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1976 Fender Silverface Tube Reverb Unit
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Condition: Used, Good
Like What You See? All pics are of the exact item you will receive. This vintage Reverb unit is in good shape with expected wear for a 50 year old vintage piece. We’ve included photos so you can take a look!
In via Trade! One of our regular customers traded in this really cool vintage 1976 Fender ‘Silverface’ Tube Reverb! It’s celebrating its 50th birthday this year! This circuit only lasted for 2 years before being discontinued. As compared to the earlier revisions and later reissues, it may be considered the more sonically desirable. It was recently serviced and is a killer piece for stage or studio!
From Wikipedia: The "Tube Reverb" was reintroduced in 1976 with a silver control panel ("Silverface"). It was discontinued in 1978. This reissue differs significantly from the original 6G15 circuit. The unit has 4 tubes: V1 (Input/preamplifier, a 12AX7 as opposed to a 12AT7 in the earlier three-tube version), V2 (reverb driver, a 6V6 as opposed to a 6K6 in the original), V3 (reverb recovery, a 12AX7), and V4 (a buffer stage, using another 12AX7). V4 acts to reduce changes in output impedance when the wet-dry mix is varied, ameliorating the “tone suck” (loss of volume and some high frequency signal) seen with the original and later reissue 3 tube versions. Further, the 6V6 driver was wired with fixed bias (as opposed to cathode biased in the 6G15 circuit) and in triode mode (with plate and grid connected).