Little Walter amp compared to FYD Town Country?

David Cook · Post by **David Cook** » 17 Jul 2015 10:12 am

Anybody done this?

Mitchell Smithey · Post by **Mitchell Smithey** » 17 Jul 2015 10:34 pm

I have an FYD and it makes me smile every time I play it. I have not played the little Walter. I also have a Fox amp and love it too. Life is good for steel guitar players right now, we have lots of good choices.

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 18 Jul 2015 5:01 am

I know Dan uses the best components (Mercury Magnetics, hi end caps etc.), and he posts gut shots of his work. I'd like to see the inside of a Little Walter.

Mark Fowler · Post by **Mark Fowler** » 18 Jul 2015 6:59 am

As an amp builder's perspective both the LW and FYD are built using high quality components.

The FYD has a tone stack allowing further adjustment of your guitar's tone verses the LW's simple single tone control and some model's have an additional control.

Of course the new 59 and 89 appear to be Marshall JTM45 and JTM45/100 lineage so are a different breed then the early Fender Tweed circuits of the early LW models. (Marshall copied the Fender Tweed bassman 1959 410 when they designed the JTM45.)

Gut shots of LW are on the internet google search.

Mitchell Smithey · Post by **Mitchell Smithey** » 18 Jul 2015 8:00 am

My Town and Country has just the right amount of power for my needs. it seems to run right in the sweet spot for my style of play. When it saturates just a little its like magic. You won't find a nicer amp builder than Dan Lurie.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 18 Jul 2015 8:39 am

what is an fyd?

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 18 Jul 2015 9:03 am

http://www.fydamps.com/

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 18 Jul 2015 10:44 am

thnx... i hadn't heard of them.

Richard Keller · Post by **Richard Keller** » 18 Jul 2015 12:04 pm

Hmmm. I have looked for pictures of the inside of the Little Walter amps on Google but could not find any. I would like to see what the inside of one of those amps looks like also.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 18 Jul 2015 12:12 pm

click on that link that dave posted. there are some pics in there under the steel amps.

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 18 Jul 2015 1:02 pm

Yeah Chris, there are lots of gut shots of Dan's amps. But I looked for a while and couldn't find a single one of a Little Walter. Mark, maybe you could post a link for us gear heads who like to see the inside, i.e build quality?

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 18 Jul 2015 1:19 pm

oh sorry...i read it wrong.
maybe it's the secret thing like dumble amps.

Mark Fowler · Post by **Mark Fowler** » 18 Jul 2015 8:02 pm

I did not post a LW gut shot because I didn't want to ruffle feathers on this forum.

There are a lot of dedicated Little Walter fans flourishing here as well as Phil the owner/builder of Little Walter Amps is a member.

I can provide some photos if you email me.

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 19 Jul 2015 1:56 am

I don't know why posting photos of the inside of an amp would "ruffle feathers".
I just like to see how things are put together. Here on this forum, I'm used to builders like Tim Marcus and Dan Lurie who are more forthcoming with information about their builds.
FWIW, I like to see the underside of pedal steel guitars too.

Mark Fowler · Post by **Mark Fowler** » 19 Jul 2015 7:58 am

Cartwright Thompson wrote:I don't know why posting photos of the inside of an amp would "ruffle feathers".
I just like to see how things are put together. Here on this forum, I'm used to builders like Tim Marcus and Dan Lurie who are more forthcoming with information about their builds.
FWIW, I like to see the underside of pedal steel guitars too.

Some big time builders don't agree that showing gut shots of their amps is okay and it really doesn't affect their sales market. Some don't want cloners and other don't want you to see just how simple tube amps are to build or that they are cloning other circuits themselves. There is a weird conception that copying Fender, Marshall or Vox is okay but to clone their work is a no-no! See how up-side-down the industry is. Big word wars are happening all over the internet about this subject.

Want to see gut shots go to amp building forums like The Ampgarage, Hoffman Amps Forum, Metroamp Forum, 18watt.com, AX84,and even non building forums like The Gear Page.

Dan Lurie · Post by **Dan Lurie** » 19 Jul 2015 10:11 am

I'm not really big time

So here's a picture from the last customized build.

The T&C has two modes activated by the tweed switch.
In the down position, all the tone controls are active. The Tweed control stays active as a fine tune tone control. In the up (Tweed On), the tone controls mostly bypassed and the Tweed control acts as a single tone control (More gain as well).

Octal goodness all the way!

Thanks for your support.

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Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 19 Jul 2015 3:07 pm

Looks awesome Dan. I'm soldering a clone as we speak, thanks!

Mark Fowler · Post by **Mark Fowler** » 19 Jul 2015 5:42 pm

Very nice Dan and octals are my favorite

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 19 Jul 2015 6:05 pm

i have a question about presence controls. maybe my ears are shot (they are) but i have a hard time hearing a helpful shaping in that range. how do you builders think of this end of the spectrum?

Mark Fowler · Post by **Mark Fowler** » 19 Jul 2015 6:36 pm

chris ivey wrote:i have a question about presence controls. maybe my ears are shot (they are) but i have a hard time hearing a helpful shaping in that range. how do you builders think of this end of the spectrum?

In most cases the presence control is within the negative feed back (NFB) circuit of the amp. Allows some NFB from output transformer's secondary reduces gain but makes the power section more linear. Simple explanation. There is a lot more to Global NFB then what I just stated.

The treble increases as you turn up the presence control so I like to use a Vox style treble cut control or on Marshall type amps a resonance control to get some bass back in.

Mark Fowler · Post by **Mark Fowler** » 19 Jul 2015 6:48 pm

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Dan Lurie · Post by **Dan Lurie** » 20 Jul 2015 1:23 am

Nice work all.

So, what do your amps have to do with a Little Walter or an FYD Town & Country?

Mark Fowler · Post by **Mark Fowler** » 20 Jul 2015 8:01 am

Thread is all yours.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 20 Jul 2015 9:18 am

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Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 20 Jul 2015 10:01 am

Topic drift is not always a big deal. The info provided by Dan and Mark above was interesting and useful. It's normal to meet someone on the street or start a group discussion and have it drift around a bit. In this it did drift but it stayed on amps and I got to learn some new stuff and meet a few new people.

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