Members TechBrother Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 From what I've been told it's a '72 Twin Reverb. Recently had the power tubes replaced but not biased and had the speakers replaced. My firend replaced the caps on the amp about a year ago. The chassis is bent in the front and the cab looks like it suffered water damage at some point. Someone performed a Master Volume mod and the vibrato and reverb don't curently work. The previous owner said he found it in a landlords basement and used it occasionally for studio sessions. He said from the research he had done he was entirely sure of it's age and it seemed to come from an in between year. It sounds pretty good. Nice cleans, tons of headroom. There's definately power issues b/c it wasn't maintaining steady volume and was kinda noisey. The master volume mod is kind dumb. SO... what would you pay for this amp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TechBrother Posted April 25, 2008 Author Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 Couple more picts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NetStar Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 Offer him a straight up trade for the new version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TechBrother Posted April 25, 2008 Author Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 My friend already bought the amp... I'm just curious as to what other people would pay for such a monstrosity. In addition to that I was curious if it's better to restore it to stock condition or make it into a custom hot rot. If it's an amp that would be worth a lot of money in stock condition then my friend plans on restoring as much as possible to factory specs. If not then he'll build a new cab and we'll experiment with tone.And that thing is SS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T Stre Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 What's wrong with the master volume? is it not working? That would be nice I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dap99 Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 I wish I knew more about all that. Does it at least sound good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sunsetcarcrash Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 no more than 300... 70s twins run pretty cheap on the bay... I saw a like new 72 go yesterday for 550... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TechBrother Posted April 25, 2008 Author Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 Master volume works but I just don't see the point of it on a Twin. Twins have a lot of head room and even on ten you here more distortion from the speakers than you hear break up from the tubes. Master Volume is more useful when you want to hear the preamp breakup w/o losing your hearing. I could be wrong. It sounds good. Sounds like a really classic clean amp... I'm sure it'll sound 100x better w/ the reverb & the vib working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members g400man Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 $400 sounds good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TechBrother Posted April 25, 2008 Author Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 $400 sounds good That's what my friend paid. I thought it was more than fair considering that he is able to do all the work on the amp himself in restoring it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loobster Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 It sickens me that you guys get Silverface twins for $500. Cheapest I saw one in London is a half reasonable condition was for about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rvschulz Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 i was thinking less than $400. $500 for a perfectly good one is about all I would pay. a DRRI blackface would fetch a little more, maybe $600. and I think sound better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crxsh Posted April 25, 2008 Members Share Posted April 25, 2008 I was thinking $300-$400. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrmax Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 It sickens me that you guys get Silverface twins for $500. Cheapest I saw one in London is a half reasonable condition was for about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members johnrambo Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 $400 sounds good that was my first thought but a twin reverb minus the reverb... what's the point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fingermush Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 WARNING ACHTUNG!!!! You need to drain the filter caps & put a cap pan on those filter caps. They hold a lethal voltage & should be covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Robert Keeley Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 Yeah, WARNING WILL ROBINSON! FINGERMUSH IS RIGHT AND FINGERMUSH IS WHAT YOU'LL BE if you were to start fingering the bottom of that amp. Hope you took it off just for pictures, not 'the case of the missing cover' story... ThAnKs for pointing that out Fingermush! You may have saved a life! Oh, the price, $300 no more...sorry if'n that hurts someone's feelers... rk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 None. A Twin Reverb without tremolo and reverb is a Twin Reverb I don't want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jgonzales Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 mine was in similar condition and i got it for $250, got new tubes, a half power switch installed, and the vibrato fixed all for $200 cause i know a guy who rules @ life. $250-$300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I'd say $300, not more than $400. It would take some work - a rebias, new grille (at least *I'd* redo the grille), a new "pan" (cover) for the filter caps, maybe even a new cab... and who knows what's up with the verb and trem? Those would definitely be on my "must fix" list too. Early - mid 70's SF Twins normally sell in the $600 - 650 range out here, and that's assuming decent cosmetics and that they're fully functioning. Considering that amp is going to take at least a few hundred to get back up to snuff, I would bid accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fingermush Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 Yeah, WARNING WILL ROBINSON! FINGERMUSH IS RIGHT AND FINGERMUSH IS WHAT YOU'LL BE if you were to start fingering the bottom of that amp. Hope you took it off just for pictures, not 'the case of the missing cover' story... ThAnKs for pointing that out Fingermush! You may have saved a life! Oh, the price, $300 no more...sorry if'n that hurts someone's feelers... rk That's what I thought when i first saw it. A simple preamp toob change can tunr into an early funeral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fingermush Posted April 26, 2008 Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 Also to the op. That looks like a '70 or a '71, due to it not having an original master. Very cool amps either way Adrian Utly from Portishead rocks the MV Twin. Plus that one looks exactly like my '70 Dual showman reverb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TechBrother Posted April 26, 2008 Author Members Share Posted April 26, 2008 Thanks for the input guys... the cap pan was taken off for pictures and for my friend to show me that he had recapped some of the amp. My buddy who bought the amp had worked on it when we was studying at Sheffield and when he found out the guy was selling it he mostly wanted it for sentimental value... the first vintage tube amp he had ever worked on. He now wants to get it fully functional (vib, reverb, bias, etc.) then probably convert it to a head and build a seperate cabinet for it (he used to be a cabinet maker). He also wants to convert to blackface specs and see if a different tube combination could get a little more brreak up out of it. I've also heard of ppl converting them to run on EL34's. Anyone ever heard how that sounds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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