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Now discontinued and going up in price, but not as badly as the FRV-1 stand-alone reverb...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
For Tweed Les Lius. For Blackface it's the Wampler Black 65.
For a wide range of Fenderish sounds on the cheap - The Joyo American Sound.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/
I wonder why it was discontinued though. I assume they were good sellers. Perhaps contract period expired or something.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/
The FDR-1 is definitely what you want for a Fender-amp-with-reverb sound into something without it. The tremolo is less convincing - the wave shape isn’t right somehow - but usable if you don’t want to bother with a separate tremolo pedal.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I used the Boss/Fender pedals to spice up a JC-22 and while they worked quite successfully I still preferred my humble Laney Cub 10's tones.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
(FWIW Harley Benton are same company as Joyo, but branded specially for Thomann/their distributors. I'd imagine a few of the other brands are similar scenarios)
Also re @JezWynd ;+ @ICBM discussing how to set them up - While a clean valve-amp is probably the common approach, I've also fed them directly into the FX Loop Return to bypass the pre-amp entirely & its sounded pretty good on a couple of Vox amps so thats an option. Unless the power tubes are being really driven at a high volume and the speakers at their edge of breaking up, most of the amp's 'tone' is from the pre-amp stage so its effectively just giving you a really clean power stage to work with.
Just make sure to have a load attached to the amp input & FX Send sockets (a stomp box & patch cable on each is fine) so the circuits of the amp are fully engaged & dial the power down to a minimum on the preamp stage as its not in use anyway so saves wear on tubes. I'll openly admit I'm not an amp expert, and I've only done it a few times so I can't guarantee this is fine for long term use, but to the best of my knowledge there's no reason why it shouldn't be fine to do occasionally! (and will happily defer to any amp gurus on that!!).
*small edit - I messed up the formatting and ended up with a video mid-text
Great tone-shaping in it
The preamp does not need to be ‘loaded’ in the same way as a power amp does, and with no input signal the preamp valves are all operating at idle irrespective of where the controls are set.
In fact, unless the power section is muted with no lead in the input jack, putting a cable in will do the exact opposite of what you want since there is a signal muting switch for the preamp in the jack in almost all amps, so putting a cable in will defeat this.
Unless you can’t get the power section to work without a cable in the input, don’t do it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein