Nice looking zenith radio I see in the background. I repaired a couple of those. Had to replace the decomposed rubber wire that Zenith liked to use haha. The first radio was really bad it had three open RF coils I had to carefully rewind. Some critter got in and chewed on those coils. Oh what a love for antiques I just love a good challenge hahahaha. I can't believe it it worked and aligned and actually had pretty good tracking.Of course all the capacitors needed changing and the rubber mounts for the tuning capacitor needed replacing. I heard the 6AX5 rectifier tube was famous for shorting but I thought it's ok because it lasted this long so far so I left it in there but I added a 22ohm seven watt fuse resistor in series with the AC in case it shorts it will open the resistor also it brought the voltage down to 110volts from 120. I think those old radios were designed for 110volts or at least it will run cooler. While it was in the repair shop I played it eight hours everyday for two weeks I think it'll be okay
Hey Terry, I just watched this video on a DLP projector filling an entire wall, 7 feet across. Sound coming through my Heathkit W-5M mono blocks, Gold Lion KT-66 outputs, running Altec Valencia 846a horn speakers. Your audio sounds so good that Fender amp was giving me goose pimples! I bet my neighbors thought someone was playing guitar at my house. I miss the days getting together with friends and the garage band jam get togethers, tipping back a few cold ones. Hearing off the cuff, on the fly real music like this made my day. Thanks man...
I might be crazy but I love watching you do the job in the entirety…. Cutting and soldering. Your just butter with that soldering iron! Pure craftsman!
Very nice. A true legend of an amp from a time when working musicians needed something in a combo to fill small halls and neighborhood garage band kids actually wanted to be as loud as possible.
I gave my 65 Super (all original and working) to my Daughter, just to heavy to lug around & took up too much closet space- Now I play thru a tweed Pignose, more than enough for this Ol Man.. Love your video's, now I'm in the mood to make an amp from a old 1947 Silvertone Radio, we'll see how that goes.
I did a blackface Super Reverb. Did Vishay Atom on a number of Fender amps. A couple years ago I did a blackface Bandmaster for a friend. Carbon comp resistors and Orange Drop.
I cant believe my band mates and me used to lug around a Fender Quad reverb with 4×12" speakers, it was great cos we could plug bass, guitar, vox all in to one box and it sounded amazing for bar and gigs and rehearsals. When I had it all to myself for just guitar it sounded epic! I ended up passing on to a Bazouki player and it went to Greece, I got a twin to replace it. Once you get used to Fender amps its difficult to use anything else cos all you hear is that zingy reverb tone in your brain that you know so well.
Best value Fender amp out there right now. You can find these 70’s era amps for less than a used reissue these days. They have the exact same spec and manufacture transformers as the more valuable mid 60’s amps. The CTS Alnico 10” speakers in these amps are fantastic too. All these amps need is some fairly inexpensive maintenance and a few simple mods.
@@zachsmith3376 The Musicmaster bass amp is pretty cool. If you like they way it sounds and it’s a reasonable price, pick it up. It’ll last you decades longer than any recent new tube amp at that price.
Just a bit jealous Bill! I owned a Super back in the day. It was an early silverface I acquired used (thanks Dad!) ca. 1974. When I was 13. Wish I still had it around to do some repairs & mods, sold when things got tough around 1996. For a modest sum. Its a good kinda pain, loved this amp so much. Don't even think about getting your baby to distort without a pedal, this was cleaner than clean up past 8. With single-coils. Hearing a bit of hair on the Normal here, maybe that's your pickups or the blackface mod. Liking both. Thanks D-Lab!
When I see Orange Drops I know a technician does not care about true sound quality. How many have I had to replace when a customer brings in his amp and tells me He had someone else work on it and replace caps and now it just doesn't sound good. Usually that the highs are too spikey. Glad to see you left the Blue Drops in, they are not bad sounding like the Chocolate Drops. Fender partnered with Jupiter to make their new "Ajax" replacement caps and they are wonderful but a little pricey, it is what I use now but nothing compares to the Old Blue "Ajax" caps. And remember that when a fender chassis gets pulled from the cabinet (or re-inserted) , this is when the faceplate can get damaged if your not extremely careful !!!
