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Post subject: '64 Vibroverb Custom & stompboxes
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:13 pm
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Is there anyone here that own or uses a '64 Vibroverb Custom 8) or has owned one, have any comment(s) on using Stompboxes with this amp :?:


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Post subject: vibroverb 64 custom and pedals
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:46 am
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hi, i have the '64 custom vibroverb and looooooove it!
it responds to pedals in much the same way as any fender blackface amp of the 60's, particularly the bandmaster and super reverb. with the bright switch ON it can be too fizzy for some people's taste, it has more presence at lower volumes but this decreases as you turn it up.
with the bright switch off it has a more even eq, less spiky at lower volumes, and takes pedals beautifully.
i use a fulltone clyde deluxe wah, seymour duncan booster and OCD overdrive live, then a host of crappy vintage fuzz pedals, flange, delay, octaver, badly overdriven pre-amps that were never meant to run a guitar etc etc for recording and they all sound super cool through the vibro. generally i use fender gits with single coils and have the bright switch off, and get all the twang, bite and treble i need from the 'treble' knob. i have a gibson f-hole with PAFs that sounds just as good too tho, and an old Silvertone with PHAT DeArmond single coils that also sound wicked!

bear in mind that like all new amps these start life a little too bright, which can make pedals sound harsh, but as the speaker gets broken in and loses the stiffness that evens out and you get a deeper, more rich sound. there's a lot of reviews around from people who just got a new vibroverb and thinks it's too bright. it is, but it won't stay that way.
mine takes pedals as well as any of the marshalls i owned in the past - love it!
if you're thinking of getting one better be quick because they are discontinued as of 2009 and i don't think guitarists will be letting these go second hand in a hurry. i'll never part with mine!
nick :D


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