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Fender's reissuing some silverfaces....
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HawkeyeKane
1969 posts
Sep 05, 2013
8:07 AM
....but only a few. And they fall under the heading of "vintage modified", so they MIGHT have a slightly different tone circuit to them. I dunno....but from what I've heard on TGP, they're only going to be available for a short time.

’68 Custom Princeton Reverb®


’68 Custom Deluxe Reverb®


’68 Custom Twin Reverb®


Kinda like this DRRI head that's a limited time thing...

'65 Deluxe Reverb® Head


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Rick Davis
2311 posts
Sep 05, 2013
8:17 AM
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HawkeyeKane
1985 posts
Sep 10, 2013
7:32 AM
Odd....MF is retailing the silverface reissues for anywhere between 50 to 150 bucks less than their blackface counterparts.

Princeton Reverb

Deluxe Reverb

Twin Reverb
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blueswannabe
270 posts
Sep 10, 2013
4:18 PM
The 68 fender Princeton reverb custom twin looks like it would be a great harp amp. There are two channels, one vintage and a custom channel which is described as a modified bass,an.
SuperBee
1418 posts
Sep 11, 2013
5:52 AM
I really like the aesthetic of those amps. I see there are no export models, so I expect I won't get to try one anytime soon. Oh well.
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colman
262 posts
Sep 11, 2013
6:29 AM
I got a 68 fender twin around 78 off a dude who worked on and modified amps.{AB763}same as the black panel amp !he added a midrange boost or like that,and with a switch it could go from clean twin to a distorted marshall sound.a killer amp for guitar or harp...also he turned me on to pulling two power tubes and cutting the power but adding more warm distortion.I`ll never sell this amp...and i paid $150. for it !!!

Last Edited by colman on Sep 11, 2013 6:54 AM
HawkeyeKane
2616 posts
Sep 12, 2014
10:45 AM
So....one year later, Fender releases a Vibrolux Reverb in this series...to me, this looks like the best of the bunch so far...

'68 Custom Vibrolux® Reverb



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Goldbrick
680 posts
Sep 12, 2014
1:01 PM
Not sure why they would do that. Most amp heads I know were having siverfaces redone to blackface specs.

Then again Fender reissued a lot of less desire able guitars too- so I guess someone has some 70's nostalgia
HawkeyeKane
2617 posts
Sep 12, 2014
1:10 PM
Well....also keep in mind that these are NOT silverface amps like the originals. They have different tone stacks, different speakers, and the verb and trem apply to both channels instead of just one. Basically....they're only a silverface on the outside.
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Goldbrick
681 posts
Sep 12, 2014
1:23 PM
I understand. Thats what is really strange to me -why not get the blackface cosmetics since that was the " cooler" style pre CBS.

Its like building a 76 Corvette instead of a 64
HawkeyeKane
2618 posts
Sep 12, 2014
2:04 PM
Some folks have fond memories of the silverface amps and use nothing but silverface. I'm with you...prefer pretty much everything else over silverface. Brown, Blonde, Blackface, and tweed.
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SuperBee
2197 posts
Sep 12, 2014
3:43 PM
I appreciate the cosmetics of the silverface, and I'm happy for folk to keep dissing them if it keeps the price down. I use a silverface PR whenever I think it will cope with the sound stage, simply because it does the job. I've come to appreciate that SF champs, vibrochamps, princetons and PRs, and deluxes are pretty much the same circuits as the blackface amps, maybe with lower build quality, maybe with different component quality..but by now enough components have been replaced in most that it's a crapshoot anyway...and a silverface amp is considerably cheaper.
the silverface amps are not particularly cheap here, but much cheaper than blackface. Tweed...forget it
last SF DR I saw was asking $1900. My PR was $1200 iirc. SF Twins seem more common and have maybe seen more gigging than the small amps, condition varies but can be had from about 1g upwards.
But these reissues I don't know about...of course they have already done the blackface reissue and the tweed, and their new amps aren't cutting in the market....so re-releasing the more well regarded silverfaces makes some kind of sense I suppose...
Bb
355 posts
May 02, 2018
11:33 AM
Has anyone here tried that 68 Vibrolux reissue for harp? Looking for a one amp solution for guitar and still get good harp tone for playing out. I have a Sonny Jr. Super Cruncher and well, let's say I can't make a guitar sound good out of it at all.
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MP
3599 posts
May 02, 2018
5:00 PM
Fender went Silver after CBS bought them. Certain models retained the black face specs into the early 70s. The Princeton was one of these and I still hold that amp/sans reverb in high esteem.
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indigo
504 posts
May 02, 2018
8:41 PM
Bugger i thought Hawkeye was back!
JTThirty
332 posts
May 04, 2018
12:50 PM
I've had the '68 Custom Princeton Reverb for a couple of weeks. Great harp amp. Right, it is not a reissue because they've added various mods to the circuit. They lowered the negative feedback by using different resistors. The result being that the amp overdrives sooner and the Celestion 10 speaker may contribute to that also. Overdrive on my amp begins happening at 3 on the volume knob and it gets pretty full on by 4. After 4, feedback begins to creep in regardless of the mic I use or what preamp tube swaps I've done.

The tone stack replicates a Bassman, providing more bass response and a mid scoop. It whomps and you really can't dial out the bass. The amp is a bit darker sounding than the originals.

Left to right tubes: G34 6v6 6v6 12ax7 12ax7 12at7 12ax7 I pretty sure that the Groove Tubes are all JJs. JJ 6v6s act closer to 6l6 tubes and can take what ever voltage the GZ34 slings at 'em. I've played around with V1 and V2. The amp sounds great out of box if you like an aggressive, gnarly tone. You'd have to trust your ears to decide what tone you like. I did try a 5u4 rectifier (David Barrett's suggestion) and didn't really care for it and the fact that the filament draw is 3A vs 2A.

I haven't played out with the amp yet, but will do so in a couple of weeks. I've been using a Harp Train 10 and got this for an alternative. We all need one, right?
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