![]() With the stock (small) Output Transformer into a pair of 10” speakers, you With Tremolo AND Reverb, based around a tube-rectified 2-6L6 power Okay, so what do you get when you take a classic blackface fender design To the Bandmaster that had been gone for a long, long time: a TUBEīack-to-the-future for the Bandmaster Reverb!Īnd hey, what REAL Fender Ampaholic DOESN’T like tube rectification? There is one “new”įeature of the Bandmaster Reverb sure to please most Fender Fans: the Bandmaster Reverb re-introduced a little something Vibrolux Reverb, the Bandmaster Reverb’s small tranny makes for niceĮarly-onset saturation. May actually be a PLUS to some, because just like with the small OP tranny in a blackface Another concern some point out is that theīandmaster Reverb had a pretty small output transformer compared to the The changes for the most part are in the biasĬircuit and a few component values here and there. To true blackface specs in very short order and for very little cost. Reverb really were not a big deal at all, and a good amp tech can put it back The undesirable changes to the Bandmaster Reputation of sounding a little more like a toilet seat than a blackfaceīut, my friends, there IS a silver lining to all this talk of toilet seats! Let me point it out. Silver-face cosmetics, the Bandmaster Reverbs from that period have a Time period is considered a real gem … basically a blackface amp with That CBS brought in to REPLACE Leo Fender (who had volunteered to stay on) wasĪ real big name electronic engineer, but didn’t know a guitar amp from a toiletĪnd so it is that while every other aluminum drip edge Fender from that In this book Forrest mentions that the head engineer Just finished reading Forrest White’s book: Theįender Inside Story. The 1968 Bandmaster Reverb bears the unfortunate title of being the ![]() and so on … that’s most decidedly NOT a Bandmaster in With digital signal processing, Chinese PCīoard construction, etc. Not even on my radar as far as a Bandmaster goes. Okay, there is the new Bandmaster VM, but that’s One member of the Bandmaster family that sometimes goes unloved: The Models to the quintessential tight sparklyīlackface tone of the blackface Bandmasters, there’s a whole lotta love in the Bandmaster Although these amps run the gamut tone-wise ,įrom the super-woody raw no negative feedback sound of the early tweed Silver-face models that began in 1967 and ran through the early 1970’s. Or a trio of 10’s, the short lived (1960 only) brown combo, the fabled blond,īrown, and blackface “piggy-back” heads of the 1960’s, and finally the From very early tweed models with a single 15 Through several metamorphoses in their lengthy lifespan. Like most of the classic Fender amp models have existed for decades, and have went You may e-mail it directly to If you are unable to create one of these document formats and would be willing to send in your hard copy to the address above, we'd be happy to scan it and return it to you promptly.A Little Love for the Fender Bandmaster Reverb A PDF would be great, or even a scanned JPEG, GIF or TIFF that we can convert. Note: If you have a copy of an old Fender Guitar Amplifier owner's manual not shown in this archive, we'd love to have a copy to post here. Unfortunately, original hard copy manuals from this archive are no longer available. Manuals are listed alphabetically by model and have been taken from our archives and converted into PDF documents. This article contains a list of most archived copies of Fender® Guitar Amplifier owner's manuals available.
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