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Topic: Got myself a Twin! |
P Gleespen
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Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2001 3:29 am |
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Reverb, that is. No long lost brother so far.
Thanks to the magic of ebay, I am now the proud owner of a '71 pre-mastervolume Fender Twin Reverb.
Sweet Fancy Moses, I am in love! I picked it up this weekend and it's a sweet sweet piece of amp. It's not in perfect condition, but all the important stuff is there, and it sounds like a dream. In fact, considering it's only 4 years younger than me, it's in better shape for it's age than I am!
The ol' Sho-Bud just got a new lease on life, and my Stringmaster sounds absolutely unreal through it.
Anyway, just thought I'd gush a bit. 
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Chris DeBarge
From:
Boston, Mass
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Posted 11 Jun 2001 4:00 am
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| Feels great don't it? Very good year for a twin. |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 11 Jun 2001 7:20 am
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"gooble gobble...we accept you, one of us..."
Congrats!! Welcome to the club!!
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| and my Stringmaster sounds absolutely unreal through it. |
Like they were made for each other... nothing else like it![This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 11 June 2001 at 08:21 AM.] |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2001 7:50 am
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Well now that's what I like to hear man. Good goin' and welcome to the other side of the "Railroad Tracks".
After you play through it a month; go back and plug into your solid state amp(insert model here!); and after your face turns back to it's original color; from embarrasement>you will then be sworn in pal.
Ricky |
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Hamilton Barnard
From:
Oro Valley, Arizona (deceased)
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Posted 11 Jun 2001 10:39 am
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This is funny; and I say that in the friendliest of spirits, reading about the revelation of a tube amp experience; funny because great tube amps have always been here.
I'm glad that you found and are enjoying a fine amp -- us (old) rockers just say, "...we knew that."
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 11 Jun 2001 11:05 am
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All right! Great to read all this!!!
Although I don´t know if I could qualify for the "club" since my own Twin is a late 70s model w/master volume. (It may have some modification done to it since the push-pull function on the master volume knob doesn´t change anything, and it sounds a lot warmer than any amp of that model I´ve ever tried.) All I know for sure is that, from the very first moment when I checked it out with my steel in the store it was THE SOUND I had in my head, even though at the time it had two tubes blown. After the repair, it was just a dream come true. I already owned two of them in my guitar playing days and found them not to be the greatest... I guess I was lucky with this one. For steel, I never wanted a P..... or any other solid state amp since for my taste they all sound kind of... hard to express, maybe "sterile" would come close. Maybe that´s one reason why I believe that the steel sounded much better on the records from the old days than it does on most of today´s... I know I´m in the minority, but who cares?? Fender Twin rules!!
Joe |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 11 Jun 2001 4:11 pm
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A classic sound, yet soooo
contemporary!
http://www.dvanet.net/pix/lloyd.jpg
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<small>Zumsteel U12 "Loafer" 8&6 :: Fender T-8 Stringmaster :: Fender Tube Amplification
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 14 Jun 2001 1:56 pm
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Well...that's OK for a start, but if you REALLY want to honk...get a "Super Twin Reverb". It puts the regular old black-face T/R to shame! (I have both)
And yes...it has that "Fender-tube" sound!!!
(A little on the heavy side, though.) |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 14 Jun 2001 7:22 pm
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DONNY
looked up specs on the Fender Amp Field Guide site...
SIX 6L6 power tubes!?!?
About 95 lbs!?!?
"180w output"
ouch!You ain't just whistlin' "Dixie"!
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 14 Jun 2001 7:52 pm
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You got it, Dave...it is an @$$kicker, for sure! And yes, that 180 watts is true R.M.S.. The real beauty of this amp (well, aside from being a Fender  ) is the tone controls. Along with the standard Twin stuff (bass, middle, treble, and bright switch) there's a presence control, and a 5-band active equalizer that lets this amp make even that "Black-album" razor-toned Emmons sound like Chalker on an old Sho-Bud! In almost 40 years of playing, I have never heard the tonal variation you can get from this amp from any single-unit amplifier. Scope and headroom are phenomenal. Reverb on some tonal settings is inadequate for my tastes, but the tones and power are simply UNGODLY!
P.S. It also has built-in (overdrive-type) distortion...if you're into Hendrix sounds. |
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P Gleespen
From:
Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 15 Jun 2001 3:52 am
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I threw out my back just readin' about that super twin!
Those are pretty sweet amps, you sure don't see them around too often. That EQ section is really key on those things. (For me, the less knobs, the better, but that's just me!)
Oh, and just as an update....I fired up my "new" twin the other night with the "indie-mathrock-noise" band that I've been playing with and had absolutely no problem competeing with the cranked JCM 800 that the baritone-guitar player assaults us with. |
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