Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue

Features listed before.
Basic nowdays, modern for their time.

I use a 57' Strat, a Burny Les Paul copy, and a Mexican Super Strat.
I bough the Twin because a ffriend of mine reccomended it for what I play, which is mostly blues, it fits the bill perfectly. I've gotten somehting of Eddie Van Halend Brown sound of it before with my Les Paul so it's quite versatile.


It is a quiet amp for a tube amp, I practice at 10 and the only noise I usally hear (besides a deffening roar of my guitar) are the single coils.


It has a beutiful clean sound. I play some Dire Straits (Down to the Waterline early suff.) and I can pick of the Knopfler tone at the right setting (2nd channel, 1st input, bright swith on, teble 7, mid 5, bass 6 volume about 5). I can a tone similar to Stevie Ray's Couldn't Stand the weather tone easily too. At about 6 or 7 it overdirves nicely, real smooth and rich; you also loosing your hearing for the most part.

I keep mine in garage, I have no studio or real place to keep this magnum of an amp. I've owned it for a year and taken it out to blues jams and the such quite a few times. It's also been slammed around a little bit but nothing too sever. Quite reliable by my stantards.

Never delt with Fender.

I've been playing for abuot 2 1/2 yrs. I listed my guitars above and the only other amp I own is a Vox Cambridge 30 Reverb. For effects I use a Ibanez TS9 reissue, EH Small Stone, and Vox V857(?) wah peadal.


I play mostly blues, funk, and classic rock. I play some Police stuff too, and can get and Andy Summers tone going on with this amp.

If it where stolen I would most likely get another one, these new Vox Ac15's are tempting though.

I love the sound and reliability of this amp. Abolutly fabulouse, gets the tone I want. Did mention the Lovely reverb? The Reverb is the best I've heard.

I've Compared my Twin to the Following: Fender 64' Deluxe reverb, Fender 65' Vibroverb, Fender 64' Vibrolux, 67' Super Reverb. This thing will stand up to those old amps in my opinion; only amps I prefer are old AC15's and Marshall JTM45's.

Overall a Great amp in my opinon, certainly try one out if you're looking for a good tube amp.

Features are well documented. both channels have volume, treble, middle, and bass, with a bright switch. tremolo on one channel. For this amp, the features are nearly perfect.

There is not a guitar that does not sound great with this amp. For cleans, this amp is beautiful. I was looking for a 212 combo for the sound dispersion (and not being to crazy about 10 inch speakers), and I thought this amp would do it. And it does for clean sounds.

Occasionally, however, I wanted an overdriven sound, and thinking that I was not too naive, I knew that there was no way to crank this amp for such a sound. So, I relied on my trusty 808 overdrive reissue (which is great), but I have discovered one thing over time: Overdrive pedals seem to work best when the amp is already being driven to some extent, or when the input on the overdrive pedal is up high. The problem with this amp is that to get it to that point, it already has to be incredibly loud, and while I love it loud, my band members don't. (in fact, the first time I jammed with the trri, the other guitarist left the studio, went outside, and called me on my cell phone, and said "Mike, turn it down." I trust some of you have had this experience).

So, with the amp at one or two, and the overdrive pedal, a les paul sounds pretty good, but anything with single coils sounds empty because I can't drive the amp.

For those of you who right reviews above me (i.e., subsequently), this is not a complaint that the amp cannot be driven. I think it has the most beautiful clean and sparkle on the planet. It is a word to those shopping around that this amp cannot be driven in everyday situations, in most clubs, at most gigs, at home, or almost anywhere else. That is the reality of these amps. If you read reviews about pulling power tubes, it does not help that much.

I have found that the deluxe reverb, super reverb, bassman 59 reissue, 57 tweed twin reissue, are better suited to being driven if that is your goal.

Don't get me wrong, the amp sounds beautiful clean and loud. It's just not realistic to expect to be able to hit the sweet spot on this amp and have everyone stick around.

I still give it a 9 for what it is designed to be.

Did not have it long enough.

Did not use.

Playing for 25 years. Got rid of trri, but if I still had it and it were stolen, would get a 20 to 40 watt amp.

Overall, for what this amp is designed to be, a loud clean amp, it is perfect. If you only play jazz or something else where you want a little bite, this is the perfect amp. Oh, did I mention the weight?

