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Thought I'd share the wealth here with a little info on my newest most fav amp.
Here's how I came to have this great amp.
Antonio Teixeira works at Capsule music in Toronto. He is pretty well known for his 18 watt beauties. He is always letting me have a good play on any of his newest creations. One day recently I was in Capsule Music ( www.capsulemusic.com ) checking a 66' Marshall JTM 45. Now that was one serious amp. A LOT of dough but, sonically worth every penny. In about my second hour of deafening every one in the store and in the adjacent stores with the might of the 66', Antonio comes down from repairs with a new chassis he has been working on and say's to me,"Check this out. It's sort of my take on the 66' but with some differences". I, of course plug right in (to the same 67' Marshall 4x12 cab I had been using with the 66') and proceed to raise every eyebrow in the store (including mine) with Antonio's amp's sonic filet mignon. WOW !!!! it was definitely in the same leauge as the Marshall but tonally bigger !!!!! With more headroom!!!! Okay, I take a deep breath and start to ask the questions. How could you do this? It turns out he had been working on this amp for a while with help from Darren (who works at Capsule also) being the ears to measure the results. It took me a week or so, but after putting the Marshall on hold while I scraped together the money to buy it, I decided against the 66' and procceded to commit to buying the Teixeira. Never have I made a better choice. We did some more tweaking and after three more sessions (with the amp now a little more tuned to what I wanted) We decided on a type of box this should go in. I wanted it to reminiscent of the very early (64-65) Marshall 45 watt babies in the two tone covering, but with it's own twist. So I thought it might be cool to include a page from early sixties Selmer amps and add a bit of snakeskin to the look. I think it looks as good as it sounds.
Technically it speaks of high, high quality mill spec parts and robust wiring.
Antonio used the same solder that Marshall, Vox, Leak, Quad and most other builders in the UK used in the 60's (Ersin Multicore) made in the UK, box has "world's finest solder" on it. He used it totally by chance found it in bulk in surplus store, it is from the 60's - 70's.
The amp took 6 months of testing with Darren to get that tone. Even the choice of power tubes was to our taste.
He used only the best parts: Oil in paper "Vitamin Q" film caps. Sprauge USA & F&T Germany Electrolytic. Teflon silver core wire, Allen Bradley carbon comp resistors. All Mil. Spec. parts. The tubes are 2 Telefunken EL34, two Mullard Holland made ECC83 & one 1950's RCA 12AX7. RS cloned transformer set. Antonio thinks it is the oil in paper caps that makes the amp sound so smooth .
I can't say enough about the tone of this baby. Antonio was just fantastic in delivering me this great amp. Please check him out if you get the chance.
http://teixeiraamps.com
Here are some pictures. Enjoy.....I am.
Pete
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Thought I'd share the wealth here with a little info on my newest most fav amp.
Here's how I came to have this great amp.
Antonio Teixeira works at Capsule music in Toronto. He is pretty well known for his 18 watt beauties. He is always letting me have a good play on any of his newest creations. One day recently I was in Capsule Music ( www.capsulemusic.com ) checking a 66' Marshall JTM 45. Now that was one serious amp. A LOT of dough but, sonically worth every penny. In about my second hour of deafening every one in the store and in the adjacent stores with the might of the 66', Antonio comes down from repairs with a new chassis he has been working on and say's to me,"Check this out. It's sort of my take on the 66' but with some differences". I, of course plug right in (to the same 67' Marshall 4x12 cab I had been using with the 66') and proceed to raise every eyebrow in the store (including mine) with Antonio's amp's sonic filet mignon. WOW !!!! it was definitely in the same leauge as the Marshall but tonally bigger !!!!! With more headroom!!!! Okay, I take a deep breath and start to ask the questions. How could you do this? It turns out he had been working on this amp for a while with help from Darren (who works at Capsule also) being the ears to measure the results. It took me a week or so, but after putting the Marshall on hold while I scraped together the money to buy it, I decided against the 66' and procceded to commit to buying the Teixeira. Never have I made a better choice. We did some more tweaking and after three more sessions (with the amp now a little more tuned to what I wanted) We decided on a type of box this should go in. I wanted it to reminiscent of the very early (64-65) Marshall 45 watt babies in the two tone covering, but with it's own twist. So I thought it might be cool to include a page from early sixties Selmer amps and add a bit of snakeskin to the look. I think it looks as good as it sounds.
Technically it speaks of high, high quality mill spec parts and robust wiring.
Antonio used the same solder that Marshall, Vox, Leak, Quad and most other builders in the UK used in the 60's (Ersin Multicore) made in the UK, box has "world's finest solder" on it. He used it totally by chance found it in bulk in surplus store, it is from the 60's - 70's.
The amp took 6 months of testing with Darren to get that tone. Even the choice of power tubes was to our taste.
He used only the best parts: Oil in paper "Vitamin Q" film caps. Sprauge USA & F&T Germany Electrolytic. Teflon silver core wire, Allen Bradley carbon comp resistors. All Mil. Spec. parts. The tubes are 2 Telefunken EL34, two Mullard Holland made ECC83 & one 1950's RCA 12AX7. RS cloned transformer set. Antonio thinks it is the oil in paper caps that makes the amp sound so smooth .
I can't say enough about the tone of this baby. Antonio was just fantastic in delivering me this great amp. Please check him out if you get the chance.
http://teixeiraamps.com
Here are some pictures. Enjoy.....I am.
Pete
