I'm not a single coil pickup Strat lover but man you smashed it out the ball park you just know how to dial everything in makes no difference what amp or guitar combination it is, you're overdrive tone and intensity is clear and tight not loose and flabby, just love your work 🤘
Hi Johan- I especially loved the riff and vibe you were pounding out with the '73 Vibrolux. Very cool. And the sound you were getting at the very beginning of the 1981 Fender section- I don't think I ever heard a Strat sound like that! Really love it. Thanks for another great one.
My favorites right away were the Super Twin Reverb and the 71 Twin Reverb with JBL's. I think I like the 71 a lil better. The 69 Twin Reverb sounded great too but maybe better with the JBL speakers. What speakers did the Super Twin Reverb have in it? THat amp really surprised me. Wondering what volume you had the twins at?
I have a 1975 Vibrolux Reverb that just wails. Others come and go, but it has earned a permanent home spot among my amps. The size and weight are easy to live with too.
I used to have a Fender 75 with the 15 speaker. That was a tricky amp. Very difficult to dial in. It could sound pretty good but it was also easy to make it sound very bad. Great reverb though!
Great tunes! Honestly, they were all great at something. Its really true what they say about how many Fender amps sound mediocre on their own but in a mix they're magic. I also thought it was kind of interesting how the older speakers really don't like distortion, which makes sense as they were presumably selected for their fidelity to begin with, as back "then" distortion was precisely what you didn't want etc.
Thanks for the demo, Johan. The last couple of demos I didn't comment on, but were listening to. Maybe because I am mainly a R'nR guitarist, but I still appreciate your demonstrations. Ha' det bra, Johan
Oh Johan...you have broken the Code...Silver face users DO NOT share how good they truly are lest we drive up the demand and cost... I have a dozen various 70's Fenders in my backline.
Sean Woodburn I have a 67 Bassman silver face amp. It’s awesome for what it is. I don’t use it much anymore but it was a perfect platform for pedals when I was younger.
@@josephcorcoran8714 I have several Bassman 10's. You are spot on regarding pedals. I have two that I love in particular...both 1974 so 70 watt output. I use them in a stereo rig with guitar. If the Bassman 10 had been made with a properly sized enclosure it would still be ruling studios today as a bass amp. It was too shallow but at least it was sealed so it was still pretty good! AMAZING through an Eden anythingx10 or even my old Ampeg 8x10. Try that and it will shock you! Those amps got a bad rap as guitar amps because they sounded nothing like the previous iterations. They are clean right to the top. Loud too! Same issue with silver face Supers, the master volume model in particular. Think "Twin" more than Bassman or Super and you have a starting place to develope a great sound.
I just got my hands on a bassman 100 like in the video. It needs some serious work but I will get it up and running. Something I found strange about these silverface models... the tiny princetons and champs etc fetch a high dollar where I live but these big bassman heads are an absolute bargain? Do people just like the smaller amps better?
Awesome and thank you My two (2) main amplifiers cover just about everything I need, a 1976 Fender Twin Reverb I purchased brand new and have managed to keep it all these years and a early 1990s Marshall 1987x. Great amps for sure.
Cool to see a Super Twin Reverb being played... the amp that Ted Nugent used in the 1970's. He would allegedly run 6 Super Twins, with 6 Dual Showman Reverb Enclosures. One wouldn't think of turning to Fender for such incredible sizzle and bite. Rock on Johan!
The 73 deluxe and the Super champ are winners for sure. I would without doubt but either or both of those and be very happy using them!! Great comparison. I was however surprised how much better the Pyle speakers sounded than the JBL.!!
All great amp for sure 78 Twin, 1973 Deluxe and the Super Champ for me ..Eminence is still the recommend speaker for the Champ! ...great tones as always
very cool, thanks Johan, I have a Silverface Princeton Rev., VibroChamp and Deluxe Rev. also the Rivera Era Princeton II and 75 head, I think they are overlooked for Blackpanel era amps. Keep spreading the good word!
Loved the ‘73 Vibrolux, with the ‘71 Twin Reverb coming in second. The only amp that that I did not like was the ‘78 Super Twin, pretty harsh. Thanks Johan....😎
Hi, Johan! If you ask me, what is the most classic, I think 69 Twin and 71 too. And Deluxe of 63. My special attention was around N°75, very rare one. But I am speaking only about strats. I think that's it. The legendary glass crystal sound of strat is not working with one of my strats, the expensive one is more bass-giving. And the Mexican is very very different - I swear, it is the real metal chainsaw!:-) Nice comparison! See you! Zigfrid
I really love Fender amps, in this specific case the Bassman is my favorite. Second one is the Vibrolux. The Bassman reminds me of the mighty Jimi Hendrix, it delivers that great tone without any doubt!
The Super Twin sounded like early 80’s Rolling Stones. Very cool! I also thought the Super Champ was a great little tone machine as well. Thanks Johan!
