The Greatest Amp of All Time - 1960's Fender Deluxe Reverb

[@Tyler_Wilson]

Brent Mason says that ‘67 Deluxe Reverbs are extra special. I have a ‘67 and it is incredible. I think he may be onto something!

[@worshiptutorials]

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[@benjamincunningham2174]

Man, love me a fender deluxe reverb! Just can’t beat it! One of the best amps I’ve ever played. Wonderful playing, Mates! 🤙

[@RiggsTaylor]

Had a blast doing this comparison man! I know which one I like more 🥸

[@ksharpe10]

Welcome on the Channel for sure!!!

[@brianmiller3287]

Hi Riggs. You look very young to have achieved this level of amp nerdy!!! Congratulations!!!

[@brianmiller3287]

Nerdery.

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@brianmiller3287 haha, thanks man! Yeah, got the bug early and know just enough to not get electrocuted 😂

[@NathanSink]

Saw you play with Matthew Mayfield. I love it when worlds collide. 😊

[@davidseal6863]

I had both a 1964 Deluxe Reverb and a reissue. I listened to them both with the same speaker and could tell no difference.

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@davidseal6863 that’s very interesting! Definitely varies amp to amp, and if you prefer the reissue, you’ve saved yourself a lot of money 😂

[@lanceholland]

I have a real ‘65 and it’s absolutely the most amazing amp ever.

[@pablohill4048]

I get what you are saying, and I’ve probably never played this precise amp, but all the fender amps I’ve tried very high on the treble end.

[@StevenDeTone]

Thanks! I' ll go back a ff through to that point!

[@Bimmer2047]

Man sounds good! I run a original 65 bandmaster in my rig and it’s an ab763 with 6l6 power section. And I run it at about 7 so good and driving an I love it!!

[@oslopez8828]

I got the fender mustang LT amp and the twin reverb preset that it has sounds fantastic! even with effects pedals😊

[@ruhrpottflo2249]

Awesome . A real Amp is the real Deal 🎉

[@massimos6863]

Great video, the fender deluxe Reverb, sounds better, but both great amp's great playing guys

[@jalanh.1777]

A good deluxe will deliver a Myriad of excellent tones. I used to pack a good overdrive, chorus, and delay and play many churches, festivals, weddings and worship sets, and the deluxe never let me down.

[@kurtdrumheller8048]

Thank you for this very thorough comparison. I thought the ‘67 original sounded much better. Would be interesting to add the Fender blonde Deluxe Reverb Tonemaster to the mix and hear your thoughts. I’m using one on our worship team and am happy with the lighter weight, DI out and attenuator functions…but there is nothing like the original mid-60’s blackface Fenders.

[@SearchingForTone]

I miss my reissue so much, I need to get a Fender for my channel when I do reviews for that Fender clean

[@robbyclark6915]

I bought the 68 custom deluxe reverb. The one no one likes. I think it sounds great. I also have a vintage silverface pro reverb, completely original, and my little 68 custom holds its own against it. Which totally surprised me tbh. I will be getting a blackface soon though. There's a guy 2 hours away who hand builds these and puts them in beautiful cabs with great speakers, adds an impedance switch and a couple of mods and they sound fantastic!

[@Dr.RajBaaaa]

Wow. MasterPiece Amp

[@jasonmaltz7040]

Very happy to see this video since I’m currently in the market for a Deluxe Reverb. So what are they doing differently with the 65 DRRI that makes them sound so different from the originals? Not everyone can afford a vintage or hand wired amp.

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@jasonmaltz7040 it’s hard to say “exactly” what they are doing differently as far as component values, etc. go, but there’s nothing wrong with the reissues! I prefer the silverface (68 Custom) reissues over the 65 reissue, for what it’s worth.

[@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp]

You got a huge pedal board!
Also the idea that you think one fender amp sounds better than another is probably just the preference for the tone stacks and the feedback and the rest of it.

[@ZachariahConnor]

Loved the comparison of the amps! Please keep playing the actual amps in the video!

[@bamatractor]

Yall in my neck of the woods!

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Sweet video boys! Great amps

[@worshiptutorials]

Thanks! 🙏🏻

[@bobbywaldschmidt6825]

Super cooll!!! Sounds amazing

[@connorhutson]

I thought i’d heard a similar story about a 67’ deluxe reverb and a tornado on the truth about vintage amps podcast, sure enough it was Riggs and this amp.

