Fender Deluxe Reverb

original 1963 blackface. the first year fender made em and the first one that the little music store in temple texas got. mines still all OEM dont see a need in messin with it it plays everything great. blues, country, rock, metal, with the right effects pedal itll handle anything and gives it all its own warmth that no other amp will put out.

one of the best sounding and most sought after amps ever made. havnt played with the reverb on it much because the tank messed up shortly after my grandpa gave it to me. but i even play rock on it with a boss metal zone pedal and it sounds awsome. cant beat the classics man. oh and if anyone knows which reverb tank i would need feel free to email me (the one in it doesnt have the numbers on it anymore)

still works great except i need a new reverb tank for it. other than a few tube changes over the years its all still original from 63

holds its value very well. treat it nice and itll last u forever

Mines a Silverface 74 traded a 90s Marshall JCM 900 Reverb 100/50 watt Combo straight across-NO REGRETS

My Pops bought me a new one in 1971, with an Oxford in it. But to keep up with the loud drummer I played it on 10 at all gigs, now this was in the early 70s and if you had a Shure Vocal Master or Bogan Pa with Horns you were ****tin in high cotton. So nobody miked anything but horns and vocals. Needless to say I had to replace my speakers on a regular basic which were always Jenson cause of the cheap price and availibity! But when I came across this trade and the amp had the speaker Weber recommends using, I had to jump on it. The tubes and caps were just replaced and the Weber increases the Volume(22 watts?) so I'm in Fender Heaven and having used every amp from AC30s to JC120s, Brown and blond Fenders from Bassmans to Vibroverbs this DR even though its Silver(like the 71 model my Dad bought me) this light weight tone master is the best Fender ever came out with. I won't be blowing speakers anymore since everything is miked, and the tone even on 1 is the best! Like the guitar wielding Gilligen said to the professor on the island make mine a Fender Deluxe Reverb, with a side of Ginger!

Never had to worry but if I get a deal on another I'll buy it, in case of gig break downs.

Never dealt with Fender.

Best clean sound and the warmest brown sound imaginable!

I have a 67 deluxe reverb --- one of the last blackface amps. The
original oxford speaker ( now sadly deceased ) has been replaced
by one of the new jensen P12N ceramic speakers. Also through the extension speaker outlet I run an old vox 12" speaker ( not a celestion ) but with a very similar warm sound to the new jensen.
Combined these two speakers make for a very big sound --- not volume
,but more importantly,tone. Another mod is replacing the original
6V6 output valves(I'm Australian) with 6L6's (recomended by my amp
doctor.

The 6L6's provide more clean headroom (they are biased fairly low)
but that lovely classic deluxe reverb angry but musical overdrive
distortion is still there when needed. My guitars ( 67 gibson es330 &
recent epiphone casino --- P90 city ) all sound great. I have the amp
voume on 4, treble on 8, & bass on 5 --- reverb on 3. I play rock, blues, jazz, country, hawaiian ---- all on these settings. I may vary things on the guitar controls(actually all the time) but the amp
itself , through it's simplicity & quality of tone creates it's own
variety.

Valve amps require maintenance --- finding a good amp doctor is just
as important as finding a good accountant. Still it's usually a case of replacing worn output or pre-amp valves. My orginal oxford speaker
was made in 1966 & was replaced in 2006 --- not bad.

Not applicable --- any service was done independently.

I've been playing for 41 years. This is my second deluxe reverb. I had to sell the first in hard times many years ago. This one cost me nothing, it was a direct swap for a bass amp with a good friend of mine who knew it was coming to a good home --- I'm forever gratefull.I also have a voxAC15 --- also a beautiful amp.I sometimes
A/B them together which is just sublime.Many people have said this
before but the fender deluxe reverb is the desert island amp.

CBS era; bought it used in 1985 from Sodja Music in Cleveland.

It's a Fender tube amp. 'Nuff said.

Big fat bold sound for electric rhythm and lead. Great for shows and recording.

