That’s rude geez. He did a good demo a lot of different. Things to hear what the amp could do. Cleans slow. I like that so you can hear what amp does. Then push it. Then midway push
Awsome clean amp, but i still love the British amps for hard rock. A cranked Fender just has that Crosby Stills and Nash tone you cant fix...........i get it for the clean players, its great.
@@yesmanasia123 general rule of thumb, silver face (with the exception of these early drip edges) are cleaner than blackface amps. It'll still grind, but just has to be extremely loud like mine was
Raw is the tone though. My 67 Super Reverb is usually about 7-8' away from me and I keep it right at 6 on the volume. I get in moods where I just need a grill full of power blasting away. Great series with your efforts on this amp by the way. By the way, that Dano Jazzmaster sounds fantastic!
Sounds amazing! Nice playing… Gibson guitar, Fender amp. Though the Jazzmaster and Gretch sounded great as well. Totally worth the time and care you put into restoring this amp.
I know a lot of people don’t like it… but I LOVE LOVE the feedback a 330 gets. Or I had a 61 Trini Lopez with PAFs that was like that… glorious with gain too
The semi-hollows are easier to manage, but the ES330 and Gretsch are pretty wild being so close to the amp! The Gretsch especially. Always tricky playing so close to the speakers
Sounding good, that 330 with the P90's is the ticket - I've had super reverbs for the past 50 years, they are indeed the top of the heap for me. I currently am running a '74 with original oxford AlNico 10's, cab was wasted when I got it, I had a new pine cab built in Rough Blonde Tolex and Oxblood grill cloth. Pull the 1st preamp tube, V1. Kills that channel but changes the Vibrato channel gain structure due to shared cathode circuit. I also rebuilt the bias circuit and am running Genelex KT66's - they need -50 to -60 VDC on bias. They pull a little more heater current, but I run a Brown Box and set it for 105 VAC to keep things cool. Blackfaced the circuitry, and added a repro blackface front panel. My #1 amp! One of the Jazzmaster clips sounded like you had some delay going? Good show, brother, you made a great purchase and decision. Alnicos are the key in this amp, the ceramic 10's they also came with just ain't the same!
Super tones. Sounds great. Loved watching you enjoy your guitars through it too. You played a great variety of styles that really showed off the amp to great effect. Loved the diversity of what you can play. Great video.
Wow! I watched the previous video, and was very impressed with the thoroughness with which you inspected and evaluated it. Sounds like your repaired it with the same expertise! Super clean and sparkling highs with none of the harshness some solid state amps inject. However, what I'm most impressed with here is the opportunity to hear a wide variety of guitars being played (with some real talent, BTW) thru a proper tube amp. If only I had one like it - or any of your guitars!
Really enjoyed this series on the Super Reverb. Its just absolutely gorgeous sounding. I wish you lived in the Twin Cities I would bring my Princeton to you!!
Thanks!! Hopefully you're able to find a great tech local to ya, and if you do hang on tight! Good techs are hard to come by, whole reason why I started doing it myself in the first place.
I recently had an opportunity to buy a '72/'73 Fender Super Reverb. This one was a true "closet classic." Completely original; original speakers; original Vib/Rev pedal, original slipcover, the whole ballgame. A trusted friend and fellow guitarist had it. It went up for sale at a bad time for me. I just didn't need to spend the money at the time. Tough to see THAT one get away.
Alright let's hear it! Or rather, you heard it so what do you think? lol. Was channeling my inner Doug/Pat with the SG leads, subconsciously. Never tried diming the trem before on a fender, sounded rad with the Gretsch! Any bit of delay you hear is my 90's DMM. Everything else is just the amp by itself, apart from the Gretsch driven tones which used a tube screamer because I couldn't turn it up enough to breakup without uncontrollable feedback being so close. Is what it is!
Man I just passed on a killer drip edge Super last month. Hearing you play through makes me wish I had pulled the trigger. But then you describe how loud it is and I’m glad I didn’t, haha. Awesome stuff, as always. Everything you do is well done. I particularly love your pickup comparisons. Keep it up!!!
Thank you! Yeah if you want this level of breakup from the amp, prepare to be LOUD! That is, unless you install a master volume like I did. Didn't use it here to keep the tone raw and organic, but it is always an option in the real world 🙂
@@YeatzeeGuitar In the end I decided that my Magnatone M80 Super 59 with master volume really is all I need. The master volume on that amp is amazing and it really pulls off a Fender clean tone very well, in addition to the Marshall overdriven thing. Still I dream of cranking a Super during a gig, lol.