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@connorhutson haha yep! That’s me - big fan of the podcast!

[@Rpaterson33]

Id love to see you guys get your hands on some synergy stuff.

[@kurtj312]

I won't play an anp without an effects loop live.
My guitar tech matched my Fender Supersonic 60 to a 66 he owns. We swapped out the Vin 30 and reverb tank and matched the tone resister for the mids (that has no pot). I run Genelex KT66s and gold pin preamp tube throughout. It sounds just like the '66. Great amp.
My 30th Anniversary Marshall 6100 is even better. Its Green clean channel is the best clean Marshall has. The Amber channel is the sweet spot. Again, Genalex KT77s and gold pin preamp tubes throughout. I prefer the 410 cab with Eminence 65W speakers to the 412 cab.

[@GxBxN]

How cool to see Andrew Garfield talk about his Deluxe Reverb and journey to buy it!! 😂
Genuinely though - well done guys. Beautiful amp ❤

[@_sethweaver]

C'mon Riggs! sounds great man!

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@_sethweaver thanks dude 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@rcleon1431]

on the gain setting the vintage sound more scoop and the Alessandro sounds with a mid hump

[@colinparks619]

I have a 1968 sound city Concord ..
You should hear that !

[@lucasls.9508]

Guys amazing video I also love my Fender deluxe but the question is how you guys can stand be side the amp with volume 6 it is so loud please tell me the secret

[@RiggsTaylor]

Honestly it doesn’t bother me for short periods of time - we only played it that loud for a few minutes at a time. I also still gig and record with loud amps in the room, so I’m accustomed to it!

[@worshiptutorials]

… what?

[@davidjoel111]

I would love to hear this thru a 4x12

[@eric2892]

A DR reissue I got for my church oddly sounds better than my vintage 66 DR. I think it’s because the reissue had a nice new speaker. My original might have a 70s CTS speaker that’s subpar. Anyway, interesting stuff

[@RiggsTaylor]

Wow! That’s wild. I would say to try a WGS ET-65 (creamback) in the deluxe reverb. That’s one of my favorite speakers, and I think you’ll love it in your deluxe reverb. A visit to a good tech can make a difference to - it may not be operating at 100%

[@angusorvid8840]

What's that blue guitar with the tortoiseshell pickguard? It's very cool.

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@angusorvid8840 it’s my Frank Brothers Arcade! Awesome boutique guitar company based in Canada. I rarely play my other guitars now.

[@johnsingleton8570]

Are they really running that on 10 in that little room? In way bigger rooms than that putting it on 10 and sitting that close is... LOUD. From the lack of pain on their faces it makes me think there is an attenuator in the mix?

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@johnsingleton8570 no attenuation here! We only played it for a few minutes at a time at the louder settings, so it was manageable. The acoustic treatment in the rooms helps some too.

[@J_Walker]

30:40 the reverb is on 3, not 0

[@johnp75]

Great amp. Try a blackface Vibrolux Reverb.

[@worshiptutorials]

I have one! A ‘67. Personally, it’s my favorite Fender. I like the more mid-forward voice it has with the two 10” speakers (mine has the Oxfords).
I want to make a video featuring that amp soon

[@tubularbill]

How are you getting that gain breakup?

[@worshiptutorials]

Are you talking about when the amp is set cleaner and we are using overdrive pedals? Or when we turn the amp up so the amp itself breaks up?
Because those are the two ways we’re getting it 😅

[@kodymiller1602]

Am I missing the links to the presets?

[@David_Perez06]

2ND

[@robertmatthews3424]

Why is it necessary to have 85 pedals on board? Keep it simple. Maybe a wah, distortion and maybe a modulation of some kind.

[@worshiptutorials]

It isn’t necessary at all. But it’s also ok to let people enjoy the things that they like. Like pedals.

[@StevenDeTone]

Call me old school but can you just plug a guitar into it. Whats with the complicated pedal board? Just saying... I own a one. They sound great but let'em hear the amp

[@worshiptutorials]

Thanks. At least a third of this video is us plugged straight into the amp without any pedals.

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

And yeah, it's not really close... lol

[@JonQuinn22]

I'd sell that Ally amp. It's not great. It's the one tone patch from you guys I've never liked and hearing it AB with a beautiful Delux Rev. wow. Just goes to show more $$$ doen't mean more better.

[@wttone]

FIRST!

