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Subject: Re: When did Fender change the Deluxe Reverb (not other amps)?
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 02:08:14 -0500
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Jim Kroger wrote:
>
> I know the internals of other silverface amps began to change as early as
> 1968 (Twin, Super…) and others remained untouched for years (Champ, Princeton
> Reverb), but I have heard conflicting reports about the fate of the Deluxe
> Reverb. I’m about to check out an early silverface, is there any chance it
> is like a blackface DR inside?
>
> Also, when they started changing things, didn’t they change the
> transformers, such that you can not completely revert the amp back to
> blackface specs? When did that happen?
68 or 69 i used to know .. fender did very little to the deluxe reverb
to mess it up …
snubber caps on the outputs and reverb appeared as soon as cloth wire
was dropped in favor of plastic wire
I had a 69 that was cloth wired and had very few changes ..
however it did have the slightly taller power transformer spec ed for
the 5u4 rectifier … most of these 5u4 amps require some caution when
converting back to gz34 rectifier as some extra voltage was added to the
power transformer to compensate for the 5u4 rect.. as a result a gz34 in
one of these deluxes could exceed the output tubes voltage limits…
as with any cbs era amp fender was constantly switching vendors to try
and keep parts prices low as a result the cds amps are not as consistent
as the blackface era even if the amp is not “altered”
for my .02 worth of opinion the silver deluxes are my favorite cbs era
amp as most of them sounded good
for the record i have one silver face amp left .. it is a deluxe
reverb..
pat
