Effects - Pedals, Multi-Effects, and Floor Boxes

[hangwire]

it has a solid state rectifier [thought it was tube, not sure if its a big tone difference though] and the big one, the footswitch is tremolo/fat NOT reverb... why the fuck you put a fender 63 tube reverb in an amp and not allow on/off fender!

so i guess I am looking at other Fender 6L6 tube amps with teremolo and tube driven spring reverb  on a footswitch and 10s speakers... 

so super reverb and some old heads I guess, right?

[goodhonk]

Tube amps above 40 watts are generally solid state rectified.

[Pewtershmit]

who da fuck would turn off da reverb.

[BrentMpls]

I remember when pewt use to 'Halen 

[BrentMpls]

iHonk what are you knitting? 

[Pewtershmit]

im retired now.

[hangwire]

Super reverb has a tube rectifier though :idk:

Turning the reverb off is good so it can be turned back on

[Zappa74]

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Pewtershmit wrote:

who da fuck would turn off da reverb.

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Exactly.

[cobalt-60]

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Pewtershmit wrote:

who da fuck would turn off da reverb.

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For an eerie fill that leads to heavy rhythm playing?

[echodeluxe]

During the fast parts?

Get a bassman head and a tube reverb unit. No amp except the vibroking has that crazy awesome tube reverb circuit.

[macadood]

the blues jr has a solid state rect iirc. fantastic amp :idk: especially the tweed

[echodeluxe]

Yes maca, yes.

[V]

SS rectifier more or less means it can have a cleaner/more defined sound. Tube rectifiers sag a lot more easily and are often a little darker as well due to the fact that a tube rectifier cannot run the rails on the amp at as high of a voltage as a well-done SS rectifier. I like both but usually use SS rectifiers nowadays (or use a yellow jacket converter in a tube rectifier socket). It's not something that's in the signal path, anyway. It's part of the power supply. What it does is take AC and turn it into DC.

[akapuli]

The original standalone reverb doesn't have on/off switch either. Blasphemy!

[ambient]

How difficult is it to mod it for a footswitch?

[evets618]

Yes, the stand-alone Fender Reverb 6G15 does indeed have a foot switch jack, it's in the back underside of the chassis. But, why, oh, why, would one turn it off? Reverb is the KY of effects.

[hangwire]

that's what I thought, that there is the little bell footswitch for the outboard tube unit.

I run my reverb at surfy overwhelming goodness, but in moderation... so need to be able to turn it off/on as needed...

[Dr.Picklebottom]

if you turn off your reverb and arent careful people may be able to hear what youre playing. 

[soapbladder]

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Dr.Picklebottom wrote:

if you turn off your reverb and arent careful people may be able to hear what youre playing. 

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A good amount of delay and pitch-shifting can also prevent that from happening.

[evets618]

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.