used price '63 vibroverb

[Lazarus1140]

Help please

I guess that was a little unclear. There is one for sale locally and I'm wondering what might be a fair price to expect to pay. The asking price is $700.

 

[jeremy]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

real one or the re-issue?

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

That has to be reissue. Sounds like a pretty fair price for one of the better reissues Fender has done over the years. I know the original is one of the most coveted amplifiers in their history and ridiculous amounts of money.

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

real one or the re-issue?

1990 Reissue

https://reverb.com/price-guide/guide/3244-fender-63-vibroverb-reissue-1990s-brown

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

That has to be reissue. Sounds like a pretty fair price for one of the better reissues Fender has done over the years. I know the original is one of the most coveted amplifiers in their history and ridiculous amounts of money.

Doesn't "reissue" mean circuit boards.

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

Doesn't "reissue" mean circuit boards.

Well, yes, it's going to be PCB, but that doesn't mean it won't sound great.

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

Well, yes, it's going to be PCB, but that doesn't mean it won't sound great.

Well, I've thought about it and have decided to pass. I have read several opinions that it has to get pretty loud before it really starts to sound good. I can't handle that.

 

[jeremy]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

they are a 40w tube amp with no master volume. not quiet when cranked up enough to break up even with those relatively inefficient speakers. very cool amp though, the trem was lovely

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

Well, I've thought about it and have decided to pass. I have read several opinions that it has to get pretty loud before it really starts to sound good. I can't handle that.

I recently obtained an old Super. It's 45 watts, and even after pulling V1 and swapping a 12AX7 for the phase inverter, it's paint peeling loud before it really breaks up. That said, it's nothing a good OD won't fix.

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

I recently obtained an old Super. It's 45 watts, and even after pulling V1 and swapping a 12AX7 for the phase inverter, it's paint peeling loud before it really breaks up. That said, it's nothing a good OD won't fix.

You must have one of the 135 watt ultralinerar amps?

I don't know about silverfaces. ..not my bag, and especially the new ones have this fatiguing hyper glassy annoying tone, a lot like 70's silverface or all blackfaced silverfaced amps, which is alluring at first, but quickly becomes thin and grating,without any of the dimensionality or sweetness of the genuine blackface amps, .

The reissue Fender PCB amps are built really terrible, and are essentially disposable amps, that break if you look at them wrong.

A good blackface SR has a beautiful breakup and a totally acceptable volume level -perfect really, unless you are one of like most people who anything louder than a small table radio is disturbing to them.

Lets just call this my "opinion".

 

[jeremy]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

thats just not true. i gig all the time and my deluxe reverb on 3 is as loud as is appropriate. granted i have a crex in there which is efficient but a super at 3 isnt going to break up any more than my deluxe and probably less. sometimes i can get away with 4 where it starts to get juicy but 5 or 6 on the volume is too loud for the places i play. the days of cranking a 50w half stack are pretty much gone. i know bands that do it but they are playing heavier stuff

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: used price '63 vibroverb

You must have one of the 135 watt ultralinerar amps?

Or it's 45. Like I said before. In the post you quoted.

In high school, our jazz band had a blackface Deluxe. We would borrow it over the summer, and while I don't remember what exact volume number it was on, it stayed clean much louder than was required to keep up with a drummer.