Truly my favorite amp ever. My friend Chuck had a 1965 deluxe reverb sitting in the corner of his music room and said I could borrow it if I could get it working. I retubed it and along with my recently acquired Fender 1975 Starcaster($250) was pure Fender guitar tone heaven. I offered him $500 for it but after hearing it again he denied my request. That was 1987. I would die a happy man if I could have them both back again today.
When I was a teen in about 1981 and I was starting to get into playing guitar I had friends who were already playing a bit older than me and these were the amps the easiest for them to get their hands on here in the USA. You have to remember back then Marshalls is what many wanted, but they were expensive being an overseas amp to get. My first big amp was the JCM800 but that was around 1987 or 1988 when I was able to afford it because it took me a while to save being I had no help and start in 1985, 86ish. . But yeah, these amps are brutally loud amplifiers. But nice job. Brings back great memories.
It sounds phenomenal. $1200 and a few soldering iron burns later - well worth it, IMO. But man, that thing is a beast in size. These amps are why people gig with modelers. I have a Peavey 6505+ 112 combo that I literally split into a head and cab so I didn't have to try to lift the freaking 75 pounds all in one go!
75 pounds is no joke!!! I've got to imagine this super weighs less than that, but yes a cheap harbor freight dolly / some 2x4's with wheels attached go a long way!
@@YeatzeeGuitar My back is older than yours...just lifting it out of the car/van is painful! However, some of the old venues in cellars/basements were not easy for load in/out - stairs and dollys don't work together. Glad yours weighs a little less!. Still got to come see you guys play soon.
@@DanielBobke That is true, stairs and dolleys don't mix lol. Absolutely, I'll put out details for the next shows when we've got it all scheduled out on my IG 🙂
Paid $325 for mine from my first full-time job in '86. Mostly have played thru it a '79 Strat I got around the same time, guess I got it right the first time. I agree w/some of the others, all the guitars sound great but the SG thru that amp is somethin else 🤩
Some of my best memories was playing with my band on a fender concert 2 12, but thru a jbl speaker in a floor monitor with the tweeter disconnected. Mid 80s or so
thanks for this series, I seriously considered getting a vintage Super watching your voyage --but got my eminence loaded DRRI back after foolishly trading it away a few months back---if I could have a few amps id definitely get one of these--love that 4x10 fender tone!,alas my budget ,back and repair skills aren't conducive to that :P
Sounds Great!! I usually run my 1968 Super on 3-4 then hit it with a Wazza Kraft Fuzz and back my guitar volume back a bit. Gets break up with out ripping your head off for Home Use. Supers have such a great pretty full sound.
Great vídeos man. Awesome tone. Supers are awesome. I have 2. A 69 and a 74 NM. One with original alnico cts that are killer with drives. And the other with wharehouse g10c, bright and glassy as hell. Wonderfull man. Sugestion ...make some vídeos testing other speakers ! All the best
Wow! Epic tones! Not a bad one there, but that White Falcon, Holy smokes!! Made for that amp, or is it the other way round? Either way, totally epic❤great playing & a job very well done🎉💥
Sounds absolutely PHENOMENAL! Especially with the Falcon...OMG Glorious! : ) Fantastic job! Also on a side note, whatever you are using for lighting and cameras, really looks great. Overall just an awesome video Like #149 by me, and a new sub. : )
You've got a terrific amp there. I've owned at least 3 Super Reverbs since my first (67 blackface purchased new in 68. My current and last one is an early 64. I've played Fender amps forever, and consistently find that for the most usable rock and general blues music they work best with the Treble and Mid (if available) on 10 and the Bass around 3-4 (at most), lest the bass just muddle up the sound. This EQ seems to work with nearly all Fenders but is obviously subject to revision for specific genres. I find that this seems to give you the most balanced starting tone, no matter the guitar. Always remember, the tone controls on Fenders are flat at 10, not at 5. Passive tone controls such as found on Fenders and many tube amps are only subtractive. Active tone controls are flat in their center position.
Thanks! Wow, Treble on 10? A lot of this is Mids on 7-10, Treble on 5 or so, bass on 3ish. I think mine would take your head off with treble on 10 haha
@YeatzeeGuitar You'll need that on a stage setup to cut through. That's also the reason for the bass. No bright switch required except in extreme situations.
Take it from a guy who has owned a '64 Super Reverb from the day it was a brand spanker ... this amp cooks! And your playing is just peachy. That from a player of 62+ years. And for the fun of it, get a 5R4GY rectifier tube in that monster and see you you like THAT!
