I Bought THE Stevie Ray Vaughan Amp... 

It’s not really true that this was his tone throughout his career. He played a dumble for the Texas Flood album and he played Super Reverbs, Deluxes, Steal String Singer, dumbles and later on in his career a 200watt Marshall for his clean tone… It didn’t really matter what he played. He always sounded like SRV

Man, your playing is improving! I'm another one who's been chasing Stevie's tone since the first time I heard him play. I recently bought a Hot Rod Deluxe, hesitant to crank up the volume in the house, neighbors.

Sounds amazing! Those THD Hot Plates are life savers. Got my first one 20+ years ago and they have stopped me blowing my windows out since. Richie uses his on almost all his videos too. Loved the playing too, mate.

It's not just about the sound for me; it's also about the vibe/how it makes me feel. You're so damned knowledgeable, Professor Chris. I particularly love the sound that this amp delivers & could listen to you play 24 hours a day. SRV saved the '80s from a dismal fate musically.

Outstanding tones and playing!

Glorious sounds! Must feel so good in the room.

Man that In Session album came out when I was like 16 or so and I didn't think I'd ever leave the house again. It was amazing. Also I'm a PROUD Texan Twang player myself and can attest that it can even put you in the Stevie park on a Vox!

Sounds incredible mate - honestly i thought the tonemaster series would’ve been on these by now

great amp and your demo is fantastic. I saw SRV live using one at Pier 84 in NYC in the early 80s

I have a Brownface one and man is it everything. Very different from this one but still incredible. Vibroverbs are always killer

Beautiful sound man ! Top notch !

That was some damn good guitar playing...and yeah, you got that Stevie tone down.

When the bottom end is flubbing out a little bit it makes the chords blend beautifully.

It sounds insane ❤

He played live at elmacombo with his super reverbs, his vibroverb basically went to just powering his rotating vibratone speaker. You want the true SRV tone you’re gonna need a blackface super reverb. The vibroverbs he used in his very early days and then discovered the super reverbs. Also ALL his amps were modified and far from stock so there’s that hurdle as well. He even kept using his super reverbs when he discovered the dumble amps , both were his sound at the end of his career, the vibroverb is an AWSOME amp, but not his staple amp by any means,,, waaaaaay to much miss information on RU-vid. If you’re buying a vibroverb to be like Stevie make sure you do your homework first, you will need a 64-65 blackface super reverb to achieve it.

Awesome brotha! 🔥🎸🔥

You sound amazing on that song in the beginning. Sounded both like SRV and AK at the same time.

Sounds soo good. Hard to describe. But that´s the sound :D

Beautiful !! 11/10 A Vibroverb/THD Hot Plate and as ever stunning amazing playing Chris. Nailed !

Juicy tone ! The jam was GREAT !

Such a great reverb sound

Sound wicked, really dug that track at the end as well

Great job!!!

The pairing of the Strat and the 64 Vibroverb is tonal magic. A sidenote : if you can find a Traynor CV40 with 2 10s your in business. I have one. While not a copy it has that Fender/California tone all it's own

Now I need one of this. 😍

Killer Tone!! the playing is also on Point!!!! I have two of these beasts and they put out.

Great stuff!

Love love this amp! I have a Stoneham amp on its way with the Vibroverb circuit clean channel but I know this amp is still on my must have list!

Nice playing there.

It's the 15 inch speaker that does that chewey tone sounds amazing

Great playing and tones

Back in the mid-90's, when I was DEEP in my SRV obsession, I bought a pair of Vibroverbs to tour with, a '63 2x10 & a '64 1x15. I loved those amps, but I ended up selling them during a purge of my vintage amps. It just seemed that every time I'd pull one out of storage, it would need $500-1000 worth of maintenance. The biggest issue with the Vibroverbs, especially the 1x15 is the VOLUME. They as so loud, even for a 40w amp. I wish I still had the brownface 2x10, it was sweet sounding, easy to dial in & was very reliable on tour. They were so overlooked by collectors until around 2005 when the prices exploded. I sold both of mine for the price of 1 at today's value. Still doubled my money, though.

Beautiful. Subbed. I have a 63 Brownface with the original Oxford 10s. It is wonderful

As always I dig the content. Ty sir

ive been listening to you for awhile now, you sound better every time i listen

What a fantastic video I actually enjoyed it Saturday is my birthday

Nice job!!! Texas Twang is on my bucket list. I've been messing with the Steel Singer by NuX. Interesting dynamics and a steal at $50US. But I will make space on my peddle board quite quickly for that Texas Twang!

