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I respect what you are saying Marty. I personally have 0 experience with
vintage reverb units. I played my reissue unit stock for several weeks, but
didn't like how harsh it got when I turned up the controls to get an over
the top reverb splashy sound. Replacing the tubes with NOS ones fixed this.
I suspect the major factor here was changing the 6V6 with a 6K6. I think I
have about the same amount of reverb, but I have much more headroom now
before the harshness comes back in. I am usually suspicious of nostalgia
too. In fact I just read a quote on the FDP attributed to Babe Ruth: "They
don't make 'em like they used to, and they never did".
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> I have to weigh in on this outboard Fender reverb discussion with a most
> unpopular, but empirically verified minority opinion. When I
> bought my Fender
> reissue unit two years ago, I was able to do a blindfold A/B
> comparison with
> two orginal units, and to my ears, I could hear no difference. I will say
> that the tone knob of the newer unit did give more treble when
> set to full
> gallop but it was easy to match the tone of the original units by
> backing off
> the tone. I could percieve no greater depth of reverb with the
> older vs newer
> unit. I realize that many more folks on this and other lists are claiming
> significant differences between the units. I suspect that such
> opinions are
> sementally or nostalgically motivated as we all have a tendency
> to say that
> the original model of any audio or musical toy has a "warmer sound".
