Howdy everyone...
I would like to read others' input and opinions on the Subject.
Is the 15 going to beat the two 12's for sound? Who likes which amp better?
Feel free to letter' rip....

I can only speak from experience with the original
'65 Twins and they are solid, well built amps that held
up well over many years of road use.

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with the 2x12" you'll move more air which would give you a bit more volume and more pronounced mids and highs. With the 1x15" you get some good deep end with her. I personally haven't played a Twin 1x15", but I do own a peavey delta blues 1x15" which I really dig. I have that paired with a Marshall JCM 600 cab with 4x10" and I tell you what, she blows me away! SO, IMHO, I say go with the 1x15"

Hello mytele78, this is a great question and was wondering if you went with the 1X15?

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I have a '65 Twin Custom 15 Reissue. I demoed it side by side with a 2x12 Twin and the bottom end of the 15 inch speaker sold me. Its also stays clean up to the point of pain. Bring a pedal if you want dirt.
000_0200 by John Bohn, on Flickr
The Twin Custom 15 also came with a set of casters. I enjoy rolling the heavy beast from room to room. Lugging it is another thing altogether.

John

Cool photo john.bohn, I had not seen one before, thanks for posting.

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Thanks and you're welcome. That pic was a Wayne's World style extreme closeup all the way.

That is a hard amp to find in stores. The Twin Custom 15 I bought is the only one I have run across in my past seven years of GAS addiction. It was closeout priced so I had to lug it home.

John

A slight de-rail:

Did Fender make a Twin Reverb with a 15" speaker back in the 1970's?

Twenty-odd years ago, when I thought I needed a Twin Reverb (later I found out I didn't need one after all), I saw a classified ad in the newspaper (remember those? Classified ads or newspapers!) for a silverface Twin Reverb...I went to check it out at the guy's home, and I was shocked to see a fifteen inch speaker instead of the normal 2x12 set up. It looked "stock"--besides the cab being a bit taller, the Tolex and speaker cloth looked "right". If it was an aftermarket mod, they did it right--you couldn't even tell it had been modified at first glance.

The guy was a little confused when I asked him about this; he said, "All Twin Reverbs are like that, aren't they?" When I told him this was the first one I had ever seen, he got a little angry; he seemed to think I was insulting the amp he was selling.

I passed on this opportunity, since I felt a Twin wasn't a Twin without two twelves...it sounded good, but between the "abomination" of the wrong kind of speaker (I was a purist at the time--even for silverface amps--and thought any kind of mod was wickedness incarnate) and the absolutely ragged, shredded and torn Tolex and speaker cloth, I just wasn't interested.

In the meantime, I saw a few pedal steel guitarists using Twin Reverbs with 15" speakers (one vintage blackface, one reissue blackface, one silverface) but I know one of those guys had custom-built his own combo speaker enclosure (the reissue one), so I didn't really think twice about it, I just assumed the other guys did the same thing.

But when Fender started offering this model a few years ago, I thought back to that beat up old amp and began to wonder if it wasn't a production model or a special order of some sort.

Does anybody know?

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