UPDATE PLEASE READ.1ST GIG LAST NITE WITH THE 65 TWIN REVERB AMP REISSUE. WOW!! VERY VERSATILE .HARD ROCK, GARAGE ROCK,OLD SCHOOL PUNK,NEW PUNK,EVEN METAL WITH RIGHT PEDALS. ALTHOUGH YOU MAY NOT LIKE FENDER SOUND OVERDRIVEN BUT I DO, ALWAYS HAVE.

GIBSON LP STANDARD W/ BURST BUCKER PRO PK UPS.VERY QUIET, NO HUMS OF ANY KIND. LET THIS AMP BREAK IN GOOD BEFORE YOU SAY MY PEDALS SOUND BAD THROUGH THIS.AFTER PRACTISING FOR A WEEK WITH THIS BEFORE MY GIG HELPED ALOT. ALSO I RUN MY GUITAR IN THE VIBRATO CHANNEL 2, BRIGHT SWITCH OFF AND ALL MY BOSS PEDALS SOUND WONDERFUL. PH3,CE5,SD1,MT2,MAXON OD808,TONEBONE CLASSIC,CRY BABY,VOL. PEDAL AND THE FABULOUS FENDER REVERB TO BOOT. I LEFT FENDER FOR MARSHALL AWHILE BACK BUT NOW IM BACK WITH FENDER ALL THE WAY.JUST REMEMBER THAT EVEN WITH ALL MY PEDALS THIS AMP STILL SOUNDS LIKE A FENDER AMP SO USING A METAL ZONE WILL SOUND LIKE A FENDER AMP WITH A METAL ZONE.

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GREAT VALUE FOR 1000 DOLLARS. SHIT LOADS OF HEADROOM AND THEN SOME TO SPARE I PROMISE.I ALSO USE THE 59 BASSMAN LTD REISSUE (NEW AS WELL).IM PROUD TO SAY I OWN THE HOLY GRAIL OF TONE PERIOD. YES AGAIN AND AGAIN.IF YOU LIKE LOUD CLEAR FENDER SOUND, YOULL LOVE IT . I DO.I HAVE THE BLUE LABEL GROOVE TUBES IN MINE WITH JENSENS.

JUST GOT IT 5 DAYS AGO MADE IN 2005 OR 06 DONT KNOW. PLENTY OF FEATURES OTHER THAN O/D FX LOOP

DIFFERNT STYLES BUT MY BAND PLAYS PUNK & HARD ROCK STUFF.HAVENT GIGGED WITH YET. BAND PRACTISE TONITE, GIG TOMORROW NITE. BUT THIS AMP HAS GIANT CLEAN HEAD ROOM PERIOD.MINE CAME WITH THE BLUE GROOVE TUBES. I KNOW SOME COME WITH RED AND SOME WHITE, IVE SEEN IT. STELLAR REVERB AND VIBRATO. THIS AMP SOUNDS FUZZY WHEN DISTORTED. COOL THOUGH.I NOTICED USING BOSS SUPER OVERDRIVE AND METAL ZONE THE AMP IS REAL BUZZY(SOUNDED LIKE $%^&)UNLESS YOU CRANK THIS THING AND YOUD BETTER BE READY TOO.IT SOUNDED BETTER BUT EHH, I DONT KNOW.SO I BOUGHT A TONE BONE CLASSIC DIST. PEDAL, MXR OD 808 PEDAL AND YES THE BUZZYNESS IS GONE. CLEAR AS A BELL, BUT, THE AMP IS STILL FUZZY,THATS THE SOUND OF THE AMP THOUGH. CLEAR BUT FUZZY. SOUNDS VERY COOL TO ME ALSO SOUNDS LIKE CHOURS IS ON BUT ITS NOT. SEEMS TO FILL VERY NICE. 3-D SOUND.ITS STARTING TO BREAK IN A LITTLE SINCE IVE PLAYED AT HOME EVERYDAY SO FAR AT TOLLERABLE LEVELS AND THE BOSS PEDALS SOUND ALITTLE BETTER, BUT BUY SOME HIGH END PEDALS THOUGH PLEASE. IM GLAD I DID MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE,ANALOG PEDALS= GOOD.USING A GIBSON LP STAND. CLEAN THIS AMP STARTS TO BREAK UP AT 3.5 AND AT VOL.4 WITH THE BRIDGE PK UP, WOW ! MY GOD, TONE CITY.THEN KICK ON SOME O.D. AND HOLY $%^& BATMAN THE GREATEST TONE EVER. NO MARSHALL ROAR BUT WITH THE RIGHT PEDALS THIS AMP WILL LET YOU KNOW IN A HURRY THAT MARSHALL CANT *&^% WITH IT.

