| The percieved tonal difference will be sweeter clipping, and overdrive. When the notes decay, you will hear more complex overtones, and the natural harmonics of the guitar will be preserved...
Have you ever notice when you strum an acoustic, how the note eventually decays into octave, fifth, and fourth harmonics, if it is a really good guitar? Well, a point to point amp will tend to preserve that characteristic in an electric and enhance it. Also, when notes feedback, the overtones are generally sweeter.
The likeliness is, also, that if this is a Fender point to point amp, you will have the tube power rectifier, or it will be extremely easy to swap in the tube rectifier ( in some recent Fender designs that use a solid state rectifier, it is literally a device that plugs into what would be the tube socket). A tube rectifier gives "sag" and "bloom". Have you ever had that effect, when you hit a low note on a vintage amp, and it kind "sags" for a second, and then "blooms" up? I hate to use esoteric terms like that!!! It is almost like a limiting effect. Anway, people have varied preference, but I LOVE tube rectifiers for anything having to do with classic rock, blues or jazz.
The new fender amps done on pcb don't even come close. They are certainly useable, and "not awful" sounding, but do not equal a good tweed/white/blonde/brown/black/silver edition fender. |