For the price, SM57 is no brainer when recording guitars. Excellent microphone. Though it is a microphone with strong own sound signature. One that fits electric guitar amplifiers very well but not necessarily very true to the sound in the room. Sure positioning matters a lot. Avoiding the center of the speaker helps. With budget in my mind and knowing a few things, I went with just a bit more expanded setup. At the amplifier, I use two microphones. SM57 and 906e. 906e complements it very well and has a flatter, more extended line. For the room, I reuse my vocal microphone NT1. Then I go into the 10 channel Yamaha mixer that has 4 microphone inputs. This helps me to mix microphones already in a live environment and make it sound more true to what I hear in the room. Typically, I go from the output into the camera inputs. This saves post-production mixing and editing time. Mixer has its interface as well, and one can use that as well. Or one can use mixer output and go with that into the interface. Sure, one coild use microphone preamps in between and control the signal even more, but that just doesn't fit the investment. If you have money for preamps, go with more expensive microphones first. Anyhow, I also have 609 as an alternative to SM57. They are more alike while 906e is very different, sounding microphone. If your amplifier or cabinet has only one speaker, I plave all 3 in close proximity and play with their position. Then I mix them together. Sometimes, it means that SM57 or 609 will be almost out of the picture because they sound similarly, but positioning them differently gives you another sound. Especially if you are placing one of them at 45 degrees angle or if you pkace ine if them in the rear of the open cabinet and flip its phase. That's only if you have an option to flip the phase because a lot of cheap mixers do not have it. If the amplifier or cabinet has more speakers, then I select the one that sounds best to me and mike that one. If it has different speakers, then 609 is going to the different speaker, and I blend it in the mix until I hear what I hear in the room. Room microphones stay relatively low but adds a bit of the dimension. Good studio headphones are a big help in mixing. That's my process. Nothing unique, though. People have used that kind of setup for a long time. Regarding what's loud and how loud is perceived today, it is very funny to me. Today's PA systems are so much more powerful, but overall spund levels kinda got less loud due to all the laws and rules. When I was a teenager, concerts were so loud that days after it, you would still hear the wall of Marshall amplifiers. If you have played in a band, you would be looking for a place to rehearse. Place was no good if you wouldn't be able to play as loud as possible. The sound level was more important than the quality of performance, almost 😂 Nowadays, a lot of guitar players want 100 Watt Super Lead Plexi full stack. But, they have never been in the same room with a beast. First, what gets them is that it's way to clean and has tons of headroom and will overdrive only at insaine levels. That's plugging straight in. Then what scares everyone is effect if the sound pressure. It literally makes your pants' legs feel like a flag on the pole in hurricane winds. It literally hurts in your chest. Not to mention that hearing protection is really necessary. Even standing a side of it or even behind it is too loud in any room smaller than the middle size venue. First time you can't get over it and start enjoying it. Your guitar vocabulary turns into 3 power chords songs. A lot of people play it and say it's great but piss their pants, actually. It's way too brutal and unpractical way to play your small gigs. Once you try it, you will learn to respect people like Joe Bonnamassa even more. They are beat tamers. You have to learn to work with your guitar knobs and the dynamic of your playing. It is not just something you pick up in 2 minutes. Any Twin with 2x12 and any 4x10 Fender is brutally loud. They are loud at 3 already. No one alows high levels at the stage if you are not a big star in a big venue. That's good for the ears but bad for the guitar lovers. So many people playing have never felt volume levels that aren't as scary as full blast Plexi but are enough to make wind and make power section saturate as well. Mist if the people do not even know how their amplifier sounds. That magic sound level where guitar starts to vibrate before feedback. It feels alive in your hands. It's a great interaction. Nothing can prepare you to play loud but getting there slowly and learning how to deal with it. If more people could feel that and hear guitar at that level and tone more people would be playing guitars and guitar music would be more popular. What you hear on your phone listening to some proper rock concert is nothing like being at the concert yourself.
Man that sounds awesome i swear that's one of the best amps anyone could own , I been looking for one for years but when I find one it's messed up and they want big money for it I'm hoping one day I will have one that works and I can afford it.
@@YeatzeeGuitar unfortunately I live in Florida so I have no one to go and check it out for me but if you ever find one and want to sell it let me know , I have been watching you for a year now and I always can't wait to see what you will have on your on your bench to work on I mean you are very impressive if it's not right then you will make it right and you do so much work is incredible I'm so impressed that a young guy like yourself is all into making it like factory or even better I'm old as hell but you and amps and what you do is awesome especially the Vox you have and I seen the video you posted with you on gig night having that amp playing it loud and proud . Keep up the great work man I really enjoy your videos
Sounded great! Loved hearing all the different guitars and your playing. I was laughing that you were wearing it like an 80's hip hop guy with a boom box on his shoulder! Get an A/B Both pedal, and run the DMM in parallel using the normal channel for wet only. It's a great way to keep the main sound intact and add delay, but you might have to do the one wire mod where the normal ch is in phase and get reverb too. I need to finish up servicing the 501 echo and I'll demo so you can see what I mean. The wet/dry mono rig works really well with any delay pedal that can be wet only.
