Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue

Well, the features have been covered, it is what it is.

The best feature is the wet and dry sides. Using an AB/Y, I ran a POD XT Live into the dry channel and also a straight line into the wet channel! It was great having the best of both worlds.

It is the perfect base clean to build on for a performing musician. I would not trust it at all in a studio. I've owned 3 and each has had rattle or hum problems that the techs could not isolate. The noise level these anamolies put out was only about the same DB of a normal conversation hence it would be fine during performances.

I would never gig without a backup no matter what amp I owned. The amp is great I've gone through 3 that all rattle or buzz and the shop just returned a 4th one for another customer who they ordered one for.

They are really good at taking returns. Seriously, I have a good shop that is an authorized Fender Dealer and Service Center. I've not had to deal with Fender directly howerver I can say any repairs or returns that the shop has done have all been okay'd with a day from Fender

Unfortunately I give this amp a 6 for my overall rating. I find it amazing that after 40 years of building Twins they cannot make them a quite without all the buzzing and rattling and whisping sounds from it. Sure tube amps will have a bit of a humm and there is some buzz from a chasis I'm not that ignorant to amps but it's to the point where it is detectable by a microphone at low volume which is what I cann unnacceptable for a $1000 amp.

I bought this amp new in 2002 everyone knows what it is and it's features so i won't go into it much. basically it's a two channel all tube power amp with reverb and tremello.

let's just start off by saying that i have never have and never will give a rating of 10 for anything that i own or try out, simply because there is always room for improvement in anything, at least that's what my boss tells me at work just before my annual review every year, so i take the same attitude towards gear. I think everyone knows this is probably the best sounding clean amp ever made. i play a 78 gibson explorer and a carvin sc90 through my pod xt live and i can get damn near any sound i want. this amp is just so condusive to pedals and effects. it just works great. the thing i love best about this amp is the reverb, one simple knob and you turn it to taste and it's the best sounding reverb on the planet.

I've had this amp about 3 years now and i've only had one problem with it so far and it happened right before my first live gig with it, it started cutting out and i didn't have time to trouble shoot it so i had get a loaner from a buddy but it ended up being the speaker jack. it was cheap and it went bad so i had a quality jack put in. it just bothered me a little bit that the money i paid for this thing they used a cheap piece of crap for the speaker jack. i don't like to gig without a backup for anything

never had to deal with them yet, hope i don't have to.

i've been playing on and off since i was about 16 and have been really serious about playing for about the last 5 or 6 years. i really love this amp but i think if it were stolen or broke or whatever i might go with something else similar but cheaper. when i got it i had tried out a ton of different amps and this one just won out over the marshalls and peavey's that i tried for that was all i really had access to at the time, but i would definitely be pissed if my twin reverb dissapeared.

I bought this amp in 2002 new at Daddy's. You all know the features. It's an all tube clean amp. What more can be said? I think it's power rating is 85 watts, but I'm not sure exactly...more on that later. I use this amp with my band and we play small club gigs, but honestly, this amps could handle any venue. Even if it's a huge concert arena, you can always mic it. There's no need for anything else.

I have a Fender American Vintage '62 reissue stratocaster and a Schecter C-1 Elite, although I mainly use the the Fender. I always use the vibrato channel (or occasionaly I mix the two). My set up is as follows: Twin, Maxon OD-808, Ibanez TS-9, Vox Wah, Digitech X-series delay, Fender or Schecter. Of course it's a little noisy with the fender, but you have to accept that. For me, I wanted a super clean amp to begin with, but now I've been looking for a way to make this amp bite a little bit without going deaf. Well I recently discovered a way to do that...the twin has 4 6L6 power tubes in back. these are lined in parallel. If you take out either the 1st and 3rd together, or the 2nd and 4th together, you end up cutting it's power rating in half. So now, instead of 85 watts, you have a nice little 42 1/2 watt combo. This way I can drive the amp a little bit harder and get just a hint of breakup around 6 or 7, but I don't have to worry about hearing loss...as much. Anyway, this, along with the two OD's creates such a smooth sustaining lead sound. it's just incredibly 3 dimensional. I know a lot of people like to pair up same brand OD's, but for some reason, I feel like I can get a better smoother singing tone by mixing it up.

After a year or so with this amp, I kept noticing that one of the tubes was overheating (I think it wasn't in right). I transport it a lot, and I could have just bumped it enough times to cause this problem, I don't know. But when I discovered that I could reduce the power rating by taking out two of the tubes, I took that one out as one of them and haven't had a problem since. I haven't replaced the tubes after 3 years and they haven't been any trouble. I think I might have been puching my speaker a bit too hard though, because it starts to fart out now when I play a G or lower on the low E string.

