The 63 Fender Reverb is a tube driven reverb tank, and is quite expensive.

The amps like the Hot Rods & Blues Deluxe have a spring reverb panin them and solid state circuits driving it. A spring reverb tank in these amps is maybe 20$.

Yes there are a lot of pedals that replicate the reverb sound, Boss makes a couple like the Boss RV-5and line-6 verbzillais not bad either

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Aside from a Fender (or clone) spring reverb tank, you would be hard pressed to find anything better than Digitech's new Hardwire series RV7 reverb. It's loaded with Lexicon verbs.

Also give the sound clip on this pedal a listen

Lee Jackson MrSpringgy pedal

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Ah-ha!

Just been leafing through some back copies of Guitarist magazine and came across exactly this question about an outboard spring reverb in one of the Q&A sections. The suggestions the magazine had to make were, in order of preference:

Fender '63 Tube Reverb
Van Amps Sole-Mate
Danelectro Spring King
DigiTech Hardwire Stereo Reverb

Every one of those suggestions has already been given on this thread. So that saved the cost of a magazine subscription! One more reason for a daily dose of the Fender Forum!

BTW: though digital, they had good things to say about the DigiTech - which is the cheapest option of the lot...

Cheers - C

NICE !!!

The little spring reverb tank in the Blues Junior is indeed a spring reverb, I have to defend the little gem of an amp. And it sounds much better than many of the solid state pedals.

I own the 63 reissue Reverb, and its a beauty. Without time travelling or a masterful boutique piece you cannot get better sound. THe reason it is so pricey is because its a tube head... it pushes the input signal thrugh the springs, collects the signal, boosts it and returns it back to the amp. Its my favorite expenditure... but I'm a wanna be surf guy.

My advice is save up and get a 63 Reverb. Its simply the only way to go for sweet reverb. It will be a lifetime piece in your colection.

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Bitmo has a mod that will turn an Epiphone Valve Junior into a tube reverb unit...seems like a good price if you are handy with a soldering Iron.

http://www.bitmomodkits.com/servlet/the-45/BITMO-SPRING-REVERB-UNIT/Detail

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