I've played the thing for 22 years, and it was well-used when I got it. It has the original speaker and no mods.

Never bothered Fender. Local boys can fix any of 'em.

If this baby were stolen I'd buy another old one tomorrow (assuming I found one).

I love it because I can just turn it to 10 and control my sound from the guitar (L6-S).

I am extremely biased toward Fender - I have owned not other brand amp. I've played Bassman, Twin, and Dual Showman and this is by far my favorite model.

Mine is a 1965 blackface. the features have been covered perfectly by the other reviewers. everything a classy guitarist would need. it's a 10 by my book.

WOW! i play original indie rock, blues, and bosa nova stuff. Unless you play loud country or as loud as hendrix, you will love this amp. this is a tone machine. believe me, i've owned and played nearly every classid amp you can think of. blows all of them away. virbroluxes, twin reverbs, princetons, marshalls; i've owned many of them. this is the most toneful of them all. i'm not trying to cut down the other amps; they are all good in their own right, but if you want the greatest tone imaginable, get one of these amps before the collectors put them all behind glass.

built like the UUS Enterprise

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IMHO the greatest amp ever made for every style of music one could imagine. Can you tell I love this amp?

Mine is a 65 black face Deluxe Reverb. My parents bought me this amp brand new for my 18th birthday, and I'll be 60 this coming February, so I've had it almost 42 years. BTW, I think they paid about $150 for it brand new, but that was 1965! Just a basic 22 watt amp with few features, but it does what it does superbly. It has two non-switchable channels, one dry and one with reverb and tremolo (although they call vibrato). It has the best reverb of any amp I've ever owned. I play country, classic rock and southern rock, and this amp is perfect for that.

It was the only amp I had or used during the 60's and 70's, but I had to get a more powerful amp in the 80's when I joined a band that played larger venues. I then bought a 100 watt Peavey Heritage VTX, but it never matched the tone of this baby, which I was still using for practice. When we finally got a big enough board to mike all the instruments, I started using my Deluxe Reverb again on gigs. I quit taking it on gigs permanently after my parents passed away, because it is just to valuable and irreplaceable to risk it. The sentimental value of outweighs everything else to me now.

This amp is clean up till about 5 on the volume control. After that it starts distorting, but it is the best sounding distortion you'll ever hear. It's not brutal, just a creamy wail, really nice.

I have played teles, strats, LP's, SG's, Peavey T series and many others through this amp, and they all sound great. My main ax now is a 71 Gibson SG Deluxe, and I use an 82 Peavey T-27 as a backup. I still have an 88 American Standard Strat, but I prefer the SG and T-27. I disagree with the post that said humbuckers don't sound as good through this amp. It makes my SG absolutely sing.

I think it is very reliable, but as I said, I don't gig with it anymore for sentimental reasons. The only things I've had to replace were a couple of tubes, and I replaced the two prong power cord with a grounded three prong cord for safety reasons. I didn't like the idea of getting electrocuted through the lips, although I later discovered that this problem can be completely eliminated by using Shure SM-57's for vocals.

After nearly 42 years I'm sure the warranty is expired by now. Never had to deal with Fender, but I know a good tech that I can entrust this baby to for repairs and maintenance. I think the speaker has finally crapped, so I'll be taking it to him in the near future. I hope it's a tube instead of the speaker, because I'd like to keep the original speaker in it if possible.

I've been playing for almost 45 years now, and I've gone through a lot of gear, most of which I still have. I have a Dean Markley RM-40 that I gig with now, which is a good sounding amp, just not as good as the DR. I also have an 83 Peavey Heritage VTX, a 97 Peavey Studio Pro 112, and a Sunn Concert Lead head that I have no idea what year it was made, but it's old. Most of my stuff is now vintage, even though most of it was purchased new. The Sunn head I inherited from a friend of mine who died in 1988. I also have a lot of sound gear from Peavey and Carvin.

