It is known for emitting a clear deep sound, courtesy of its four 12ax7 preamp tubes, two 12at7 tubes, and four 6l6gc power output tubes. The twin has seen a number of revisions since its introduction, both internal and external, with its designs. With its dual 12 speakers, timeless look and essential sound, the 65 twin reverb is a truly magnificent tone machine that takes you back to an electrifying era with defining fender sound and style. Reverb and tremolo are just like the tube versions. Fender 65 twin reverb reissue 85watt 2x12 guitar reverb. Fender champ tube practice guitar amp repair tips how to. Cracked heels, also referred to as heel fissures, are a common foot condition, which can cause discomfort or even pain.
I have a super twin reverbi think the best clean sounding amp fender ever madei have had mine since 1988 never let me down onceits never been servicedi have just replaced all the tubesfist time in 26 yearsand the only noticeable difference is the amp is a little more quitei use mine for clean rockabilly playingthe bright switch and the presence knob make all the. The total bundle is a set of all fabfilter plugins. Its 12 radius fingerboard makes bends easy, while a contoured neck heel adds to the guitars stellar feel, making highfret access a breeze. I mentioned this earlier in another post, but johnny was playing a fender, d9th to minimize string breakeage.
While not a twin reverb steve is a wizard with a soldering iron and a real decent guy to deal with. I have a super twin reverb i think the best clean sounding amp fender ever madei have had mine since 1988 never let me down onceits never been servicedi have just replaced all the tubesfist time in 26 yearsand the only noticeable difference is the amp is a little more quitei use mine for clean rockabilly playingthe bright switch and the presence. If you have dry or cracked skin on your feet it can be painful, unsightly, and even dangerous. Amp glides feet vintage fender bassman tremolux showman twin super pro reverb. One knob on the front is cracked and half of it is broken off. Fender 2330300000 champion 40w guitar amp for sale. The latest incarnation of the venerable twin amp has the responsive, throaty, clean power you know and love, coupled with a high gain distortion channel. However it is straight and there is still life left in the frets.
I sometimes take a twin out and put a lexicon reverb in front of the dry side for my steel and play my tele thru the reverb side. A bad tube can also cause excessive hum in the reverb. He built me a 62 blond twin clone and the workmanship is a thing of beauty. Got both the twin and the deluxe for smaller physical stages. The accutronics tank was working, but it wasnt producing as much reverb as it should have been and had begun to feed back if i set the reverb at 7 or higher. I have a twin reverb in for repair right now with exactly the same symtoms as yours. This is the preamp tube for the normal channel which you are not using. Feb, 2014 i have a chance to buy a fender twin reverb amp circa 1980 with master volume. Find great deals on ebay for fender super reverb and fender twin reverb. Being that this version is super, it has a number of features and controls not found on regular twin reverb amps, although i dont prefer this to the originals. The amp was crackling like hell, amongst other oddities. The fender twin and twin reverb are guitar amplifiers made by fender musical instruments corporation.
Sounds like a ss amp that is designed to emulate a tube amp. The fender blackface twin reverb 65 is the most highly regarded guitar amplifier in the twin reverb line. Towel dry and apply sudocrem zinc cream really working it into the crack and smear over rest of heel as well. So, yes i currently have the resistor on the lead going to the vibrato switch. Silverface fender twin reverb low volume before distortion. My brand new was still in box, but made in 2012 supersonic twin s reverb is not working at all common problem, apparently. I am certainly a novice, but recently worked on my buddys twin reverb ii a paul rivera design.
Download fabfilter for windows now from crackedvst. The odd serial numbers on the chart below exist somewhat outside the more wellknown fender serial number schemes. The fender limited edition 65 twin reverb guitar combo amplifier offers 2x12 inch jensen speakers that push 85 watts and a tube driven vibrato and reverb and provides the player with an authentic reproduction of the original twin reverb with incredible cleans and a gain that will blow your mind. Photo courtesy of hi jeff, i have a couple of fender the twin amps. Most musicians who used this amp preferred a softer clean tone so the amp has hardly been put through its paces.
I couldnt get the reverb sound to work and some of the times when id depress the reverb footswitch button, there would be a hummimg sound. The twin reverb is a classic with great cleans and gnarly crunch. Hot this week in fender twin reverb guitar amplifiers. The 85watt at 4 ohms reissue 65 twin reverb features four 6l6 groove tubes output tubes, four 12ax7 preamp tubes, two 12at7 preamp tubes, two 12 8ohm jensen c12k speakers, dual channels normal and vibrato, fender reverb, vibrato, twobutton reverb and vibrato onoff footswitch, tiltback legs, black textured vinyl covering and silver. Premium blackface mod kits for your silverface fender amplifier. I would suspect the carbon comp resistors are causing the crackling. Youve managed to make your twin sound like a solid state amp, and now you like it.
