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From: Jerry <"g.mcgeorg--(at)--orldnet.att.net--(at)--orldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Re: Blackface vs. Silverface
Date: 4 Sep 1998 11:42:15 GMT
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profrets wrote:
>
> And…… I have only had ONE customer EVER not like the BF thing, he also
> liked the caps ON the grids of his ’73 Super. He was my worst nightmare
> customer that turned into my most loyal customer by virtue of making his amp
> reliable, even though it sounded obnoxious.
> ro–(at)–rofrets.com
I was playing professionally and working in music instrument sales back
when CBS/Fender began to change the specs on the amps. Between 68 and 72
musicians began to notice the difference and demand grew for the old
ones. In general terms, the new amps had more clean headroom, lost
crispness and sparke and required were far too much gain to get them to
distort, if they would at all in the classic sense. My stores amp
technician at the time started comparing the schematics and experimented
with a few SF’s, switching them back to the old specs (we weren’t sure t
here weren’t other componentry changes, so there was no guarantee it was
just the resistor values & caps, etc.) It became clear then that we
could fairly easily make them sound like the old ones and we began
getting lots of requests to do these mods, this as early as about ’71.
Now, the worst part was the response from CBS/Fender. When we met with
them and pointed out the complaints we were received from players about
the amps, they basically just told us we were wrong!