If my Deluxe Reverb were stolen or lost, it would be almost as bad as losing a member of my family. I have two daughters and two granddaughters who don't play, but I have made them promise to keep the Deluxe Reverb and the SG in the family to pass along to future generations after my demise, in the hope that someone in my lineage will again take up the guitar. Any of my other gear they can sell, but not those two items.

this blackface deluxe reverb was made in early april 1965. (no logo)
although it's awesome, i need to use some pedals with it for some coloration. (I KNOW!)
i play classic rock (40 years)
two channels with plenty of tubes!
my band plays mostly outside during March thru October so it's floored mostly.
enough power for the jobs i do. sm57 takes care of any shortcomings.
i dont need "features"

sound is perfect,,more than perfect when it's dimed. first time i used the amp, i came offstage and said "i've been blackfaced". i use a les paul junior, sg special, fender strat, danelectro 12 string, ibanez rg320, and rg120 for slide. all axes sound just great thru this amp. p-90, humbucking, lipstick, strat single coils. this amp likes them all!!! not too noisy floored. distortion is smooth as silk, not brutal like my marshalls.

reliable as hell because i had it rebuilt. caps, cord, etc. this amp was given to me for FREE!!! that's right, FREE!!! this deluxe reverb was owned by an old friend (BB) who played guitar with Stevie Wonder for 16 years. it fell off the back of their truck once, shattering the baffleboard, which was replaced with a piece of wood from an anvil case. my friend gave it to me when i promised i would never sell it, and said this was the amp he used & Stevie listened to in the studio for all those years. (he said i could tell that story).at one point someone from the Allman Bros. band attempted to mod the amp in some fashion,,,,but the guy was a hack! hence the total rebuild. talk about a tough amp life!
it was not working correctly when i got it, so my friend Jim (a very talented amp builder & lover of all blackface fenders) gave it the onceover. "it was a labor of love to rebuild this amp" Jim actually owns his grandfathers blackface "deluxe" (no reverb) which was used for keyboards. he builds amps from scratch as well. i own one. cabinet is really in good shape considering the age and the miles it has seen. it has a lot of vibe!! you can sense it just looking at it!
kind of brings me back to when i was 13 (1965-66) and hangin out down the street listening to a beach boy cover band. saw my first fender amps and guitars when they invited me in to listen. dual showmans and bandmasters WOW!!

what corp. backs a 42 year old amp? it's a relic!

playing 40 years,,i'm 53 yo. i also have a marshall dsl2000 100 watt half stack, an 18 watt 1-12 point to point clone, (awesome!), a crate half stack for those humid rainy outdoor gigs, and lastly a marshall master reverb 30. many amps have gone thru my hands in these 40 years including brown fenders, white and blackface bandmasters (5), plexi marshalls (50 & 100's), silvertone 2-12, a rickenbacker (yuck), harmony. i'm a guitar and amp junky, really!!
how can you replace this without emptying your bank account? last one i saw at guitar center sold for $2000. it was cleaner than mine i must admit,,but again, mine has some major mojo!! and pedigree to boot. don't steal it,,i'd kill you dead!

I beleive it's a '74, non master volume. Pete Cage, amp tech guru, worked on the number one channel to include reverb and turned it into what he calls the "brown sound". This is a very very cool useable channel now.

I got this amp from Pete Cage of Cage amps. Pete's a personal friend, jamming partner and a top rate amp tech. After some discussion with Pete I found there wasn't a big difference between the BF Deluxe Reverb and the SF. I beleive there is slight difference in the transformers, not necessarly a bad one, tone wise. We replaced all the caps with Fender Blue Molded found in BF amps. These are difficult to find. I happened to find a BF Bassman eyelet board with all the correct value caps ($100). Wiring the board as BF, using the Blue caps and tubing with NOS RCA Blackplate 6V6's and RCA Blackplate preamp tubes put the electronics in order. An original BF uses a GZ34 rectifier tube but the '74 transformer can only handle a 5U4GB. To my understanding this has to do with something called plate voltage. I personally like the "sag" of the 5U4GB, it's a bit more squishy, so not being able to use the GZ didn't bother me. Also a speaker swap to the direct Weber (12F150) replacement for the DR. Personally this speaker is THE speaker for this amp, period. I find this amp to be near perfect for clubs. Great clean sound and it will breakup nicely for solo work. I play blues so I don't require over the top sustain. I run the amp volume at 7 and use the guitar volume to control the gain. I play a '54 Gibson Historic (P90's). The combination of this amp and guitar get's me where I want to be. I haven't AB'd this against an original BF but I'm sure it's right there. It was 1/3 the cost. I'm not afraid to take it out, wind it full up and PLAY. It's not a collector's piece it's a tool.

