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Post subject: What's the deal with reverb problems I keep reading about?
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 5:53 am
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Maybe I should pay attention to this with my new HRD III amp if it ever happens,but what is the deal with reverb units in certain Fender amps all the sudden? I keep reading about reverb units either failing altogether or working intermittently? Who makes the reverb units Fender uses in their amps?

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Post subject: Re: What's the deal with reverb problems I keep reading abou
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 7:32 am
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KC9SYJ wrote:
Who makes the reverb units Fender uses in their amps?


Not Gibbs/Hammond in Indiana as was used in the blackface/silverface era.

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Post subject: Re: What's the deal with reverb problems I keep reading abou
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 2:26 pm
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I've been getting more amps lately with reverb tanks that seem to have been damaged during shipping. Some have the internal wires pulled out of the transducer, and I've even had a couple that had the wires cut in two from the inner part of the tank smacking against the outer tank severing the wires.

Replacement tanks that have some kind of padding inside during shipping have fared much better.

Maybe not all, but I would say quite a lot of the problems with new amps can be blamed on rough handling during shipping, likely UPS, both with reverb tanks and tubes. I can't remember the last time that I got a UPS package that wasn't crushed to some extent, some severely.

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Post subject: Re: What's the deal with reverb problems I keep reading abou
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:08 pm
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shimmilou wrote:
I can't remember the last time that I got a UPS package that wasn't crushed to some extent, some severely.


+1

FedEx seems to be a lot more conscientious about shipping and delivering packages so they arrive in one piece. Even the USPS, whom I know we've all made the rump of countless jokes, does a consistently better job than "brown".

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Post subject: Re: What's the deal with reverb problems I keep reading abou
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:37 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
shimmilou wrote:
I can't remember the last time that I got a UPS package that wasn't crushed to some extent, some severely.


+1

FedEx seems to be a lot more conscientious about shipping and delivering packages so they arrive in one piece. Even the USPS, whom I know we've all made the rump of countless jokes, does a consistently better job than "brown".

Arjay

Yes, and it seems that a higher percentage of packages delivered to me are FedEx or USPS. Maybe shippers are recognizing the problem w/ "Brown"?

But to the point of reverb problems, both the SS22 and DRRI have had issues other than those caused by handling. They have them ID'ed in tech. bulletins. You would hope that current production runs no longer have the issue! But who knows when the problematic stock supply is depleted.

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Post subject: Re: What's the deal with reverb problems I keep reading abou
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:41 pm
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I'm still getting phone calls and e-mails periodically from owners of new and near-new Fender amps (virtually all product lines) with reverb issues, so who can say how long until the supply of bogus parts is exhausted?

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