Old (ish) fender amps?

ThePrettyDamned

jpfamps;583848" said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Gassage;583745" said:There's a 1976 Pro Reverb going for £400 on UK Gear Exchange on Facebook

Are these not 4x10? Might be a bit big for my room...





2 x 12.

However you want the 40W non-master volume version not the later 70W version of this amp.

Possibly still too big - I currently use a 1x12 bandit, and that's just about the right size. Could go a touch bigger, or if it's a head, a vertical 2x12... I'm quite fancying an older fender combo, though, and dropping it off to one of you amp techs to look at.

I'll bear that in mind - 40 watts seems loud but twins are beasts and still sound epic at low volume.

strtdv

Other than the ultralinear ones, pretty much any silverface Fender should be petty nice. As ICBM says, the Rivera era ones are nice too and don't command huge prices.

jpfamps

ThePrettyDamned said:

Gassage;583745" said:

There's a 1976 Pro Reverb going for £400 on UK Gear Exchange on Facebook

Are these not 4x10? Might be a bit big for my room...

2 x 12.

However you want the 40W non-master volume version not the later 70W version of this amp.

BluesyDave

That Prosonic is for sale on here.....I used to have one, great amps.

Pete24v

I've had, and still have a few fender amps.

The Twin, sold it last year. I really liked it's clean sound, and it took drive pedals very well. It didn't get much use because I found using my '83 Rivera Concert 1x12 a bit nicer.

I picked the Concert up from Jay at hotrox for £475, it's a beaut. It can do crazy bright if you pull the treble pot to engage the bright switch. I love this amp and will never sell it. I've only tried the overdrive channel once, and couldn't get a decent tone out of it. The clean channel is all I need, with a few pedals.

I had a 1970 bassman 50 head, which was lovely and I used it a lot. But the head and cab thing wore me out in my band as I do pa and lights as well.. So it got sold when I bought the Concert. I spent £150 having it re-valved and serviced when I first bought it.

I still have, and use occasionally a 1972 Dual Showman Reverb. I spent £220 having it serviced and re-valved, the normal channel was also Blackfaced. This amp can also do crazy ice pick brightness with the switch engaged. It's silly loud, but it sound great at home. A nice thick clean sound.

ICBM

Pete24v said:

I picked the Concert up from Jay at hotrox for £475, it's a beaut. It can do crazy bright if you pull the treble pot to engage the bright switch. I love this amp and will never sell it. I've only tried the overdrive channel once, and couldn't get a decent tone out of it. The clean channel is all I need, with a few pedals.

It's fairly easy to mod the dirty channel to put the tone stack after the distortion instead of before it. That will give you more gain, and much better-sounding distortion. I'm almost certain you don't need any parts, it can be done just by re-arranging what's in there.

Pete24v

I'd be interested to try that, I'm myself not good with electronics but I have a good friend who is a TV repair man who knows circuit diagrams etc

bandmaster188

erhhh, these work for me! the trusty old bandmaster reverb! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Bandmaster-Reverb-Amp-head-TFL5005D-1972-/141621009213?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20f9451b3d

ThePrettyDamned

bandmaster188;584835" said:

erhhh, these work for me! the trusty old bandmaster reverb! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Bandmaster-Reverb-Amp-head-TFL5005D-1972-/141621009213?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20f9451b3d

They look great.

That one has been modded to blackface spec apparently, though. Not sure if that's a good thing or not, I quite like all the silverface fender amps I've tried as is.

darcym

there is a guy in the classified selling a mid 70's Dual Showman Reverb that would certainly be worth talking to.

I think this amp may actually sort your needs out pretty easy and gives you options for a cab selection, or even better, buy this head talk to Zilla and make it into a combo.

bandmaster188

i've got 2 of them. one is the tfl model as in the listing the other is a 76 master volume model. the 76 has been blackfaced the tfl hasn't. they both sound good to my ears but there are obviously differences. the black facing makes the amp sound fuller i think but it can unleash some parasitic problems. 

hywelg

Pete24v said:

I'd be interested to try that, I'm myself not good with electronics but I have a good friend who is a TV repair man who knows circuit diagrams etc

You said you got it from Hotrox so I guess you're in Nottingham or close. Take it to Dave Ball. Very good with amps and not expensive. He does Hotrox work now. I put his number in the Tech thread

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/28822/#Comment_28822

bandmaster188

here a little clip of my tfl with a 4x10 cab straight in with a bucket load of reverb to give you an idea!

57Deluxe

nice,,,,

samzadgan

@theprettydamned mate, if you are on facebook let me know...there is a guy selling an 80's Fender 75 head for £450.