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    Fender Super Six

    Hello everyone, New member here..Looking for advice and consensus. I have a old Super Six (a 1972 I think) that's been in the shed for years.. I made a twin cab for it years ago, It was so massive..lol. Last time I turned it on nothing worked. It still has factory tubes.. Is it worth retubing? Is it worth saving this amp.Any advice would be great.. Mahalo, Mark

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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Quote Originally Posted by MarkD23 View Post
    Hello everyone, New member here..Looking for advice and consensus. I have a old Super Six (a 1972 I think) that's been in the shed for years.. I made a twin cab for it years ago, It was so massive..lol. Last time I turned it on nothing worked. It still has factory tubes.. Is it worth retubing? Is it worth saving this amp.Any advice would be great.. Mahalo, Mark
    After sitting it could be much more that tubes I’d have a good tube amp tech give it a check.

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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Do you know anything about electronics?
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    Re: Fender Super Six

    yeah I wouldn't try to turn it on right now. It will need some bench work at this point. The chassis is definitely worth saving IMHO. Was that a 6x10 or 6x12 originally? If I were to do a project with it, I'd convert it to a head and use a 4x12 or 2x12 cab with it. Get it up and running and it will be a mean clean machine.
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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Thanks Dan, It was a 6 10.I have only two 10's now,It has a master volume, and had a nice rich warm sound.... Mark

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    Re: Fender Super Six

    phantomman, only that is shocks! lol..

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    Re: Fender Super Six

    If that be the case then take the amp to a qualified technician.
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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Any hand-wired Fender amp is worth keeping and/or reviving in my opinion. I'm guessing you'd need a cap job at minimum...those old capacitors are probably so dry they're not conducting. Do you have pics of the inside of the chassis that shows the wiring?

    Click here for the schematic

    When you revive it, just do like Phantomman does and put it into a head cab and throw it at different speaker setups.

    Watch the output speaker load, though, I believe these amps are looking for a 4ohm total load.
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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Quote Originally Posted by NTBluesGuitar View Post
    Watch the output speaker load, though, I believe these amps are looking for a 4ohm total load.
    The Super Six Reverb's rear-panel output jack is marked as "5 OHMS" but the output tranny's P/N indicates a 4Ω secondary......



    The chassis itself can be cloned into a number of different Fender configurations -- Dual Showman Reverb, Twin Reverb, Quad Reverb, and Vibrosonic Reverb.
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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Quote Originally Posted by phantomman View Post
    The Super Six Reverb's rear-panel output jack is marked as "5 OHMS" but the output tranny's P/N indicates a 4Ω secondary...
    Interesting - I was looking at the schematic. A 5ohm load? Had to look it up...six 8ohm speakers - 2 sets of 3 speakers in parallel, with those 2 sets in series to get 5.34 ohms

    Seems overly complicated!
    "...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Definitely worth a proper service.

    Giant pain in the ass to move as a 6x10.

    1970’s wiring at its worst.

    Sounds freaking fantastic though.

    Chassis is presently out of cabinet and pushing a pair of Cerwin Vega clones.

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    What happend?
    Who let the magic smoke out?

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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Quote Originally Posted by CoyotesGator View Post
    Definitely worth a proper service.

    Giant pain in the ass to move as a 6x10.

    1970’s wiring at its worst.

    Sounds freaking fantastic though.

    Chassis is presently out of cabinet and pushing a pair of Cerwin Vega clones.
    How do you like those CW clones? Weber makes some that I was thinking about if I get an unloaded 2x12 cab (there's a guy locally who makes cabs, I can walk to his shop from my apartment)
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    Re: Fender Super Six

    Yeah. Weber alnico.

    They do sound fantastic.

    Very articulate and balanced.

    Really do that compressed alnico thing well when pushed.

    Not soft spoken.

    Find an authorized dealer if you can and save a few bucks.
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