Before and After
My sincere thanks to all those who helped me in learning the craft, and doing their part in helping me to restore this great piece of history and tone back to its former glory. Without their expertise and assistance this would not have been doable now. In the future, I may make some minor changes to the circuit to improve on the tone. New speakers may be tried, since the one shown - A Jensen Vibranto - is an after market speaker made in the 60's but not stock with this amp. I have done these type of things very successfully with my other Vintage Fender Amps. Tweak the tone stack around what makes the speaker sound good. Its a whole lot cheaper to experiment with a few caps and resistors than buying a lot of different speakers and to me it just makes sense. Some may call that blasphemy - but in my view its all about the TONE !
Since this site was completed, there have been a few mods done to the Deluxe Reverb - I installed a 10K pot across where the 6.8K resistor was on the bass pot, to have an adjustable midrange control - its in the spot where the courtesy plug once was, also I dropped the 250PF treble cap in the Vibrato Channel preamp to 150PF for more bottom. I balanced this with a upgrade from 47PF to 68PF on the bright cap. I have more control over what it puts out now - however this is just an experiment and we'll see how long I leave it this way. But so far it sounds great - an improvement over before.
I hope you've enjoyed this website. If you are interested in doing work like this on your vintage Fender amplifiers or would just like to compare notes or even make some modifications, feel free to contact me via the parent website phone number.
This website is not in any way affiliated or associated with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.