New Frickin Amp Day

[Kerry Brown]

It's a Traynor YCV20WR. I've been watching for one of these for two years at a decent price that was within driving distance. I finally found one locally on Facebook Marketplace. It sounds as good as I remember. I played one in a jam a couple of years ago and fell in love with the tone. It is loaded with features for a 15 watter. Now I have to sell my Pro Junior.

• Class "A" Cathode bias amplifier
• DC filaments on preamp tubes eliminate hum
• Fully regulated power supply with tube rectifier emulation
• Long Accutronics spring reverb
• Classic Celestion G12M "Greenback" speaker
• Speaker jack and selectable defeat for disabling the internal speaker
• Headphone jack for silent practicing
• D.I. Output for connections straight to the board
• Custom design "Chicken Beak" knobs
• All plywood enclosure
• Wine Red leatherette finish
• Oatmeal grille cloth on perf-steeel grill
• TFS-2B Traynor dual footswitch included
• Optional YCV20COVER available

Specifications:
• Type - Class 'A' Tube Guitar Amplifier
• Internal Speaker Impedance (Ohms) - 8
• Power @ min. impedance (Watts)- 15
• Speaker Complement - 12-inch, 25-Watt, 8-Ohm Celestion Greenback
• Channel 1 Inputs - 1/4 inch
• Channel 1 Controls - Gain, Volume
• Channel 1 Switches - Boost
• Channel 2 Inputs - Shares Channel 1
• Channel 2 Controls - Gain, Volume
• Channel 2 Switches - Channel Select, Brightness
• Masters - Volume, Bass, Mid, Treble, Reverb
• Line Out - 1/4-inch TRS
• Effects Loop - 1/4-inch Send & Return (Send doubles as Line Out, Return doubles as Line In/Link)
• Effects Footswitch Jack - 1/4"TRS, Channel Select/Boost
• Internal Reverb - Accutronics Dual Long-Spring Tank
• LED Indicators - Channel / Boost / Power / Standby
• Ext. Speaker Output - 1/4-inch, parallel w/int.speaker
• Speaker Defeat Button - back panel
• Headphone Jack - 1/4-inch TRS
• Tube Complement - 2 x 6BQ5, 3 x 12AX7
• Cabinet Construction - 11-ply Russian birch
• Trim Details - wine red "Buggy Whip" leatherette, 16 gauge perf-steel grill with "oatmeal" cloth covering,
• 10-inch steel-reinforced strap handle, black powder-painted steel corners, vintage 1960s-style Traynor logo
• Dimensions (DWH, inches) - 9.5 x 18 x 17
• Dimensions (DWH, cm) - 24 x 47 x 43
• Weight (lbs / kg) - 37.9 / 17.2

 

[stringtree]

Congrats on your new amp! :dood:

Nice to see that your patience paid off for you!

(net clip of it in action)

This guy is really cool!
I dig this amp, it has a nice warm rich tone with depth to it.

 

[mcblink]

Oh, sweet! I love New Frickin Amp days!! Enjoy 'er!!

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Those Traynors always sound really really good, and a 15w with a 12" greenback, dual channels with gain and volume (and a reverb!) - what's not to love.

Enjoy!

 

[eSGEe]

yeah what Grump said

 

[CabanaBoy]

Awesome little amp, man - congrats...

 

[ivan H]

Congrats on the new Traynor, enjoy. Cheers

 

[Kerry Brown]

Close to an hour trying different guitars and different amp settings. I love this amp. It’s really hard if not impossible to get a bad tone no matter how I setup the amp.

 

[Session 5]

A HUGE CONGRATS Kerry!!!! That's the one I want, if I can find one.. They are totally an AWESOME amp. Enjoy that beast.




TRAYNOR,TRAYNOR,TRAYNOR

 

[Session 5]

Looks to be in very good condition !!!

 

[TCE63]

HNAD , Congrats

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Great amp Kerry

 

[Kerry Brown]

I've been struggling to find a setting that is clean with SG at gig level volumes. It sounds great, nice natural breakup but sometimes you clean. I out it down to not enough power at 15 watts. I've had other 15 watters, an AC 15 in particular, that got great cleans at gig volumes but this amp just wouldn't do it. On another forum someone suggested setting the clean channel gain around 3, volume where I needed it for the occasion, treble at 7, mids at 0, bass at 7, bright switch on. Holy Fender batman! Very nice Fendery cleans as loud as I want to go. I like this amp more every day. I never would have tried mids at 0.