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What do y'all think of the '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue? I am thinking of
trading my Hot Rod Deluxe and something else for a Deluxe Reverb, but
I wanted to know what everyone thought about the tone, and especially
the capabilities of the reverb (will I still need to have an external
reverb tank?). And finally, does it have enough clean headroom for
club gigs?
Your thoughtful responses are, as always, much appreciated.
Gavin
Steve, the guitar player for us, uses one. I know he likes the sound of an
outboard tube reverb better (and so do I). There is NO substitute for a tube
reverb. Save the HRD and get a reissue tube reverb.
My $0.02
BTW,
He's never had a volume problem playing out...
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Phil Tiki
The Cocktail Preachers
> From: "Gavin Ehringer" <>
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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:28:27 -0000
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> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Fender Deluxe Reverb reissue...comments?
>
> What do y'all think of the '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue? I am thinking of
> trading my Hot Rod Deluxe and something else for a Deluxe Reverb, but
> I wanted to know what everyone thought about the tone, and especially
> the capabilities of the reverb (will I still need to have an external
> reverb tank?). And finally, does it have enough clean headroom for
> club gigs?
>
> Your thoughtful responses are, as always, much appreciated.
>
> Gavin
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hi gavin,
I just bought one and I love it. has a nice reverb and lots of warm tone.
I've heard about some possible mechanical problems with the way they come
stock, something about them needing NOS tubes or something
you may want to look into this. myself, I haven't had any of those problems
there's a few good threads about the amp (pros and cons) on harmony central
you may want to read
I tried a brand new one and one that was a few years old (they were right
next to each at the guitar shop)
and fell in love with the used one. it does have different tubes than the
ones that came stock but they are not NOS ones
I don't think the trem is all that awesome, but it's definitely usable (I
use a voodoo labs trem anyway)
the reverb is much much better sounding that the one on my hot rod deville,
and very wide without muddying up the notes.
I think the deville's reverb tends to muddy things up a bit.
don't know much about the hot rod deluxe but I've heard those are awesome amps
the deluxe is definitely loud enough
I have no regrets about picking one up.
it makes me wanna play all the time
james
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>What do y'all think of the '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue? I am thinking of
>trading my Hot Rod Deluxe and something else for a Deluxe Reverb, but
>I wanted to know what everyone thought about the tone, and especially
>the capabilities of the reverb (will I still need to have an external
>reverb tank?). And finally, does it have enough clean headroom for
>club gigs?
>
>Your thoughtful responses are, as always, much appreciated.
>
>Gavin
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I had one once for a couple of years. I put a Weber speaker in it, nos
tubes, and had it properly biased, and it sounded very good. But I
ended up trading it, partly after I heard an old, original DR. Its not
a bad amp. It does not have point to point wiring, true. But neither
does Tone King. Its plenty loud enough, the reverb is typical for
built in reverb. I preferred 5751s in the reverb recovery stage. I
guess i ultimately got rid of it because I just wasn't satisfied--it
was close but no cigar. I didn't want to rebuild it with a Hoffman
board, and the trade in value had already depreciated so much--I just
had to get rid of it before I was stuck with it. Its better than the
Blues Deluxe. But if I wanted a fixed bias amp, I'd build an Allen
from a kit-- or save my pennies for a Carr Slant V6. Or refurbish an
old DR.
--- In , "Gavin Ehringer"
<gavinehringer@m...> wrote:
> What do y'all think of the '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue? I am thinking of
> trading my Hot Rod Deluxe and something else for a Deluxe Reverb, but
> I wanted to know what everyone thought about the tone, and especially
> the capabilities of the reverb (will I still need to have an external
> reverb tank?). And finally, does it have enough clean headroom for
> club gigs?
>
> Your thoughtful responses are, as always, much appreciated.
>
> Gavin
Always looking for place to put my 2cents in on the Deluxe
reveb re-ish. I have an early re-ish with the blonde tolex. I love
this amp. The tone is fabulous clean twangy classic fender. The reverb
quality is excellent. Nothing beats the outboard tank, but I use
DRRI built in reverb exclusively. It does a great job for me where
amps like the HR deluxe or custom vibrolux reveb just don't cut it. It
is way loud enough for any gig short of some huge festival or
something where you would have PA anyway. It is about 40 pounds and
seems to fit anywhere. I like twins, but I'm not hauling one of those
monsters up a flight of stairs!
