Author Archives: patsweet
PreBS T5-6 Black on Black
A custom ordered black PreBS T5 with 6″ Weber speaker, 3-position gain/character switch, and NOS 5V4G rectifier. Ready for practice and recording! SOLD!
McK IIB Bass Head
The first Sweet bass amp is completed! This is a one off for a repeat customer and matches his brown western covered PreBS 20+. Built on a Marshall style chassis with a hand wired turret board and massive Mercury Magnetics … Continue reading
PreBS 15 Black w/Silver Racing Stripe
Another PreBS 15 is completed. This time it’s wearing black with a silver stripe. It features a 12″ Mojotone BV-25M speaker, Mercury Magnetics output transformer, and push-pull mid boost. Of course, it has the usual bells and whistles as well; … Continue reading
Wilco at Chicago Theater
Finally got to see Pat Sansone’s Sweet Sansonic in action with Wilco. He’s using it for guitar and keyboards on the supporting tour of the Wilco Schmilco album. A nice pure guitar/amp contrast to Nels Cline’s lo-fi effect pedal noise … Continue reading
PreBS 15+
The latest PreBS 15+ completed and out the door! Vintage on the outside but built for the ages. A Blackface style combo with more…everything! 6V6 or 6L6 output tubes, 12″ Mojotone BV-30H 12″ speaker, push-pull bright, midboost, and feedback controls … Continue reading
PreBS T6 Solid Cherry
Just fininshed this PreBS T6 collaboration with my dad. He built the cab from solid cherry wood and gave it a hand rubbed oil finish. Looks as good as the Shaker style furniture that he builds! It’s my version of … Continue reading
PreBS 15+ Cocoa Levant
Another PreBS 15+ completed, this time in cocoa levant tolex with cane grillcloth. It’s got oversized Mercury Magnetics transformers for 6V6 or 6L6 power tubes, push-pull bright and mid-boost, negative feedback control and a super clean neo Jensen Tornado(in disguise … Continue reading
PreBS T5 Brown Western
Another Sweet T5 build is completed! This time wearing brown western tolex and cane grill cloth. An 8″ Weber signature ceramic speaker makes this one roar! It is suprisingly loud and the new 3 position rotary gain switch gives this … Continue reading
Sugar Baby
The first Sweet amp with cascading gain stages is here! First in the new “Sugar family” amp line is the Sugar Baby. Dial in just the right amount of breakup at just the right volume. Cleans up like a Fender … Continue reading
PreBS T5-6 Alligator
The latest PreBS T5-6 just shipped out to http://brianhowardguitars.com/ and will hopefully be used to demo his hand crafted guitars and repairs. This one features a 6″ Jensen alnico speaker, NOS 5V4G rectifier, Jupiter coupling caps, and a 3 position … Continue reading