[@ksharpe10]

That Oxford speaker will not last long with Volumes on 10. I blew 2 12 inch Eminence speakers on my 73 Twin Reverb back in the 70s I learned my lesson then, no Dimed stuff. I leave that in the modelling Realm😃, where it does not Cost me out of pocket. Just Warning you, you amp. and YOUR MONEY for sure.

[@michaeldarden1633]

3RD!!!😂

[@MariJu1ce]

that pedalboard looks heavy. also, something sounded awfully wrong with the reissue, maybe its the tubes, but that breakup did not sound healthy

[@iloveaviation-burgerclub-a8145]

Such a Boomers' blah. Who in hell needs the same tones of generations over and over again? You all got stuck in the past like some 7 day adventers or other radical conservatives. These tones are done. You heard them at any corner and for younger generations thes, well, sound pretty appealing but boring and useless the same time. And why you need such a pedal boards' mother to feed it? My Diezel does way better in what I am going for. And most recorded onls means that it hit the taste of these fading generation. Same as in guitar. I own Fenders, Gibsons, Ibanezes and a PRS. Guess what. Gibson sucks most well after the Strat and Tele. The PRS is good but the Ibanez kills em all. I even enjoy playing my set up HB I bought for dirty outdoors environments more than the boomers axes. I know that most guitar players hunt for the tone of their idols and these played Fender Reverbs maybe. But what is it all about? Defining YOUR OWN tone instead of cbeing a copy of the past. You all can play and dream of whatever you like to but this is my perspective. Go buy all these overrated and overpriced boomer stuff. As soon as they are all gone you will sit on crap nobody is intersted in anymore. Music has changed and evolved and how ever hard you try to conserve you only got a few more years, maybe 2 decades to pin down this hype. But they will play guitar long after we both gone as a statement in homage of Chris Jones.

[@MariJu1ce]

to each their own, alot about guitar is about the old stuff for many of us. nothing wrong with that. Just because its a vintage amp doesn't mean you cant make your own tones with them. also they are reliable and well built. Good for you to not appreciate a vintage Marshall or a Fender. i feel some things they just got it right the first time, for example the Tele, don't need to be improved, its perfect. for me its a beautiful thing and the new amps just don't do it for me. Dont be angry at people for having their own preferences. I just gravitate to what I think sounds good, and that is usually the old "boomer" stuff

[@worshiptutorials]

That Haterade goes down smoooooooth 😂
My friend, it’s ok to let people like what they like. And we like vintage deluxe’s. A lot.

[@iloveaviation-burgerclub-a8145]

Just a.lot.of things they cannot do. Who ever likes to play whatever is welcome but the hype is just stupid to me. Like all.those aged guys buying expensive old guitars to make them wall hangers because they like The Beatles and can't even play..I hate that. Instruments are made to be played. Now Mark Knopflers guitars were sold for fortunes at Suthersby and I bet they won't appear ever again being played onnstage or at least at home. This does not just make me sad. It is sad. Fender Reverb. Beautiful amp.no doubt. It had its time. Now gringe Boomers drjve the price to the stars. So what is that? Tone only for Richie and friends? The whole game has become crazy and antj musical.
No anger nor hate here. But why is it expected these days that everyone has the same opinion or mind set? We are not all the same and here am I. Take it, leave it, give or don't give a shit. I am going with Diezel. Damn lil' Fender is useless.to me. For anything else and playing kn the living room ancheap transistor model amp is all I need. But that Diezel Head on 4x12 is just a different leave for what I like. But I do refuse playing the 60/70 up and down. You can do so and all guitar players can play all the same riffs over and over again. Me not. Nust another aproach. No beef just talk. Boomers should get used to the internet mayne 😂❤

[@iloveaviation-burgerclub-a8145]

​@@MariJu1ceIt sounds good because you look for these sounds and tones. Because they say these were the best players and bands. But honestly I thing most of them simply got stuck back then. Go inovate instead maybe. Nuff cover bands 😊

[@worshiptutorials]

Man I literally said, "It's ok to let people like what they like". Which means I'm glad that you found gear that you love, and that you enjoy playing it. You don't need to defend yourself. And I couldn't care less about your opinion on old amps - I like them. And that's ok. See how it works?
Also I'm curious if you actually think we're boomers? Or just that we act like them? Because boomers are technically people between 60 and 78 years of age. How old do we look to you? 😂🤷🏻‍♂️
I (Brian) am Gen-X and Riggs is a Millennial, if you want to be precise.