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My 1972 Fender Silverface Super Reverb arrived yesterday and I spent the day testing the caps and resistors before firing it up.
It still has its original filter caps and guess what they tested within 10% of rating and showed little or no leakage on my Sencore LC102.
I checked it over from top to bottom and after I was satisfied it wasn't going to blow up, I turned it on and...
:rockon2: :banana: :rockon:
WOW how beautiful is that sound? I am totally lovin' this!
So very quiet and clean up to about 4.5 then it starts to break up nicely and if I leave it at 4.5 it is very touch sensitive especially with the LP or the bridge pickup on my strat.
I have the following changes in mind for the amp, new filter caps, two choclate drop caps will be replaced, and I just might consider black facing this old girl although I don't know how much better it could sound. I do want to change out the 5U4 for a Mullard GZ34, the 6L6's are MESAs and the rest of the tubes are ELECTROs and some no name junk so I'll be purchasing some tubes soon.
All in all I am happy with my purchase, $700 for one great sounding amp.
Don
It still has its original filter caps and guess what they tested within 10% of rating and showed little or no leakage on my Sencore LC102.
I checked it over from top to bottom and after I was satisfied it wasn't going to blow up, I turned it on and...
:rockon2: :banana: :rockon:
WOW how beautiful is that sound? I am totally lovin' this!
So very quiet and clean up to about 4.5 then it starts to break up nicely and if I leave it at 4.5 it is very touch sensitive especially with the LP or the bridge pickup on my strat.
I have the following changes in mind for the amp, new filter caps, two choclate drop caps will be replaced, and I just might consider black facing this old girl although I don't know how much better it could sound. I do want to change out the 5U4 for a Mullard GZ34, the 6L6's are MESAs and the rest of the tubes are ELECTROs and some no name junk so I'll be purchasing some tubes soon.
All in all I am happy with my purchase, $700 for one great sounding amp.
Don
