Fender 1968 Reissue Princeton & Deluxe Amps - Sit Back & Chillax
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You guys should use the same guitar, or at least very similar guitars when comparing amps. We wanna hear the difference between the 2 amps without the differences in guitars. Like right now I don't know whether the Deluxe is actually darker or its because of your humbucking pickups
This!
Well said - very true.
Too many variables are too many. Agreed!
Totes! Wtf!
1967 was the summer of love.
68 was the gay summer of love
Got the 68 Princeton 8 months ago. Love it. Les Paul sounds so good direct into the amp. Fender Strat... Iconic sound. Tube Reverb is classic. Crank it passed 5 so it starts breaking up nice. Passed 7 and you better be good cuz the whole block will hear you. It's a rock n' roll amp. So anyone disappointed in it, you gotta realize what this amp can do. It's sweet clean, but it also has a rectifier tube in it! I use this amp mic'd up at Church, and it's everything I could ever want for practice, or live performance. For the money... very good pick.
Is the rectifier tube particular to the Princeton model or do the bigger ones have it as well? I just ordered the twin RI of this line.
Yes. It's particular to this Princeton custom. It's got a single 5AR4 rectifier tube. I'm surprised they didn't crank it in the demo and play some rock riffs through it.
Would it possible to do small gig witj it without Mic ing it?
The custom deluxe has a rectifier tube also. Only the pro reverb and vibrolux in the new 68 models have the SS rectifier.
Just flicked this video on - forgot how bad the moustaches looked! Oh well, it was for a good cause.
Lee Anderton did you buy the Princeton,did you keep it, how has it worked out 4 years later?
Did you actually by the Princeton after shooting this video?
Just bought a 66 Bassman, I'm a happy man! I think there's far too many vintage snobs, who will simply overlook the SF just because it's a SF. Still awesome amps.
I actually prefer the captain's strat tone compared to robs own brand guitar. The strat just sounds so much better, than the ml-1 or whatever Chapman guitar it is.
All down to the pickups - that's why stiff like Lollar and Fralin sell so well - amazing sounds.
That tremolo scale trick is really awesome.
The black CAP-10 is one of the best looking S-type guitars I've ever seen. You guys should make it a regular production model, not just a special run.
Agree completely! That is one great looking instrument!
I love the sound of an over driven Fender amp it just sounds so natural not like newer amps the gain sounds kind of synthetic
I don't know what it is but I find your videos to be the most informative on UA-cam. you guys chat about the amps and what their capabilities are more so then most I do enjoy it
I bought a 1970 Silverface Twin Reverb about two months before Fender announced the RI Silverface line, and I have to say, it is the best amp I've ever played. I like to tell my family it's my "spirit amp." I initially purchased it with the intent of restoring and selling it (I got it for a ridiculous price), but after restoring it, I don't think I can sell it. I've named it Gandalf the Silver.
It's weird what a moustache can do, Chappers looks jazz loving science teacher, and The Captain looks like a dentist.
-Teaching you how to rock so hard, your Molars will explode out your mouth! XD
EpiphoneChris this comment made my day :-D :-D
Irfan Ahmed ty ty :p
EpiphoneChris :-p
Your mother know you got her phone?
Thanks for reviewing these two amps guys. Appreciate the generosity of the time you spent doing this.
Thank you for taking your time to really show all the features of these amps, most videos are only about 2 to 10 min. Great video!
Nothing beats, a Reverb
You guys are the greatest....been playing guitar since forever...44 years and seen many great concerts and jammed with Pros and with the up and comings but you two chaps are so entertaining and yes your information serves its' purpose as well! No joke you are also very good musicians, and to also say I share a liking to your custom made guitars ..Bless you both and enjoy life as I have enjoyed your offerings and your youtube viewings!
you two characters are the coolest for gear review . . . unbeatable! love it!
1967 may have been the summer of love but 1968 was the summer of MC5. As Wayne Kramer said "The summer of love didn't make a stop in Detroit". I have the 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb and I find it more versatile than any of my Vintage Fender amps. Hopefully it will last a good long while despite being a PCB based amp
I've been waiting for you guys to review these amps since they were first announced. Thanks, Captain and Chappers! That was awesome!
Check out 9:20, when he takes the amp off standby.
