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NAD: Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb Sweetwater Exclusive
Now that I've been bitten by a renewed interest in electric guitars and gear, I've ordered and just received my new Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb 1x12" 22-watt Tube Combo Amp - Wine Red Sweetwater Exclusive on Thursday and I'm auditioning it today, Saturday, for the first time. This amp is a Sweetwater custom edition that sports a Jensen P12Q Alnico speaker, wine red Tolex, and a wheat-colored grille versus the straight-ahead Fender rendition that is equipped with a Jensen C-12K Ceramic speaker, and the traditional Fender black Tolex and silver-colored grille. Due to lower costs because of upfront greater order volume, the Sweetwater edition is also $100 less in cost than the regular Fender amp. The Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb 1x12" 22-watt Tube Combo Amp - Wine Red Sweetwater Exclusive checked all the boxes for me for a Made In America Blackface Fender amp, especially with its alnico speaker.
Along with its straight, effect-free channel, the Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb has a Reverb and Vibrato channel the effects of which can be turned On/Off by the provided footswitch. The reverb is the delicious Fender long-spring-tank unit. Both the reverb and vibrato are tube-driven and have the lusciousness of those valves working their magic! The two output tubes are the venerable 6V6 hot bottles with the tube rectifier being a 5AR4, the combination of which should yield a nice brown-tone sag if you want to open up the amp's output to its full 22 watts, which I haven't done yet. My first impression of this amp is: I Like It & It's A Keeper! More to come ... https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...ition-wine-red
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Regarding the Gretsch 5420TG-59 into the Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb, if I turn the guitar's Volume control about 15-degrees of rotation from wide open, the amp sounds clean. Advance the guitar's Volume control to wide open and I get a nice preamplifier breakup. Although the Gretsch's Black Top Filter'Tron pickups test out at fairly low resistance, they have tall magnets which makes them perform IMHO with at least the overdrive guts of medium output pickups.
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Congrats. That looks like a pretty serious amp. And seriously nice!
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Oh man that is sweet! I bet it sounds awesome!
Congratulations on your new amp day! |
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Very nice congrats .
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Oh Man, I love that amp! Just like your Gretsch guitar, I've also been lusting after that Deluxe Reverb in the wine red color with the wheat grill cloth! Great looks, great sound!
What a killer combination you have there! Very cool! I am seriously envious now!!!! Good for you, SpruceTop!!!! Seriously! Good for you!! - Glenn
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Classic combination - Gretsch + Fender! I've had those two together for over twenty years!
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I've always loved that color combination.
Bob
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Congrats on a fantastic amp! Your renewed interest in electric guitar and gear won't end with just a new amp ... there's more gear coming .
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What Fun, Eh, Steve! Then there's also that wonderful all-tube-amp bonus of the amp heating up with its tubes, transformers, cabinet wood, and Tolex wafting that nostalgic aroma out into the room!
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Thanks To All For Your Kind And Encouraging Comments On This Fender Amp and Gretsch guitar! Your encouragement has got me looking at these Fender Tweed alnico-speaker models:
Fender '57 Custom Champ 1x8" 5-watt Tube Combo Amp Fender '59 Bassman LTD 4x10" 45-watt Tube Combo Amp Fender '57 Custom Deluxe 1x12" 12-watt Tube Combo Amp Let me hear your thoughts on the above three amps and which one would you prefer to buy. Thanks!
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I've had that exact same amp (minus some speaker experimentation) for several years now. It's classic black face Fender to the T! There's a lot of horsepower under the hood there (particularly with an efficient speaker). Mine barely gets past 2.5 and I've since added a Princeton Special edition with a 12" speaker, which is more than enough juice for what I'm doing. I definitely think the bordeaux and wheat is the most attractive of the alternative color schemes. Congrats on getting the amp that should meet all your needs for a long time!
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Every time I've seen Bill Frisell he has a modern Deluxe Reverb as his requested backline. That's pretty much sold me on how good they can sound!
I've thought about getting one, or even one of the variations, but then I tell myself my old pre-CBS Princeton and my Hot Rod Deluxe bracket what it can do. But you don't have those amps, and your looks great great great, and it probably covers most of what my two amps can do up to a certain volume level, a level that even modern stages don't need anyway.
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