Great tones & playing! Slightly off-topic: try doing your “hand blacking out the camera” transition with a guitar pick (loop gaffers tape on the back so you can hold it w/o it falling out of your hands). Had another thought: someone should develop a video filter/wipe transition that has an animated pick being strummed by an invisible hand and we see 6 vertical strings vibrating. And as they vibrate from being strummed, they break apart the current frame to dissolve into the new frame/shot. Just something I thought would look cool.

Nicely played, sir

I saw SRV when he was on tour with Jeff Beck (late 80s-early 90s). I was behind the band and all his amps had EV speakers.

Fantastic !!!

Great tone and soloing 👍

I've gotten to plug into one of SRV's Vibroverbs. His was modded and had almost zero clean headroom. I'll be honest, I like the way YOURS sounds better.

Most guitar youtubers nowadays have pretty pointless anecdotes mixed with footage of them playing, whereas your playing in your videos seem to be supplemental to your points in context. What i'm trying to say is I really appreciate that you're not just boasting your practice/skill and actually trying to teach/make a point.

Its awesome man!!!!

saw him playin one of those in a club in Houston in 83 just b4 he broke big..it was unbelievable

Yes sir! I have to treble boost my amp to get anything I dig

Killer video. I want your Texas twang pedal but don’t have room on my board lol. I own your tremolo pedal though.

Remember too that you’re adding some compression with the light bulb mode turned on with the thd hot plate. Fun amps. Diaz would mod these; Fender made a custom shop run of these with his mods available at the flick of a switch. One big mod is a solid state rectifier with diodes. However you need to work with a tech on this. Solid state rectification in amps designed for tubes can change the voltage loads in the amp, which can be harder on the tubes and the transformers if done incorrectly. You’ll have less sag and compression with the rectifier mod at higher volume levels - less fart to the bass as well. I would personally not mod your lovely vintage example, but it may be worth finding one of those reissues. They’re great amps for SRV hounds.

Something you should ( and this came straight from SRV's amp tech.) The transformers in SRV's vibrolux's were swapped out for transformers from fender twins.

I’m a bigger fan of the Super Reverb. I just think they sound better. I’ve owned both at the same time. I still have the Super!

Great sound it was direct from the loadbox or with mic to combo ?

Una cosa che ricordo di Stevie a Pistoia Blues nel 1988 era, oltre alla sua magia, il volume assolutamente pazzesco. Il giorno dopo vibravo ancora.

Cesar Diaz used to live around here. He worked for SRV at one point. He was talking about building an amp for him that was a Super Reverb front end and an SVT power section. That would have had a big sound.

Nice !

Read an interesting(to me) article in Tonequest magazine about one of his Vibroverbs.They waste alot of type describing the Meth-heads that stole it and the deal that brought it to another guy's possesion. When they do get down to the nitty gritty details some unexpected(to me)things were done by Mr.Dias(RIP) -Orange Drops with .033's in tonestack -A 2 ohm Output tranny feeding an 8 ohm EV -Groove tubes SS pop in rectifier -33k vs 1 meg BF values in the phase inverter 220mf main filter's Not a Stock BF at all!

good score, friend!

Sounds good with no Soul!

Oooooooooffff … Congrats my friend - full circle just a lot bigger. Xx Sounding hot ❤️

Hey mate, just got your Fuzz & Twang & lovin ‘em; thank you! Also, do you raise the bass side of your jesse davey pickups on your yellow guitar higher than the treble? This is how it looks to me; if so, what are your thoughts on that? You’re a ton of inspiration brother, thanks.

The album Texas Flood was all recorded through Jackson Browne's Dumble from everything Ive ever read ?

Sounds absolutely awesome Chris! Highly recommended chucking in a JBL E130 if you can find one. I'm sure you know Stevie had those in his Vibroverbs before he went over to EVs. They can just handle more then the D series without farting out. That was another game changer when I used to own mine ✌️ all the best P.s waiting for the Pedal Pawn Wah next!? 😉😁

I would love to see you check out some of the cool Brownface amps (Pro, Concert, Super, etc), I think they're super underrated

Sounds absolutely incredible Chris😃😃Did this Vibroverb have the Cesar Diaz mods or was it stock standard?

which speakers do you use i think he used ev12l spaker because they had very great clean headroom

Sounds beautiful! I’m curious. What guitar picks and strings do you like? Keep up the great work sir

I have a line on an original 64 with the upgraded JBL. Original transformers, proper recap work. Not sure if I should pull the trigger. It's really clean and would be a great investment. My Wife was kind enough to let me buy and R9 Les Paul and a nice Collings acoustic last year. Not sure if I should push my luck.

