Fender Twin Reverb Custom 15

Toby Rider · Post by **Toby Rider** » 23 Jul 2004 5:17 pm

Have any of y'all tried this one out yet?
http://www.fender.com/products/show.php?partno=2173000

Ron Bryson · Post by **Ron Bryson** » 23 Jul 2004 6:39 pm

I've had one for about six weeks. I love the reverb, tone, everything about it. I am through searching for the "tone" that I wanted from an amp. I also recently bought a NV112,(definitely easier to carry!)

Toby Rider · Post by **Toby Rider** » 23 Jul 2004 7:51 pm

I have a 68 bandmaster reverb head with a cabinet housing a single 15" JBL.. Does the new Fender Twin 15 sound like that, only with more clean headroom?

Steve Spitz · Post by **Steve Spitz** » 24 Jul 2004 6:06 pm

Any reason this should sound any different than the most recent Vibrosonic Reverb ?

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 25 Jul 2004 11:09 am

Great sounding Fender tube amp. I'm on the verge of buying one.

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 25 Jul 2004 12:02 pm

After reading a pretty wide body of reporting I have some problems with getting a new Fender tube amp. Number one issue is simply that the modern electronics design is very technician unfriendly. Now that I have begun teaching myself Fender amp maintenance and repair and modification I really appreciate how nice it is to be able to pull the chassis on an older amp and fix it (or try to). There's not a whole lot in there. But with printed circuits and all it's a whole nuther story. And except for the blackface models, you can still get a great old amp for less $$ than a new one of these, even after prudent cap & tube replacements.

Steve---I would expect this to be comparable to the Vibrosonic Reverb. I mean, that basically is what it is.

Toby---I play a Dual Showman Reverb which is basically a twin in a head. For a while I ran it with only two tubes. But I recently went back to the 4 tubes as it was intended and the headroom difference was (not surprisingly) significant. I was running with 2 tubes in search of a certain "sweetness" that I thought I would get by running more output distortion with what was essentially an under=powered amp for steel. But I lost track of the fact that tube warmth and tube overdrive are not one and the same. The fatness of a tube amp NOT being overdriven--just being muscular and within itself--was actually the sound I was looking for.
So if you like the essential Fender sound of that BMR, yes, I think you will recognize the Custom 15 as a definite cousin but so much better suited for steel.