So I constantly keep my head buried in Craigslist looking for good deals and what have you on music equipment. I can’t help it. It’s an addiction. So yesterday I was going through the music equipment ads when I see the weirdest trade offer.
A guy wanted to trade his 65 Fender Twin Reverb Reissue for a smaller old fender amp. I checked the specs and if the number of tubes in an amp are equivelent to a man’s penis size, then call me Schlong Dong Silver. This sports a total of ten tubes and pushes 85 watts. I read the reviews, and everyone said it’s loud. Sounded like the right amp for me.
So I emailed the guy and offered him my old school Blues Deluxe and my green Ibanez hollow body. (Never really got used to it.) Well whadayaknow? He wrote back and said it sounded like a good deal and to meet up with him to make the deal. I did and it’s finished now.
I will miss the Blues Deluxe, 45 watts was a good bit of power and it had one of the sweetest blues tones I have ever heard. Not to mention that the fact that it was wearing blond tolex which may infact make it a collectors item seeing as how almost all of them produced sport tweed. It was indeed difficult to pull some of the metal sounds out of it with my pedals because it just absolutely was not built for it. Though it can be achieved. ($$)
I got the Twin Reverb home and what they say is true. It has the most undeniable clean tone I have ever heard. It is indeed crazy loud. My crappy pedals seem to like it better as well, since the amp has no pre-flavored blues tones associated with it. Just a blank canvas of clean tone to color with whatever distortion pedal best suits it’s original tone. It was infact so loud that when I was playing it at volume level “8″ it shook the power adapter for my pedal out of the socket on the wall. Hell Yeah!
This is what is on the fender website:
This amp has seen action in every imaginable musical venue and continues its musical legacy today! Whether you play rock, jazz, country, or whatever, this is what a clean electric guitar sounds like! Or add an upside-down Stratocaster® guitar and a fuzz box …
Our 85-watt (at 4 ohms) Vintage Reissue of the ’65 Twin Reverb features four 6L6 Groove Tube™ output tubes, four 12AX7 preamp tubes, two 12AT7 preamp tubes, two 12” 8-ohm Jensen® C-12K speakers, dual channels (normal and vibrato), Fender reverb, vibrato, two-button reverb and vibrato on-off footswitch, tilt-back legs, black textured vinyl covering and silver grille cloth.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Hope you’re enjoying it man. The green on this guitar is growing on me by the second. Play loud!
June 19th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Yeah, I said Whaaaaaat! until I read the entire post, it makes sense, it must be not only a good amp but also practical for your purposes, so all is more than good, you really gained with the deal.
Clever trader, Congratulations!