Jazz Blues with Fender Deluxe Reverb

New song idea ??? from my dad. He was to lazy to create an account. :)

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Music

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• Jazz
• Blues
• Fender
• Reverb

[AGameFR3AK]

THanks. He bought the amp, not new, but used. It had some wierd grill cloth. Mutlicolored and everything. He didn't like it, so he changed it.

[bawla213]

God, why do Fender's prices have to be so abhorently awful? A year ago this amp was under 1k!  God, they might give the best tone, but they surely don't give the best price.

[yobhsiFehT]

What is it everybody seems to have against treble anyway?? :D I mean, obviously you want a really warm tone for jazzy tunes like this, but I dunno', I'm a big fan of clarity too~shrug~ To each his own. Good playing!

[Teachering]

@Danthehorse Re: your comment about Fender "fleecing" customers. You also suggest that Fender leans on its past history of quality suggesting that quality no longer exists with this company. Simply untrue on both counts. I own a galaxy of quality Telecasters, Stratocasters, and tube amps. Did I pay a lot of money? It depends on what one considers to be dear regarding price. Any quality instrument including amps is going to cost. So, what is the argument? I love good Fender gear at any price.

[Danthehorse]

@bawla213 They are chancers who play on their past rep to fleece the consumer. Not cool.

[tehorix789]

@vonalxao1 I used to wonder about that, too. But I own both the Super Reverb and the Deluxe Reverb, and I can tell you that the channels sound different (aside from the reverb). The non-reverb Normal Channel sounds warmer.

[GameLevelEditor]

@bawla213 Yeh I know I'm on the hunt for one now but I'm at least happy they didn't Dumble their prices because then that would be really ghey! LOL I had the previous Hot Rod Deluxe not bad but the OD was weird but I heard they've improved the newer Fender line to improve the tightness of the low end and add more sparkle to the high end. Thats probably why they upped the price a bit. IMO they should of kept the prices the same cause the previous ones had tone bugs.

[vonalxao1]

Anyone know why amps have two channels? Can't it all be done with one? Just turn off the reverb and the vibrato?

[yobhsiFehT]

@rossfloss

Except that, as you turn most amps up, they naturally lose treble/presence frequencies. Either way, tho, tonal preference or perceived volume issues, cutting too much treble is going to suck the liveliness out of the average guitarist's (i.e., relatively ignorant guitarist's) tone. Like Rob Chappers has said about scooping mids, "That's folly!" lol You've gotta let the guitar keep most of the frequencies it naturally makes to let it speak.

Ironically, I prefer darker acoustic tones;)

[rossfloss]

@yobhsiFehT I've noticed that too. There is kind of a sonic reasoning behind it. The warm smooth overdrive a lot of people go for is primarily in the mids and so keeping the treble down allows you to turn up the amp a bit more at indoor overdriven volumes without having too much presence that cuts right to the ear. The problem is people tend to cut too much treble off not really realizing their tone is a bit too muffled.

[guitarcapo]

You can reduce hum/noise in the amp by turning the volume on the unused channel down to zero.

[guitarplayer43210]

@44eelz it depends

[guitarplayer43210]

@tbdalva I wouldn't say harsh with good tubes but the DRRI is a bright sounding amp. The bright cap on the reverb channel was not clipped. Traditional electric jazz guitar tone has little highs, that is what I was aiming for.