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Post subject: Are the silverface amps suitable for keyboards/synths?
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:19 am
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Silverface amplifiers are mostly used for guitar and bass.

Of course, there are few musicians who plugged their Fender/Rhodes pianos on a silverface Twin Reverb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhunGMMlndw

Not sure about, but I wonder if it's also possible to use analog keyboard/synthesizers such as the EMS VCS3 and add a SmallStone phaser in order to emulate those classic Rhodes sounds found on the early Pink Floyd/Jean-Michel Jarre albums, though I know that Fender produced a specific range of amplifiers for keyboards, the KXR series, which were now discontinued.

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I imagine how an "asteroid fall/laser-zap" effect generated by the VCS3 such as those found on "Oxygène 2" would sound through a silverface reverb-equipped amp with the reverb cranked up to 10. 8)


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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:16 am
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I've loaned my silverface UL TR to our keyboard player numerous times. It always sounded pretty good with its pair of JBL D120Fs and projected well.

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