I would like to have heard a Gibson Les Paul and a Fender Strat. The 330 is nice if I were playing on stage with the MB again. PT always played a Strat through his. Great video, I have watched the entire series.
They're so huge , heavy, impractical and louder than anyone needs these days . I need one .....and one day I'll have one and I'll finally be whole 😊 thanks Mr gateway drug dealer
That jazzmaster sounds killer! Exactly the JM tone I have in my head. What pickups do you have in it? And what pot values? Been considering switching pickups and pots in mine to 250k for more balance like yours has
It's a special guitar! It's got pickups that aren't made anymore unfortunately, Pickup Wizard / Peter Leonard. 500k volume/tone pots, I find that's the best balance for a JM. I do also rarely play with the tone wide open, it pretty typically lives around 7 and I adjust as necessary for the amp. The #1 thing I see with JM hate is being afraid to work with the controls, there's no reason you have to have the tone on 10. Give yourself headroom for a darker tone / amp, set your baseline lower. I do the same on my Goldtop Les Paul for example.
Awesome! I have the same amp, wondering where yours starts to break up. Mine starts getting hairy around 3.5 on the volume on the bridge pickup of my tele. Was the volume knob unchanged between guitars? Great stuff!
Thanks. Not a big strat guy, but I did play one in the recent 1964 Vibroverb demo on the channel: ua-cam.com/video/zAJeCHnkLVQ/v-deo.htmlsi=AU8DwoaBHAeJdJCA
good tone, but terrible playing you need lessons
That’s rude geez. He did a good demo a lot of different. Things to hear what the amp could do. Cleans slow. I like that so you can hear what amp does. Then push it. Then midway push
OUCH!.........break out your video! ..........................Yea i thought so lol
try to appreciate things, youll be a better person
@@godbyone ooooo, Look at you Mr. shredder pants!
I think his sound with that amp/guitar combination is awesome!
Those clean Jazzmaster tones were amazing.
Hard to beat that guitar for those types of tones
Awsome clean amp, but i still love the British amps for hard rock. A cranked Fender just has that
Crosby Stills and Nash tone you cant fix...........i get it for the clean players, its great.
I agree, for me the Jazzmaster along with the ES330, but the Jazzmaster first.
Came for the sound, stayed for the choreography.
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Very nice. I love how musical your playing is & the timing/rhythm is fantastic.
@@daveanderson5136 thank you!!
LOL! "Who am I kidding? Gentlemen..." Bravo. And the amp sounds great.
🤣 I know my demo 😎 lol. Thanks!
That's misogynist!
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@@YeatzeeGuitar Lol!
It’s a good one boys. A really, really good one.
Sounds pretty darn good to me, something to be proud of.
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Sounds great paired with the SG.
Love watching you jam. So much more interesting than watching someone sitting in a chair.
Thank you!
That’s why guitars have straps. Get up and let the music move you too. If it’s not moving you, how do you expect it to move others?
I have a 1973 Fender Super Reverb and it doesn't break up or distort like yours. Great tone , thanks!
@@yesmanasia123 general rule of thumb, silver face (with the exception of these early drip edges) are cleaner than blackface amps. It'll still grind, but just has to be extremely loud like mine was
Prefer the late 70's silverface sound. This tone is too Smokey sounding.
Raw is the tone though. My 67 Super Reverb is usually about 7-8' away from me and I keep it right at 6 on the volume. I get in moods where I just need a grill full of power blasting away. Great series with your efforts on this amp by the way. By the way, that Dano Jazzmaster sounds fantastic!
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Sounds amazing! Nice playing…
Gibson guitar, Fender amp.
Though the Jazzmaster and Gretch sounded great as well. Totally worth the time and care you put into restoring this amp.
Appreciate it! I'm particular to Gibsons and Fenders as well 🙂
Sounds great! Really been enjoying the channel, keep it coming!
Thanks, and will do! Next amp is special!
MAN, that JM sounds incredible through it. Pretty much perfect sounding amp right there dude. Nice work, and I love your playing!
Thanks man! I love that guitar
Tones to be proud of! Killer amplifier; great examples w/ different guitars. (I've been a guitarist for almost fifty years, fwiw...)
That was awesome ! nice playing too !