WE'LL SEE. I TRIED ONE AT ADIFFERENT STORE YESTERDAY TO TRY PEDALS AND I COULD SMELL IT BURNING OR SOMETHING.THIS ONE HAD WHITE LABEL TUBES.THE CLERK SAID THEY JUST RECIEVED THIS AMP TOO. MINE CAME FROM G.C. NO SMELL AT ALL ON MINE YET. I HAVE BLUE LABEL TUBES. MINE CAME IN ONLY 2 WEEKS AGO. HMM.

WELL, MY AMP CAME WITH NO POWER LIGHT BULB. THE RED JEWEL WAS THERE BUT WOULDNT LITE. I UNSCREWED IT AND NO BULB. SO I WENT TO THE LOCAL(35MILES AWAY)FENDER WARRANTY CENTER TO GET A BULB AND THEY MADE ME PAY FOR IT. WHY? BECAUSE I DIDNT BUY THE AMP FROM THEM THATS WHY.SO YOUR FENDER WARRANTY IS ONLY GOOD IF YOU BUY AT STORES THAT ARE FENDER WARRANTY SERVICE CENTERS AS WELL I GUESS. DONT KNOW. 3.00$ FOR THE BULB. NO OTHER ISSUES SO FAR.

LOVE THE AMP. HAD MARSHALLS, WENT BACK TO FENDER ALWAYS, EVEN THE STYLE I PLAY.IF IT BREAKS ILL GET IT FIXED PERIOD. STELLAR AMP. YES , AGAIN!!

Nothing new to contribute here.

I have used Hums and singles with this amp. My style is edgy to hard improv rock, blues, funk, and jazz. As with any tube amp this thing can be noisy with bad power and effects. It amplifies what ever you put in front. Noisy pedals will be really loud noisy pedals. With quality tubes and proper maintenance this thing is loud and clean up to 11. The breakup that it does get is at very high volumes with humbuckers and you better be in a big room and have some distance between you and the amp or you are putting your hearing at risk. I have found the most usable settings between 2-5 on the volume but I don't paticularly care for fender breakup anyway is seems. It's loud and clean. That's what it does, always.... This amp will always sound great with a strat for clean tones and will make even a bad guitar sound stellar in that department. You will be very discoureged if you by this amp thinking you can play in your bedroom , dorm, or apartment. In those situations you will likely get better tone from a modeling amp of some kind. This amp needs to be opened up to at least 3 to sound it's best and even that volume will raise eyebrows in a small venue. I have used a THD Hotplate with great success to get good tone and appropriate volumes. Bottome line for sound in this amp is Loud, Clean, with very good reverb. Stack as many effects as you want into this and as long as the power quality is good and the the effects are not noisy you will be ok. Again, this amp just makes whatever you put in front of it louder. I took this to a friends house and was joking about how loud it was. Cranked it up to about 4.5 and hit a big E5 and literally knocked pictures off his wall. I'm not a tone guru but it's the best loud clean that I have ever heard.

I have gigged with it many times with no backup. But, It has also been in the shop a few times and cost me at least half as much in repairs as I paid. I'm not amp tech but the more I learn about tube amps the more I realize that if you have some backup tubes and fuses on hand you are good to go most of the time.

I hear they can be hard to deal with. No personal experience though.

This is a good amp for someone who needs or wants the power. It has great Fender tone. I would not buy another though but I do plan on keeping it unless I can get a good price or trade. I have a love/hate affair with this amp. I've had it for over 5 years now and it has served me well but I just need more versitility. This amp is what it is and that is it's strong point. Don't knock it for what it isn't. There is a Fender amp for every situation so don't try to fit a square peg in the round hole. Find the amp that does what you need and want.

My 1965 Twin Reissue is the 29th one built out of the first 300. Fenders intentions were to only create 300 of these but they proved so popular they still make them to this day. Forget the reviews that say the originals came out in 1965. They did not, it was 1963 -1967 thus the mid point being 65. Leo Fender designed this amp prior to the 65 CBS takeover. I purchased mine new in 1991 and paid an extra $100.00 due to the serial number. There is no sense rehashing all the info in previous reviews so I will just say that this is thee ultimate clean amp all the way to 10. As it should be. Suffice it to say that it has been on every Rock, Country, Jazz and Blues stage for decades. I give a 10 for versatility because of the amps clean ability to process effects from pedals, boards etc.

