for a few years. I really appreciated, apart from its sound, that it was small and comparably light. But the quality of the parts and manufacturing was ....well... Soviet Russia level. Yet it is one of those parts of gear that I still regret to have sold.

I like that Mick has not forgotten the low input… anytime I have had issues with strident unnatural “wet” effects, I plug wet effects into separate amp into the low input and makes it blend… it also works with mono effects rig to make things more natural.