Fender Deluxe

Fender Deluxe reisue tweed model. Standard features.

I use Fender Strat. I bought the repro after playing couple of of original old ones but the repro was a big mistake. Apart from the looks, it sounds nothing like the real thing. Sound is too harsh, to punchy and I mean too punchy, just not nice, not soft at all. Lacking in harmonics, sweetnes, gain and sustain. Loud as hell with tons of puch I would hardly call it a Blues Deluxe. it has nothing to do with blues. I tryed to replace the 12ax7 tubes for softer ones which got it little better but itno matter what, the amp is a far cry from the original one in my opinion. Ok, I bought it used, you might think there was a fault with the amp. No, in fact it had only about 20 hours of usage. I have also checked all the circuits being an electrician. There was no fault. I shold have taken a look inside before I purchased it, seing printed circuit boards, cheap pots, etc would change my mind right on the spot.

I bought it about three years old, most of the cheap small pots were scratchy, cleaning fluid did nothing for them and needed replacement.
I have several old amps and if I ever get scratchy pot it alwas cleans up by fluid. Not this Fender thing. Rating 1 is all I give it because bad pots can can render amp pretty much useless in live situation.

Did'n need any.

I've been playing for 20 years. How would I compare this amp to other amps? Well, one of my other amps is an old Yamaha JX30 I use for practice. I prefer that to the Blues Deluse reisue. WOuld would I do if it got stolen? I'd be happy but I've sold it all ready so don't care. Good lesson for the future to me was to avoid fake reisue amps.

65 deluxe, you know the deal if you're reading this. 2 channels, vibrato and normal. Tube amp with original jbl speaker. Fender used JBL exclusively Im told at some point for these amps.

Im playing an SRV strat witht thew texas pickups. Although Im a blues player, Im in real mood setting band. Very dark deep music. And this amp captures the tone I love. The drummer and bass player are both funk driven. Singer has soft tones(girl), and Im a blues guy and it works. They love the tone Im getting out of this thing, as do I.

Not a problem. Its a year older than me for goodness sake. I wish I was in as good a shape.

No clue, havent been there, hope to never have an opinion

Been playing about 15 years, this is my first tube amp. Ill never stray, nor will I ever sell this. Im done, I've got what you need. Go get one and stop f*ckin around. I run a tube screamer thru it and its over. The tone is second to none. Go get one....NOW

Same as all the other reviews.

Okay, first off I'm just a stupid kid in a rock band. If you like classic small fender amp sounds or if you play coutry or blues you probably won't like this:

Call me crazy, but I wanted to know what it sounded like on a 4x12 Hiwatt cabinet w/ 30W Celestions. Holy shit!. Only 22 watts? It was louder than my 65 bandmaster head! Great authentic distortion, or classic fender clean. It's all in where you dial in the volume. Want both? try it with a Fulltone Fulldrive 2. I am very impressed. I only wish it weren't 35 yrs old so I could bring it on tour.

It's an old amp - take care of it and it will take care of you.

Well, the people who answered the phones when this came out are probablt dead by now.

I'm selling a 66 twin and a 65 bandmaster to use this thing as a head on that cabinet as my fulltime rig. Sounds like that amazing "gunna blow up soon" natural distortion that I love (not in anyway a marshall or anything high gain like that - see also AC-30 on 10). Very bright, but that can be changed with moving your pickups up and down to your liking.

This is a REAL '65 deluxe. It sounds great (although has mysterious volume problems). This one was modified and now has a reverb. This amp is a typical bright, black faced Fender.

I use it with an Asat Z3 (tele style) and a Guitar Factory (custom hollow body with humbuckers). The amp can get a bit noisy, but the clean sound is GREAT and it works well with my Fulltone effects. I think the amp is too bright if you like a heavy distortion sound.

It hasn't let me down yet, but I don't play live with it often. It does have mysterious volume swell problems and makes some noise (even with new tubes).

Uh, the warranty ran out MANY years ago! :)

I've played for 16 years and I love the black faced Fender clean sound. That's why I have this amp.

