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Reverb Tank Sound

Fred Pleasant (fredpleasant) - 12 Jun 2002 02:31:04

Hello, I've got some questions about the Fender '63
Reissue Reverb Tanks.
I have one (stock) and it can pack a lot of spash.
But one thing that I've noticed is that the reverb
sounds really metally if I turn it up (especially if I
play chords). It sounds kind of like distorted metal
plate reverb (I only know the sound because I have a
plugin on my computer to emulate it). Is this because
I'm playing into a solid state amp or because my amp
really sucks? I can turn down my reverb and it gets
way less of the metally sound, but then I have less
splash than the amp's built in reverb provides on its
own, but without any of the metally highend
fuzzyness(which defeats the purpose of having the
outboard unit instead).
When I play a chord normally on my guitar through my
amp it sounds powerfull and strong (slight hint of
overdriven town). BUt if I do the same through my
reverb tank it sounds really thin and fuzzy.
Does anybody here know what I'm talking about?
Would replacing the tubes with NOS tubes or doing the
cap mod fix this? I would really like to get more
splash, but with less high end from the guitar. Is
there any way to go about doing this (a setting on the
reverb tank perhaps)? Turning down the tone and
turning the dwell and mix kind of do that,but then I
get more of that nasty thing fuzzy sound that I don't
want.
The more I think about it, I don't seem to have this
problem as much with my half stack, but it's at my
band's drummer's house so I can't really check right
now, so it might just be my crappy crate practice amp
that messes up the reverb.
Anybody know?
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