Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

[poweredbysoul]

I borrow one of these to try out with my band. We gig regularily at small and med sized venues. MIke thru PA when needed, most time don't.
Playing all classic rock, the heaviest we cover is ZZ Top and Aerosmith, Doors, Beatles, etc. Running it with a Gold Top Les Paul with Peter Green Pickups I bought thru Seymour.
The tones I'm getting with this set up are fantastic!!! Best clean to I've ever had. Now I have a few high quality overdrive boxes to run through it and right now I really like the way my Rockket Chicken soup sounds very thick with just the right amount of drive.
Now I normally run my jubilee or 800 head thru a 2x12 cab, so this is a huge depature I know, but another great set up for sure, and like the grab and go aspect.
Anyone with and stories or experience welcome to share!

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

I remember gigging with a borrowed one. I was playing a jcm 900 head that was rented, and it crapped out. i cant recall why.

the house guy was like, we have a fender back here somewhere. I was all

but then i plugged in. did i sound very different that night? yes, but it was still awesome.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

deluxe reverb.....definitely a good choice for the working guitarist!
ps i dont use a deluxe reverb but i do use a princeton reverb II which shares a lot of similarities for just about everything.

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

The deluxe reverb reissue is one of my favorite amps ever. I can't believe how smooth and sweet it sounds at around 4 or 5 on the volume, especially with a single coil guitar (read: a telecaster!!!!1!11)

I'd like to try one with a high-quality vintage-repro speaker of some sort, I hear that the speaker is one of the only things that make the RIs sound noticeably different from the original '65s.

 

[Bludave]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

I borrow one of these to try out with my band. We gig regularily at small and med sized venues. MIke thru PA when needed, most time don't.
Playing all classic rock, the heaviest we cover is ZZ Top and Aerosmith, Doors, Beatles, etc. Running it with a Gold Top Les Paul with Peter Green Pickups I bought thru Seymour.
The tones I'm getting with this set up are fantastic!!! Best clean to I've ever had. Now I have a few high quality overdrive boxes to run through it and right now I really like the way my Rockket Chicken soup sounds very thick with just the right amount of drive.
Now I normally run my jubilee or 800 head thru a 2x12 cab, so this is a huge depature I know, but another great set up for sure, and like the grab and go aspect.
Anyone with and stories or experience welcome to share!

I have a 67 DR. Not the RI, but the real deal. It has some mods done to it. When I bought it it had the vibrato pot mod that adds another bit of gain to it, and I have a vintage 30 in it. I toyed with the idea of putting a 15" speaker in it until this old V30 came along. The original speakers were kind of farty and I found that as the night progressed it got more muddy and needed less in the sense of overdrive pedals. I almost gave up on the amp because it had very little clean UNTIL I changed the speaker. Now I can use it in small venues which was why I bought it. The DR & the RI are really good gigging amps, 22W gives you enough volume for medium sized clubs as well as smaller clubs. I guess I have a heavy hand. I tend to overdrive mine at about 4 to 4.5 on the volume, depending on the guitar I use. A stock Strat or tele is heavenly. buckers tend to push the amp more so I am careful on what tunes I use my les Paul or 335 on. Rolling back the volume knob does a lot on these amps as well.

 

[poweredbysoul]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

Havent worked with it in a band setting yet, was thinking a wah, overdrive and analog delay in the front. any thoughts

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

Should go well. Fender amps take pedals nicely. what pedals, if i may ask?

 

[Powdered Toast Man]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

I'd like to try one with a high-quality vintage-repro speaker of some sort, I hear that the speaker is one of the only things that make the RIs sound noticeably different from the original '65s.

That and about 40 years of use.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

i have a '66 dr and i love it. i use it more than any other amp i own. at 3 on the volume its beautiful silky warm and clean 4 to 5 depending on the guitar its nicely overdriven. i have the original speaker but i use a cannabis rex in mine, i had a g12h-30 in it before which also sounded great.

the other guitarist in my cover rock band plays a '65 drri. his amp sounds quite different than mine. cleaner and tighter, not as juicy and warm but still a great tone. i think his is a better platform for using pedals than mine. a really good amp that can be made better with a few mods depending on what you want to change

 

[Bludave]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

My pedalboard for my DR is set up pretty simple. I use Chorus(Boss CE2) Delay(Boss DD3) Overdrive (TS9), Wah & tuner.

 

[guitfiddle]

Re: Anyone gigging with a Fender Deluxe 65 Reissue?

deluxe reverb.....definitely a good choice for the working guitarist!
ps i dont use a deluxe reverb but i do use a princeton reverb II which shares a lot of similarities for just about everything.

I used a friend's Deluxe Reverb ll at a show once, and it was really the only time I've ever been completely happy with both the clean and overdrive channels on an amp at the same time. Wouldn't need a pedal with one of those, but I'd bring a couple anyway.

Man, what a tone. Those early 80s Fenders that Rivera had a hand in are some damn fine amps.