NUAD—Fender Pawn Shop Greta
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stormsedge
Poster Extraordinaire
Awesome find! HNAD!
I’d break my dry spell if I found a Greta at a good price. I have bid on a couple on Reverb, with no success.
I have an Excelsior and Vaporizer…so mo’is better.
I’d break my dry spell if I found a Greta at a good price. I have bid on a couple on Reverb, with no success.
I have an Excelsior and Vaporizer…so mo’is better.
I had to have a greta when I saw it new 10 years back - my daughter’s name. I love it. It’s great as a little practice amp. It’s great as an overdrive into a bigger amp. And it’s great to hook your phone into and listen to swing, rock and roll, early country, western swing, rockabilly, early jazz etc.
In all a great amp.
In all a great amp.
Terrygh1949
Tele-Meister
Good luck, I hope you find a cure.
Fiesta Red
Doctor of Teleocity
Does anyone have a good pdf copy an official schematic for this amp?
Several of the schematics I found online are something a dude drew up himself.
Several of the schematics I found online are something a dude drew up himself.
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Fender are often forthcoming with such documents. I can’t promise, but you never know.
Fiesta Red
Doctor of Teleocity
yjwednesday
TDPRI Member
Yeah, I'm on git #3 for the year. Been working since high school, still working at 67...
May not "need" another, but I feel I deserve it. Supporting the industry. Rock on!
May not "need" another, but I feel I deserve it. Supporting the industry. Rock on!
alesplin
Tele-Meister
Oh man I watched the youtube ads for the Excelsior and the Ramparte like dozens of times.
Hi Fiesta, maybe this thread may help:
Inside the Fender Greta (thread II)
The Inside the Fender Greta thread was rather interesting - since I have one of these - obviously... Attached is a schematic found online and comes from ToneBuster.org - thanks for drawing it up. A modified version is included also. The goal was to stop it sounding like a fart machine. To...
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Mekhem
Tele-Afflicted
Yeah - I have always wanted a vaporizor but have stayed away for these reasons...
bowman
Poster Extraordinaire
Cool! I seriously wanted a Greta when Fender released them, but I never did get one. I do have an Excelsior, however, and that is a cool amp, too. Enjoy that little thing!
Paulie_Boy
Tele-Afflicted
Hi Fiesta Red. There's coffee and donuts over there. We don't make any judgements here. It only works if you keep coming back.
JustABluesGuy
Poster Extraordinaire
The Excelsior and Greta are the two I like best. Still looking for an Excelsior. One showed up locally for a good price, but we were in the middle of an expensive home remodeling job, so I didn’t jump on it.
I’ll keep looking though.
Reverend Bow
TDPRI Member
Question about the Greta, that you all MIGHT know...
I just picked one of these up, a bit worse for wear, but I am a sucker for small amps.
Looking at the owner's manual, it doesn't address using the Line Out without using the internal speaker or external Speaker.
Looking at the schematic, the Line out Jack doesn't disconnect the Internal speaker like the the External Speaker jack does.
If running the line out, I wouldn't want the internal amp speaker going, because the Output transformer needs to see a load on a tube amp to keep from letting the "magic Smoke" out.
I am thinking of cooking up a 1/4" jack with a 8 ohm load resister on it to plug into the External speaker jack to use it silent, and into an IR box, or drive a different amp.
Thoughts?
I just picked one of these up, a bit worse for wear, but I am a sucker for small amps.
Looking at the owner's manual, it doesn't address using the Line Out without using the internal speaker or external Speaker.
Looking at the schematic, the Line out Jack doesn't disconnect the Internal speaker like the the External Speaker jack does.
If running the line out, I wouldn't want the internal amp speaker going, because the Output transformer needs to see a load on a tube amp to keep from letting the "magic Smoke" out.
I am thinking of cooking up a 1/4" jack with a 8 ohm load resister on it to plug into the External speaker jack to use it silent, and into an IR box, or drive a different amp.
Thoughts?
W.L.Weller
Friend of Leo's
I was going to say you'd have a tough time mounting a 10W axial resistor directly onto a jack plug, but I learned that there are in fact wirewound 10W radial resistors:
I'd still want to add some mechanical connection, since ideally that resistor is just floating in free air behind the amp. Because it's going to get hot.
I'd still want to add some mechanical connection, since ideally that resistor is just floating in free air behind the amp. Because it's going to get hot.
Yeah them Greta's are the shizzle
. I got one and it's way cool. Thinking about replacing the chicken-head 
knobs though. The one's that came with it are a little tacky IMO. But maybe that's the look they were going for, kitschy. However it might devalue the amp if it's not original 
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