In this case, in order to match the primary and secondary loads, you would need to reduce the load to half of the original load. Prior to the the twin, fender used the name twin reverb for a variety of similar amplifiers. Twinreverb 5 points 6 points 7 points 9 months ago this sub, like most on reddit, is not for rational discussion its an echo chamber. The blackface fender twin reverb is a loud and we mean loud and proud vintage combo amp built for the largest venues and stages, with a remarkable amount of clean headroom and a dense, lush reverb. The effect of a 25% urea cream and sorbolene in the treatment of heel fissures. Seniors whose skin produces less oil also may have trouble with cracked feet.
The 5 watt twin reverb new blackface with 212 inch speakers was made from 1981 to 1983. After a bunch of other work, it sounds great again. The amps are known for their characteristically clean tone. Dermatologists explain why our heels dry and crack, with tips on healing dry skin on feet, how to get rid of dry skin and top foot creams to use. Always check with your doc when using medicinals super simple you first must make a tincture i used vodka pour it over the jar full of dandelions and let sit for 46 weeks, strain, then use 1 cup. Soak feet for half an hour in a bowl of fairly hot water while you are watching tv, then get a heel file and file the hard skin on your heel while still in the water. When setting up a new preset im wondering what the general ru. The amp has seen some action, but it has lived primarily in the studio.
Fenders burly 100watt, redknob the twin 2x12 combo. I was hoping to try the remove two power tubes and one speaker mod on the fender twin reverb ii like many have tried on the original twin reverb amp. My experience with fender twins is that in order to push the amp to the point of it breaking up, youre at an absolutely offensive volume level for your audience. Used on cyberchamp, stage 100112se, ultimate chorus, princeton 65 dsp650, ge112, tone master enclosures, vibroking 212, deluxe 90 dsp900, acoustasonic sfx ii, stage 1600, supersonic enclosures, bassman enclosures, acoustasonic ultralight enclosures, rumble enclosures, bandmaster vm enclosures and. The fender super twin reverb is a guitar amplifier made in the late 1970s that is a follower of the classic fender twin reverb amps. From 1977 to 1982, the twin reverb s power was increased to 5 watts.
The weight is a small price to pay for an amp with that much clean headroom. When i did warranty work for fender i came across a couple of reissue twin reverbs that would get hot enough to transfer. I bought this item to replace a 4ab3c1b accutronics reverb tank in my fender twin amp protube series. Up until a certain year, fender made these amps with a black face and without a master volume knob, and this distinguishes the amp from the later silver face models of the amp. The twin is clean until about 7 on volume with humbucking pups, pretty much forever with single coils. The original twin reverb blackface and silverface are 85 watt with 212 inch speakers and were made from 1963 to 1967 and 1968 to 1980, respectively. The twin reverb output transformer is designed to work most efficiently with the following impedancesloads and tube power configurations.
Aug 15, 2010 brutal 180w fender super twin reverb one of the best amps ever. Fender limited edition 65 twin reverb guitar combo amplifier. Come see us at either our twin falls or burley idaho office. Fender twin reverb 85watt vintage blackface guitar combo. An sss fender stratocaster plugged into a good compressor pedal and then directly into the vibrato channel of the fender twin reverb, with a little of the amps builtin reverb is the textbook definition of an angelic clean guitar tone. Get great tone out of your fender twin reverb at a lower volume without spending a penny. Played on countless hit recordings for decades now, the mid60s deluxe reverb is a timeless fender classic and one of the most indispensable workhorse guitar amps ever made.
You will truly be amazed at how much better your silverface fender will sound after completing the blackface mod. If i turn the reverb control on the amp to 0, the popping from the vibrato switch goes way down, and is only slightly audible. There are a couple on sale here real cheap and im wondering why theyre so much less than the regular twin reverbs. Strymon,boss,barber etc for my effects but hate the tap dancing so yesterday i bought the helix lt to replace them. By dropping the word reverb and adding the word the to the official product name, it left the path open to jokers.
I started with a master volume twin reverb chassis that was in rough shape, had evidently been hit with a sledge hammer at some point, and was very rusty. Ampage has them as being 140w or so i think, 19771980 with 6l6s. A while ago there was some discussion about modding fender amps. These are the only listings for the twin reverb in blue book. From 1982 to 1986, the name was the twin reverb ii and the power was changed to 105 watts. Other breakdowns covered after the manufacturers warranty expires. These balms contain ingredients to moisturize, soften, and exfoliate dead skin. Having never liked the sound of my twin that much, i did some serious.
The twin in particular is an incredibly loud clean amp. Beefing up channel 2 in fenders the twin premier guitar. To get the pure tone that is such an elemental part of crays acclaimed work, his signature model features three vintagestyle singlecoil stratocaster pickups. Fender twin reverb ii june 15, 2011 november 29, 2017 admin 5 comments. Up until a certain year, fender made these amps with a black face and without a master volume knob, and this distinguishes. Loud enough to peel the paint off the walls and with a. Transform it from a way too loud beast to a sweet tone machine. I replaced all of the carbon comp screen, grid and plate resistors. Be it rock, blues, country, jazz or anything else, this is what clean electric guitar sounds like.
