4.52am Issue: 003 9th October 2016
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CERIATONE AMPLIFIER KITS<br />
Tweedle Dee<br />
One of the things we are looking forward to<br />
doing with Guitar Quarterly, is have a few<br />
articles that run over the months and cover<br />
multiple issues. From issue one we will be<br />
following three chaps who have taken on<br />
the challenge and will be giving their honest<br />
opinions as they do their best to complete<br />
Guitar, Amplifier and Pedal kits from three<br />
of the premier companies out there.<br />
I’ll introduce the other two in the coming<br />
weeks, but I thought it would be cool to<br />
give you a little background on out friends<br />
from CeriaTone Amplifiers who have<br />
graciously donated one of their kits for us to<br />
play with.<br />
In terms of the kits, they have a quite<br />
amazing range, but it is one of their newer<br />
ones that we went for, the Tweedle Dee.<br />
I took the opportunity to ask Nik from<br />
CeriaTone to explain the kit for us,<br />
“It's a 5E3 tweed deluxe, but with supposed<br />
Dumble tweaks. And we added a few of our<br />
own tweaks too. The push for it is that we<br />
were trying to get most our smaller amps<br />
into the lunchbox format. So, the 5E3 was<br />
of course going to be in this format.<br />
While we were at it, I thought it would be<br />
good to add this amp to it as well.<br />
Essentially, it's a tighter, faster 5E3, with a<br />
bit more headroom.<br />
To me, it crunches better than a 5E3 as<br />
well, less fartiness. Better clarity, and it<br />
doesn’t feel so slow in your hands, with<br />
the GZ34 rectifier tube, vs the 5Y3GT<br />
which is saggier.”<br />
As a complete coward when it comes to<br />
even 9V power supplies, I asked Nik<br />
about his feelings about safety when it<br />
came to selling kits and how do they<br />
ensure that people don’t put themselves<br />
into danger when building your kits?<br />
“We need to make the layout, i.e the<br />
guide as to wiring, safe. If they follow<br />
this, and their wiring is fine, then it should<br />
be fine.<br />
Other than that, regular safety<br />
precautions do apply, when making the<br />
amps. I am a common sense kind of guy -<br />
it should be obvious one do not put a fork<br />
into the mains receptacle, for example.”<br />
You can check out the kit Here or better<br />
still follow it being built in Guitar Quarterly
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