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Post subject: Re: Trade for a '74 Super Reverb... is it worth it?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 12:07 pm
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I usually smoke the rafters with my 40-watt Vibroverb. I'm given to understand that SRV did the same......

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Post subject: Re: Trade for a '74 Super Reverb... is it worth it?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 2:23 pm
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khai123 wrote:
I think it's funny when I read people talk about how loud Fender's are, excluding the ever ear raping Twin, most Fenders are actually pretty tame to me. I got started on tube amps with a 1978 Marshall Super Lead, 100 watts into a V30 filled 4x12, so in comparison a Super is loud, but it doesn't move the foundation of my house xD


Let's compare a Fender Deluxe Reverb that has a nominal output of 22 watts to a Marshall 100 watt Super Lead. Now we all know the Marshall is louder but after running these through the equation we find that the Marshall is only 6.576 db. Considering that 10db is a nominal figure for what most people hear as twice as loud, then the Marshall is not even twice as loud as the Deluxe. Surprised?

Here’s a handy little chart I got from http://www.analogrules.com/dbwatts.html:
0 db increase = same power
3 db increase = 2 x power
10 db increase = 10 x power
20 db increase = 100 x power
30 db increase = 1000 x power
40 db increase = 10,000 x power

So the difference in the Marshall and the Deluxe is over twice the power (as stated by their outputs in watts) but not twice as loud. Also, in order to get twice the perceived volume of the Marshall, we would need an amplifier that had 1000 watts of output. Interesting stuff isn’t it?
So this lends me to believe that the 40 watt SR is only a littler bit less loud than the 100watt Marshall
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Post subject: Re: Trade for a '74 Super Reverb... is it worth it?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:00 pm
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I'm in no way calling the Super weak, I've been in the vicinity when it let loose and I can say that although the sound was angelic hitting that E7 major with the amp on 7, the ringing on my ears wasn't so sweet xD I mean Springsteen used to cover 20 to 50,000 seater using Twins and Super's with that legendary Esquire of his. Fender can definitely hold its own against a Marshall stack any day, Johnny Thunders proved that on every album he ever played on.


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