I have pretty much this same amp, from 1969. They are getting pretty pricey on the used market. I did a recap job earlier this year, and also changed out the doghouse and bias resistors to metal oxide, even though the carbon composites were still in spec for the most part. The CTS AlNiCo' 10 inch speakers are great, and loud!
Hi Michael, I have a question and hope you can help with your knowledge. I have a Fender super reverb amp, with four 10's Jensen speakers, silver face. I believe it's a 1968 amp . I've been told its 1970 yet another said Nope, 1972 ! My problem is when I look for these amps, the name stamp , top far right on mine in blue reads , SUPER REVERB exactly as you see here. Every other one I see reads super with reverb under it or super on an angle w/ reverb next to it. Also the word amp on some. I'd appreciate your assistance, I've tried so many look ups, model numbers, etc. Thanks, Guy
Mr. D-Lab, please comment on the coil of wire around the bundle of wires from the filter banks. Is this for hum cancelling? I have seen this before on other Fender amps. Explain how it works. Thanks. Eric
Greetings Terry! Was wondering if you would consider making a video on the hows and whys of current shunts. Just finishing up a Deluxe Reverb kit (first build, first kick at anything to do with electronics) and thought it might be helpful as I fire it up for the initial tests. I’ve heard you talk about them a number of times in relation to making biasing much easier but I’m not exactly sure which resistors to install where or exactly how to use thrm once installed. Thanks for considering. Cheers! Mark
I had my 1975 Super modified in 1995 to include the Marshall JMP circuit on the "unused" left channel: The amp has a single input and a foot switch to change the amp back and forth from Fender to Marshall. A noiseless relay was added for this. The original right input on the left channel holds the Volume 1 and the original left channel volume serves as Volume 2. The original right channel inputs hold the Marshall gain pot and the other is plugged. The Fender vibrato circuit was removed and the original intensity knob is used as the Marshall presence. The left channel bright was changed to work as a "boost" jumper. After years of working perfectly, it recently blew a fuse. It's time to troubleshoot. I have no schematic or layout so it's going to be a challenge. 🤔
I had a chance to play on one for about 5 min a couple months back. Wasnt anything special. But i didnt have the time to really work it out. Super clean, i could see how its a great pedal platform. I just didnt get anything from it, not like the first time i played an AC15 i connected with that. But whats 5 min? Tubes aint hardly warmed up.
Don't diss those Peavey-labeled 6L6 tubes. Those are ruggedized Sylvanias (STR415) and are fine bottles. Plus, when found together I have found they tend to be current matched much better than any two random RCA or GE tubes you might have bought in 1986.
Doug I have general question. Have you ever had a tube amp ie Fender that is dead quite? I mean absolutely no hum what so ever coming from the speaker, I mean dead quite? Also the reverb circuit with no added noise? Thanks Larry
I'd go for sag over over filtering especially as a blues player. Leo knew what he was doing. Nothing against changing old suspicious parts but strongly against upping the values of capacitors for strictly personal taste
A question from a guy who knows very little about electronics but is trying to learn: at 3:11 you show and discuss the filter caps. Are the resistors wired between them bleed resistors to discharge them?
Terry, do you prefer the orange drops over the yellow Mallory’s? I picked up a chopped up early 70s bassman 10, all the big caps leaked and under side was untouched, I changed all caps except the blue uglies, I want to change those too and by the sound of this I’ll go with orange drops.
