[Harp-L] My favorite big amp is a tubed down Fender Super Reverb Reissue

["John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx>]

Splash!,

"I don't understand what is meant by "tubed down." Using 6V6's  
instead of 6L6's ??"

By "tubed down" I mean lower gain preamp tubes in certain positions  
and an unbalanced  preamp tube in the phase inverter position.  I did  
NOT change the configuration of the power tubes.

"Harp-only, Daisy chain the two channels."

The problem with doing this on a Fender amp that HAS REVERB is that  
the reverb channel and the dry channel are OUT OF PHASE with one  
another.  This is because the reverb channel has one more preamp  
stage than the dry channel does.  If the amp has no reverb, there's  
no problem slaving or "daisy chaining" channels, but doing this on a  
Fender amp WITH reverb can be problematic.

Just for the hell of it, I tried a Radial Tonebone BigShot A-B-Y box  
which has the ability to invert the phase on one of its outputs and  
tried going into both channels of my SRRI through that.  I did NOT  
like the sound I got at all.  But, YMMV.

You know, I absolutely love the depth and dimension of tone you can  
get from a spring reverb tank in a tube amp.  BUT if you go into the  
dry channel of a blackface or RI Super Reverb you can get an  
instantly recognizable Butterfield type sound which ain't a bad thing  
either.  I really like my Super RI Reissue for big amp applications.

JP