That AC blower motor sound you hear kicking in is the '68 DR in IDLE.
Then check it out at 15:40 when he puts it back in standby, so he can relate the story in peace.
I'm amazed it didn't go "THUNK".
Surprisingly, the room mic really picks it up, but the 57 on the amp let's it go.
Kudos to whoever worked that out, nice job indeed!
The '68 Fender DR is the noisiest Fender amp ever, but it actually does shine when the ambient noise level covers it up.
Don't worry about paying retail, found mine on the local Craigs list for less than half of retail.
Never saw a guy so happy to part with a practically new Fender amp for so little!
everyday after work I watch these guys
These guys are awesome. Love watching these videos. That Chapman fella cracks me up
I appreciate that these guys get the value proposition part of buying instruments and gear in general. When they were talking about "is it too much" I kept thinking to myself, "for me, the 68 Deluxe, with an A/B/Y box and a Tubescreamer... is all the amp I will ever need," For other guys, this is too specialized and thus they'd be better served getting a modeller or a few amps, even if they were cheaper amps, so that they could be super-flexible - or it is too specialized in the wrong direction, and maybe if you play hard rock then a Marshall or whatnot might be a better choice..
The Iconic Fender tone. Both have a tube rectifier and tube reverb. Both have had the negative feedback loop removed to accept pedals better. I like these amps much more than the Blackface... I used a vintage 68 with a JBL in it on the road for years... It was a workhorse and had stunning clean tone.
While waiting for my blues jr to be fixed at guitar center, I started playing through a 68 custom princeton reverb out on the sales floor. By the time the Blues Jr was ready, I had already decided to just trade it in for the 68 custom princeton reverb that I was playing. The output transformer makes a world of difference. The blues jr sounds thin compared to the much rounder sound of the princeton even though the princeton has lower wattage.
The best fender i ever played through was a 78’ Pro Reverb in the reverb channel. Lovely clean tone!
Could you guys do another affordable amp shootout, guys? I think some of us could really use a fresh one. Will really appreciate it! ;)))
Listening to this demo on decent headphones is beautiful.
The mustaches are the clear stars of the show. The "tone" of the facial hair is unparalleled. Cheers!
Glad to see them revisiting the '68s! I play through an original 68 Super Reverb and was convinced nobody wanted a 68 because it was a silver face. Mine is one of the original silver faces that had the black face circuitry, and my dad bought it for $100 when he was a kid. I'll never get rid of it.
I have one too it's a drip edge 68 it was my father in laws he gave it to me several years ago .he was country western backed up Loretta Lynn little Jimmy dickens Doyle mills .
Hi, Guy. I bought fender american reissue blackface Princeton Reverb from the best music shop Andertons in UK. This is the best AMP in the world, for clean (blues, Jazz, Country, everything!), What is more, if you wanna get the crazy overdriven tone, using you pedal with this AMP, it will below your mind. Think about it, 10inch speaker. The middle range is awesome! Or if you like 412 kind of widely sound. just plug into your Marshall cabinet or Mesa cabinet. Merry Christmas Rob and Captian! Thank you introducing this amp! Cheers!
Sounds incredible! Have been thinking about getting the 68 Deluxe since I first saw them. I had been waiting to see your video on these, this is the deal closer, gotta have one now! Thanks! You guys always do a phenomenal job on the demos and the information on the gear. Love the Cross Over drive, gotta choose that over the eternity. Seems very versatile. I have the MI crunch box and the blues pro, think I will dump those and get the Cross Over. You guys are the greatest. Thanks again.
the summer of love was 67!!!!!
I've been waiting for this review for weeks! Thank guys.
Both great amps, and classic clean sparkle! Thought the MI Crossover Drive sounded brilliant with the 68 Deluxe.
I have to admit, these days I can't seem to go onto UA-cam without watching at least one of your gear reviews. Great stuff!
That black Cap10 just looks so cool, it's the stealth fighter of the Chapman range!