I know a lot of people don’t like it… but I LOVE LOVE the feedback a 330 gets. Or I had a 61 Trini Lopez with PAFs that was like that… glorious with gain too
The semi-hollows are easier to manage, but the ES330 and Gretsch are pretty wild being so close to the amp! The Gretsch especially. Always tricky playing so close to the speakers
great sounds man. Love the jazzmaster and the 335/bigsby/feedback was getting that lanois vibe. Nice Job!
@@e.r.559am7 thanks! Yessir
Sounding good, that 330 with the P90's is the ticket - I've had super reverbs for the past 50 years, they are indeed the top of the heap for me. I currently am running a '74 with original oxford AlNico 10's, cab was wasted when I got it, I had a new pine cab built in Rough Blonde Tolex and Oxblood grill cloth. Pull the 1st preamp tube, V1. Kills that channel but changes the Vibrato channel gain structure due to shared cathode circuit. I also rebuilt the bias circuit and am running Genelex KT66's - they need -50 to -60 VDC on bias. They pull a little more heater current, but I run a Brown Box and set it for 105 VAC to keep things cool. Blackfaced the circuitry, and added a repro blackface front panel. My #1 amp!
One of the Jazzmaster clips sounded like you had some delay going? Good show, brother, you made a great purchase and decision. Alnicos are the key in this amp, the ceramic 10's they also came with just ain't the same!
Super tones. Sounds great. Loved watching you enjoy your guitars through it too. You played a great variety of styles that really showed off the amp to great effect. Loved the diversity of what you can play. Great video.
@@BobEstremera thank you!
Wow! I watched the previous video, and was very impressed with the thoroughness with which you inspected and evaluated it. Sounds like your repaired it with the same expertise! Super clean and sparkling highs with none of the harshness some solid state amps inject. However, what I'm most impressed with here is the opportunity to hear a wide variety of guitars being played (with some real talent, BTW) thru a proper tube amp. If only I had one like it - or any of your guitars!
Appreciate the kind words, thank you!
Really enjoyed this series on the Super Reverb. Its just absolutely gorgeous sounding. I wish you lived in the Twin Cities I would bring my Princeton to you!!
Thanks!! Hopefully you're able to find a great tech local to ya, and if you do hang on tight! Good techs are hard to come by, whole reason why I started doing it myself in the first place.
I recently had an opportunity to buy a '72/'73 Fender Super Reverb. This one was a true "closet classic." Completely original; original speakers; original Vib/Rev pedal, original slipcover, the whole ballgame. A trusted friend and fellow guitarist had it. It went up for sale at a bad time for me. I just didn't need to spend the money at the time. Tough to see THAT one get away.
Bummer! But they're still out there for sure!
11:15 onwards is amazing. The dynamics, feedback and reverb coming together is awesome.
Alright let's hear it! Or rather, you heard it so what do you think? lol. Was channeling my inner Doug/Pat with the SG leads, subconsciously. Never tried diming the trem before on a fender, sounded rad with the Gretsch! Any bit of delay you hear is my 90's DMM. Everything else is just the amp by itself, apart from the Gretsch driven tones which used a tube screamer because I couldn't turn it up enough to breakup without uncontrollable feedback being so close. Is what it is!
sounds pretty amazing I think your playing brought the tones out of the amp. It makes a world of difference when you can play.
Man I just passed on a killer drip edge Super last month. Hearing you play through makes me wish I had pulled the trigger. But then you describe how loud it is and I’m glad I didn’t, haha. Awesome stuff, as always. Everything you do is well done. I particularly love your pickup comparisons. Keep it up!!!
Thank you! Yeah if you want this level of breakup from the amp, prepare to be LOUD! That is, unless you install a master volume like I did. Didn't use it here to keep the tone raw and organic, but it is always an option in the real world 🙂
@@YeatzeeGuitar In the end I decided that my Magnatone M80 Super 59 with master volume really is all I need. The master volume on that amp is amazing and it really pulls off a Fender clean tone very well, in addition to the Marshall overdriven thing. Still I dream of cranking a Super during a gig, lol.
@@adamgray8009 Nice! Never tried an M80, I've been passively after a Magnatone 260 for a while now
Truly my favorite amp ever. My friend Chuck had a 1965 deluxe reverb sitting in the corner of his music room and said I could borrow it if I could get it working. I retubed it and along with my recently acquired Fender 1975 Starcaster($250) was pure Fender guitar tone heaven. I offered him $500 for it but after hearing it again he denied my request. That was 1987. I would die a happy man if I could have them both back again today.