Never had to deal with them

I got this amp for a killer deal. Daddy's was selling them for $1000 which was already better than usual, and then they had a 10% off sale on everything. So I got it brand new for $900. This amp is everything I've wanted. It gives me good clear tones that ring beautifully with my strat. Fender with Fender is a match made in heaven if you're striving for good tone. I don't really play metal, so I don't need to worry about over the top distortion. If I wanted that I'd go with an amp with an overdrive channel. I play rock/hard rock/blues. If you check out <http://www.myspace.com/thethames> You can hear what this amp sounds like with my setup. Check out solos on break my heart and nightlife to hear this baby sing.

For the uninitiated, this is a 1965 reissue. In 1965 they didn't have modeling or effects loops or distortion or master volume. The knobs on the front do what they're supposed to do, and all the stuff on the back like jacks and such, well they do too. It's all there right in front of you. Fortunately, I could see these things when I bought it, so I knew almost exactly what features this amp had.

The Fender Twin Reverb has always had the corner on the signature sound market. The reverb tank and tremolo add the correct color, this amp is clean clean clean....just like Twins always have been. Let's face it, either you're a Fender person or a Marshall person...maybe a Vox person....but if you have some mileage on the fretboard, you know who you are and what you like. And if you like glassy clean tone, Twins have no peers. If you expected crunch, you bought the wrong amp. (If you like extra big clean tone, try plugging your twin into a slant cab loaded with 4 Celestion Vintage 30's.)

I'm not too technically oriented, so it's hard to say whether this amp will stand up as well as the Silverface I used to haul around. I can say that if you're looking at tube amps, be certain that the tubes are chassis mounted versus being circuit board mounted for reliability purposes. This is a great website for ferreting out problem issues and building an amp with circuit board mounted tubes is a cheap but unreliable engineering issue that i've seen over and over again in lesser priced amps. (Below $500.00) With this machine being based on it's '65 design, reliability issues should be confined to poor manufacturing processes or parts quality not design.

Find a local amp guru, period. Don't waste your time with Fender unless it's a warrantee problem.

I've been playing for 30+ years and currently play a 50th anniversary Tex-Mex strat. I use a TS9 modded tube screamer, mostly for some additional sustain, then straight into the amp. Between the 5 position switch on the strat and the EQ on this amp, it's a tone monster paradise. I've previously played a 72 Tele, a 79 Gibson L5S and a Strings & Things Custom through Silverface Twins...with tone to burn. If stolen, I'd go to prison for killing the thief, and buy another Twin with my license plate making money. I've never had a Twin crap on me, however have found them to be a touch noisy depending on how the house and stage lighting were wired.

The original was designed and produced in 1965 and has been reissued with the same design.
This amp is very good for any style especially with a few pedals. I play blues, jazz, and all types of rock exept heavier new metal.
The amp has two channels and the first is usually a bit brighter than two.
The amp has more than enough features for me. I tend to prefer simple amps with volume, an eq, and some reverb. That way I can leave the amp alone and fool with the pedals.
I use this amp for high school jazz band and for my own band. I do not gig with it much since the band is not ready to gig. It has plenty of power, when playing in a group I rarely turn it over 4.

I use a Fender American Series Fat Strat with a Boss CS-3 compressor pedal and an Electro Harmonix Hot Tubes.
The amp fits perfectly with my styles-blues, jazz, and rock.
This amp is very clean. Very very clean. You will get noise from your pickups but that is normal. You can turn it over 7 and it gets a bit crunchy especially when using a humbucker. Don't count on any serious overdrive because this thing is made for the cleanest tones. The reverb is a delight. It is the simple analog spring reverb which brings out a very nice vintage tone and space. It sounds a lot like the reverb on a Hammond Organ. The bright switch is very nice for playing jazz or simulating an acoustic guitar. It would be very nice as an addition to the included footpedal. The vibrato (tremelo) is a great feature, it does not turn on immediately to your command since it is tube, but it gets the job done when playing blues or something like Boulevard of Broken Dreams. On my amp i set the eq treb-4, mid-10(11), low-6ish with the reverb on 3.

This is very reliable. If it ever broke down it would be very easy to fix. There are no confusing circuits with IC's or transistors. It is very simple with some tubes and some transformers. And tubes can always be replaced. The amp has never broken down in the two years I have had it. It has been treated badly sometimes when the typical ignorant people unplug it to turn it off, which is never good for tubes.

I have never dealt with Fender support. I probably wouldn't have to if it broke down. It is very simple to fix. My dad has been fixing tube amps for over 30 years.

I've been playing for two years but it seems like i have been playing for 10. I am a very fast learner and I am also a tone freak and a tube lover.
If it were stolen, I would go into deep depression. But I highly doubt anyone could get far before I caught them. This is a HEAVY amp.
I love everything about this amp. I hate nothing.
This was the first amp I tried. I instantly fell in love with it.

The features have been explained. The only things I would like add concern the effects; reverb and "vibrato".

My first thought upon hearing the reverb was that I didn't particularly care for it. It sounded somehow "artificial" (which in hindsight is interesting because...well.. "reverb" IS artificial!) and cheaply created. I now attribute my first impression to the fact that I was just used to the reverb available on more contemporary equipment, while the Twin re-creates the effect as it was on the original amplifier back in '65. I have since acquired a "taste" for the reverb as it sounds on the Twin, and I appreciate it for what it is; the granddaddy of amplifier effects. However, like most things that are good in moderation, it CAN be overdone. Set it no higher than 3, you will love the subtle "space" it adds to your tone!

As for "vibrato", my first thought was "who uses vibrato (or "tremelo" as we called it in the old days) anymore"? Well, I do for one! I find that it adds a certain color to some ballads and blues. It voices emotions that recall a bygone era as effectively in 2005 as it did back in 1965.

I cannot in good conscience give it a 10 however, out of respect to the sound guys I have worked with. They prefer a direct line-out to a mic'ed cabinet any day. And while I have no problem plugging effects in directly, I'd prefer an effects loop. But for versatility, I'd definitely give it an "8".

Bottom line, with the Twin Reverb features, less is more! Plus, it has those legs that allow you to lean it back and point the sound past the drummer and right at your head!

How cool is that?

I wouldn't call myself a "professional" musician because I have a day job that pays the bills, but I do play "out" on average 4 to 5 times a month, and get paid doing it.

I'm not a Metal Head! I play mostly jazz/funk/R&B and I rotate between a Fender Stratocaster, a Telecaster (U.S.A.) a Gibson ES 335, Les Paul Standard, and Night Hawk Custom. The Twin brings out the BEST in all of these guitars! It's sound is loud, crisp and squeaky clean. I usually play through a series of Boss stomp boxes (including the MT2) and it is a match made in guitar heaven. I have found that with the proper tweaking of the the Boss MT2, I can get great distortion and sustain from this amp, which is good, because I don't see you EVER getting the tubes to break up on their own, at ANY volume!

As with any amplifier, you can get a little hum from your single coil pick-ups, but it's not a show stopper. Once you start to play, no more hum.

It all depends on what you want. If you want loud, clean, warm tones that can take external effects, then this may be the best amp you can buy...and since that's what I want I'll give it a "10".

So far so good. Tubes are tubes, and the price that you pay for that great sound is the cost of periodically replacing and re-biasing the tubes. I haven't had her that long but between practice and performance I have definitely broken her in. One must use care when handling a tube amplifier, particularlly when the tubes are hot! Try not bump it too much (or drop it) until it has had a chance to cool off a little.

My back-up plan for performing does not involve another amplifier; in the event of amp-failure, I would simply plug into the sound board using a direct box and finish the set. The next day, I'd limp over to my trusty guitar/amp tech and see whats wong wiff by wittle baby!

Actually the practical reason for not traveling with a back-up is that I believe Fender named this amp "The Twin Reverb" because it's as HEAVY AS TWO AMPS ALL BY ITSELF! So until I can hire my own roadie....

Who knows? They haven't called me.

Overall, I think the Fender Twin Reverb is one of the best amplifiers that money can buy!

I have been playing off and on for almost 30 yrs (mostly "on" for the last 8 or so). I have three amp heads, two cabinets, one other combo, the aforementioned guitars and an assortment of Boss stomp boxes. I got this amp because I needed something loud, but I was tired of making two trips to the car to load/unload a speaker cabinet, then a head. Had I "bit the bullet" early on and bought this amp first, I would probably only have one amplifier today.

If someone can grab this amplifier and run with it, as heavy as it is, the big brute can have it! I'll just get another one. I don't drink (anymore!), so I doubt that I'd ever "lose" it...

The amp was made in this year,I don't remember exactly when.

I found it very versatile, I play all type of music and I'm very happy with the result in all.

It has all I want from it, a excellent clear sound , a good reverb and well, and the vibrato works right but I don't work with it because is an effect i don't like too much...

It has a little 'hum' noise but it maybe the tubes. And it also makes a big pop when changing from standby to on, and this is not really good for the speakers, it makes it at 0 volume in both channels, without any guitar connected too (I think i've read this trick in order to make the pop dissapear in a guitar magazine or something by the way).

But the sound is incredible, better than I wished before buying it...