It's an amp. Vol, Treb, blah, blah, blah. Want FX? Get peddals

Sounds ok but it breaks up if you put it past 3 on the vol.

Hasn't broken yet and belive me I try to break it or blow it up every night.

I bought it second hand and when it dies I will trade it back to bingo Dave and get either a Twin or a DeVille

Not bad, but I need more power. It's a good starter amp but if you tour and gig constantly as I do, you will need more

1966 non-reverb model. This is a two channel amp with tremolo(Fender calls it vibrato, but vibrato is pitch shifting while tremolo is volume shifting). Each channel has volume, treble and bass control. All tube. The only thing not a tube is the optoisolator for the tremolo. Has footswitch jack for trem. No fx loop. 8 ohm output. Pair 6V6 power tubes, with 12AT7 phase inverter. 12AX7 preamp tubes. Classic Fender.

This thing has the sound! Set Bass/treble on 5, volume on 10 and have at it! Turn guitar volume down for clean, up all the way for bluesy grit and put a Tube Screamer in front for anything from a slight blues overdrive to screaming demon sound!

Very quiet amp. Sounds great with stock speaker(Jensen best), but Mojo MP12RHD is fantastic in there also(alnico).

I don't use the trem hardly at all. The Normal channel will have more gain than the trem channel since the trem channel bleeds off about 1/3 of the gain through the optoisolator. In the Deluxe Reverb, there's an extra gain stage to compensate for this. In the Deluxe, just use the Normal channel.

What would you rather have blow? A tube, or a transistor? Tube amps rule for reliabilitya and reparability. The BF Fenders define reliability. Just recap the power supply and put a three prong AC cord in.

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I've been playing a while now. If it was stolen, I'd hunt the guys down, tie 'em up to a tree and make them listen to Back Street Boys until they went insane.

The Deluxe (non-reverb) I have is a '65 Blackface. It has 2 inputs - Normal input has volume, treble, and bass. Vibrato has same plus speed and intensity for vibrato. Real minimal.... It's used mainly for blues though, so it's really all one needs! The speaker is not original - it's a Celestion Greenback reissue which suits this amp very well, I feel.

I use a early 90's American Strat w/ Duncan p/u's and a Guild X-175 hollow body jazz guitar (very similar to a Gibson Byrdland). Great clean sound which breaks up as a little as early as 4 or 5. When pushed into 7 or 8 it overdrives very smoothly. Again, the Celestion Greenback reissue really help the sound of this amp. In this amp, I have used Eminence speakers (both ceramic and alnico magnets), and old Fender, and even an old Jensen 'Silverbell' (which sounded nice but couldn't handle the power). The Greenback is my favourite, but I understand the new Celestion 'Bluebasket' is really nice, too.

As far as noise goes, when I bought the amp, it DID have a crackling noise which is common for Fenders of this vintage. However, after replacing the 1.5k resistors and 25uf caps off the preamp (12ax7) cathodes, it was gone.

Most folks like prefer the Deluxe with Reverb and so do I. However the basic sound of this amp is buttery smooth and usable for many different styles of music except where really deep bass is needed.

It wasn't working well when I bought it, hense the low price. The problem was simple - a cold solder joint. After 3 years of once / twice a week use, another cold solder joint failed. The amp was still usable - I just changed channels. At 35 years old, that's really not bad

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I would get another one of these in a minute. Blackface Fender's rule.

No features, not even separate bass and treble. One tone knob, on instrument channel volume, one volume for mic channel. 4 inputs, 2 for hi 2 for lo. Barebones, as they came in that day.

I play an `88 American Std Strat thru a VOX V810 overdrive. Memory Man for a simulated reverb (which works very well by the way). This IS the best amp I have EVER owned. No fancy schmancy features. It is a `59 silverface, very rare. It has 3 12ax7 preamps, 2 6L6 power tubes and 1 5ay7 rectifier. I love this thing, I get the best blues tone in the world with my setup. This is partly due to the effects that I use also. The response is incredible, even the most subtle nuances of my playing style come thru brilliantly on this amp, sweet tonal quality, as earthy as a tube amp can get.