When I was a teen in about 1981 and I was starting to get into playing guitar I had friends who were already playing a bit older than me and these were the amps the easiest for them to get their hands on here in the USA. You have to remember back then Marshalls is what many wanted, but they were expensive being an overseas amp to get. My first big amp was the JCM800 but that was around 1987 or 1988 when I was able to afford it because it took me a while to save being I had no help and start in 1985, 86ish. . But yeah, these amps are brutally loud amplifiers. But nice job. Brings back great memories.
It sounds phenomenal. $1200 and a few soldering iron burns later - well worth it, IMO. But man, that thing is a beast in size. These amps are why people gig with modelers. I have a Peavey 6505+ 112 combo that I literally split into a head and cab so I didn't have to try to lift the freaking 75 pounds all in one go!
75 pounds is no joke!!! I've got to imagine this super weighs less than that, but yes a cheap harbor freight dolly / some 2x4's with wheels attached go a long way!
@@YeatzeeGuitar My back is older than yours...just lifting it out of the car/van is painful! However, some of the old venues in cellars/basements were not easy for load in/out - stairs and dollys don't work together. Glad yours weighs a little less!. Still got to come see you guys play soon.
@@DanielBobke That is true, stairs and dolleys don't mix lol. Absolutely, I'll put out details for the next shows when we've got it all scheduled out on my IG 🙂
Sounds phenomenal! Killer playing and tones. Outa sight!
I picked up a 2000 USA 4x10 HotRod Deville from a pawn shop for 75.00. Blown fuse and one bad cap
Wow, that's less than a basic overdrive pedal nice score!
Paid $325 for mine from my first full-time job in '86. Mostly have played thru it a '79 Strat I got around the same time, guess I got it right the first time. I agree w/some of the others, all the guitars sound great but the SG thru that amp is somethin else 🤩
Nice work and playing. I could see the joy and fun.
Great playing - great tones!!
Incredible tone. Can only imagine how loud that was though.
Yup, deafening!
Awesome sounding amp and amazing playing. Thank you!
Great amp, great playing, superb rock and roll grimaces!
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What an amp!!! Definitely my favorite sounding fender amp of all time. I wish fender or someone else would make an updated version with attenuation 😊
Careful what you wish for...fender might put one out with shoddy build quality for a few grand and only drive up the demand for these vintage ones
Oof
Some of my best memories was playing with my band on a fender concert 2 12, but thru a jbl speaker in a floor monitor with the tweeter disconnected. Mid 80s or so
Amp sounds great. Playing was great. And the video looks remarkably great too. Seriously.
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sho nuff, that's the tone. Lovely test subject selection!
Thanks! 🤙
thanks for this series, I seriously considered getting a vintage Super watching your voyage --but got my eminence loaded DRRI back after foolishly trading it away a few months back---if I could have a few amps id definitely get one of these--love that 4x10 fender tone!,alas my budget ,back and repair skills aren't conducive to that :P
Haha I get that! It's all a balance!
Very evocative tonage...thanks for the tasty licks ; )
evocative tonage deserves a ™
Nice dude! I looked at the super Reverb long and hard. Once i tested a Roland JC 40, i looked no more.
Those are cool!
Sounds Great!! I usually run my 1968 Super on 3-4 then hit it with a Wazza Kraft Fuzz and back my guitar volume back a bit. Gets break up with out ripping your head off for Home Use.
Supers have such a great pretty full sound.
Nice!
That SG tone is amazing💥⚡️
Sounds great to me!
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Great vídeos man. Awesome tone. Supers are awesome. I have 2. A 69 and a 74 NM. One with original alnico cts that are killer with drives. And the other with wharehouse g10c, bright and glassy as hell. Wonderfull man. Sugestion ...make some vídeos testing other speakers ! All the best
Thank you! I will be doing a fun speaker comparison with my vibrolux here in the near future, so stay tuned!
Great amp. Well done demo.
Cheers! 🤙
Sounds great. Those P90s sounded great, Chris Buck like. What a fantastic collection of guitars. That's a great amp. Very loud I'm sure.
Thank you, high praise! Yes, deafeningly loud! The audio is deceiving for sure, brutal in person. Lots of air being moved
Sounded great! ❤
Thank you!!
Sounds great!!
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Wow! Epic tones! Not a bad one there, but that White Falcon, Holy smokes!! Made for that amp, or is it the other way round? Either way, totally epic❤great playing & a job very well done🎉💥
Sounds absolutely PHENOMENAL! Especially with the Falcon...OMG Glorious! : ) Fantastic job! Also on a side note, whatever you are using for lighting and cameras, really looks great. Overall just an awesome video Like #149 by me, and a new sub. : )
Thank you, I really appreciate that! 🙏
You've got a terrific amp there. I've owned at least 3 Super Reverbs since my first (67 blackface purchased new in 68. My current and last one is an early 64. I've played Fender amps forever, and consistently find that for the most usable rock and general blues music they work best with the Treble and Mid (if available) on 10 and the Bass around 3-4 (at most), lest the bass just muddle up the sound. This EQ seems to work with nearly all Fenders but is obviously subject to revision for specific genres.
