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In Reply to: RE: Fender Twin Reverb - Black vs Silver posted by Thairback on February 03, 2010 at 16:44:11
I'm not much of a technition but I think you can get a lot of milage by upgrading the caps. I'm sure there's a few other parts to swap out to make the amp exactly "blackface" but I believe doing the caps gets you most of the way there.
FWIW some of the early and mid 70's silver face models, like the Deluxe, are already really close to Blackface. I have a 76 Deluxe Reverb, which I think is the last year Fender made these w/o the dreaded pull switch, and I think it sounds great as is. The only change I made to it was to install a new speaker, but that was only because the original one developed a tear.
Good luck.
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Some silverfaces had different iron than their blackface counterparts. Off the top of my head, I believe that the silverface Super ran heavier iron and higher voltage than the blackface. CBS tried to make this amp, and other silverfaces, more linear than the older ones. In the process they lost all life in the amp. Many ppl revert this and other silverfaces back to blackface standards (Champ comes to mind, also), for a that "Fender tone" they are used to.
A good book on all the model Fender amps made is "Fender Amps." By John Teagle and John Sprung. Hal Leonard Publications, 1995.
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Should note that early Kauffman & Fender amps, "one-off" amps, and anything post-1995 will not be covered under this title.
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