Lucas Miles: Vintage 57 5E7 Bandmaster Amplifier. Full Demo.

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Dean Horler at Lucas Miles is building some wonderfully faithful replicas of the much coveted and extremely scarce Fender Bandmaster amps circa 1957. Dean is using 3 x Jenssen P10R speakers; Handwired PTP wiring; Mercury Magnetics Output Transformer; Carbon Comp resistors througout; Sprague Atom Filter caps; Synergy Royal Blue coupling/tone caps; Radiata 19mm Pine cabinet with finger joints and authentic woven tweed cloth, shellac'd and relic'd. And it sounds amazing at a neighbour friendly volume (~30W). I need one.
Today's tools:
Guitar: Bitsa Tele with Seymour Duncan Five-Two Pickups; 2011 PRS Studio, stock.
Amp: Lucas Miles Vintage 57 5E7 Bandmaster
Cables: Providence and Boss
Extra Effects: Bufallo FX B-1 Germanium Booster (Rangemaster with Voice control)
Mic: Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro and Canon D60
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum
Monitors: Blue Sky Media Desk 2.1
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
Software: Logic Pro X, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Compressor.

[@analogalien]

Brett, I've watched this video about 100 times and I love it. What an amp and as always, you do such a great job of demoing it. I think I just might make the purchase. The original Bandmasters are so high priced and this one is as good as any vintage one I've heard and have played through.

[@davidcrandall7715]

As I was watching your video, my new Bandmaster cabinet from Mojotone showed up at my front door. I loved your video and was amazed at all the tones you have available in this amp. I considered building the Twin Super, but thought I could always convert the Bandmaster to two speakers with a few modifications to the circuit. After all, the only difference is one speaker and a resistor. Thanks for the great demonstration of the sounds available from this rare tweed.

[@timvanngman]

Sounds great! I’m picking up a Souldigger on the weekend, thanks in no small part to your fine demo :)

[@tjnugent62]

It sounds amazing on tape, but I bet your ears are ringing when you wind that one up.. Glorious.

[@frostyupnorth]

Terrific video mate. I believe Pete used one on "Won't get fooled again" I love your brown Deluxe video.

[@bb_lz9790]

Great video! Many, many years ago, I visited a vintage guitar store in St. Louis. They had a 3x10 Bandmaster in white tolex and it was glorious. I tried to buy it, but it wasn't for sale...

[@GraniteSoundtrack]

WOWZER! What a tone!

[@marcpaola1371]

Beautiful sounding amp. I might be wrong but i think the 5E7 and the 5f4 circuit from the tweed super are the same. Bandmaster has 3 10s and the super 2 10s. Great amps

[@parlance.electricco]

I play a 2001 Victoria 35310T Bandmaster 5E7 type circuit with three Jenson 10s and it sounds so good I think Keith Richards would put his arms around it and take it home.

[@SamuraiGTR]

Very nice indeed !! What “ Reverb ( plug-in ) “ did you use with this demo ? Did you apply any EQ or post production treatment ? Please let me know.

[@whimpypatrol5503]

I have heard that Gibson had an innovative thinline semihollow guitar in the works with PAFs humbuckers back when Fender put this amp out. Suppsedly Gibson shelved such semihollow guitar plans in 1959 because of issues it could be used to amp up rock, which all the stores and radio stations were pulling from their shelves and trashing in 1959 until 1963. I also heard that brittish blues rocker Eric Clapton got a hold of a prototype of such in the sixties and used it his band, Cream, thru a stack of screaming 60's Marshall's. I keep checking demos of amps from about 1957 to maybe get to hear one such Gibson semihollow the way Gibson guitar builders had in mind. But, I guess Gibson built so few of such prototypes that nobody ever comes across one and demos it. Unless someone like Joe Bonamassa takes an interest and persuades Gibson to finally put them into production, I doubt it'll ever happen. Maybe Collings will someday do so. Instead people just demo solidbodies thru fender tweeds of the late 1950's.

[@mikeroadblock]

you rock so hard! inspirational!

[@MikeC.11]

Thanks Brett!

[@Andy_Yates]

What a sweet amp! As a sucker for most of the tweed Fender amps, this one sounds killer! I bet that thing was cookin on 8 and full up. My little 5E3 clone will make my ears ring at far lower than 8 on the volume haha. Loved seeing the camera struggle with the volume. Thanks!

[@gerrynyein7195]

Sounds amazing alright

[@LookingForEntertainment112]

Please twist Dean's arm to get one of his '64 Virboverbs for a demo!

[@johnladdsmusic]

That’s a beaut!

[@mlambrechts1]

I have one and it's gorgeous. But, it 's a learning curve if you're used to modern amps: you'll have to get off the pedal addiction LOL.

[@DeadKoby]

I built myself a Weber clone...... it's a really cool circuit.

[@stratocastermaster9]

I don't know which one to get this or the 63 deluxe

[@tunnelportterror]

in other words....jumper bright/normal high/low with the little cable, and it sounds like an early 1970's Ampeg V9 or V4, only quieter...Rolling Stones sound....lol

[@ncoyouth]

Hello Brett It will be great if you can do a "tour" of all your guitars, amps, pedals.. It will be so amazing.. Please ! Thanks Nicolas

[@kevinjohnbetts]

Agreed. Hopefully Brett still has new stuff coming through to him to demo and ideas for Axe-FX presets but if that starts to dry up then a personal 'rig rundown' would be fascinating. Especially as I'm pretty sure Brett has multiple rigs for use in different gigging situations.

[@ncoyouth]

@@kevinjohnbetts We'll see.. :)

[@stan2211stan]

WOW!!! With the Rangemaster clone at the end there...Ming Ya.

[@holmes1978]

Excellence

[@soundknight]

Les Paul?

[@superglide3]

👍👍👍

[@gropifiasco]

Hey ! It's my sound !

[@drSwan77]

I get why Pete Townshend used these things

[@3dsman]

Better than sex? Well, some of the sex I’ve had! 😂. Seriously... that thing rawks!! While you still have it.. run it through whatever power soaks you have for demos.. would love to hear a UA vs Waza Craft shootout... I mean an amp like that needs to breathe... what better excuse??