Sounds great with my Fender Tele and Strat. Fender 72 Thinline Reissue with Humbuckers, Les Paul and ES335 copies (don't believe in wasting money when I don't have to) and any guitar I run through it.
Everyone seems to worry about how many watts an amp is and leave out the fact that it is the tone that is the most important. This amp has the sought after Fender tone and if anyone thinks the originals sounded better it is based on bias and not fact. You can easily swap out tubes and speakers but mine have Jensons as the originals did and I wouldn't think of changing them. Now back to the watts vs tone issue. As many have said on here you CAN use effects units to get whatever sound you want and this is the amp to do it with. But for that old tweed blues distorted sound I use my Peavey Classic 20 (15watts) and am leaning towards picking up a Fender Blues Jr only because of the fender reverb sound built in and a 12" speaker. Let me point out the fact that an 85 watt Fender Twin Reissue is only twice as loud as an 8.5 watt tube amp. It takes 10 times the wattage to double the sound level. What you get with added wattage is headroom thus more clarity at a higher volume. This is why many times you will see a Fender Twin on stage with a Fender Bassman used by the same guitarist. The Bassmans lower wattage equals more distortion. Best Clean Tone on the planet.

I have used this amp since 1991 with the original tubes and not one single issue that would have required a backup. The dry channel has a harmonic tube in it from day one but I don't use that channel so have never swapped it out. I will eventually drop some JJ tubes in. I just put these in my Classic 20 and it certainly made that amp a keeper. The 65 Reissue is a workhorse!

Never had to use Customer Support.

I've been playing guitar, bass and drums for 40+ years.
If I didn't have a twin owning one would be my ulitmate goal.
The amp certainly is one for someone that can afford it.
If you are just starting out and want the best of both worlds (clean and dirty tube tone) at lower volumes then I would recommend a Fender Blues Jr. It would be an amp that you can start out with and keep to use along side your 65 Reissue when you can put out the bucks for one.

Pretty simple setup. There are two channels, both clean, but one with vibrato and reverb. Both channels have a bright switch (that i adore and always keep on.. it brings the amp alive). Also each channel has two inputs, the first is loud, the second is more quiet. I love the loud one because you can really hear those tubes! Both channels also, of course, have volume, treble, mid, bass controls. Very responsive controls. Features-wise, i really dont need anything else. It is the staple of perfect clean tone.

I'm playing a Fender Deluxe American Stratocaster > Fulltone Clyde wah > Keeley mod TS808 > Keeley compressor > Keeley mod blues driver > EHX small stone > EHX deluxe memory man > digitech jamman. The jamman is more for playing alone and jamming with myself. Not sure if i would use it on stage as i feel it sucks up a bit of tone.

If you know anything about music equipment, you can probably tell i spent a whole lot of money on all my shite. The reason is, all the mass produced pedals today sound like complete crap. I've tried so many pedals and really, the only things that really bring out amazing vintage tone are keeley and fulltone (for OD/dist at least..and out of what ive tried. never got my hands on a klon centaur). Sucks theyre expensive as hell but hey, its worth it.

The reason i got all these pedals is because this Twin Reverb is honestly the most amazing clean sound i have ever heard. It has ridiculous headroom (85W!). A lot of people say DO NOT buy this amp if you want a tube amp that will break up. Untrue. Sure this thing will not break up for anything, but you can take out two of the 6L6s (1,3 or 2,4) and boom itll break up around 4 or 5.

So when you have an amazing classic guitar such as a deluxe strat, you play it through some really quality, hand-built "boutique" pedals such as mine, and put it through this twin reissue..... I swear youll cream yourself every time. It really doesn't get better than this. I HIGHLY recommend this amp to anyone interested in jazz, blues, rock, or country. And especially if youre into vintage tone, this is how you do it baby. It can do it all.

By the way the new samarium cobalt noiseless pickups on the new deluxe strats are freakin awesome. Dont listen to the retarded bashing conservatives, these things sound perfect.

Wait a second. Why the hell am i even writing a review on the twin. Doesnt everyone know this thing is one of the best amps ever thats been on stage with every legend at some point.

So far so good. Though i hear its not as dependable as the original (no shit!).

Havent dealt with it.

Is this amp versatile or is it a one-trick pony? I'd say it is the most versatile one-trick pony I have ever seen. It provides the user with an actual foundation of good tone that you can really build on with quality pedals. I have been playing guitar for 6 years and in the past almost two years ive been obsessed with tone. With the equipment i have now, im finally happy!

If it were lost, id buy it again right away. I tried a lot of other amps and i just love fender amps. Never got into marshall. I love les pauls and custom 22s (in a few years...) and even schecters... ive tried them through the twin and they sound absolutely amazing.