Those who use medication that dry the skin, swim a lot, wear certain types of shoes, and who are diabetic may have trouble with cracked heels. The label on the front of the amp actually says, the twin. Swap out both reverb tubes with known good tubes and. This is the last of the original cbs produced fender twin reverbs, and has the highest power output of any regular twin this doesnt count the super twin or twin reverb ii which are different beasts entirely at 5 watts rms. The reverb driver tube is pushed very hard with high voltage in many amps so the tube tends to burn out sooner than all the other small tubes. Style transformers by classictone general features. Twin 6g8, 6g8a blonde 00001 to 00100 1960 00100 to 00225 1961 00225 to 00400 1962 00400 to 00525 1963. Channel 1fender twin reverb model emulated on the champion 40as well as the 100wwas built to replicate the power sag and pushback we get as players when the tubes are hot and the pick is really diggin in. How well would a fender amp handle heavy gain rock.
It will need some work as the speaker baffle was cracked and needs to be replaced, it is missing the speakers and has some extra holes in the back of the chassis. The most obvious changes in the twin reverbs transition from the blondtolex professional series amps of 196163 to the blackface amps as exemplified by this one speaker aside were the addition of the tubedriven spring reverb and the change from the complex harmonic vibrato to an optocell tremolo circuit, both of which acted on the. Good condition, the headstock is slightly faded and is missing a couple of pieces of binding. Ask amp man gear amps gear blog repair 6l6 combo reverb reverb tube combo january 2009 fender diagnosing a distressed tube amp. All ab763similar circuits deluxe reverb, super reverb, pro reverb, twin reverb, vibroverb, vibrolux are designed so that signal is leaking between the two channels.
Those manufactured in 1973 and later also featured a pushpull master volume knob. In terms of the chorus, well i am not a big fan of it to begin with, so when i had a jc 120 i never used the chorus. Think chick corea circa 1970s, and thats the sound. Twin reverb blackface mod kit for vintage fender silverface. The 65 twin reverb reissue was released by fender in 1992 as a modified version of the original 1952 model. If youre using the normal channel, you can pull out the v2 tube.
Twin by a long shot it gets great clean, yet very good sustain. Sep 21, 2010 on an amplifier such as a vintage or reissue twin reverb, you do not have the option of selecting output impedances. It renders the reverb switch inoperable reverb always on. Cracked heels are a problem for those who are athletic, who may walk a lot, and who have dry skin especially.
The twin was introduced in 1952, two years before fender began selling stratocaster electric guitars. Another nice thing about the twin is the spring reverb, which sounds great on rhodes. If you have what you consider an odd serial number, it might appear here. I have always loved the look of the blonde amps, and a blonde twin reverb would look gorgeousso i made one. Style transformers fender 80w 100w showman twin reverb, etc. Its a classic sound, you should be able to work with it just fine. Fender twin reverb 85watt vintage blackface guitar combo amp. Moderately powered and producing a full, snappy and crystalline tone revered in studios from muscle shoals to abbey road and on stages worldwide, its a musthave tone. I like the jc 120 as well, but it has a much dryer sound. If you take note of where the transformer is,nestled behind four big bottle power tubes and tucked inside a wooden box with almost no ventilation,it becomes like a convection oven inside the cabinet. Period correct appointments and modern reliability complement the classic 85w 2x12 design.
The onboard reverb is so good that some pedals try to clone its sound. Twin reverb aa763, ab763 blackface a00100 to a01200 1964 a01200 to a04300 1965 a04300 to a07000 1966 a07000 to a10400 1967. If youve noticed symptoms such as dry skin thickening around your heels, cracked skin or heel pain then knowing the causes can help you understand the. The twin makes the rhodes stand out, bringing out the tines, more while the suitcases amp makes it blend in more. The strange thing is that after retubing the amp and changing the screen resistors as a matter. Sometimes the sole of your foot can get very dehydrated. Les paul traditional going thru a 65 fender twin reverb. A a hi there, i have a fender hot rod deluxe that is just six months old and well looked after. Since its debut in 1991, the fender 65 twin reverb reissue has been one of the most popular and highest quality stage amps. Fenders deluxe nashville telecaster blends classic sound and aesthetics with modern upgrades that enhance its overall performance. New amp corners fit vintage fender bassman tremolux showman twin super reverb. The twin reverb ii was replaced by the twin, commonly referred to, though incorrectly as, the evil twin fender has only referred to the twin amp or the 94 twin amp as being the evil twin, not the red knob twin due to the addition of both a separate gain channel and a switchable overdrive on the clean, in 1987. I thought the twin reverb had two 12 speakers, and that was the twin.
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