Do You Know These 1965 Deluxe Reverb Tone Secrets? 

You didn't hear a difference between the "high" and "low" inputs because there was none. The way these Fender amps are wired, input #2 only functions as a "low" input IF THERE IS NO PLUG INSERTED INTO INPUT #1. With 2 cords plugged into the amp going to your "A/B" switch box, they were both functioning as "high" inputs. Try plugging into one input at a time and you will hear the difference right away. especially with single coils.

That original DR looks like its in amazing shape! Thank-you for posting this, I love these amps (and your two Les Pauls there!).

Hey Jon, this is a great demo! Nice work!

Great demo of the Deluxe Reverb! I was going to buy the Head version, but now I'm thinking to get the combo Deluxe Reverb.

Nice video I also have a deluxe. I love mine I couldn’t tell a noticeable difference in 1& 2 Thanks !

As you may have noticed the bright cap has maximum effect at lower settings of the volume control, and progressively less as you turn it up. This is because the cap is bypassing the series element of the volume control. At 10 there will be effectively no difference.

I wasnt going to sub, but then the lava lamp, and you asked nicely

You got me with the lava lamp I subscribed

So lots of people clip that bright cap out of the circuit, which I've been considering.. what is your take on that idea??

Thank you for helping me id and locate the 47pf capacitor. It sits on the Vibrato Channel Volume pot. Regarding input 1 for single coil and input 2 for humbucking pickups. That really twisted my brain around. I've never ever heard that before. Did you learn that from another source or just conclude it yourself. It sounds logical, I'm just blown that I've never heard that before. I've been using Fender amps since 1964.

Thanks for the 1 2 input info Also never k ew aboit vibrato circuit to normal circuit difference...thank you

I couldn't hear the difference in the video, because of low quality sound reproduction, but here using my DR clone I can definitely tell a difference between "normal" and "vibrato" channel, and between input "1" and "2". I generally prefer the lower gain inputs in most amps, including my Deluxe Reverb (clone). I was only using the vibrato channel, because I like reverb, but after reading some opinions (there are just a FEW - eh?), I put a 12AX7 in to activate the "normal" channel, and it really is a bit fatter, with more bass (less treble?). Those four holes are all different, subtle, but I can definitely hear the difference. Even with a stratocaster, the lower gain holes sound better, and I'm liking that normal channel. If I connect the reverb to normal channel, I wonder if that will degrade the tone...?

Can you tell me how the external speaker jack works? Does it cut out the inyrtnal speaker? Does it lower the impedance

Please do a comparison of your vintage & the "newish" fender tone master version.

Those two inputs are also handy for bridging the stages

...I must subscribe I have subscribed... Cool vid man 👌🏼 hope you’re well

The high pass cap you are referring to (as a bright switch always on) acts as everything above the frequency it allows is on 10, so technically to replicate that treble pass you would have to have the vol & treble dimed.

is it possible to jump channels?

just got one today

Sounds dull to me. Are you using an attenuator?

You gotta crank i t up

I didn't hear any significant difference with anything you did. I have a 65 Reissue which sounds pretty good to me, kind of like most Fender amps. To tell the truth I think all the hype about the old amps being better is to justify the crazy prices people ask for them, and any difference between the old ones and new ones IMHO is very subtle. Over the years I've had a few of the older ones, a blackface Bandmaster (it was OK), a Blackface Bassman (great bass amp for small venues, used for bass in a 3 piece acoustic band), a silverface Quad Reverb (loud and very very heavy, weird Master Volume control), a Super 60 rackmount (OK), and now a 65 Deluxe Reissue (probably the best of all of them). BTW I sold all of the others with no regrets, except for maybe the Bassman, and I wish I still had that one.

It’s reissue or vintage?

So in volume 3 it started to breakup... no very cleaner

Where you get that lava lamp?

Sounds a lot like my reissue

Jumper input 2 on both and you have reverb on the normal channel as well.

What's better than a vintage Deluxe Reverb amp? Two vintage Deluxe Reverbs.

You want to subscribe haha

First, playing a gibson guitar through a fender amp is not what leo invisioned when designed so not the tone you are playing at all.

no different to the sounds im getting from any other amp or the Logic Guitar Rig in the studio. an amp'd signal is what it is. obviously eq compression and mic placement, room and fx can make these amps come alive, but the vintage stuff is way overpriced.