Valvetrain 427 2000-2010 - Tweed Tolex

A Fender Tweed Deluxe on steroids. Much more headroom, yet still has the classic snarl when pushed even at low volumes because of the master volume addition. Loves pedals or straight in for the tweed crunch. 27 watts. All tubes/caps are less than a year old: Serviced by Donald Lee last year. Condition very good only because Wally the Cat went off on the grill a few months ago! Otherwise excellent and meticulously maintained.

The ValveTrain 427 inherits its’ tonal roots from the venerable Fender 5E3 Deluxe from the late 1950’s.  Aside from the beefed up power section loaded with a pair of 5881s and the heavy duty transformer set, the most interesting feature of the ValveTrain 427 is the design of the initial gain stages. There are 2 volume controls, one for the Normal channel and one for the Bright channel. The two channels are internally isolated and “jumpered”. This means that the player is able to blend the tonality of each channel into the overall mix. Because the channels are both active, the preamp tube is running in parallel operation producing more gain than is normally found in an amp of this style.

Turning either volume control down, which eliminates that channel, returns the tone of the amp back to the single voice operation of the original. There are also two boost switches that activate a gain and frequency boost on each channel.

By controlling volume and the boost on each channel, the blending of the two distinct voices opens up the tonal spectrum of this amp.

The video is the basically the same amp, the Charleston (controls moved to the front and with governor control).