Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

[JoeBelley]

Hi guitar and amps nuts !! :13:

What do you think about the sound and the value of a blackface Super Twin Reverb... Maybe I'll buy it but I don't know its value on the market.

Thank you all, dudes :saeek:

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

Aren't the Twin & Super two different amps?

 

[fusion101]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

There's no super twin reverb that I'm aware of, but if ur talking about the super reverb its a pretty cool but very bright amp, and the problem i have with it is that mine has needed to go in for repair three times in one year

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

are we talking about the 160 watt Super Twin?

 

[Stratfan]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

The Super Twin Reverb isn't one of the "sought after" older Fender amps, so its value isn't too high. I played through one for a few months, but didn't care for it. I bought it from a friend because I needed a louder amp, and when I quit the band I just left it behind...it wasn't worth the hassle of lugging that monster back home again. I think it had a total of 12 or 13 tubes: 6 power tubes, tube rectifier, tube-driven reverb, and a couple of other oddball tubes that you'd probably never find at your local music stores. Re-tubing this beast could cost a bit of cash. IMO, this amp isn't worth buying; if you want a real loud Fender amp get a Twin (100 watts) or Twin Reverb (85 watts).

(Edited to add: When I owned it, I asked a lot of questions about it on the Fender Forum, and got the impression that no one really liked this amp.)

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

The Super Twin Reverb isn't one of the "sought after" older Fender amps, so its value isn't too high. I played through one for a few months, but didn't care for it. I bought it from a friend because I needed a louder amp, and when I quit the band I just left it behind...it wasn't worth the hassle of lugging that monster back home again. I think it had a total of 12 or 13 tubes: 6 power tubes, tube rectifier, tube-driven reverb, and a couple of other oddball tubes that you'd probably never find at your local music stores. Re-tubing this beast could cost a bit of cash. IMO, this amp isn't worth buying; if you want a real loud Fender amp get a Twin (100 watts) or Twin Reverb (85 watts).

(Edited to add: When I owned it, I asked a lot of questions about it on the Fender Forum, and got the impression that no one really liked this amp.)

The Super Twin is kinda of a black eye on the Fender amp community...loud, cl;ean and brittle are the best wqords to describe that amp.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

Fender just didn't get it back in those days. Everybody was craving a Marshall because those were still exotic and brand new to us in the USA. And everybody was playing very loud trying to get a tone like Clapton with Cream or Mike Bloomfield with his Twin Reverbs stacked one on one. So it became a louder is better kind of thing in the twisted minds of CBS/Fender and they started making those uselessly powerful amps like the Super Twin and those Quad Reverbs with four 12's and Super Six Reverbs with six 10's.

 

[flank]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

its a boat anchor basically

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

Fender just didn't get it back in those days. Everybody was craving a Marshall because those were still exotic and brand new to us in the USA. And everybody was playing very loud trying to get a tone like Clapton with Cream or Mike Bloomfield with his Twin Reverbs stacked one on one. So it became a louder is better kind of thing in the twisted minds of CBS/Fender and they started making those uselessly powerful amps like the Super Twin and those Quad Reverbs with four 12's and Super Six Reverbs with six 10's.

the thing is that a Quad or a Super Six...while I belive it is way too much amp, they were good amps...the Super Twin was not, it had way too much power (160 watts), it had 6550 power tubes (I have never liked the tone of 6550's), they were brittle sounding, and simply just did not have the classic Fender Clean tone.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

the thing is that a Quad or a Super Six...while I belive it is way too much amp, they were good amps...the Super Twin was not, it had way too much power (160 watts), it had 6550 power tubes (I have never liked the tone of 6550's), they were brittle sounding, and simply just did not have the classic Fender Clean tone.

Yep. Would that be the notorious Ulra Linear Output Tranny all the techies hate so much in those 160 watt amps?

 

[Falstaff]

Re: Info about Fender Super Twin Reverb

Albert Collins used a quad, IIRC.