65 Amps Tupelo Head 6V6 Version of Lil Elvis Best Offer

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65 amps Tupelo Head in rare special order Red and Black tolex. I haven't seen another 65 cab or head that color.

From Guitar Player (full article below)

The Tupelo is a super-cool addition to the 20-watt amp field. It can handle pop jangle, bluesy clang, Stonesy raunch, singing leads, and much more.

This amp served as my back up for my Friedman Shirley since they have a similar tone, however the Shirley never failed.  It has been moved more than played. There are some minor scrapes from moving in the back of a U-Haul, note the pic of the handle. 

The owners of 65 amps were researching old Vox amplifiers when they came across a prototype that was never commercially developed. That amp became the Lil Elvis. This is the American cousin with 6V6 power tubes.

Tube tremolo, Boost and master voltage (Better than master volume)

A quote from an interview with Peter Stroud from Australian Musician (December 2010) 

Do you use both of your 65s at the same time?
Peter Stroud: “Yes, both at the same time and I decided to use a Little Elvis and a Tupelo. The Lil’ Elvis has the L84s, the same circuit for the most part. The Tupelo has 66s, which require different transformers. So the tonality of the two amps compliment each other. Even though they are stereo, I didn’t really care if they didn’t match perfectly. In fact, I preferred that they didn’t because you get a bigger sound when the effects are not on.” -

From Guitar Player:
65 Amps Tupelo
Updated:Nov 15, 2017 Original:Nov 30, 2010

Hot on the heels of their Lil’ Elvis model, 65 Amps now offers the Tupelo, a 20-watt, 6V6-powered tone machine. I gave it a run through with a Gibson Les Paul and a Godin Freeway SA.

The Tupelo’s look is rugged but elegant. I dig the metal vents on the top and love the way the front panel is split up like an oldtimey radio. The Tolex is perfectly clean and the gold piping adds a touch of bling. 

Cranking the Master Voltage knob (more on that in a bit) and setting the Volume low produced a bright, ringy clean sound with nice harmonics. Sweeping the Tone control took me from brighter to darker, but the entire range of the knob was very musical. There’s a two-position toggle called the Smooth switch, which eliminates crossover distortion. To my ears it sounds and feels like a gain boost. There is also a footswitchable Bump switch for increasing gain. It’s not channel switching, but that’s an easy way to think about it. Engaging this function upped the girth and grind and made for a meaner tone with more lows and more sustain.

Nudging the Volume control up gives the Tupelo a throaty, authoritative bark with nice definition. With the volume at 7 and the Bump switch on, I was able to get singing sustain anywhere on the neck. The amp stayed dynamic, though, and I could conjure lively clean tones by rolling the guitar’s volume back or lightening up on my pick attack.

The Tupelo’s tube bias trem circuit is yet another unique feature. It has the interesting characteristic of not really affecting the attack of the note, only the decay. So if you slam a power chord, it keeps all the initial punch. Likewise, solos don’t have that dropout that can occur if you strike a note during the low part of the trem sweep.

For a 20-watt amp, this thing can get loud, and to tame some of the roar, there’s a Master Voltage knob that can drag the Tupelo down to three watts or so, all the while maintaining the feel and complexity of the higher volume settings. This is a really neat feature and does indeed seem to work in a different and cooler way than standard master volume controls. 

The Tupelo is a super-cool addition to the 20-watt amp field. It can handle pop jangle, bluesy clang, Stonesy raunch, singing leads, and much more. Nicely done.