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Vibro champ

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Did the fender vibro champs from the 60s have reverb. I see the reissue has digital reverb and I was wondering if the originals from the 60s had spring reverb even though they were only 5 watt amps.
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No they didn't.
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My first amp was a silverface Vibrochamp. My 14 year old self hated it.
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You're gonna want a pedalboard in front of that VibroChamp anyway, op. Just add a Boss RV and you're off to the races. These are fairly simple single ended circuits, and very responsive to tube rolling. Not typical Fender cleans, but a nice warm OD starting around 5 on the volume knob, that just gets saturated and compressed as you turn up from there.

MS, the only thing better than one SF VibroChamp is a second SF VibroChamp! :lol:

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itchyfingers wrote:You're gonna want a pedalboard in front of that VibroChamp anyway, op. Just add a Boss RV and you're off to the races. These are fairly simple single ended circuits, and very responsive to tube rolling. Not typical Fender cleans, but a nice warm OD starting around 5 on the volume knob, that just gets saturated and compressed as you turn up from there.

MS, the only thing better than one SF VibroChamp is a second SF VibroChamp! :lol:

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:rolleyes:

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Bro! I could definitely get down on those. I’ve been playing my Vibrolux a ton lately. Clean, with dirt pedals, everything in between. It’s awesome. A Princeton would be perfect for just a littlle more compression in the volume. And that’s it.
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GuitarBilly wrote:Anyone who played an 800 "model" in a Kemper/Fractal/Helix and think they know what a raging 2203 sounds like is pretty much the guitar equivalent of a virgin nerd that thinks watching porn counts as sex experience.


NinjaRaf wrote:6505 is 100% balls to the fucking walls low end and aggression. It is FUCKING PISSED. Like an 18 year old angry at the world.
+ is a bit less angry, like maybe a 35 year old man angry.


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