Here are a few tweaks I found helpful
1. change input tube to 12AT7 - eliminate breakup on loud chords
2. carboard bottom and foam wrap for tank - kills ringing and feedback
from reverb
3. JBL K120 (similar to D120F) - this speaker rocks! loud clean and
surfy (didn't like stock eminance or Weber 12F150 - anyone want to buy
a webber?)
best
Dan
--- In , "ohsyrus" <ohsyrus@y...> wrote:
> I had one once for a couple of years. I put a Weber speaker in it,
nos
> tubes, and had it properly biased, and it sounded very good. But I
> ended up trading it, partly after I heard an old, original DR. Its
not
> a bad amp. It does not have point to point wiring, true. But neither
> does Tone King. Its plenty loud enough, the reverb is typical for
> built in reverb. I preferred 5751s in the reverb recovery stage. I
> guess i ultimately got rid of it because I just wasn't satisfied--it
> was close but no cigar. I didn't want to rebuild it with a Hoffman
> board, and the trade in value had already depreciated so much--I
just
> had to get rid of it before I was stuck with it. Its better than the
> Blues Deluxe. But if I wanted a fixed bias amp, I'd build an Allen
> from a kit-- or save my pennies for a Carr Slant V6. Or refurbish an
> old DR.
>
>
> --- In , "Gavin Ehringer"
> <gavinehringer@m...> wrote:
> > What do y'all think of the '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue? I am
thinking of
> > trading my Hot Rod Deluxe and something else for a Deluxe Reverb,
but
> > I wanted to know what everyone thought about the tone, and
especially
> > the capabilities of the reverb (will I still need to have an
external
> > reverb tank?). And finally, does it have enough clean headroom for
> > club gigs?
> >
> > Your thoughtful responses are, as always, much appreciated.
> >
> > Gavin
Hey Dan,
I also have an early reissue with the blonde tolex. I think that they only
made them with blonde tolex for one year. Anyway, thanks for the tweaks.
They sound like they'll help a lot. I agree with everything you said about
the fabulous tone and the excellent reverb, but I still, just recently,
bought an outboard reverb unit and there really is no comparison. I have my
outboard reverb unit going into the clean or "normal" channel of my amp and
I have my pedals (a Fender tuner, a Danecho and a Tube Screamer) going into
the "Tremolo"channel. That way, I can leave the outboard reverb unit off
when I'm playing through the amp's reverb, tremolo or the pedals. Up in the
den, I never turn the amp up past 2 and that's plenty loud. This seems like
a very loud amp, considering that it's only 22 watts; however, my strat
would start breaking up at around 5 and my jag starts to break up past 6. Of
course, if I played at these volumes, everybody in the neighborhood would be
banging on my door. So, like I said, I normally don't turn it up past 2, but
I would like it to stay clean at louder volumes. It sounds like the tweaks
you mention might help with this.
Thanks again,
Tom
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:01:15 -0000
> From: "dsurkis1" <>
> Subject: Re: Fender Deluxe Reverb reissue...comments?
>
> Always looking for place to put my 2cents in on the Deluxe
> reveb re-ish. I have an early re-ish with the blonde tolex. I love
> this amp. The tone is fabulous clean twangy classic fender. The reverb
> quality is excellent. Nothing beats the outboard tank, but I use
> DRRI built in reverb exclusively. It does a great job for me where
> amps like the HR deluxe or custom vibrolux reveb just don't cut it. It
> is way loud enough for any gig short of some huge festival or
> something where you would have PA anyway. It is about 40 pounds and
> seems to fit anywhere. I like twins, but I'm not hauling one of those
> monsters up a flight of stairs!
> Here are a few tweaks I found helpful
> 1. change input tube to 12AT7 - eliminate breakup on loud chords
> 2. carboard bottom and foam wrap for tank - kills ringing and feedback
> from reverb
> 3. JBL K120 (similar to D120F) - this speaker rocks! loud clean and
> surfy (didn't like stock eminance or Weber 12F150 - anyone want to buy
> a webber?)
> best
> Dan
