fender deluxe reverb
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fender deluxe reverb
Hi, I have a Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb (reissue) and I wanted to know if I can mod it to sound more like a Dumble? I'm pretty sure that he based the Dumble amps off a Fender Deluxe but with more volume. By the way is this true? Thanks
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hipbluescat
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Re: fender deluxe reverb
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Build it from scratch instead. It would work out better.
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Build it from scratch instead. It would work out better.
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Darkbluemurder
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Re: fender deluxe reverb
I read that as well but it was in an interview with David Lindley.3kings89 wrote:I'm pretty sure that he based the Dumble amps off a Fender Deluxe but with more volume. By the way is this true? Thanks
The mod job on a 65 RI Deluxe will not be easy. The amp is fully PCB so it will be difficult to cascade the preamps for the overdrive sound. It will definitely not be a simple rewiring job. It could be done by gutting the amp and rebuilding it with an eyelet or turret board and use the original transformers. But then you could almost as well build from scratch since that would not be much more involvement. You could also use better transformers which would allow you to choose 6V6 or 6L6. I am not sure whether the RI transformers could safely take 6L6s.
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Re: fender deluxe reverb
Bassman.3kings89 wrote: I'm pretty sure that he based the Dumble amps off a Fender Deluxe but with more volume. By the way is this true? Thanks
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Re: fender deluxe reverb
Right, that was probably the first mod platform HAD started with (either that or a Showman). But I remember in the Lindley interview Lindley commenting: "We were taking an old Deluxe to Howard and said "we want this but bigger and louder". And Howard got closer to it than anybody." This may be where 3kings89 had the Deluxe relationship from.skyboltone wrote:Bassman.3kings89 wrote: I'm pretty sure that he based the Dumble amps off a Fender Deluxe but with more volume. By the way is this true? Thanks
Another comment from an interview with Lowell George (not related to a Deluxe though): "It's like a Fender made right. If you want a screaming Twin sound but don't want it to be too loud you can do it." This is exactly how I felt about it after I completed my Bassman D-style mod.
Those were the first comments that got me interested into HAD's work, long before I knew about Larry Carlton and Rick de Vito (Like a Rock).