So I really
really love my '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb.
I use the Custom channel (bassman tonestack) almost exclusively and it really nails that Fender clean but with more warmth.
...but!
As you know, its quite noisy. Doesn't bother me day to day, but there are a few scenarios that concern me: recording multiple, stacked guitar tracks with it, and a particular gig I have coming up where I am playing electric alongside an acoustic and a cello in a quiet environment.
In addition to this, the tremolo is really noisy and so I don't use it.
I must stress that these are minor niggles and I'm only interested in replacing it with the 'right' amp.
So, what would I like? Well, a '68 CDR with none of these issues, of course!
- Bassman tonestack
- Tube-bias tremolo
- Spring reverb
- Low noise!
- ...and a Master Volume/attenuator would be dead, dead handy.
Does anyone know of an amp that will do these things? And bearing in mind I have no cash to spend, it could do with being around the £800 mark (the resale value of the CDR, AFAIK)
I would probably sacrifice the tremolo if that widened my options. Plenty of nice trem pedals about.
This might be an impossible task. If so: never mind. Thanks in advance!
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Mines been a great gigging amp for two years and fancy a change (as you do lol ) been thinking of a Victory V40 Deluxe or maybe a Sheriff 44.
Ok, so it only has a Deluxe Reverb, but you can dial in as much preamp drive as you like, and it has trem and it has reverb and it has master volume - none of which hiss!
Welcome to digital modelling.
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A conversation with @RiftAmps revealed that without a complete hand-wired conversion (£400) there's no easy fix.
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Blarg, that's a shame.
Yeah in band situations its not going to be a problem; but when layering guitars in recordings and particularly quiet performance environments I'm concerned.
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You can eliminate the ticking in these amps by adjusting the lead dress.
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I usually do this with the chassis open and the amp on, which obviously exposes one to hazardous voltages.
Usually it's simply a case of moving the wires to the tremolo oscillator valve away from the input to the phase inverter. The phase invert input is VERY high impedance so it doesn't take much to couple distortion on the oscillator wave form into the PI.
I have worked on a Princeton Reverb that required a more extensive lead dress rearrangement than this, but that was very much the exception.
The PCB replacement for the non-ROHS optocoupler can also generate noise (sounds like white noise), and this can be cured by installing an optocoupler.
I officially win the "mention Boss Katana in a which amp to buy thread first" trophy
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