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Egnater Tweaker 15 Head and Cab

The Egnater Tweaker 15 Head and Cab
Why is it Called the Tweaker 15?
What Do I Mic it With?
Is it a Keeper?
The Egnater Tweaker 15 Head and Cab

In 2009, my wife was involved in a car accident that resulted in a broken wrist, and she received a decent settlement from the other driver’s insurance. My wife directed me to the local Guitar Center and let me pick out whatever guitar I wanted.

I took that guitar into the isolation room and had my pick of a few amplifiers. Rather than choose a REALLY expensive one, I chose a modestly priced combo and spent a good two or three hours playing this guitar through it.

That’s how I discovered the Tweaker.

At the time, I owned a Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue. It was, and still is, a really well thought of amp, but it’s a 22-watt tube amp. It’s a single channel amp and has to get pretty loud before it starts to naturally distort.

The Tweaker, on the other hand, had the option to flip a switch and overdrive the amp. At this time, I really hadn’t developed a sickness for pedals and this was something I very much desired.

Coupled with playing it relatively loud (something that I would NOT be able to do in the apartment we lived in), it sounded absolutely great. It would still sound good at bedroom levels, but there’s no comparing a tube amp at bedroom volume to cranking it loud.

Why is it Called the Tweaker 15?

The reason it’s called the Tweaker 15 is that there are switches that change the tonal profile of the amp. Eventually a second, 40-watt model was released and as this one is 15-watts, it became the Tweaker 15.

The switches on the amp do the following:

    • Vintage/Modern – changes between a more mellow tone vs a bassy, more aggressive sound
    • USA/AC/Brit – switches between a Fender, Vox, and Marshall based sound, respectively speaking
    • Hot/Clean – increases the amount of gain, or distortion, to the signal. On the Clean setting, you can get some decent light overdrive sounds, but on the Hot setting, you can get into more aggressive, harder rock sounds
    • Bright/Normal – adjusts the way the high end of the EQ sounds
    • Tight/Deep – adjusts the way the low end of the EQ sounds

I remember reading that the Bright and Tight settings were better for guitars like a Les Paul that tend to have a “darker” sound and the Normal and Deep settings were better for single coil guitars like a Telecaster or Stratocaster.

What Do I Mic it With?

I use a Sennheiser e609 dynamic mic. It is mounted on an arm attached to the leg of the shelf to position the mic in the middle of the speaker.

The e609 is a popular mic that you might see hanging by a mic cable in front of an amp’s speaker.

Is it a Keeper?

The Tweaker is a solid amp that’s served me well for almost 14 years. However, it’s a jack-of-all-trades and, while dependable, is not extraordinary at any one thing. It was replaced by my Princeton Reverb because I wanted that “Fender clean tone” that the Tweaker approximated.

It’s time in my collection came to an end in June of 2022. I replaced it with a Strymon Iridium pedal.

If someone were looking for a solid, serviceable amp to cover a fair amount of ground, I’d suggest it for sure.


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