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6/13/1999 4:47 AM
Bob	Fender Super Have a chance (over the net) to pick up a brown, 210 Super (62?). I've never played one, it has the presence control, two channels, tremelo only-like the late tweed amps. Does this sound anything like my Super Reverb? Deluxe Reverb? Twin? Or is it something else again. How close would it be to a tweed sound? Please email answers, too... Bob

 

6/14/1999 4:06 PM

Jim S.

The brown-panel Fender amps from the early 60's don't really sound either like the tweed amps that came before, or the blackface amps that came after. I can assure you that 210 Super won't sound anything like a Super Reverb.         The brown-panel amps are transitional ,in terms of circuitry. Their phase inverters and output sections are very similar to the late-50's tweed amps, but their preamp sections are closer to the blackface premaps, where the tone controls are placed between the 1st and 2nd gain stages.         To my ears, the brown-panel amps don't quite have that easy-to-distort raw breakup like the late-50s tweed amps, but, on the other hand, don't have that explosive, clean glassy twang of the later blackface amps. They really have their own thing. When teamed up with an outboard Fender Reverb, it's definitely "surf city". But don't expect to get Robert Cray or Ronnie Earl tones out of one, though.

 

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