No problems

pete@audiocage.com

Pete is the best!

I've been playing for 37 years. Throughout my life I've had tons of music equipment and this set up suits my needs at this stage of playing. I sometimes think about a Vibrolux or a Vibroverb but I'm so familiar with this amp it's like an old friend. Thanks Pete!

Mod 70's FDR - no frills - 2 channel w/ vibrato and the best reverb in the business.

Tone machine - all the way. I play a fender deluxe strat, hendrix reverse strat, and prs singlecut - all sound fantastic - only 2 pdeals - fuzz and wah - vintage cry baby - the only thing I have left from the 60s - 70s when I had fenders, etc and oroginal treeds - all under the bridge now. Style is mostly blues, R&B, some rock - various pop and jazz depending the the melody and chord variations. No metal or punk - no can do, just can't comprehend. With a little distortion can go for a bs&t or cream sound - strange brew or jimi's wind cries mary.

The best - rock solid.

The reason I wrote this - is to save all of you time - for 800 or less there is nothing that can touch a 70s sf deluxe reverb and if you are fortunate a black face (will cost some extra $$). Used to find these old fenders (vibros, bandmasters, dual showman) in swap shops all day long - bought a tweed for 20 bucks once - thats gone now. Loook around though they are still out there. I know everbody likes boogies, bogner, etc but for let it ring piano clarity sounds fender is the ticket. In my book #1 and #2 tone macines are bf vibro and deluxe.

Been there, later dudes

First, excuse my bad english, i'm french and i don't practise a lot
" la langue de shakespeare "...
This is a deluxe reverb 65 reissue.
i 'm fed up with technology and was looking for a good "plug and play" moderatly powered tube amp .
Second, i 'm a blues rock player and play easy jazz with pleasure.
third, i'm a strat man (U.S vintage serie.), with an exception for a les paul special with P90.
For the features, go on the fender website... i would say that this amp cover all the sound of the sixties (stax record, motown, southern rock and so on ...), when you play, you can hear a little beat of those sounds.That's the real mc coy for me ...
So, the sounds is pretty cool.I play it with a TS-808 all the time, and tha box is a part of it now !
You get those creamy overdrive with sustain that make your solo sound very expressive.
Unfortunetly, i don' t gig a lot and play at home witch mean that it 's hard to crank it up, but with the TS808, i can' get crunchtones at a correct volume...
I wish fender could built the same with a master volume.

-It is great with both single coil and P90.The sounds are rootsy.
-For blues rock it is perfect.You can play some surf souinds too with the tremolo and the reverb (you know the james bond theme and surfaris
stuff ...
-Yes it is noisy but it comes from the strat and the P90, but who care when you play loud (it sounds ery loud for a non professionnal like me...)
-you catch the breakup around 5-6, beneath use a TS808 to get crunch at low volume ( the sound is still great .)
-the natural overdrive of that amp sound very "rural,dirty and roots".

-I ve been playing for 23 years now, and i try to play standards of blues rock correctly.This amp make me realize that the sound come from the fingers first, and i improve my playing since i got it.
-I tried Msall DSL 401 (pretty cool ...), hot rod deluxe (no comparaison with the DR.) and the peavey classic 30 ( cool but beneath the DR.).I appreciated the blues junior for the master volume that allow crunch tone at low volume.But none of those had the expressivity of the deluxe reverb.