Its got everything you need for ballads and country. Very clean, good reverb.

I recently bought an original 65 blackface and compared with the reissue its a completely different amp. The original has way more of that jangley fender bell tone. the reissue is a good amp, but they shouldnt call it a reissue because it sounds like a different amp trust me on that. I recomend taking out the Jensen speakers and putting in Fane or JBL, also getting Tungsol reissue 6l6's

never had a problem

Its a good amp, but a bad reissue.

Two channel all tube amp 85 watts. First channel is dry, the other one has vibrato and reverb. Totally simple but very effective.

I am currently using a Peavey HP signature with a Boss DS-1 and a MT-2. This amp is so clean and precise and projecting your tone that both pedals to me used to sound awesome, now they just get the job done. I am going to get both of my pedals modded by analogman. I recommend anyone who has this amp to take out two tubes because that way you can get better tone for your practices, but still have more than enough power to drown your drummer if you really wanted too. Take out either the first or third, or the second and fourth. You will notice the difference because you will reach the sweet spot of this amp without destroying your eardrums.

Of course you could relly on it but always have a backup just in case. If you do take out two tubes, always have the other two in handy when gigging, that way you can swap them out in a breeze. Not the case if you were to use all 4 tubes. It does have some buzz but it is barely noticeable, probably in the studio it would though.

Havent dealt with them so I dont know. I have heard though that Fender sucks when it comes to customer service.

I have been playing now for 5 years. I had only owned two solid state amps that were practice only, not for gigging. Because I used to live in cancun, equipment is overpriced over there and I never saw a tube amp back at home. I would gig with amps of other amps because my band would always give the drum set. This was a HUGE step for me, mostly because I worked 3 months for this baby, but I do not regreat it at all. It was the best move I have done in my musical life.

2004 off ebay, 850
most every musicains ever used this amp at some point in there carrer, from clapton to cobain, if its versitial enough to me
i play mostly alternative rock, classic rock, etc.
its a reissue, so not much for effects and junk but now that i think about it, onboard digital effect sound like shit to me. i use anolog effects pedals for all my effects, i do love the tremolo and reverb tank though.
enough power for me, just mic it, i do wish it had some greenbacks, but its is a reissue so they try to stay historial accurate.
i really wish is was hand wired, but for this price don't care that much.

this thing is a beast clean and watery for chorus type sound and wondeful when overdriven, pull tube 2 and 4 out for a great blues tone. it is a little noisey with single coils but i like a little feedback, who want to sound like a damn computer anyways, this amp gives you alot of head room for the clean channel, i'm acutually trying to figure out a way so dirty it up a little more at high volumes. not the amp for you metal heads but what tube amp is, extreme brutal distortion sounds like crap to me, let face it the 80 sucked..haha

i haven't owned it long enought, i have fender that suck and a few that wouldn't die, one guy i know had one of these real ones like a 68 that fell out of a van at 60 mile and hour and come out with a bad scratch and some broken tube put upon replaceing them a biasing sounded just like new...go figure. while i know that pc board amp just don't hold up like hand wired i think this one will be just fine and i wont worry about a back up, i will neglect it until something goes wrong, then i will prob fix it myself these thing a really easy to work on considering the pc board. i will change the tubes out a little to drive the amp a little. i am disappointed with some of the cheapness of some of the component, imput jacks, speaker jacks, wirring etc. seem like they would have used high grade cloth covered wiring on a 65 reissue....

i've delt with fender in the past and really they where great
if i can't fix it my local tech guys can, service center are everywhere in montgomery but be careful 75% percent of these tech guys don't know shit. anybody with a soldering iron can get a fender repair certificate. i use Bailey Brother localy, be sure ure tech guys know what there talking about, ask around with other serious muscians
5 year warranty so i got like 3 more to tear it up if i can...kurt cobain used one for the in utero tour so if they can surrive him they can surrive most any thing.

i 've been playing for about 8 years, i own most any product fender makes, vintage and new. i like the vintage amps better and the newer guitar (that i've upgraded with better pots, wires, pu, etc.
if it were stolen i prob just buy another one, maybe the updated pro twin. but i really love this amp, nothing to hate.
compared to the bassman (great amp a lot thicker tone), marshalls (suck), mesa boogies (which i love but i just so damn expensive), and most other fender i love this one the best, the deluxe reverbs are really nice to if your on a bugget.

email me if anyone had some good mods for this amp...i never leave anything stock there is always room for improvement