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Post subject: Fender Deluxe Reverb 64 handwired
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:23 pm
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I just got my new Fender Deluxe Reverb 64 handwired amp and thought I would share my experience with it.

As an aside I’ve got a bunch of vintage and boutique amps, guitars & pedals, have been playing for many years where great tone is crucial.

After playing it for a number of hours I found it ice pick bright, broke up too quickly (for me), especially with pedals but could hear there was a good amp somewhere in there.

Personally I find modern Jensen’s poor and this one was no exception. I had a 12” Weber 150 to hand which is good (not great) and put that in. The amp immediately sounded significantly better. Gone was the ice pick brightness, greater headroom and greatly improved with pedals. Encouraged I tried a WGS vintage 12c which was better again. Confident the amp could now deliver I put in my all time favourite Fender vintage sounding new speaker, a 12” Fat Jimmy ceramic. The amp then sounded complete - 3D, open, bright yet sweet, like a great DR should be, proper headroom at low and higher volumes and fabulous with all manner of pedals.

I then tried some really nice nos tubes and to my surprise the stock Groove Tubes sounded virtually as good. So don’t waste you money, unless you have better nos tubes than me.

For my taste the DR 64 HW with a Fat Jimmy speaker is something really special.

Bottom line - Don’t be put off this amp if you find it sound the way I did as with a great speaker it is a truly special amp. Just have some additional cash for a decent speaker.

Parting shot - I think it tragic that Fender should have cut this simple corner that strangles what is an excellent product.


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