My second amp I bought years ago was a second hander 71 twin reverbs. Way too loud to get any distortion out of it, but great for clean loud and pedals. It weighed a fuck tonne to and even as a young bloke too heavy. Ended up trading it for something smaller at the time. Then got into Marshalls - never looked back ;)
Way impressed with the Super Twin Reverb. Unless you’re using an attenuator, though, it’s gotta be *crazy* loud! I have a pair of silverfaces: a ‘68 Princeton, non reverb version; and a ‘69 Bassman head. The Princeton is a terrific clean platform for home use, while the Bassman is a real rocker. I run the Bassman into a Hi-Tone 2x12” cab (a US-made Hiwatt repro w/ custom-voiced Eminence versions of the classic ‘70s Fane purpleback speakers) via a Fryette Power Station, to save me from going deaf. :)
I have a Quad Reverb and that thing is the cleanest amp I've heard, it might breakup if it were dimed, but I don't have appropriate hearing protection, maybe because there is so much headroom, but it sounds and feels louder than my Marshalls.
TheBlackSquirrel . Its not clean enough at all w a drummer or band. No fender tube amp is, that's s a myth. Turn it up some more, you will see. Around 4 it starts to break up
@@bochris986 I guess you know my amp better than I do... channel volume at 8 or so and master at 4 is very loud with 100W (or it could be 130W) at 4 Ohms into 4x12. Still very clean though.
Johan, stick a celestion (v30 or greenback) in that deluxe reverb, you won't regret it! A low-wattage plexi killer with spring reverb and vibrato! Keep up with the good work 🤞
Cripes (!) it wuz over too gosh-damn soon... (I Had to watch 3 times!) 1st: any chance you could put a piece of electrical tape on the Strat pickup selector so I can see where it's AT? Also any idea if the Rivera era Super Champ is more than 12-15 watts? 2nd also: Thanx man, luv your vids. cheers
Jonny Beck Rivera super Champ is rated 18w. It is pretty loud 18w, the stock speaker sounds better than the luxury version equipped with an EV, but the stock speaker gets quite hot when pushed. I played a super champ for a while, it didn’t do it for me, too boxy, no bass, quite bright. They are super highly sought after, 1000€+ is ridiculous (as is 2000€+ for SF amps from the late 70s). I wonder when all business consultants and dentists will have filled their collections and we normal people can get our amps at decent prices again. For now I have switched to a Helix, great DR emulation🤗
@@Schlumpf.Meister Wow, that's a trip. In all the ka-zillions of years I've been putzing about with amps (and driving them to destruction) I never thought to touch a speaker that'd been pushed a bit... Not just warm but hot you say? I gotta remember to check that out... thanx man . Oh, and thought I'd mention, tho' far from a Rivera era rig, the late model Super Champ XD's X2's etc. can yield some pretty nice tube driven 15 watt tones and unlike most other 6V6 x2 amps they're CHEAP (they sing like the birdies sing: "cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap") cheers
@@jonnybeck6723 SD XD and X2: Hh, I have to consider these - just yesterday I realized that Fender has almost no 6V6 offer any more other than the DR and PR which I find quite pricey. And 6l6 amps are too loud. Temperature: Yes, hot. I had an SD on loan for a few weeks in 2001 and I ran it next to my DRRI (which I should never have sold!) extensively. When pushed very hard it felt as if you could fry eggs on that little speaker. I had a Weber california in the DRRI and it was of course much louder and much fuller sounding.
Have you ever tried the fender 85 (non studio or deluxe, just 85)? Really great SS amp from the Rivera era with spring reverb and a drive channel with built in compressor. Powerful EQ and two inputs, works well with pedals... the drive/gain sound is pretty rubbish but it's well established that you dont really use the gain knob, rather use it to tweak the compression and volume.
Pulling out two of the six 6L6's might tame it a bit. I know they are insanely loud amps. I've been looking for a Peavey mace for a while too, another bonerattling monster, known as the "Mississippi Marshall". Used by Lynyrd skynyrd.
On Brown Sugar he had JBL D120F like one of these. What sounds great in a controlled recording session isn’t necessarily what works live. I think he uses G12-80 in his HP Twin live.
All different yet all with that 'Fender' sound somehow. One thing I never understood is why Fender puts just one central carrying handle top centre of Fender Twins. This makes them a nightmare to lift and carry about!
The only one that fell a little short for me was the 75--not a classic Fender sound at all. The 69 Twin was awesome--you must have been blasting it though to get that much dirt. The Vibrolux too was hands-down cooking.
Johan Segeborn - good man. Thanks for not being offended. Being in the usa i grew up more or less forced to use all these amps due to them being common and cheap, but never liked them, very sick of all these amps...always lusted after the uk amps, which i finally got later on, like the other ones you use
