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When The Nebulas first started working as a 4-piece outfit, my main amp
was a '96 Custom Shop Vibrasonic. What initially led me to this amp was a
long threaded discussion about amps with Ivan from The Space Cossacks. I had
seen them play live at their last show in DC and that was the amp he had
been using, and it was supernatural in tone and volume. I have very few
regrets, but one of them is selling that amp.
Everyone goes through a phase where they think they have a better idea
than the fine folks at Fender, and my "fine" idea had been to remove the
chassis from the Vibra and put the chassis from a mid-70's silverface Dual
Showman Reverb into it in it's place. At the time, I thought "cool!" and
promptly ebayed the Vibra chassis. Fast forward six months and I had a hell
of a time selling the "new" dual showman reverb in this funny new combo
setup.
A truly awesome amp, worth every penny. I paid about 800 for mine.
-Dano
-=The Nebulas=-
>From: Phil Kucer <>
>Reply-To:
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>Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Tell me about the Vibrosonic
>Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:45:11 -0600
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>I played one of these at a local music store and I was blown away.
>Super clean and it has that 15" sound. It sounded like a portable
>Showman. I'm taking my 6120W in on Wednesday (while my daughter has
>drum lessons) and give it a thorough going over. From what I heard, I
>was very impressed.
>
>
>Phil
>---------------------------------------------
>Phil Tiki
>The Cocktail Preachers
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>On Feb 12, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Richard wrote:
>
> >
> > Did they all come with the D130F speaker? What years
> > were they manufactured? Any caveats with certain
> > year-models/incarnations? Is older Silverface better
> > than newer? What years? What's a fair price for one?
> >
> > What I'm looking for is a portable, not too terribly
> > expensive combo amp that will give me what I'm looking
> > for without me having to spend a bunch of money
> > swapping parts. I'm not against the idea of getting
> > an older amp serviced if it will give me what I want,
> > but I don't want to wind up in an aftermarket parts
> > pit trying to make one into what I want.
> >
> > Richard
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Didn't the Vibrasonic have a "Steel" input and was marketed at the
Nashville steel players? It looks like Fender is doing the same with
this one. Other than the updated speaker (and the bigger cabinet), I
wonder what the difference is?
Phil
On Feb 14, 2004, at 3:43 PM, -=Dan Ware=- wrote:
> When The Nebulas first started working as a 4-piece outfit, my main
> amp
> was a '96 Custom Shop Vibrasonic. What initially led me to this amp
> was a
> long threaded discussion about amps with Ivan from The Space Cossacks.
> I had
> seen them play live at their last show in DC and that was the amp he
> had
> been using, and it was supernatural in tone and volume. I have very
> few
> regrets, but one of them is selling that amp.
>
> Everyone goes through a phase where they think they have a better
> idea
> than the fine folks at Fender, and my "fine" idea had been to remove
> the
> chassis from the Vibra and put the chassis from a mid-70's silverface
> Dual
> Showman Reverb into it in it's place. At the time, I thought "cool!"
> and
> promptly ebayed the Vibra chassis. Fast forward six months and I had a
> hell
> of a time selling the "new" dual showman reverb in this funny new combo
> setup.
>
> A truly awesome amp, worth every penny. I paid about 800 for mine.
>
>
>
> -Dano
> -=The Nebulas=-
>
>
>
>> From: Phil Kucer <>
>> Reply-To:
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Tell me about the Vibrosonic
>> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:45:11 -0600
>>
>>
>> 65_twin_custom_15.html
>>
>> I played one of these at a local music store and I was blown away.
>> Super clean and it has that 15" sound. It sounded like a portable
>> Showman. I'm taking my 6120W in on Wednesday (while my daughter has
>> drum lessons) and give it a thorough going over. From what I heard, I
>> was very impressed.
>>
>>
>> Phil
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> Phil Tiki
>> The Cocktail Preachers
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Richard wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Did they all come with the D130F speaker? What years
>>> were they manufactured? Any caveats with certain
>>> year-models/incarnations? Is older Silverface better
>>> than newer? What years? What's a fair price for one?
>>>
>>> What I'm looking for is a portable, not too terribly
>>> expensive combo amp that will give me what I'm looking
>>> for without me having to spend a bunch of money
>>> swapping parts. I'm not against the idea of getting
>>> an older amp serviced if it will give me what I want,
>>> but I don't want to wind up in an aftermarket parts
>>> pit trying to make one into what I want.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> __________________________________
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>>> Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online.
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>>>
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