Super Reverb build

[SpiderWars]

Not sure how I roped myself into this but here I am building a Super Reverb. I started it quite a while back but was missing certain NOS parts. The cabinet is being built by Mather and will be a Blackpanel style offset 2x12 with Alnico Creams (or coffee can SROs if I can find them) so that's one freaking large right there. It's a Mojotone kit but I used Hoffman boards, Mercury trannies, F&T filter caps, and NOS Allen-Bradley CC resistors. And the ODs are not the polypropylene that come in the kits but some polyester I bought about 20 years ago. Like my old tin ears could hear a difference.

Oh yeah, this will have the bias wiggle tremolo like the Brown amps instead of the photoresistor tremolo like most of the Blackpanel amps had. The bias wiggle is way cooler/spookier sounding than the photoresistor trem. And it will work on both channels.

This is pretty much the home stretch. Just wire it all up and half the wires are already there and connected at one end.

I got the "slightly lower voltage" PT and the 4ohm/8ohm OT. But Super Reverb models otherwise.

Some relabeling. HT fuse instead of death switch. Each speaker jack is for a different OT tap, no extension jack.

 

[japetus]

So cool man!!!!! I am looking forward to hearing it. Get a nice Strat for those clips...

 

[DanTravis62]

Very very cool man.

Subbed, wanna hear clips.

Ever since I sold my ab763 bandmaster I know I need to get another vintage fender ?

 

[SpiderWars]

So cool man!!!!! I am looking forward to hearing it. Get a nice Strat for those clips...

The Sassafras homebrew.

 

[SpiderWars]

I gotta tell ya one of the best live tones I've heard was Derek Trucks opening for Eric Johnson. SG plugged straight into his Super Reverb cranked and I just happened to be standing straight out front from it standing near the soundboard in a HOB venue.

 

[DanTravis62]

I gotta tell ya one of the best live tones I've heard was Derek Trucks opening for Eric Johnson. SG plugged straight into his Super Reverb cranked and I just happened to be standing straight out front from it standing near the soundboard in a HOB venue.

Yeah for hard/classic rock tones?

A vintage fender cranked is something to behold.

 

[japetus]

I gotta tell ya one of the best live tones I've heard was Derek Trucks opening for Eric Johnson. SG plugged straight into his Super Reverb cranked and I just happened to be standing straight out front from it standing near the soundboard in a HOB venue.

Yeah for hard/classic rock tones?

A vintage fender cranked is something to behold.

A good fender head, into some good speakers..I just love building off that clean/breakup platform.

 

[glpg80]

Man I totally agree on the bias wiggle tremolo. I find it way cooler and spooky on reverb soaked clean parts or with chorus. It’s just plain badass. I like it more than the phase change tremolo too.

Iconically straight to the top one of the best clean sounds you can get. Did you base it off of a 6GA?

 

[SpiderWars]

Man I totally agree on the bias wiggle tremolo. I find it way cooler and spooky on reverb soaked clean parts or with chorus. It’s just plain badass. I like it more than the phase change tremolo too.

Iconically straight to the top one of the best clean sounds you can get. Did you base it off of a 6GA?

6G16 Vibroverb. Its something Hoffman already does and I just went with it. He has eyelet boards that have the stock trem too. I built a Brown Deluxe not that long ago and it has the bias wiggle trem and it's really, really cool.

 

[SpiderWars]

I've been busy af with work travel so this thing took a back seat. Spent some time on it today. Tube side is done except heaters...then just the remaining pots and she's done.

Cabinet has landed. Mather builds a solid cab.

 

[SpiderWars]

Finally got it done. I had to change a bias range resistor and I missed one crucial solder joint that rendered the Vibrato channel silent. But those were easily fixed and other than that it seems good. Fairly quiet when volumes are cranked and nothing strange happening. 440vdc on the plates at wall voltage which is right about where I wanted it. Haven't played it but for a moment and it's not overly bright which was a concern. And when I dimed the volumes it wasn't a complete mess or anything, just loud and distorted as it should be.

The Vibrato channel got traditional values but the Normal channel got the 22n Super Reverb mid cap, a slightly bigger 267p treble cap (220+47), an 8k2 mid resistor, and the Deluxe Reverb 47p bright cap. Just for a slightly different, more midrange voice.

 

[ArrogantOwl]

Finally got it done. I had to change a bias range resistor and I missed one crucial solder joint that rendered the Vibrato channel silent. But those were easily fixed and other than that it seems good. Fairly quiet when volumes are cranked and nothing strange happening. 440vdc on the plates at wall voltage which is right about where I wanted it. Haven't played it but for a moment and it's not overly bright which was a concern. And when I dimed the volumes it wasn't a complete mess or anything, just loud and distorted as it should be.

The Vibrato channel got traditional values but the Normal channel got the 22n Super Reverb mid cap, a slightly bigger 267p treble cap (220+47), an 8k2 mid resistor, and the Deluxe Reverb 47p bright cap. Just for a slightly different, more midrange voice.

Nice clean lead dress. Props for getting that in those tiny Fender chassis.

 

[SpiderWars]

Nice clean lead dress. Props for getting that in those tiny Fender chassis.

Thanks! Those boards don't have any wire holes drilled so I tried to make a somewhat clean arrangement and drilled them.

Not liking the taper of the volume and treble pots. No volume until above 2 and the Treble is quite muffled from 5 down to zero so only half the range of the Treble control is really useable. But the amp is quite easy to dial in so I'm being picky.