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Try whatever you want, but, when I recently bought an original '64 Fender reverb
unit, it wasn't working properly, and we suspected it needed a new tank. Loyd
Davis, who's built reverb units and amps, happened to have a fresh accutronics
6-spring tank, so he installed it and brought it over to my house.
Not surfy at all! It was defnitely DEEEEEEEP, but with the deep, came
MUDDDDDDY, very muted treble response, and not able to get ANY wet splashy
sounds playing muted rhythm or lead.
I ordered the correct 4-spring accutronics unit from Antique Electronic Supply,
installed that, and while the unit is not as wet and intense as my '63 original,
or my '63 R/I, it's MUCH better for surf guitar playing than it was with the
6-spring tank, IMHO.
Regards, and Good Luck,
Bruce D
stratrhythm <> wrote:
You know I've thought about the 6 spring job too, just for the fun
of it.
You can order a six spring in exactly the same electrical spec as
the appropriate 4 spring (too lazy to look up the model #'s right
now). Therefore I assume you could just switch em out and give it a
try for the cost of an extra tank or even make yourself a swirch to
go back and forth between them. So for $40-50 -hey, why not give
it a try?
Dave
--- In , "Dick Messick"
<rmessick2@c...> wrote:
> I don't know if it's "wrong", but I recall hearing tales of surf-
types who
> have tried that with their reverb tanks, with the result being
a "mushy"
> reverb sound. There may have been some discussion of that
questions here in
> the past, but I'm not sure . . . a quick check of the SG101
archives may
> have a few posts on 3 vs. 2 springs.
>
> -Dick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Leites" <jeff_leites@y...>
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> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: reverb tank tech question IS: follow
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> > I'm planning on building one of these too, probably using the
Weber
> > schematic. Would it be "wrong" (surf wise) to use the 3 spring
reverb
> > instead of the 2 (yes I know it's really 6 and 4)?
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