Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
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Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
So I had a gig at a place with notoriously bad power, and as I feared my amp buzzed like a mother. A buddy of mine had a Deluxe Reverb, so I plugged into that and not only was it fairly quiet, but it sounded beautiful. Loud enough to keep up with my heavy handed drummer and still sounded fairly clean. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to sell to get one . Bonus, there's one in Surf Green coming!
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
They are good if you need the volume
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
They're a gig & studio standard of the last 50 years for a reason. Killer, killer amp. Never seen that surf green before though!
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
I'm probably going to go with the wine red one. Slightly cheaper and super classy.
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
The new Silverface Custom Deluxe sounds even sweeter!
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
I concur. And you can jump the channelsGroovy Tunes wrote:The new Silverface Custom Deluxe sounds even sweeter!
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
I had one I really liked, but still ended up selling for some odd reason.
Not to long after I sold it, regret sat in, and I ended up buying another one that sounds even better than the first one I had.
Not to long after I sold it, regret sat in, and I ended up buying another one that sounds even better than the first one I had.
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
fortytwo wrote:I had one I really liked, but still ended up selling for some odd reason.
Not to long after I sold it, regret sat in, and I ended up buying another one that sounds even better than the first one I had.
Looks like it worked out in the long run!
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
I don't. The '68 Custom' amps I tried out (the Deluxe Reverb and Princeton Reverb, lined up in the same room next to their '65 Reissue' cousins I was comparing them with) sounded incredibly boxy/nasal and rattled like an old car at any kind of volume above speaking levelifallalot wrote:I concur. And you can jump the channelsGroovy Tunes wrote:The new Silverface Custom Deluxe sounds even sweeter!
Edit: For clarity, and correcting the name of the series I'd gotten wrong initially. It was early...
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
daemon wrote:I'm probably going to go with the wine red one. Slightly cheaper and super classy.
The red ones have a different speaker to break up earlier - something to know....
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
This I concur with. The "custom" versions don't sound as much like the classics. I prefer the blackface reissue models - classic BF tone to start with, that can be "colored" if desired. Can make dirt from clean but not clean from dirt.andy_tchp wrote:I don't. The 'Custom Deluxe' amps I tried out (the Deluxe Reverb and Princeton Reverb, lined up in the same room right next to their '65 Reissue' cousins) sounded incredibly boxy/nasal and rattled like an old car at any kind of volume above speaking levelifallalot wrote:I concur. And you can jump the channelsGroovy Tunes wrote:The new Silverface Custom Deluxe sounds even sweeter!
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
I used to run a DRRI for a few years - it was my first 'proper' step up amp from the Hot Rod Deluxe that I'd gigged for years. And it was a glorious amp - the tremolo and reverb in particular were a noticeable improvement over what I'd been using before and it just sounded ... well ... good. I can't recall it ever sounding bad actually.
Time moved on and I found that I'm really only a stay home player these days. The Deluxe was too much amp for that. I've gone through every permutation and variation of combo amp over five years and finally settled on the one everyone recommended at the start of that process - a good/decent silver face Princeton Reverb!
That being said, there is a legit blackface Deluxe Reverb for sale here in Dublin ... and it is a glorious sounding thing. If I was to find myself playing live again in the future I think I'd go to something like that (or a SF Deluxe Reverb).
Time moved on and I found that I'm really only a stay home player these days. The Deluxe was too much amp for that. I've gone through every permutation and variation of combo amp over five years and finally settled on the one everyone recommended at the start of that process - a good/decent silver face Princeton Reverb!
That being said, there is a legit blackface Deluxe Reverb for sale here in Dublin ... and it is a glorious sounding thing. If I was to find myself playing live again in the future I think I'd go to something like that (or a SF Deluxe Reverb).
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
Oh really, hmm, may have to rethink that. The one I played through was the black version.mekhem wrote:daemon wrote:I'm probably going to go with the wine red one. Slightly cheaper and super classy.
The red ones have a different speaker to break up earlier - something to know....
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
Yeah ... those non-black/original style versions are all FSR (Factory Special Run). For the most part they have the changed cosmetics (i.e. 'custom' coloured tolex rather than black, sometimes different cloth too) but also different speakers.
If you liked the blackface reissue then you want to be sure that whatever you buy is fitted with a ceramic Jensen speaker. Some of those runs have Celestions or Eminence speakers fitted - as well as one with an Alnico rather than ceramic Jensen. This isn't a bad thing - I really love alnico speakers ... particularly Jensens - but if it's that blackface sound that you want I would look for one of the FSRs that has the 'standard' ceramic Jensen fitted.
The other option is to see can you find an original silver face from the late '60s or '70s - Deluxe Reverbs can sometimes be picked up for close to the price of the reissues, and they're great amps. I've played the reissue Princeton and also own two old SF Princetons ... the SF and reissue are clearly the same amp and sound very similar, but the SF just seems to have all the good things about the reissue and then more.
If you liked the blackface reissue then you want to be sure that whatever you buy is fitted with a ceramic Jensen speaker. Some of those runs have Celestions or Eminence speakers fitted - as well as one with an Alnico rather than ceramic Jensen. This isn't a bad thing - I really love alnico speakers ... particularly Jensens - but if it's that blackface sound that you want I would look for one of the FSRs that has the 'standard' ceramic Jensen fitted.
The other option is to see can you find an original silver face from the late '60s or '70s - Deluxe Reverbs can sometimes be picked up for close to the price of the reissues, and they're great amps. I've played the reissue Princeton and also own two old SF Princetons ... the SF and reissue are clearly the same amp and sound very similar, but the SF just seems to have all the good things about the reissue and then more.
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Re: Played through a Deluxe Reverb the other night...
My '68 Custom Twin Reverb sounded really better than the '65 Reissue counterpart. Same with the '68 Custom Deluxe compared with the '65 Deluxe