I find that this seems to give you the most balanced starting tone, no matter the guitar. Always remember, the tone controls on Fenders are flat at 10, not at 5. Passive tone controls such as found on Fenders and many tube amps are only subtractive. Active tone controls are flat in their center position.
Thanks! Wow, Treble on 10? A lot of this is Mids on 7-10, Treble on 5 or so, bass on 3ish. I think mine would take your head off with treble on 10 haha
@YeatzeeGuitar You'll need that on a stage setup to cut through. That's also the reason for the bass. No bright switch required except in extreme situations.
@@clarkeblacker Gotcha, well I hope to bring it up on stage some time soon!
Every penny! 😎
Take it from a guy who has owned a '64 Super Reverb from the day it was a brand spanker ... this amp cooks! And your playing is just peachy. That from a player of 62+ years. And for the fun of it, get a 5R4GY rectifier tube in that monster and see you you like THAT!
Appreciate it! Love it more every day
For the price, SM57 is no brainer when recording guitars. Excellent microphone. Though it is a microphone with strong own sound signature. One that fits electric guitar amplifiers very well but not necessarily very true to the sound in the room. Sure positioning matters a lot. Avoiding the center of the speaker helps.
With budget in my mind and knowing a few things, I went with just a bit more expanded setup.
At the amplifier, I use two microphones. SM57 and 906e. 906e complements it very well and has a flatter, more extended line. For the room, I reuse my vocal microphone NT1. Then I go into the 10 channel Yamaha mixer that has 4 microphone inputs. This helps me to mix microphones already in a live environment and make it sound more true to what I hear in the room.
Typically, I go from the output into the camera inputs. This saves post-production mixing and editing time.
Mixer has its interface as well, and one can use that as well.
Or one can use mixer output and go with that into the interface.
Sure, one coild use microphone preamps in between and control the signal even more, but that just doesn't fit the investment. If you have money for preamps, go with more expensive microphones first.
Anyhow, I also have 609 as an alternative to SM57. They are more alike while 906e is very different, sounding microphone.
If your amplifier or cabinet has only one speaker, I plave all 3 in close proximity and play with their position. Then I mix them together. Sometimes, it means that SM57 or 609 will be almost out of the picture because they sound similarly, but positioning them differently gives you another sound. Especially if you are placing one of them at 45 degrees angle or if you pkace ine if them in the rear of the open cabinet and flip its phase. That's only if you have an option to flip the phase because a lot of cheap mixers do not have it.
If the amplifier or cabinet has more speakers, then I select the one that sounds best to me and mike that one.
If it has different speakers, then 609 is going to the different speaker, and I blend it in the mix until I hear what I hear in the room.
Room microphones stay relatively low but adds a bit of the dimension.
Good studio headphones are a big help in mixing.
That's my process. Nothing unique, though. People have used that kind of setup for a long time.
Regarding what's loud and how loud is perceived today, it is very funny to me.
Today's PA systems are so much more powerful, but overall spund levels kinda got less loud due to all the laws and rules.
When I was a teenager, concerts were so loud that days after it, you would still hear the wall of Marshall amplifiers.
If you have played in a band, you would be looking for a place to rehearse. Place was no good if you wouldn't be able to play as loud as possible. The sound level was more important than the quality of performance, almost 😂
Nowadays, a lot of guitar players want 100 Watt Super Lead Plexi full stack. But, they have never been in the same room with a beast.
First, what gets them is that it's way to clean and has tons of headroom and will overdrive only at insaine levels. That's plugging straight in.
Then what scares everyone is effect if the sound pressure. It literally makes your pants' legs feel like a flag on the pole in hurricane winds. It literally hurts in your chest. Not to mention that hearing protection is really necessary. Even standing a side of it or even behind it is too loud in any room smaller than the middle size venue.
First time you can't get over it and start enjoying it. Your guitar vocabulary turns into 3 power chords songs.
A lot of people play it and say it's great but piss their pants, actually. It's way too brutal and unpractical way to play your small gigs.
Once you try it, you will learn to respect people like Joe Bonnamassa even more. They are beat tamers. You have to learn to work with your guitar knobs and the dynamic of your playing. It is not just something you pick up in 2 minutes.
Any Twin with 2x12 and any 4x10 Fender is brutally loud. They are loud at 3 already. No one alows high levels at the stage if you are not a big star in a big venue.
