I first played one of these in a studio. The engineer used it for loads of things and gigged it himself with 4x12 cab. He said Fender had a QA problem with these because they striped so much cost out of the project but that he'd found a great one. I was very impressed with it and used it on the sessions. I later found one for sale £240. It too was a good one. I later had it modded to improve the reverb and gain channel. The clean channel is incredible clean and a great pedal foundation.
Hello Richard. I have one of the Red Knob Twins just come in. Needs some work and I am going to do some mods to it too. Should be good video. Should be up in three weeks or so. Take care Richard.
Those things would make a great candidate for stripping and build a point to point black face style amp that would then last for many more years and sound even better
I had the Red knob Fender Twin in the early 1990's . I believe the amp you've been fixing was supposed to be a 1X12 version of the Twin amp. I remember getting some great clean sounds out of it, but I couldn't get any consistent drive sounds and reverted to using the clean channel with a well known green pedal in front of it. Ended up with a bad back so had to get something lighter ( can't remember what it was now !).
Hello Pete. You are right about the weight. This amp is only a 1 X 12 and it very heavy. Even with the chassis out the cabinet is still heavy. I think it is why you don't see many people using Fender Twins anymore. Take care Pete.
the super 60 is closer the a mesa mark amp in how it sounds over any other fender amp, not close to sound of the twin. i own both and the twin sounds like a fender and the super 60 sounds "kind of like a fender" but its a fender lol
Went to a jam session in Cambridge many years ago and they had one of these on the stage. After thinking the drive channel was going to be awful I was blown away at how good it sounded with my Yamaha SG2000. Could be tempted if a mint one shows up.
@@vintageguitaramp_guitarteacher Unfortunately I had to let the SG2000 go some years ago due to hard times but I do own one of the newer SG1820's now which I'd say is on par quality and tone wise with the 2000 and weighs over 10lbs! I agree, fantastic guitars and I'm lusting after another 2000! Great work on the Fender and love the channel ❤
I picked up a dead Super Sixty with the same stupidness. Parts were missing and resistors were added. After putting it back to stock it still had that buzzing noise, same as yours. There are like seven or eight short ribbon jumpers going between the main board and pot board. I changed all the jumpers with tightly twisted wire and dead quiet. Could have been a bad ribbon cable or stressed joint from repeated flexing. Spent hours while you spent minutes.
Hello. That's a good idea to replace the ribbons. I can never understand why someone mods an amp that sounds so good in the first place. If it sounds crap the yes, but these amps sound great. Thanks for watching and take care.
Bought a defective red knob Champ 12 -- just interested in the single ended 6L6 Champ with 12" speaker, reverb and distortion. Reverb wasn't working, several plastic jacks broken: nobody replaces them with the originals, they would just break again. In the Champ 12, distortion channel is not a separate channel, it just switches the bias resistor on the power tube with optocouplers. Still the distortion isn't great -- although it's OUTPUT TUBE DISTORTION. This amp is very different - using TL072 opamps for reverb (and distortion. When we can no longer even afford silverface Fenders, is this the next series to become classic? Anyway, sad I let that Champ go, it only had 1 JFET transistor, even the recovery for the reverb. Check my channel if you want to see it ;-) But man, I'm only here for your terrific playing... taken lessons with Albert Lee or Mark K? ;-)
I first played one of these in a studio. The engineer used it for loads of things and gigged it himself with 4x12 cab. He said Fender had a QA problem with these because they striped so much cost out of the project but that he'd found a great one. I was very impressed with it and used it on the sessions. I later found one for sale £240. It too was a good one. I later had it modded to improve the reverb and gain channel. The clean channel is incredible clean and a great pedal foundation.
Hello Richard. I have one of the Red Knob Twins just come in. Needs some work and I am going to do some mods to it too. Should be good video. Should be up in three weeks or so. Take care Richard.
@@vintageguitaramp_guitarteacher look forward to seeing it hope the work goes well.
Those things would make a great candidate for stripping and build a point to point black face style amp that would then last for many more years and sound even better
Hello Mark. You are right. It wouldn't to difficult to convert it. Take care.
i wouldn't go as far to say sound better. these amps are sleepers... one of fenders best sounding amps, not like the old amps though
I had the Red knob Fender Twin in the early 1990's . I believe the amp you've been fixing was supposed to be a 1X12 version of the Twin amp. I remember getting some great clean sounds out of it, but I couldn't get any consistent drive sounds and reverted to using the clean channel with a well known green pedal in front of it. Ended up with a bad back so had to get something lighter ( can't remember what it was now !).
Hello Pete. You are right about the weight. This amp is only a 1 X 12 and it very heavy. Even with the chassis out the cabinet is still heavy. I think it is why you don't see many people using Fender Twins anymore. Take care Pete.
the super 60 is closer the a mesa mark amp in how it sounds over any other fender amp, not close to sound of the twin. i own both and the twin sounds like a fender and the super 60 sounds "kind of like a fender" but its a fender lol
@@putchmillernetwork1799 😅😅😅😅
Decent amp. I gigged one in the 90's for a few years. Good drive channel 👍
Hello. And very loud too. Just a bit of swine to mend with the boards facing downwards. Take care.
Went to a jam session in Cambridge many years ago and they had one of these on the stage. After thinking the drive channel was going to be awful I was blown away at how good it sounded with my Yamaha SG2000. Could be tempted if a mint one shows up.
Hello Pete. You can pick them up quite nowadays. Do you still have the Yamaha? In my opinion the SG2000 is one of the best guitars ever made.
@@vintageguitaramp_guitarteacher Unfortunately I had to let the SG2000 go some years ago due to hard times but I do own one of the newer SG1820's now which I'd say is on par quality and tone wise with the 2000 and weighs over 10lbs! I agree, fantastic guitars and I'm lusting after another 2000! Great work on the Fender and love the channel ❤
I picked up a dead Super Sixty with the same stupidness. Parts were missing and resistors were added. After putting it back to stock it still had that buzzing noise, same as yours. There are like seven or eight short ribbon jumpers going between the main board and pot board. I changed all the jumpers with tightly twisted wire and dead quiet. Could have been a bad ribbon cable or stressed joint from repeated flexing. Spent hours while you spent minutes.
Hello. That's a good idea to replace the ribbons. I can never understand why someone mods an amp that sounds so good in the first place. If it sounds crap the yes, but these amps sound great. Thanks for watching and take care.
Bought a defective red knob Champ 12 -- just interested in the single ended 6L6 Champ with 12" speaker, reverb and distortion. Reverb wasn't working, several plastic jacks broken: nobody replaces them with the originals, they would just break again. In the Champ 12, distortion channel is not a separate channel, it just switches the bias resistor on the power tube with optocouplers. Still the distortion isn't great -- although it's OUTPUT TUBE DISTORTION. This amp is very different - using TL072 opamps for reverb (and distortion.
When we can no longer even afford silverface Fenders, is this the next series to become classic? Anyway, sad I let that Champ go, it only had 1 JFET transistor, even the recovery for the reverb. Check my channel if you want to see it ;-) But man, I'm only here for your terrific playing... taken lessons with Albert Lee or Mark K? ;-)
Hello, thank you. I have just subscribed. I will check out the champ video when I get a minute. Take care.
Just use a pedal for overdrive.
Hello William. Yes, I think that would be a good way to go with this amp. take care.