These are rated 12-watts but sound more like 30w with an efficient speaker! I have a 1967 RRII GS-12R and I adore it!!! Rivals my '62 fender Concert with brown faceplate. Obvs these amps serve drastically different purposes, only comparing tone here. Best sound I know of is the two of them together...Concert for the magical, mysterious brown Fender Tremolo with this surfy Ampeg verb on top. Heaven.
Naroxcpe -My Rocket came with a fender ceramic Oxford from the 70’s and was a bad marriage. Tried a low powered re-comes rola alnico. Good for grind but killed the headroom and the eq range. Since I had messaged you I had found an older re-coned Magnavox P-232 and wow! It’s a large alnico magnet with a 1.25-1.5 voice coil ? and the amp transformed. Great cleans, extended head room and the ability to eq more specifically for what you are trying to achieve or change in guitar. So great, I found another one for a 65’ Gibson Falcon. Fantastic. Now I’m thinking about getting a a Gemini. Fantastic sounding amp and tube rectified as a bit different from the rocket. A bit more powerful. Fender’s have gotten ridiculous expensive! I love the rocket but I’ve had trouble with putting gain/boost/fuzz in front of it and have loved the drowninginguitars UA-cam videos featuring the Gemini and every pedal he uses sounds fantastic. Cheers! My favorite rabbit hole.
@@paulcowart3174 -I ended up trying a re-coned rola 20watts max-sounded good but not head room. Installed an 50’s Magnavox P-232 heavy magnet 8 ohm and it sings. So good I tracked another one down for a Falcon. Now not so easy to find.
Might need a filter caps job? Mine suffered initially from to much treble but bass was not an issue. A better speaker marriage solved the treble issue. It’s strange because this amp suffers the reputation of both being too dark and too much treble. I hear over and over that a cannabis Rex is a good match. A high wattage alnico allowed for better eq control-bass and treble and more headroom. Not a mid scooped amp at all. It might sound funny but it turned into a bigger bother of its former self with a speaker change. It’s a finicky amp but I couldn’t be more pleased now.
@@GIBKEL I have '67 RRII GS-12R that needs a new speaker. I'm torn between Eminence Swamp Thang and a Weber 12f150. I've read that the swamp thang can sound a bit muddy in these amps. Any ideas??
@@AntonVanDerSar Hey C Anton--for fuzzy fun, a re-coned Rola from the 60’s (20 watts) but for headroom, I put in an a 50’s Magnavox P-232 large alnico magnet. I have 15” Magnavox P-232 I would like to build a cabinet for or ….better yet (don’t know?) swap-able baffle for my 65’ GS-12R Reverberocket. More than any other amp, this one has been difficult to match. I do know that a 70’s Utah Fender(large ceramic magnet) 12” sounded terrible in it. When I put in that old Magnavox, I really noticed that you could hear the treble and bass pots have a more dramatic effect on the sound.
Great demo, you're a fantastic player.
I just fired mine up after a couple years Forgot how good it was Tubesceamer to warm it up a little bit These really are sleeper amps Silvertone's too
Amp sounds big, and I appreciate your playing.
rated 12w but sound like 30w with an efficient speaker.
These are rated 12-watts but sound more like 30w with an efficient speaker! I have a 1967 RRII GS-12R and I adore it!!! Rivals my '62 fender Concert with brown faceplate. Obvs these amps serve drastically different purposes, only comparing tone here. Best sound I know of is the two of them together...Concert for the magical, mysterious brown Fender Tremolo with this surfy Ampeg verb on top. Heaven.
Sounds great!
The Jensen wasn't sounding too good so replaced it years ago Great demo Man sounds sweet
I found one on Craigslist with a 15" speaker! I can't find anything about 15" models anywhere online though.
That actually may be a Gemini. Those came stock with a 15”
Mine still works great, too. Pots are a little noisy, and it is quite a job getting into that electronics section.
Nice demo, what speaker is in this amp?
What speaker do you have in it-curious as I’m trying to find a good match for my 66’ rocket-one of the better demos I’ve come across. Keep it up!
The one I brought in 67' ( and still own) came with a CTS speaker.
Naroxcpe -My Rocket came with a fender ceramic Oxford from the 70’s and was a bad marriage. Tried a low powered re-comes rola alnico. Good for grind but killed the headroom and the eq range. Since I had messaged you I had found an older re-coned Magnavox P-232 and wow! It’s a large alnico magnet with a 1.25-1.5 voice coil ? and the amp transformed. Great cleans, extended head room and the ability to eq more specifically for what you are trying to achieve or change in guitar. So great, I found another one for a 65’ Gibson Falcon. Fantastic. Now I’m thinking about getting a a Gemini. Fantastic sounding amp and tube rectified as a bit different from the rocket. A bit more powerful. Fender’s have gotten ridiculous expensive! I love the rocket but I’ve had trouble with putting gain/boost/fuzz in front of it and have loved the drowninginguitars UA-cam videos featuring the Gemini and every pedal he uses sounds fantastic. Cheers! My favorite rabbit hole.
@@GIBKEL the Jensen in my 65 was bad sounding so replaced it w a Naylor special design and same results I hate breaking in speakers
@@paulcowart3174 -I ended up trying a re-coned rola 20watts max-sounded good but not head room. Installed an 50’s Magnavox P-232 heavy magnet 8 ohm and it sings. So good I tracked another one down for a Falcon. Now not so easy to find.
Bad bass response
Might need a filter caps job? Mine suffered initially from to much treble but bass was not an issue. A better speaker marriage solved the treble issue. It’s strange because this amp suffers the reputation of both being too dark and too much treble. I hear over and over that a cannabis Rex is a good match. A high wattage alnico allowed for better eq control-bass and treble and more headroom. Not a mid scooped amp at all. It might sound funny but it turned into a bigger bother of its former self with a speaker change. It’s a finicky amp but I couldn’t be more pleased now.
@@GIBKEL I have '67 RRII GS-12R that needs a new speaker. I'm torn between Eminence Swamp Thang and a Weber 12f150. I've read that the swamp thang can sound a bit muddy in these amps. Any ideas??
@@AntonVanDerSar Hey C Anton--for fuzzy fun, a re-coned Rola from the 60’s (20 watts) but for headroom, I put in an a 50’s Magnavox P-232 large alnico magnet. I have 15” Magnavox P-232 I would like to build a cabinet for or ….better yet (don’t know?) swap-able baffle for my 65’ GS-12R Reverberocket. More than any other amp, this one has been difficult to match. I do know that a 70’s Utah Fender(large ceramic magnet) 12” sounded terrible in it. When I put in that old Magnavox, I really noticed that you could hear the treble and bass pots have a more dramatic effect on the sound.