Really enjoyed todays video and I'd like to with both Rob and Lee a very merry Christmas and a happy new year, hope both of you guys have a nice time of the feastive season.
just cranked a princeton today! OMG the woman tone when you roll back the tone controll + infinite sustain
Jack white used two twin reverbs an a silvertone 100w! what a crazy noisy gig would that be!
the tones when they swap guitars are amazing. they single coils really suit that amp and vice versa
Great review. I have been waiting for this one. I spied the new 68 Deluxe sitting back there in one of your reviews last week, and instantly started scouring your channel saying "did I miss one of their vids?". LOL. But alas here it is. I am a big fan of that old school Fender sound. Its what I grew up with. And was sort of perplexed why Fender would make these, because, as Captn has mentioned, it is a sort of dark period in Fender's history. But those early Silverface amps were very close to Blackface spec, and some were very cool going later in to the early 70's as well. For example, many later Silverface Champ and VibroChamp circuits never did change much from their blackface days. So I am glad to see that Fender is really thinking out of the box and making some cool stuff that maybe wont appeal to the larger audience. They did this a few years ago with their Vintage Modified Bandmaster and VM Deluxe amps. Those were a bit unusual of spec, and they were not really accepted by the masses. But I thought they had a great tone that straddled between that vintage and modern line, at a crazy affordable price for a Fender tube amp. I still have the VM Bandmaster and love that thing. I was hoping that these 68's would be more affordable than they are. I think if I were going to spend the money, I would still go for the 65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue at this point.
Great review guys! I own the '68 ReissueDeluxe model and absolutely love it. I give it a 9.4. It takes an OCD pedal beautifully using Strats. I also own a Blues Junior ( little anemic), and a Blackface '65 Twin Reissue (definitely too much for my bedroom). I can't stop playing this Reissue Silverface. Vintage pure cleand and sweet when dirtied up with a pedal.
Pretty well said Captain about the Silverface series. But, I do know because I was there. I had a 72 Silverface Super Reverb, bought new in 1972 and used it as a full time club amp for 20 years. The quality of these series of amps did not really suffer until Fender started putting master volume controls on them. This new amp, the 68 Deluxe is interesting but not the real deal. The original amps were great when turned up to 6-7 or higher. Of course they were loud and mostly only purposeful in a performance environment. I wish Fender would stop teasing me in using Vintage nomenclature on these OK new amps that are unfortunately, not at all close to what they are alluding to. Having played for almost 50 years, Fender has put me in a place where I just walk by any of their new products when in a store. They play loose and fast with branding. This is a really nice and convincing video showing a certainly acceptability for buying these new Fender Teaser amps, just not for an old purist like me. Thank guys.
The Captain rocks in this vid ! Go man go..Yeah !
I saw Walter trout towards the end of last year... He's looking very different due to illness but still has god like chops :) he was using a Mesa through a 4 x 12 on that occasion... Legend :)
Lee always gets the best tone, amazing!
Princeton with gain and humbuckers sounded W I C K E D
I love the look of these amps. Just like my father's old Bassman 10. But I'm a clean jazz player, so it looks like the '65 reissue for me.
Rob, that guitar amp combo really seemed to suit you... The 68+Captain sounded particularly sweet my friend. Nice
I have a Princeton 112 that I bought new for $330 in the mid to early 90's.Have never seen or heard any of these in videos before.Has anybody else seen or heard any.Or did I luck into a great find.
A missed chance!! You could've played 'How Soon Is Now' by The Smiths at about 11:00
What a chuffing awesome demo.
The Captain's amp is nice AND simple - just like Chappers! It is alright Captain, you can admit to being a philistine like many of the rest of us, we won't tell.
the chapman guitar sounds badass to me, the strat sounds great too. i love all shapes and sizes haha
Loved both jams! Amazin clean blues sound!
Preemptive comment: I'm so stoked you guys are doin the Princeton, I was literally just checking that one out and wondering what it sounds like! I'm an aficionado on all the names except for Fender amps...
when are you guys doing a affordable amp/guitar shootout again? with 5w tube amps and solid state amps?
I bought a 68 princeton and sold it. I wish I'd thought about a speaker upgrade. However, I feel that the Deluxe Reverb would have been a better choice for me. I hate how Fender release amps with poor quality speakers. I watched Vaughn Skows Fender Supersonic 22 speaker comparison video on UA-cam. I think it shows just how much a speaker can affect the sound of the amp.
