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Subject: Re: Fender Super Reverb Settings?
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On Thu, 28 May 1998 02:30:17 -0700, Alan Thompson
wrote:

>I’m just curious about one thing here, and that is the bass set at 10. In my
>experience, Fender amps have too much bass, and anything over about 4 results in a
>lot of “woofiness” in the bass. Is your amp stock, and have you tried setting the
>bass lower?

When I first got my blackface Super Reverb, the amp was “woofy” or
“farty”, and I couldn’t turn the bass up too high. The first thing you
should do is make sure all the electrolytics are in good condition.
Get a good cap job, if you can afford it. Your amp will thank you.

Next thing, check out the capacitor coming from the normal and vibrato
channels into the phase inverter (driver) section. I think there’s two
220k resistors going into this cap. If it’s too large, it will be
excessively bassy. I think that cap should be .001, but people modify
it like that Weber’s book to a .01, which will give you way too much
bass response, and it will quickly get muddy at higher volume levels.

Also, if you pull out the wire between your treble and volume and
insert a .001uF to .0022 capacitor, it will cut out all of the
sub-bass garbage that goes through all your gain stages and muddies up
the amp. Your amp will be tighter, and you can turn up your bass quite
a bit higher at good volume levels, and your amp will have a nice warm
tone and a solid “kick” as opposed to the woofy fart syndrome.