badbluesplayer Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Every dog has his day. This morning I found a Champ. '78 chassis with '79 xfmrs. Paid $225.00. Works fine, sounds good. Speaker is some kind of Chinese thing and needs an upgrade - suggestions welcome. Here it is: Oh yeah!! Looks clean - I haven't looked inside yet: It looks like it had some work done on it by Rover: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Nice score, BBP. A Champ is on my short list too. I have put Weber speakers in all my old Fenders and couldn't be happier. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Superb find!!!! I love the sound of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 If i was you, i would find a spekaer from that era. Nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Nice. I like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxom Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 My whole reason for being jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 nice score BBP!! run a decent reverb thru it & viola' ! weber or jensen if you do a spkr swap..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57classic Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Great find badblues. I second the suggestion for Weber or Jensen alnico Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I have a silver-face 70s Vibrochamp. I replaced the original radio-style speaker with a Weber alnico and it just couldn't get any better. Highly recommended! Fender are putting these Weber 8" speakers in their new Vibrochamp re-issues. It is just possible to cram a 10" speaker in there if you enlarge the hole, I know someone who has a Champ with this. Doesn't improve the look though. The tone of my amp was improved 100% when I put in the Weber and I've even done pub gigs with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Thanks for the replies. The speaker that's in there appears to be a Peavey part. I think I'll go with a Weber 8A100T. I'm already a Weber guy, so that was the easy part. I'm not really wanting it to sound bigger or louder, so I'm just going to stay with an 8 incher. I think the alnico with the 1" coil will be right. I think the cone with a few ribs will be right. I don't want a plain cone - too flabby, but I don't want it too big sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Sweet little amp, BBP! (What does xfmrs mean, though?) P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Sweet little amp, BBP! (What does xfmrs mean, though?) P. Transformers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Transformers. Thanks for the clarification! P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Every dog has his day. This morning I found a Champ. '78 chassis with '79 xfmrs. Paid $225.00. Works fine, sounds good. Speaker is some kind of Chinese thing and needs an upgrade - suggestions welcome. Here it is: Oh yeah!! Looks clean - I haven't looked inside yet: It looks like it had some work done on it by Rover: Obviously the dog thought it was a 'Fender Chomp'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 An older Jensen from that era or an old Oxford would give it the real vintage vibe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Yeah, new quality speaker or an old Oxfart - tough choice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Yeah, new quality speaker or an old Oxfart - tough choice! I actually prefer the 'OXFART'..LOL.. 12" to a Jensen 12" for a Deluxe Reverb. It is more crunchy and breaks up sooner and sounds more 'airy' clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahKeen Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Sweet grab! Give us some clips when you're done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 The amp had a nice Fender branded GE 7025 preamp tube in there. It turned out to be the best sounding tube, once I swapped out a bunch of 'em. So that's a plus. RCA 7025 sounded pretty close Two different new Tung Sol 12ax7s were also really nice sounding Mullard reissue - What was I thinking? Once I put the GE back in there and A/B'd with the RCA a few times I didn't even try any others. There's a Sylvania branded rectifier in there. Probably the original. It had a Sovtek 6V6 in there which I replaced. I had some JJs and a Tung Sols so I tried them and the Tung Sol has a nicer crunch to it, so I have one of those in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Years ago a buddy of mine had one of the first SF Champs "68-'69 ? and a Silvertone that I believe had 4 pickups,I've been meaning to phone him and see if he still has it. He got it for Christmas back when that's what every adolescent boy wanted but his interest was short lived and it spent most of the time in the closet.It would be interesting to see if he still had them and would be interested in selling them.Those little Champs were surprisingly good sounding-of course that's old news to mosst people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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