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Post subject: ORIGINAL fender twin reverb
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:18 pm
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Hello first of all, i am back from a cessatiion of creating topics.

At my shop, i saw a twin reverb, and i thought it was a reissue. I looked at the back for the on switch, there it said something like:

Fender Musical INstruments CBS Fullerton California

That was amazing! I was looking at an antiquity! First i thought i couldn't turn it on because the tubes took a while to heat up, but then i realized i had to turn off the standby switch :roll:

Now i know what people mean when they say you would have to blow brains to get natural clipping on that amp! THat thing had like seven tubes, and i am guessing it was a late '70s model, because it had master volume. I turned the channel volume all the way up and it couldn't distort! The clean sound, well, was THE clean sound. Although i was switching the 'brigjt' switch on and off, i couldn't hear the difference. Can someone please explain that to me?


Also there is a 60th anniversary strat which is awesome (in silver).


On a side note, some kid and his mom went in there for a new guitar. It was his eleventh birthday, and he was playing a guitar for one year, a cheap squier and i presume a frontman amp. He wanted a better guitar, and he went in, looking for a fender. He saw the 60th anniversary, and his mom thought that it was an american. I said it was a mexican, and somehow i thought it turned him off. I showed her a sunburst mexican, and i said "i think he is just buying it for the name." There was a nice squier (really nice) for 250 bucks, and that wouldn't be accepted i guess. He ended up taking a HIGHWAY ONE, and it sounded real good (through the 400 dollar amp he played through). I wonder how it would sound through the frontman or other cheap amp? There goes $750 when he could've had a just as good guitar for $500. It's the name, isn't it...


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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:39 am
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Hello HendrixFan99,

Therein lies the beauty of the
blues jr. Nice breakup at normal
room volume. But I do love the Twin.

Cheers.


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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:49 am
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A Twin Reverb is a joy to behold and play.


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