This is the problem (and for some guitarrist I know they bought recently). Mine cracked up today(saturday 21st of may), after three weeks using it.

It began to make weird noises, and when I reached where it was, it was 'burnt'(if I don't explain very well it's because I don't talk shakespeare's language).

Then, I phoned other guitarrist, friend of mine who had bought another twin reverb a month before I bougth min, and his one cracked up the same way, two weeks ago...

The warranty is for two years here in Spain. I bought it three weeks ago, so I think there will be no problem with this...

There are two official service centers, one in Madrid(500 kilometers far from here) and the other in Barcelona(1000 kilometers far from here).

I cannot contact with them yet, because is weekend... but my expectations about customer support are too bad...maybe because previous experiences with other companies...

Uff, I love its sound... but with my experience and with the problems the last series seem to have(remember I know another guitarrist who had the same problem with it),I don't really know if I'd bougth other, It depends on the customer support!!!

My Twin reissue is from the year 1996. The Amp is very versatile for me, I play turkish Guitar (Saz: like Bouzuki !). It has every feature i need, because i only need an amp with a good clean sound - and this is the best clean sound i ever heard in my 30 years musician life !!! It has enough power for a big gig with perhaps 1000 persons. Its a very good warm tube sound.

I am using a saz with dimarzio x2n pick-ups, and it seems for me that this amp would made for my saz. Very Good in every way - the reverb is very sweet !!!No distortion in high volumes.

I have this amp for even 10 years and i haven't change the tubes yet. I have every week two gigs, amd the sound is like the first day, i bought this amp.

no idea, i don't need them yet !!!

I play for about 30 years elektro-saz (turkish e-guitar !). Before this amp a had several fender amps and also a twin silverface from the 70's, but i could say, this amp is the best sounding etc. amp i ever had. I hate nothing, i love everything - i would sleep with this nice pussy :) !!!

I would one more, if it gets broken or gets stolen.

There's nothing better than something you can plug into that sounds awesome straight away. Two separate channels although unfootswitchable you'll probably find you'll use the vibrato channel for the optional reverb and vibrate. I haven't used the normal channel but presume it's the same without these extras. Bass, treble mid Reverb vibrate.... simple, the way it should be. No overdrive which you'll probably know if looking at this amp (any complaints go back and do a search on MESA or MARSHALL). Basically the features resemble in exact detail the original design which is what a reissue should be.

I use a Telecaster mainly set to the neck pickup as I play with smooth clean tones. I play mainly a dub/reggae style so wanted something I could crank whilst preserving the clean tone. I tried out a Fender Deville 212 but found the overdrive channel was no use to me so thought why not get something that concentrates on the clean. I've found that rarely an amp will deliver a high quality clean channel as well as drive. In my opinion you don't buy a fender for the overdrive so why not create a clean warm base and build with drive effects if needed. I set the volume between 4 and 5 for a nice level and tone, anything higher will have your drummer in earmuffs, this thing is loud!! I only bought it a month or so ago but it has been love ever since.

It's a tank and reflects this in its weight so beware anything that gets in it's way!!! I've given it a good run and although haven't had it long beleive that if anything was to go wrong it would happen in the intial stages after purchase or through user neglect.

I haven't had it long enough for anything to go wrong but if you get it from a good retailer they should back you up.

I've been playing about 10 years through different music styles from rock to metal to funk and a few years ago I caught the dub bug. I'd been playing a Marshall stack and wanted a cleaner tone. It took me a while to decide on an amp but knew I needed a fender for this tone. This is 'the' fender, they got it right 40 years ago.

The features have been explained. This is a simple amp and the sound that comes out is way more impressive than any bonus feature could give it.

I play an American series Tele and an Epiphone Casino. I play mostly alternative rock and can say that this amp has the power to compete with the loudest half stacks. It gives a wonderful crisp, clean sound and the reverb (which is why anyone would buy this) is excellent. A lot of people are upset that this amp does not have distortion but with the number of good pedals on the market, this should not be a problem. I use an Ibanez Tube Screamer and couldn't ask for a better sound. If you have any questions about this amp, go to concerts and take note of how many professionals are using this amp.

I've had it for about a year and a half and have had no problems. The sound is starting to crack up a bit but this is because I've been avoiding putting some new tubes in it (one of the problems with owning a tube amp).

I've been playing for about 10 years (I grew up in alternative rock's hey day). I used to own a discontinued solid state fender that was decent but I finally decided to make a finacial commentment to getting more professional equipment. I got this amp because it has been used by the bands I love. If it was smashed or stolen, I'd definately get another one. It has defined my sound and I couldn't live without it. This is an amp that I'm proud to own and love to brag to other muscians that it's what I play through.