Captain with a moustache is a dead ringer for Freddy Mercury. I was waiting to hear "Dragon Attack". I get tickled every time he says "Fender". It comes out "Fenduh". Seriously, I really like their videos. Only suggestion I have would be to hear more jams without pedals, cleans and with the amp's natural breakup. Keep the videos coming, guys.
The Deluxe sounds great when you push it to break up. They should have cranked them up! Both of these amps can gig with a drummer. A loud drummer w/ doubble kicks, no. Volume on 7-8 = nice grind!
What he said!
+BayouGTR That's what I was thinking - no pedal, just crank it. Kept hoping they would do that. 6V6 amps cranked hard is a lot of what that legendary studio stuff was about.
Did u gig with iy in a loud band un mic ed? I wanna buy one but thinking about this.
Ahhh, the Captain's such a good guitar player. Love it.
i'm with Chappers on this one, they are great but there are others out there that are equally great. Great Demo guys, as always :)
You should really do a comparison between the '68 Deluxe Reverb and the '65 DRRI.
Wow, those sounds absolutely beautiful!
fender amps sound so sweet
best guitar gear channel guys! keep it up
Great sounding, simple, tube amps with classic tones! Always preferred the Silverface look as opposed to the Blackface too :-)
Cool jam session I agree with the captain I really like the Princeton
Rob's Fender Twin being dropped down a flight of stairs and still being operational for the gig is a good story! I wonder why we can never hold onto all these old amps/guitars we have stories about? I guarantee if you ask him about that amp in the story he sold it years ago. We are so stupid about selling gear and then regretting the hell out of it later.
Another Christmas present no one (but me) will ever get me.
I'm really diggin the Princeton. Played a show with a gent that had an old one. He had a great sound. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with a heavy ass dumble clone so I have no money for the tiny ones!
Captain, you are correct about the 9.8 on the Princeton... Hard to beat Fender for clean... They invented clean..
Thats a great sound
This Princeton sounds amazing. 15 watts is enough for giging. Lil boost in front, my trusty epiphone valve Jr there to get bigger, and I have a red box that goes in between the cone and amp for bigger gigs
Did u gig with it without the need to mic it? For a bit of clean sounds? Ie SRV ? Thanks
Captain. Great rhythm guit 25:53 - 26:47 section!!!! Gonna study that!!
Still eagerly waiting for someone to do the 65 RI vs 68 custom reviews...
I don't mean this video particularly but I would love if you guys tested out with the tone rolled back and/treble rolled off on the amp and attempt some jazz because I noticed it is appealed to a jimi hendrix flashy sort of clean but most demos don't always have that warm George benson tone showed off. Thanks guys you give the best demos and know you've got the skill and resources that could reach out to even more players at Anderson's!
Rob stop with the innuendo looks. You do it on every video and I'm about to break the floor laughing.
I agree 100% trade in those Blues JR's and get Princetons! Blues Jr's are good amps but in my opinion need massive modifications to be great. Off the shelf I'll take the Princeton over the junior all day long. This is just my opinion. As well as saying 95% of the tone is the person that plays the guitar and not the guitar.
What about the green cannabis speaker blues junior or the tweed blues junior? Would you still take the Princeton? I am deciding between a Fender 68 deluxe reverb, 65 blackface reissue, the 65 or the 68 Princeton's? Need something for home use and the occasional gigs.
Princeton. The tone.
This was uploaded on my birthday :)
Also, i would really like to hear you push these amps into distortion without any pedals as well. To many people, that's the best part of these low wattage Fenders.
My advice is get the 65 deluxe reverb head and choose your own cab for limitless possibilities the 65 circuit has greater depth and clarity but the head is fairly reasonable cost wise
Larry Carlton used a Tweed Deluxe on much of his Steely Dan music
I'd actually love to see some blues lessons from the two of you!
Now do the '65!
you guys should do a like a 37 minute video of like an overdrive special with nothing but talking aside from a g chord played at the very end
Fender should do a demo video for these in B&W with everything like it's in the 50's
But these are '68 reissues...
Doh. I guess my idea wouldn't make much sense. Fender has a bunch of 58 reissues, mostly guitars I think.
Dunlap Music they could do them as 50s Sci-Fi.
