The best vintage Fender Princeton Reverb I've heard (this month).
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Ladies and gents, this is how a good 1966 Princeton Reverb sound.
The amp is stock but with a slightly fuller mid 60s Jensen C10n (not original) and a 100pF bright cap from the Vibrolux/Super/Pro/Twin circuits to add clarity and sparkle at lower volumes. It think the clean sound improves with the bright cap on. Otherwise all JJ tubes are stock types except 12AU7 as a more moderate reverb driver for better knob control.
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This is what we want to hear all day long!
You sound great as always; it sounds great because you play great. I'm a PR fan myself. It was my first amp in 1965, and will be my last amp too.
BTW: you are doing a great fucking job.
Man that sounds amazing..
Is this your favorite small blackface combo?
Yes it is, much because of the Jensen speaker. It can do almost anything. 😊
@@jensmo75 do you have got any jensen C10N or C10NS or C10P for sale? need 1 for my princeton reverb... : )
@@jensmo75have you got any Jensen c10n/ns/p for sale?
could you show how does the speaker look like from the back?
Hello, thanks for the video, it’s a great sounding BFPR!
Do you mean it’s a Fender gold label C10NS (C8306 or C8284) with ribbed cone or do you really mean it’s a C10N with a even slightly larger magnet and a smooth cone?
I have a same year BFPR and had a C10N (smooth cone with large magnet, ribbed from a Hammond) in it but doesn’t sound as sparkly and chimey as yours.
It is not the original C10ns that are found on several PRs, but a C10n with a larger magnet and a frame with stamp C10n C7138 8 and date code 220619. I have tried dozens of speakers with this amp, originals to Princetons and various replacements, and I have concluded that I enjoy this C10n the most. It is tighter in the low end. The PR is notorously famous for flabby bass because of the large PI coupling cap allowing too much bass to pass, a small OT and an inefficient PI. Therefore a firmer speaker will do the amp good. :-)
@@jensmo75 I think the bright cap does bring out the chime of the amp and works very well with the C10N. Great choice!
How much of "the best" sound is from the amp and how much from the C10N? I ask because that speaker will make almost any Princeton sound better than others that don't have a C10N. David Wilson (RIP) at the Tonequest Report got a1970's silver face PR with a C10 (stock at the time) speaker, and said that was the best sounding PR he'd ever played through, and he had original blackface versions too. I've got two C10N's I found online, they are hard to find - both original cone. One is a Rola/Jensen C10N, which is the same speaker with a different frame - it's in my Gibson GA-8 (parallel 6V6 for ~10 watts class A single ended). So,you use a12AU7 for the reverb - would that work on my Deluxe Reverb clone too? ANYways, I need a PR for the other C10N, or a clone head would be nice. Just got my first head, a "3rd Rail amps" (Brian) clone of a AC-10 JMI, which were built until 1965, but sold for a couple years after that until Vox's inventory was gone. I really like having a head vs cabinets, lighter to carry, more versatile, and isolated from speaker's direct vibrations. A Princeton Reverb head would be great too!
yeah great, I love the princeton .. I play a 1965 princeton and it's sounds amazing .. what speaker is in it?
A 1966 jensen c10n, not original to the amp unfortunately, but sounds amazing.
Sounds killer! Is it for sale?
Unfortunately, no. 😁 It sounds too good. 🤪😁
@@jensmo75 haha That s what i thought :D Thank you!
Do you live in Denmark ?
In Oslo, Norway 👍
@@jensmosbergvik693 ah, I thought it was somewhere in Europe , couldn’t remember where 🙂