Looking For An Amp

I’ve been playing my Fender Squier Telecaster guitar through an old Woolworth’s “Audition” solid state amp. It must have been made in the late 60’s, I bought it years ago at a car boot sale.

My Squier sounded great through it, it was a bit like listening to an old car radio. I liked the cheap sound and I used the old amp at gigs.

Sound checks were always good for a laugh, watching the sound engineer search the amp for a line out, sometimes after I’d explained that there wasn’t one.

Recently I got an old Fender Telecaster and I had an old set of Seymore Duncan pick ups fitted. When I plugged into my old “Woolie’s” amp it sounded like it was permanently on the verge of feeding back. I’ve managed to tame the sound a bit, but at all volumes it’s on the edge and sounds really tinny.

A friend pointed out that Woolie’s Guitars weren’t very good and so my Woolie’s amp was probably designed to make cheap guitars sound good and can’t really cope with a good guitar with good quality pick ups.

I need to get an amp that will cope with my new old tele’, I want the old valve sound plus reverb. I’m looking at Vox AC 15’s at the moment, unless I pick up something special at a car boot sale . . .