I've heard Orange drops sound a bit sterile.. I'm surprised he's recapped the whole amp with these but and have never used them in my builds. Personally I'd go with a nice Mallory Poly Cap or a bit pricier Sozo
@@jeffmaloney8701 If you play in a bar band with a drummer who thinks he is John Bonham, you can't tell the difference after the first three songs. LOL
I have a similar blackface super and Twin to your early 1940s Zenith radio in the start of video to work on. Thanks for the post
Nice looking zenith radio I see in the background. I repaired a couple of those. Had to replace the decomposed rubber wire that Zenith liked to use haha. The first radio was really bad it had three open RF coils I had to carefully rewind. Some critter got in and chewed on those coils. Oh what a love for antiques I just love a good challenge hahahaha. I can't believe it it worked and aligned and actually had pretty good tracking.Of course all the capacitors needed changing and the rubber mounts for the tuning capacitor needed replacing. I heard the 6AX5 rectifier tube was famous for shorting but I thought it's ok because it lasted this long so far so I left it in there but I added a 22ohm seven watt fuse resistor in series with the AC in case it shorts it will open the resistor also it brought the voltage down to 110volts from 120. I think those old radios were designed for 110volts or at least it will run cooler. While it was in the repair shop I played it eight hours everyday for two weeks I think it'll be okay
Yes... nice looking Zenith. I hope he does a rebuild on RUclips so I have an idea how to go about going through mine.
Nothing beats watching the owner try out your work. I can tell you appreciate that kind of immediate feedback from your customer. Nicely Done.😁
Hey Terry,
I just watched this video on a DLP projector filling an entire wall, 7 feet across. Sound coming through my Heathkit W-5M mono blocks, Gold Lion KT-66 outputs, running Altec Valencia 846a horn speakers. Your audio sounds so good that Fender amp was giving me goose pimples! I bet my neighbors thought someone was playing guitar at my house.
I miss the days getting together with friends and the garage band jam get togethers, tipping back a few cold ones. Hearing off the cuff, on the fly real music like this made my day. Thanks man...
Me too Brother, so sick of social distancing everyone is afraid to even gather at the park for a jam
The master does it again....Thank you terry... seasons greetings to you and all...:-)
I might be crazy but I love watching you do the job in the entirety…. Cutting and soldering. Your just butter with that soldering iron! Pure craftsman!
Thanks for the great customer service Terry...appreciate your good work
Very nice. A true legend of an amp from a time when working musicians needed something in a combo to fill small halls and neighborhood garage band kids actually wanted to be as loud as possible.
I gave my 65 Super (all original and working) to my Daughter, just to heavy to lug around & took up too much closet space- Now I play thru a tweed Pignose, more than enough for this Ol Man.. Love your video's, now I'm in the mood to make an amp from a old 1947 Silvertone Radio, we'll see how that goes.
I love to see the love for the mighty Super Reverb.
I did a blackface Super Reverb. Did Vishay Atom on a number of Fender amps.
A couple years ago I did a blackface Bandmaster for a friend. Carbon comp resistors and Orange Drop.
The Super Reverb is a great Amp. I liked locking casters on big amps. My back won't let me use them anymore. Can't lift that much weight anymore.
I cant believe my band mates and me used to lug around a Fender Quad reverb with 4×12" speakers, it was great cos we could plug bass, guitar, vox all in to one box and it sounded amazing for bar and gigs and rehearsals. When I had it all to myself for just guitar it sounded epic! I ended up passing on to a Bazouki player and it went to Greece, I got a twin to replace it. Once you get used to Fender amps its difficult to use anything else cos all you hear is that zingy reverb tone in your brain that you know so well.
What a nice amp, great vid and info on repair as usual...Love when you work on amps Terry...Great sound and good test from the owner..Ed..uk..😀
Best value Fender amp out there right now. You can find these 70’s era amps for less than a used reissue these days. They have the exact same spec and manufacture transformers as the more valuable mid 60’s amps. The CTS Alnico 10” speakers in these amps are fantastic too. All these amps need is some fairly inexpensive maintenance and a few simple mods.
What about the musicmaster? My local shop got one for $500.
@@zachsmith3376 The Musicmaster bass amp is pretty cool. If you like they way it sounds and it’s a reasonable price, pick it up.
It’ll last you decades longer than any recent new tube amp at that price.
Just a bit jealous Bill! I owned a Super back in the day. It was an early silverface I acquired used (thanks Dad!) ca. 1974. When I was 13.