To me you are right! The Vibroverb IS THE SRV amp along with the supers. It's the Mokambo tone.. his most visceral performance and tone to me. Other performances are just more polished and behaved

I built for DiazAmplification 2004/5 n Have the xact mods made to it, NFS of course..

since i am more of a hendrix guy i like the sound of a jtm45 or even a tweed deluxe a bit more. i modded a tweed deluxe to have negative feedback like a jtm45 and it gave it a bit tighter sound and made it much more touch sensivite. the old fairytale of a non negative feedback amp beeing more touch sensitive is completely bs.. now with negative feedback i get it clean and shimmery by playing soft and distorted when digging hard.. that is kind of off-topic but important still. not many try to mod a tweed deluxe to have negative feedback. you can have it switchable as well. this vibro verb may be the best srv tone.. but for a regular guy who plays many styles maybe not worth it. but i can imagine by plugging into the texas twang you can clean up the bass quite a bit and it is perfect.

Try some 5881's in that amp. Tung-Sols. And then add in a 5R4GY Rectifizer in it. RCA if you can get it. See what you think. Or Hear what you think, I guess I should say. Oh yeh. VERY nice playing. And the amp sounds pretty good, too ...

Robert Cray has used the 3X10 Vibroverb (actually the Vibro King; correction prompted below) between two Matchless 1/2 stacks as his live rig for years. Robert uses the vibrato in the Vibroverb (King) alot. He gets great tones too.

Need room mic to get that full Stevie studio sound, gives it a ton of body

Amazing video! I have never owned an attenuator, but am finally considering one after seeing this video. I have a ‘64 Vibroverb reissue (blackface)…which Hot Plate should I be after…as in 4 ohm, 8 ohm? I want the same one you’re using, essentially. Thanks!

It sounds so awesome but what cracks me up is the fact of Stevie being presented with an attenuator and being like "WHAAAAAA???" LOL! As a guitar player that uses an AC30 pretty dang loud quite a bit I can honestly say that I also need to give an attenuator a chance because I know I have hearing loss already. My buddy told me the other day that it's not fair that my wife has to live with me while I'm making videos because she has to almost be deaf as well. I was like "well guitar is what attracted me to her in the first place so she kinda had it coming". LOL!

You gotta ditch that hot plate and get a Freyette Powerstation. It's designed to let the amps tone ring true.

The Vibroverb in this video was built by Larry Rodgers in 1996. Better tone than the Fender originals.

New life goal, build a vibroverb i can live in...

I was going to ask how you can stand to be in the same room with this volume monster but then I saw the hot plate. So off topic a bit, how does that attenuator work? Does it affect the tone? I want to love my tube amps but they are super loud in my room.

yea Guvnor how many years they make the Black face amp? years/ ?

Pls share the backing track Best tone and closest i heard of srv tone ❤

I've had the pleasure of playing through the '65 and the '68. I prefer the sound of the '68, using both a custom tele with a neck humbucker and by '94 Korean Strat. Next time I have $4000 in cash I plan to make a run at the '68.

1st album was mostly the Jackson brown owned dumble.

You should also be using Ibanez TS 808 or TS 9 Tube Screamer along with Vox Wah-Wah Pedal

I love attenuators

The hot plate is messing up the demo on the 8 volume setting

The great D130 is rated at 30 watts so be careful... ...especially since it's in an open back cab. A 40 watt Fender can have peaks of nearly double it's rated power

Sometimes i envy you. Here I am just trying to save up to get one of your pedals 😂.

It's a bummer when you have to sell something reluctantly. I sold my DeLorean to buy a home. I'll get another one day 👍

Sweet tone. But i think its the attack you play with as much as anything. Any black face fender gets you close to that SRV tone so long as you really dig in like Stevie did oh yeah you do need a strat 😂

You should do a video with Ritchie to give him some more exposure. That channel and him as a player is too good to not be bigger than it is.

Sounds like a twin

Totally srv

Swap the D130 for an E130. See if that doesn't help the flub. Great video. ✌️

Jaleous

I wholeheartedly believe speaking with an English accent 100% gets your tone closer to SRV even though Stevie was a Texan all the guys on RU-vid I see nailing it sound English to me 😂

I have this same amp, but it says MAGNATONE on the front. (Some of you will get this).

Riff at 3:34 is fucking epic

THEvie Ray Vamp.

For all the good it would do, you might as well have got a marker pen and written "SRV" on that Stratocaster. Still doesn't capture his tone. SRV sounded like SRV whatever gear he used. Pedal Pawn sounds like Pedal Pawn.