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Okay, my two cents.
I've had two Fender reissues and a vintage Premier. I also have
a Digitech Digiverb pedal (as backup to my tank), and reverb
built into my new Fender Custom 15 Twin Reverb. And, I had a
Danelectro mini-pedal and a custom reverb built by Jule Amps of
California.
My observations:
Fender '62 Reissue tank one: standard C14 reverb mod (bigger
Mica cap), NOS Tung Sol 6K6. This tank was super ice-picky out
of the box, adding way too much treble frequency and obliterating
my tone. The mod helped, the tube swap helped. But, it still
sounded bad to me and had vicious radio frequency
interference. Sold on eBay, lost $50 bucks on the price paid
versus the cost.
Reissue tank two: ahhhh! Better. Substituting the NOS Tung Sol
tube shaved a little volume off the top without a noticeably better
tone. So, went back to the original 6V6 Groove Tube. No circuit
board mod (like Marty, I didn't feel it made a big difference and I
did not want to void the warranty). Minor issue with radio
frequency, discovered it was the foot pedal. Unplugged it, don't
use it. Gripes: I lose some volume over my direct to amp
hoookup, but get richer reverb than from the tank in the Fender
Twin Custom. Not enough wetness can't get that cool
slippery, sproingy! delay response that I hear on so many of the
60s recordings. Still, good.
Premier Reverb - On the plus side: Cheap. Hand wired, point-to-
point. Good tone, darker than the Fender. Wet. Less signal loss.
Cool look. On the negative: grounding issues, even with a new
three-prong grounded plug. Dangerous! Tubes hard to replace.
Box shock. Less overall control. Died on me eventually.
Jule Amps (www.juleamps.com). Jule of Jule amps built me a
custom hand-wired reverb tank in the original Premier box, but it
had issues. Sounded good, but created unwanted noise. So, I
bought a Fender (see No. 2 above) and scrapped the Jule Box.
He didn't charge me. His design was good, but extending the
wiring to my original control panel caused the unwanted noise.
His production model works awesome.
Danelectro pedal - worked good, but I was too dumb to realize it
at the time. $35 bucks! (This is not the spring king, but the mini
pedal).
Digitech Digiverb. Twice the price of the Dano (about $75). More
control, simulating plate, cathedral, room and spring reverbs.
Spring has that wet sproing! sound, but it falls in the wrong
places. The plate reverb actually works better, but no substitute
for the real thing. A moderately good backup.
Fender Twin built in Fender tube-driven reverb. Good in a
room with good echo reflection, but well short of the really
profound sound of a Reverb box. Works in a pinch if your box
should crap out.
There...that's a lot, so I will say no more.
Gavin
More tank lr
--- In , "Marty Tippens" <mctippens@e...> wrot=
e:
> I'm sure you give a square deal on the mod.
> -Marty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: reverbroad
> To:
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:08 PM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: To those who think the Reverb tank is crap=
, please read...
>
>
> Marty,
> I totally take that as an insult. I have done the work on my own
> tank, it sounds better and I could offer the same help to others. To
> ask $50 bucks to spend a Saturday or Sunday working on someone else's
> amp to get it right when I could be out doing something else
with my
> time is pretty damn cheap. Find a tech that will do that for you
AND
> do the job RIGHT! If someone has their own NOS tubes that's
fine with
> me. For me to buy them retail from a reputable dealer costs
about $11
> a piece for the three tubes and shipping. How the hell am I
shoving
> gold in my pocket? I am not. See folks, you try to help
otherpeople
> in this world and you get the finger. I'm tired of this crap. D
>
>
>
> --- In , "Marty Tippens"
> <mctippens@e...> wrote:
> > These reverb mods are either an "emperors new clothes"
thing or
> some of you have extremely fine ears. Having done a
blindfold
> comparison between two original '62 Fender Tanks and a
reissue, the
> only difference I could detect was wider frequency variations
in the
> RI's tone settings, but the same tones could be acheived
between all
> three units as well. All three Tanks gave equal depth of
reverb, and
> equal "spitting" effect.
> > -Marty
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: reverbroad
> > To:
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 3:18 PM
> > Subject: [SurfGuitar101] To those who think the Reverb
tank is
> crap, please read...
> >
> >
> > OK,
> > If you're willing to shell $85 ($50 for labor and $35 for
high-
> > quality NOS tubes), I can get your Fender '63 Reissue
Reverb tank
> > where it should be. You must live in OC. It will take me a
day to
> do
> > but when it's done you will notice the edge is smoothed
out
> > considerably. Dario
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heres a picture of the reverb mod i did yesterday.
KK
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