My Favorite amp is a Deluxe Reverb AB763 modded for cathode biased output. Gives it a browner sound perfect for Classic rock/blues gigging!!
My Favorite amp is a Deluxe Reverb AB763 modded for cathode biased output. Gives it a browner sound perfect for Classic rock/blues gigging!!
My 69 Super (don't have it anymore) and my new Stage 160 DSP is just soundin' sweet with two 12" Celestions, but I can't turn it up over 3.5 without blowing eardrums.
If you can't laugh at yourself, who can?
For around the house and small clubs? Either a SF Vibrolux Reverb or a SF Pro Reverb.
Big clubs? 65 Bassman head through a Music Man 412 cabinet.
Really, really big clubs? Add a SF Bassman 50 modded for EL34s and another Music Man 412 cabinet.
Juicy.
That would be the only amp I've got.
A near mint 82 Superchamp with a stock EV speaker.
Great amp with my old Les Paul Jr and Fulldrive II
:)
Best regards
Brian
It has to be a '96 Custom Shop Prosonic in seafoam green, thank you very much.
Brownface Deluxe.
TBD
Like the illustrious fezz, my '66 BFVR with the sweeeet Jensens.
Gotta love that amp! Still have the Brown Super?
Originally Posted by fezz parka
Oooohhh, Brown Super...very nice!
TBD
I dug the Brown Super while I had it, especially the harmonic vibrato, but since I've got 2x10 territory covered with my '66 BFVR and '68 SFVR, I traded it for a Les Paul.
Next in my sights (some day) for a Fender amp is the Tweed Tremolux.
Those are sweet... I had a 5e9a for awhile. Great amp. A Deluxe with wiggle.:hee
TBD, very nice indeed...if not for the aforementioned VRs, and the fact that I fell in love with this particular LP, I'd have kept it.
I do dig wiggle, especially with a little hair...nothin' like a little hairy wiggle! :hee
Actually, the photoresistor trem on my '66 VR comes pretty damn close to bias vary, maybe it's the old components or somethin'.
How's the trem on your '66?
It's really good.:yay
Chris, I was just struck by a thought (ouch)...we need to release a gutbucket r&b album under the name Little Harry and the Wigglers. We could call it "Hot Dances and Slow Burns."
:hee
My favorite has always been a Super Reverb and I've got a BF'd SF chassis on it's way to me now.
I am really partial to my 65 Princeton Reverb, but mostly I use a 68 Deluxe Reverb and a 70's Twin Reverb head that's been gone through and blackfaced, and run it into a '65 2X12 cab.
RB
Hi Fezz,how you doing?
I actually baught a 66 Blackface VR yesterday,I picked it up for a steal at a pawn shop down here in South Africa....I'm smiling,very happy indeed.
Im completely new to Tube amps,so any advice you'd care to share about the amp and the best way to set it up would be appreciated.
I use a LPaul and a 62 re-issue MIJ Strat.
Thanks
Hey CD. You are really gonna like this amp.:yay
If you have a tech that you trust, have the tech make sure the electrolytics are healthy (power supply, bias, and cathode bypass). If has the original caps, or hasn't had a cap job in ten years, this is the first thing I would do.
Congrats on getting a great amp!
My favorites in order:
(1) BF Princeton Reverb. Best amp I ever payed, period.
(2) BF Champ. Unbelieveable r&r tone from 5 watts and a little 8" speaker.
(3) Brown Deluxe. Fat, FAT, PHAT!
CD, great amp! Do what fezz said. Also, it's not etched in stone, but my '66 likes me to plug my Strats into input #1 and my LP into input #2. Input #2 on either channel gives you a -6 decibel volume drop, can be a little friendlier to humbuckers.
Enjoy...this model comes fully endorsed by fezz and mkg.
But I think you'll like it anyway.
:bwa
I've owned my 66 Vibrolux Reverb for a while now,in the interim I've played a few other Fenders,but this VR is simply awesome.
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at the moment it's:
62 Princeton Amp
65 Vibrolux Reverb
66 18w Marshall Bluesbreaker
What more do you need?
.......oh yeah, an old Esquire or a Les Paul Junior..............:blbros
My favorites:
Bigger amps (> 45watts) in order:
56-60 tweed bassmans
blonde bassmans
64' Super Reverbs with jensen c-10q's with the little blue stikers
Twin Reverbs with Jensen C-12N's
Smaller amps:
5e3 Tweed Deluxe
BF Deluxe Reverb with a speaker with a slightly larger magnet than stock (Like say a C-12Q or N).
Face it, did Fender make any bad amps before '68?
The weakest ones (in sound quality) they made to that point was the BF Champ, and some people love those.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
What about a SF Dual Showman Reverb w/2x15 cab?
Tweed Deluxe
Tweed Super
BF Deluxe Reverb
www.whitemolasses.com
blonde bassmans (bassmen?)
tweed deluxe
BF Pro Reverb
Tone is in the fingers, eh? Let's hear your Vox, Marshall and Fender fingerings then...
70-72 Twin with the AA270 circuit or any fender amp with the AA270 circuit.
Great amp! I converted my Hot Rod Deluxe to one of these:
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
Nothing like reviving a 12-year old thread from the dead.
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
I wish I had my blackface piggyback Fender Tremolux back. :)
Otherwise, I think if I could afford it, I'd get a '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb reissue.
"I'm gonna find myself a girl
that can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams..."
Well, since we have a zombie thread...
I've always had a thing for Vibroverbs. Never had the opportunity to own one, but the times I've borrowed them I loved them.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Anything Tweed Bassman based. I have a Victoria 410, Silversonic, a Ricter RS-33 and am pretty serious about getting a Clark Piedmont. I just LOVE Bassmans. Bassmans cranked and Bassmans played clean. I think it is the finest circuit ever built.
the Bassman is an excellent choice.
Clark is good stuff; I have his Beaufort 5E3 and it compares well with the wide panel Deluxe I've had the opportunity to play.
Bassman vs Deluxe is a toss up for me; Deluxe is the nicest clean amp ever Bassman the nicest OD in the Fender camp, great cleans too so perhaps a bit stronger all-rounder.
If I had to choose a non-tweed amp, it'd be a blackface Twin.
As far as your search goes, since you already have some plain Bassmans maybe consider tracking down a JTM45/100 like I did? Incredible amplifier and not that far away sonically.
I am not a Marshall man really. I don't dislike them and I have a Germino MGL which I love, but they just are not hugely in my wheelhouse. If I want to be 100% totally honest I have to say the octal sound in my At Mars is where I am most of the time. But if it were only one amp I could have I would cry like a little girl because I NEED the Bassmans. And my Matchless Clubman, and Spitfire, and Longhorn Vaquero and Germino MGL and Mesa Boogie, and EC Twin, and Tweed Deluxe, and 65 BFDR
The band I'm a part of went into the studio yesterday to do a demo. The guy who owns the place had not one but three Excelsiors! He actually owns FIVE, he said, just three on the property. I ended up using one he had modified w/a Mercury Magnetics choke & output transformer. It's the new "I want", lol
I had one but ultimately sold it. I wish I had gotten it modded with all the toys...like a tone knob instead of a switch.
Also...I wish they had included a reverb and made the amp in tweed tolex. It really had a great foundational tone - and the price was right - but that tone switch made the amp unusable for me.
"I'm gonna find myself a girl
that can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams..."
I got pizzed at them because I had every intention of creating "The Excelsior Cabinet Company©". That made it kinda hard...
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