Who else uses a lot of fender spring reverb ?

[Mastertvede]

I too play straight in, and I too love spring reverb. It’s always on, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

You’re not hurting your amp. But any component will wear out faster when pushed hard. The reverb driver 12AT7 tube in that amp does work hard, so that would probably be the first to go. Transformers get hot when over taxed. You can put a finger on the reverb transformer to take its temperature. Should be warm but not burn-your-finger hot. The reverb tranny is the little one near the reverb jacks.

I have a vintage 65 Deluxe Reverb with the original Gibbs tank. I have tried several current production tanks, and none of them have sounded as good as the original. The original is “weaker” but has better tone.

Now my question for all the reverb hounds here: who makes reverb tanks nowadays? To me, it looks like only two companies. Accutronics/Belton, and whoever makes MOD. On the Surfybear website, they talk about working with Accutronics to voice and manufacture their tank. Do the other resellers (TAD,Revisit, etc.) do the same thing, or are they all identical? Seems like they would highlight their unique voice on the webpage like Surfybear, but not that I’ve seen.

Sadly I haven’t found a direct alternativ to the US accutronics tanks of the past, that is why I have soo many reverb tanks.

Nb! If you order a fender 4ab3c1b long decay from fender (I have two) what you get is a ruby 4ab1c1b short decay tank from Ruby.

Its easy to tell because the ruby number is still on the fender tank.

I also have have the real deal 4ab3c1b tank from Ruby, the sound the same, but the long decay thank has a very long decay.

What the lack is the midrange overtones.

The new accutronics tank and the surfy bear, have the midrange overtones, but sound very bright and mechanical.

 

[Mastertvede]

I love the old fender tank . Mine blew out and now I use pedals but they were great for surf . I saw one once but they were asking 1 k so it will be just a memory for me

The old once are rare now, I payed 225 usd for the last one, plus shipping

 

[Telegnosis]

'Nuff 'verb??

 

[Fiesta Red]

Howdy, my name’s Fiesta Red, and I’m a recovering anti-delay-ist and anti-reverb-ist.

For the first fifteen years or more of my playing “career”, I rarely—if ever—used delay. My producer/drummer would periodically put it on my guitar (or vocals or harmonica) for our recordings, and it sounded so good for those songs I eventually relented.

I finally got over that prejudice, and I now (judiciously) use an MXR Carbon Copy (after a brief interlude with a Rocktron Short Timer)…but those are both delay effects, not reverbs.

It took a bit longer for me to start using reverb—and it was my daughter’s music that made me do it. She’s playing Mexican Garage Rock and Classic Country (as well as her original singer-songwriter stuff), all of which require heavy, twangy tremolo- and reverb-soaked tone. I started incorporating the reverb into my sound about five years ago.

Fortunately, I have had my ‘63-reissue Vibroverb since 1992, so I instantly had “That Sound” on tap. It gets as splashy/chanky as a person could want it to get.

When I got a Fender Excelsior Pro amp a couple of years ago (for both her use and mine), I had to find a suitable reverb pedal for the same/similar performance…(I wasn’t quite ready to invest in a Fender outboard reverb box, plus I didn’t want to carry one around)…I eventually landed on the T-Rex Tone Bug Reverb. It works really well on the “Spring” setting, but it can get pretty extreme if you turn the knob(s) too high (IMHO).

 

[Fiesta Red]

Anyway, La Luz…

What is it about moody brunettes that play bass with a pick that (ahem) “intrigues” (yeah, that’s the word! “Intrigues”) me soooo much…?

 

[24 track]

I posted this some time ago it may help to explain the type of Reverb tank and the Codes for each type is it comprehensive ? i don't know but its a great explanation , enjoy!

https://www.amplifiedparts.com/tech-articles/spring-reverb-tanks-explained-and-compared

 

[Highway 49]

What is it about moody brunettes that play bass with a pick that (ahem) “intrigues” (yeah, that’s the word! “Intrigues”) me soooo much…?

Well, when there are so many big ugly men bass players in the world, it’s nice to see a bit of style for a change… maybe we should have a ‘most glamorous bass players’ thread, to which men need not apply

 

[24 track]

Well, when there are so many big ugly men bass players in the world, it’s nice to see a bit of style for a change… maybe we should have a ‘most glamorous bass players’ thread, to which men need not apply

be careful where you go here, or you might wake up with @Swirling Snow and Tal Wilkenfeld beating you with their bases in your sleep!

 

[Fiesta Red]

be careful where you go here, or you might wake up with @Swirling Snow and Tal Wilkenfeld beating you with their bases in your sleep!

Death! Where is thy sting?

 

[Dostradamas]

On occasion

Love the spring reverb on these old Yamahas
Surf setting

 

[mgcasella]

On occasion
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Love the spring reverb on these old Yamahas
Surf setting

Which model is that? Year? Now I want to look them up!

 

[mgcasella]

On occasion
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Love the spring reverb on these old Yamahas
Surf setting

Which model is that? Year? Now I want to look them up!

 

[mgcasella]

On occasion
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Love the spring reverb on these old Yamahas
Surf setting

Which model is that? Year? Now I want to look them up!

 

[Dostradamas]

@mgcasella
Is there an echo in here?

YAMAHA JX30 new speaker help me choose from these 8

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[JRapp]

I use tweeds on occasion and have 3 reverb pedals that sound a little different. I might crank it up once in a while, but not to surf levels. For BF/SF/Ampeg amps I will dial in enough to get a little bounce.

 

[Tomm Williams]

I used to run a Fender stand alone unit with this Brown Face Pro, it really sounded great. Probably should not have sold it but I’m now running a Van Amps Sole Mate Jr that holds its own quite nicely.

 

[neknufelet]

Bricasti - only $5,000.

 

[Sea Devil]

Tomm, I like the Sole Mate Jr. a lot as well! I use it with a Standel clone and it sounds fabulous. IIRC, it's compatible with several tanks; I forget which one I used, but it's a vertical mount.

I love in-amp reverb even more than the sound of the stand-alone unit. I had one of those for a while, and I was in a surf band at the time, but I still preferred the onboard reverb. I've been known to replace a couple caps and resistors in the amp circuit to fine-tune the tone and the wet/dry mix. It doesn't hurt to try some different values if you're handy with a soldering iron.

Recently I've been playing a Quilter 101 Reverb, but with an old Tube Works Real Tube Reverb rack mount unit in front. It's a (solid-state?) pre-amp and tube reverb in one, and is great for tone-shaping both the wet and dry signals. It also is super-responsive to playing dynamics; gentle chords produce lush, ambient sounds, while an aggressive attack causes the reverb to leap out like a knife-flashing mugger rocketing out of a dark alley. Decay time increases naturally and organically in response to higher input. It accomplishes all this with two six-spring Accutronics tanks and sounds amazing! (Absolutely no self-noise, too, which is a bonus. The Quilter is also dead quiet.)

 

[TeleBackelaer]

Not that much. Wanna taste the meal, not the condiments.

Ha! I don't necessarily agree, but that is one hell of a great analogy

 

[fretknot]

Just a touch of 'verb for me. I changed the reverb driver tube to a 12AU7 in Fender amps to make the sweep of the reverb pot more manageable. Stock, it gets wet too early on the dial for me. The lower gain tube also eliminates most of the hum brought on by the reverb.