Chris I think you may have mistaken my comments.I really enjoy the video's and never miss them, just feel some of the negative commentators are way over the top, these guys are fun all the way !
I have the Deluxe Reverb reissue...sounds great, but I'd actually like to have a good "re-issue" of Fender's 1964 Blonde Bassman head/cab (6G6-B circuit). More simple circuit w/ better tone and you can get a Strymon Flint if you want Reverb/Tremolo or El Capistan for Tape Echo.
Oh that video was brilliant! Love the Fender tone although the Captain channel sounded a bit quiet.
I think Lee and Rob need to put some of their duo jam sessions on a cd. I love this instrumental jam in this video and I have heard others that are just as good from them. I would certainly be willing to pay for such a cd. They are dang good.
So guys when is the debute date of your 1st cd? (smirk)
Tried the deluxe this week with a hand made fuzz face mini ... and that gets 10's from me all the way :)
can you guys plz do a vid of the 1956 heavy relic starts?
I love the deluxe reverb cause its a bit warmer and i think no one does clean better than fender blackface not even two rock they are all based on the fender design, the vox would be my second favourite.
Stock Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue can still tend too much toward the Ice Pick side of the spectrum, but swapping tubes & speakers can easily rectify that without performing major surgery.
Fender Marshall I mean that it (just like the stock Blues Jr I had previously) is far too Sharp and Biting on the top-end/Treble frequency range which feels like someone is jabbing your eardrum with an Ice Pick (especially with Tele / single coil pickups). Another tip on all of the stock versions of these tube amps is to replace the power tubes with a good, matched set of NOS Power Tubes...it brought the noise floor way down and as a result made a big impact on the clean tone, and since the noise floor was lower you could also drop the volume a bit lower as well. This did the trick for me on Fender and Vox amps.
Please let me know what tubes and speakers will alleviate major icepicking in any of the reissues. I have tried everything I can think of and nothing really I have found makes that much difference other than buying an original Fender silverface and hope I get the rebuild right. For what it is worth,I feel that if Fender really made these amps faithfully, and I bet they easily could, they would have a hard time selling any other amp. IMO, this is why the reissues look good, sound pretty good clean, but hate pedals and will not break up. If the reissues did all that, then all the other models would be unnecessary. What do you think? Also, all, without question, all vintage Fender amp restorers that I know will not either touch or warranty if they do touch, any mods on a Fender reissue. On a twin reissue I have has some success pulling two output tubes, pulling a12ax7 tube from the first channel, leaving that channel unused, and putting it in place of the inverter tube on the reverb chanel for a small amout of early breakup, This makes the amp 8 ohm instead of 4 and requires the use of one 8 ohm speaker, or an 8 ohm extension cab only and works best with a low wattage, small coned speaker. Still, this mod is minimal, IMO, and pedals, unless time based, are as difficult to use as in a stock amp setup. Please list suggestions, especially for the 65 deluxe reissue, and I will try them, otherwise it will be Ebay time for all my reissues!
***** The problem and the solution for the DRRi is that the power amp is new and so very efficient still. As the output transformer ages, the ice pick issue disappears. If one doesn't want to wait years for this aging to happen, all one needs to do is install an attenuater for about $35. Playing the amp at full volume with an attenuater driving the volume down to an acceptable level will quickly "break in" the output transformer. In a few hours the ice pickness will be gone forever. My all stock Mexico made Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue had terrible ice pickyness, but now she is the most incredible amp ever. I don't need the attenuater anymore and I don't use any pedals. I just plug straight in and she sings and screams so beautifully. But she is loud as a Harley, and so an attenuater is still a good idea in practice or small club situations.
I have a video showing all this. It's called "Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue cranked"
You should try the 57 twin. It's only 40 watts so it isn't as loud and it sounds phenomenal. I think you guys would really enjoy it.
Love this bright tone silver face black face it abit darker to my ear me 🤘
Just got a brand new fender champion 100. Great amplifier
Lee's E jam leads are awesome. I have a request that next time you do a crunchy jam in E, that Lee wears an early 70's long haired hippie wig (not a colored afro, sorry Lee), cuz he rocks that sound and I just want the complete image.
Nobody cares. These amps are awesome.
The best bass amp I've ever played was a '78 Silverface MusicMaster Bass amp. Fantastic little thing