That's good for the ears but bad for the guitar lovers. So many people playing have never felt volume levels that aren't as scary as full blast Plexi but are enough to make wind and make power section saturate as well. Mist if the people do not even know how their amplifier sounds. That magic sound level where guitar starts to vibrate before feedback. It feels alive in your hands. It's a great interaction.
Nothing can prepare you to play loud but getting there slowly and learning how to deal with it.
If more people could feel that and hear guitar at that level and tone more people would be playing guitars and guitar music would be more popular.
What you hear on your phone listening to some proper rock concert is nothing like being at the concert yourself.
Plus I love the content
Man that sounds awesome i swear that's one of the best amps anyone could own , I been looking for one for years but when I find one it's messed up and they want big money for it I'm hoping one day I will have one that works and I can afford it.
Thanks! They're super plentiful here in SoCal, people can't give them away even all original for under 2k
@@YeatzeeGuitar unfortunately I live in Florida so I have no one to go and check it out for me but if you ever find one and want to sell it let me know , I have been watching you for a year now and I always can't wait to see what you will have on your on your bench to work on I mean you are very impressive if it's not right then you will make it right and you do so much work is incredible I'm so impressed that a young guy like yourself is all into making it like factory or even better I'm old as hell but you and amps and what you do is awesome especially the Vox you have and I seen the video you posted with you on gig night having that amp playing it loud and proud . Keep up the great work man I really enjoy your videos
@@jimmello7363 I really appreciate that man, thank you!! 🙏
Sounded great! Loved hearing all the different guitars and your playing. I was laughing that you were wearing it like an 80's hip hop guy with a boom box on his shoulder! Get an A/B Both pedal, and run the DMM in parallel using the normal channel for wet only. It's a great way to keep the main sound intact and add delay, but you might have to do the one wire mod where the normal ch is in phase and get reverb too. I need to finish up servicing the 501 echo and I'll demo so you can see what I mean. The wet/dry mono rig works really well with any delay pedal that can be wet only.
That's a cool idea! The dmm actually flips phase, not true bypass (for better imo)
@@YeatzeeGuitar the Radial Hipshot ABY is the best for this, doesn't need power.
I've got a Lehle that's the same, no power required
I would like to have heard a Gibson Les Paul and a Fender Strat. The 330 is nice if I were playing on stage with the MB again. PT always played a Strat through his. Great video, I have watched the entire series.
Thanks! I tried to include a variety of guitars but there's always a few that I miss 🙂
Just wow..!
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They're so huge , heavy, impractical and louder than anyone needs these days . I need one .....and one day I'll have one and I'll finally be whole 😊 thanks Mr gateway drug dealer
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That jazzmaster sounds killer! Exactly the JM tone I have in my head. What pickups do you have in it? And what pot values? Been considering switching pickups and pots in mine to 250k for more balance like yours has
It's a special guitar! It's got pickups that aren't made anymore unfortunately, Pickup Wizard / Peter Leonard. 500k volume/tone pots, I find that's the best balance for a JM. I do also rarely play with the tone wide open, it pretty typically lives around 7 and I adjust as necessary for the amp. The #1 thing I see with JM hate is being afraid to work with the controls, there's no reason you have to have the tone on 10. Give yourself headroom for a darker tone / amp, set your baseline lower. I do the same on my Goldtop Les Paul for example.
@@YeatzeeGuitar Very helpful response, thanks!
That.. Tone.. Amp.. Yes.
Awesome! I have the same amp, wondering where yours starts to break up. Mine starts getting hairy around 3.5 on the volume on the bridge pickup of my tele. Was the volume knob unchanged between guitars? Great stuff!
Volume settings varied on every guitar, you might be able to make it out if you go full screen
What speakers you running in this beast? I think the original CTS alnicos in my 67 are ready to be retired haha. Sounds great!
Cts alnicos :)
We need a guitarist that jams to fully understand the tone of that amp. Hire a guitar player that can blow that amp out!
LOL..."ladies and gentlemen".
Looks like I’m buying a 68
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What speaker did you mic? Sure sounded great.
The stock alnico cts. Thanks!
was hoping for a strat nice amp tho
Thanks. Not a big strat guy, but I did play one in the recent 1964 Vibroverb demo on the channel: ua-cam.com/video/zAJeCHnkLVQ/v-deo.htmlsi=AU8DwoaBHAeJdJCA
How’s the level of scoop/mids compare to a Twin Reverb of the same vintage?
I always associate 10's with a bit more mids than 12's in a fender, regardless of the model
Did he use an overdrive box in front of it?
Only for the Gretsch clips, because I couldn't get it loud enough to overdrive without feedback