I inherited this amp from my father, it was pretty beat up. But then again it is 40 yrs old too. But I had some repairs done. Power supply andsome resistors had to be replaced. But that was 2 yrs ago and it is in perfect working order now, and has given me any troubles since then. Still don't look too good though.

Never dealt with Fender, other than to determine the year it was made.

It is great. No problems, they built real quality equipment back then. This thing is 40 years old and still kicking. I couldn't imagine not owing this amp anymore, and I don't remember any amp before it. That is how memorable this sound is.

First of all, this isn't one of those cheezy solid state Fenders, this is the original brown Deluxe, circa 1963. Uses 3, 12AX7; 2, 6V6 and a 5AR4 rectifier tube. Power: 22 Watts. It has two channels, "normal" & "bright", each of which have one volume and one tone knob and two inputs each. The only other two controls are for vibrato speed and intensity. Although the lack of controls this amp has would lead one to believe its versatility to be limited, it actually can put out incredible sounds by different volume levels, usually keeping the tone on 10 at all times. However, I'm torn between keeping this amp and trading it for a blackface that has bass and treble controls to allow for more versatility. Plenty loud enough for jam sessions and gigs when miked. Too loud for distorted sounds at home - found the Boss BD-2 pedal to work very well at solving this problem. This amp also has a very usable vibrato which is footswitch-able and ranges from very subtle to shivering.

The tone of this amp is phenomenal! I play a wide range of styles and found this amp to suit all of them beautifully. I use both an Am. St. Strat and a Yamaha SBG2000 w/Gibson '57's and can really get all the nuances of both with this amp. There is a great deal of control avaliable by using variations in your picking attack and the controls on the guitar, especially the volume, in adjusting levels of clean and overdrive. Each volume level of the amp has its own distinct tone: 0-3 very clean and bright, 4-5 a little crunch when guitar volume's pegged, 6-7 a little darker and smoother with more overdrive, 8-10 great overdrive but maybe a little too dark when guitar volume backed off - which is, of course a matter of taste - I like mine very bright). These sounds all come from the bright channel with the tone on 10, so with the tone controls, volume controls, two channels, and guitar volume/tone controls, the range of tone is endless with this amp. Also, this amp is very quiet, even at high volume levels, and the quality of the distortion is smooth and round. As I mentioned above, I use a Boss BD-2 with this amp which can give as much drive as can possibly be conceived of when maxed out. Since I bought this amp, my Boogie Mark-IV has been sitting in the corner collecting dust. (Wanna buy it?)

This is hard to say. I've only had it for less than a month so time will tell.

I've never dealt with Fender, nor do I intend to. I have an excellent tech that does all my work for me when needed.

I can't say enough about this amp. The tone is incredible, it's loud enough for my needs, is very versatile despite its apparent lack of controls, and is light enough to take anywhere. Like I said above, if there's anything I could add, it would be separate bass and treble to allow for more fine tuning, especially to alleviate some of the "darkness" at high volume levels when guitar vol. is backed off. But this is trivial and is something that I can definitely make do with. If you come across one of these babys, pick it up for sure. You won't regret it!

All tube , 12' Fender Gold Lable Speaker, 2 Overdrive channels with intense diversity, Sweet Black and silver styling, chicken head knobs, very jazzy clean channel. Much needed nylon cover. Hidden speaker out jack close to tubes, 8 ohms, effects loop, beautiful fender reverb!!!!

I play alot of what we here call, : granola funk fision: (hopefully self expainitory). This amp has ingredible punch in the clean channel, and the choice of two drive channels (drive or MORE drive), makes heavy rythem and lead diversity more possible without the use of a rack or tons of shat on the floor getting in the way of TONE.

I have little to say here cuz its only been in my hands for 5 months, but I dont feel the need to bring a backup to shows.

Fender had it sent to me in canada within 3 weeks! 5 year warranty

Compaired with Marshall, mesa, Crate, orange, roland, and peavy. I love the fact that this is one of the very few amps worth the lable of "instrument"
all spelling intentional ...................stone.