Vintage gear thread

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the early silverface stuff is very close to blackface specs. it wasnt till they started going ultralinear, adding master volumes, and boost circuits that things really went downhill. i played through a '67 deluxe reverb for a while too and it was a great amp. sounded different but im sure much of that was tubes and the speaker being very different. i have a '69 dual showman reverb that is a beast!
 
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jeremy said:
the early silverface stuff is very close to blackface specs. it wasnt till they started going ultralinear, adding master volumes, and boost circuits that things really went downhill. i played through a '67 deluxe reverb for a while too and it was a great amp. sounded different but im sure much of that was tubes and the speaker being very different. i have a '69 dual showman reverb that is a beast!
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When I first got my Super Reverb, I heard a lot of “I wouldn’t touch a Silverface with a 10 foot pole” BS. It helped me identify people who simply regurgitate internet wisdom.
 
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JB_From_Hell said:
When I first got my Super Reverb, I heard a lot of “I wouldn’t touch a Silverface with a 10 foot pole” BS. It helped me identify people who simply regurgitate internet wisdom.
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FWIW, that belief was around long before the Internet – if not even more intensely then. The Internet does do things like you say, but it has also helped to dispel a ton of things like this.
 
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jeremy said:
it wasnt till they started going ultralinear, adding master volumes, and boost circuits that things really went downhill.
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Which happened only a few years later; after the blackface parts ran out.

Someone was saying the internet started it, but the whole "Silverfaces suck!" spiel started long before the internet was publicly available... it actually started in the very late 60's.

Awesome book which tells-it-like-it-is by Leo's right hand man, Forrest White - including the Silverface era:

Fender: The Inside Story
 
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Left to right: '67 Gibson ES 335 12 String (currently wound as a 6 string), '60 Gibson Melody Maker (Rewind Electric Meldoy Maker rewind/Antiquity HB), '56 Gibson Les Paul Junior (refin was not my choice), and an Early Series '68-'69 Gibson Les Paul (HB and Goldtop strip, not my choice). Separate and not shown is the '69 Gibson SG Special that is being overhauled.

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Amp is a '57 Gibson GA 6 that I *had restored. Killer amp. I love it.

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Not sure why I wasn't able to upload these earlier, but I got them through with an app. Will post the SG once it's done at the end of the year or so.
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