The Fender Twin Reverb guitar amp

This is a 1965 Fender Twin Reverb guitar amplifier, one of the most well known and iconic Fender amps of the 1960s and 70s. This is what is known as a "black face" Fender. It's called a black face because the later production Fender amps had a silver face behind the control knobs. This particular amp was brought to me after a friend bought it, he wanted me to check it out to make sure everything was in working order.

The Fender Twin Reverb amp is a combo amp, it has two 12 inch speakers in the cabinet. These amps put out 100 watts of power at full volume, they are incredibly loud in an average size room. These amps were used on a lot of stages in the 1960s and 70s. Back in those days, stage volume was a big thing. Of course, that's why a lot of old rock n rollers are half deaf now.
The reverb built into these amps is very good, a lot of depth!
The Twin Reverb, and it's cousin, the Dual Showman Reverb head were powered by four 6L6GC power tubes and 6 preamp tubes, four of the 12AX7 twin triode, and two 12AT7 twin triodes.

These amps are an open back design, common in the 1960s and 70s. This particular amp has replacement speakers in it. The original speakers for this amp would have either been Jensen or Oxford speakers, both were being used at the time this amp was made. The reverb spring tank sat in the bottom of the cabinet and was connected to the amp by way of a pair of cables. If you look at the picture, you can see the connection jacks on the back of the amp, and the cords hanging down in the cabinet. I had just put the amp chassis back into the cabinet when I took these pictures. I also just noticed that I had not reinstalled the power tubes when I took the picture of the back. I probably still had them out for testing.

Well, that's my little story of a wickedly good amp!

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