手工打造的複製品
六個月後我總算買到這個 David Saltzman 手工打造的63 Vibroverb Clone 複製品, Dave 賣了很久決定降價. 昨天我用 Fender 67 Blackface Twin Reverb 和他換. 雙方似乎都很滿意.
放上'63 Vibroverb Clone 照片供參考
Dave是向朋友借了真正的63年的Vibroverb音箱放在旁邊(只生產250台, 市價$6000-8000), 按63年的Vibroverb規格慢慢地製作的.
電路板比1990年 Fender RI 規格正確, 整流器（Rectifier）和63年的規格相同用真空管不是1990RI的電子整流器, 變壓器 (output transformer)是和63年規格相同的70年的零件. 連電阻和加油口蓋的用紙都用中古的. 可以看出Dave對規格細節的執著和細心.
這台音箱是裝 1X10 和 1X12的喇叭. 1X12是1958 Jensen Alnico P12Q.
我相信很難找到如此接近63年Vibroverb真品的複製品.
音箱的木箱是用帶漂亮木紋的松木. 比Twin Reverb 輕十多磅, 我勉強可搬的動.
音色我上次和這次都試過, 的確是沖浪吉他手的夢幻音箱.
Dave Saltzman是芝加哥有名的 Auralux Pedals / tube Amps 師傅
Accurate replica of the 1963 Fender Vibroverb, except that this amp has one10" speaker AND one 12" speaker. Makes for a slightly bigger tone. The 12"speaker currently installed is an actual vintage 1958 Jensen Alnico P12Q.The 10" is a fairly recent Eminence Legend ceramic, similar to what is used in the Fender reissue.
The circuit is WAY more accurate than the Fender reissue, including tube rectifier and the amp has an ACTUAL 1970 Fender output transformer, the exact model that was used in the original '63 Vibroverb.
Power transformer is new and was made by Magnetic Components here in Chicago.
This amp is THE CLOSEST thing to buying an ACTUAL VINTAGE '63 Vibroverb.It is the clone of an actual '63 that was present on the bench when thi swas built. Vintage (tested) paper in oil caps and carbon comp resisters were used throughout.
The teak oiled wood is stunning reclaimed southern yellow pine (boards are from the 60's!), finger-jointed just like Fender,and Fender wheat grill cloth installed.
Must see and hear to appreciate this amp! This one-of-a-kind amp is $..... or -$150 if I remove the vintage Jensen 12" speaker. Price is firm.
Brownface, brown Tolex-the 1963 Vibroverb
The original (6G16 circuit) Vibroverb was introduced in February
1963, the speaker lineup and the output transformer were based on the
Fender Super amp of the time, the circuit based on the Fender Vibrolux
of the time, with no presence control and only one 12AX7 tube for the
tremolo effect. It sported typical “
brownface” cosmetics, with brown “
Tolex” covering (introduced by Fender in 1959), and wheat-colored speaker cloth.
The 40-watt amplifier boasted two channels (NORMAL and BRIGHT). Both
channels had VOLUME, TREBLE and BASS controls; the single-control REVERB
affected only the BRIGHT channel.
The tremolo effect (labeled VIBRATO by Fender, see “VIBRATO or TREMOLO?” section of the article
Vibrato unit)
had two controls, SPEED and also INTENSITY, which affected the bias of
the output tubes and therefore both channels. To make room for the
reverb circuitry (not found on the Super amp) the company used the
direct-coupled oscillator vibrato circuitry found on Fender’s previous
generation tweed amplifiers (which used two tubes fewer than the Super’s
brownface vibrato circuit).
The TREBLE control was the same as found in many Fender amplifiers of
the time (i.e. Pro Amp -6G5A-, the Super -6G4A-, the Showman -6G14-,
the Vibrolux -6G11-). It was fitted with a “tapped” treble circuit,
meaning that the treble control is “flat” at setting “5”; cutting or
boosting the treble was possible by turning the knob down (below “5”) or
up (above “5”), respectively.
It had two ten-inch speakers manufactured by the
Oxford Loudspeaker Company.
This incarnation of the Vibroverb was made for only a few months, and
it is thought that fewer than 600 of these units were made.
Tube Complement:
Power:............6L6GC (Two)
Preamp:...........7025 (Two)
Phase Inverter:...7025
Rectifier:........GZ34
Tremolo/Vibrato:..12AX7
Reverb Driver:....12AX7
Reverb Recovery:..7025
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