Wish I still had it around to do some repairs & mods, sold when things got tough around 1996. For a modest sum.
Its a good kinda pain, loved this amp so much.
Don't even think about getting your baby to distort without a pedal, this was cleaner than clean up past 8.
With single-coils. Hearing a bit of hair on the Normal here, maybe that's your pickups or the blackface mod.
Liking both. Thanks D-Lab!
When I see Orange Drops I know a technician does not care about true sound quality. How many have I had to replace when a customer brings in his amp and tells me He had someone else work on it and replace caps and now it just doesn't sound good. Usually that the highs are too spikey. Glad to see you left the Blue Drops in, they are not bad sounding like the Chocolate Drops.
Fender partnered with Jupiter to make their new "Ajax" replacement caps and they are wonderful but a little pricey, it is what I use now but nothing compares to the Old Blue "Ajax" caps.
And remember that when a fender chassis gets pulled from the cabinet (or re-inserted) , this is when the faceplate can get damaged if your not extremely careful !!!
These are excellent amps. Loud. Heavy. But sound fabulous.
Like you'd know anything about SUPERS!!!
Ha-ha!!@@houseofshred3725
Man i love ur videos. Sadly i live in Europe otherwise i would have gladly take my amps to your workshop 🔥
Excellent job. Great video and super helpful. God bless
I have pretty much this same amp, from 1969. They are getting pretty pricey on the used market. I did a recap job earlier this year, and also changed out the doghouse and bias resistors to metal oxide, even though the carbon composites were still in spec for the most part. The CTS AlNiCo' 10 inch speakers are great, and loud!
Hi Michael, I have a question and hope you can help with your knowledge. I have a Fender super reverb amp, with four 10's Jensen speakers, silver face. I believe it's a 1968 amp . I've been told its 1970
yet another said Nope, 1972 ! My problem is when I look for these amps, the name stamp , top far right on mine in blue reads ,
SUPER REVERB exactly as you see here. Every other one I see reads
super with reverb under it or super
on an angle w/ reverb next to it.
Also the word amp on some.
I'd appreciate your assistance, I've tried so many look ups, model numbers, etc. Thanks, Guy
Another awesome video Terry! Amp sounds great!
It sounds amazing 👏 😍 after the repair!!!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁❤❤
Mr. D-Lab, please comment on the coil of wire around the bundle of wires from the filter banks. Is this for hum cancelling? I have seen this before on other Fender amps. Explain how it works. Thanks. Eric
Had a '70 Super for 25 years.
I can testify to the volume and weight....
Greetings Terry! Was wondering if you would consider making a video on the hows and whys of current shunts. Just finishing up a Deluxe Reverb kit (first build, first kick at anything to do with electronics) and thought it might be helpful as I fire it up for the initial tests. I’ve heard you talk about them a number of times in relation to making biasing much easier but I’m not exactly sure which resistors to install where or exactly how to use thrm once installed.
Thanks for considering.
Cheers!
Mark
I had my 1975 Super modified in 1995 to include the Marshall JMP circuit on the "unused" left channel:
The amp has a single input and a foot switch to change the amp back and forth from Fender to Marshall. A noiseless relay was added for this.
The original right input on the left channel holds the Volume 1 and the original left channel volume serves as Volume 2.
The original right channel inputs hold the Marshall gain pot and the other is plugged.
The Fender vibrato circuit was removed and the original intensity knob is used as the Marshall presence.
The left channel bright was changed to work as a "boost" jumper.
After years of working perfectly, it recently blew a fuse. It's time to troubleshoot. I have no schematic or layout so it's going to be a challenge. 🤔
Is there a video where you show how to convert a bias balance pot control to a true bias pot control? Thanks!
Aloha : Thanks for Sharing .. " Peace "
I had a chance to play on one for about 5 min a couple months back. Wasnt anything special. But i didnt have the time to really work it out. Super clean, i could see how its a great pedal platform. I just didnt get anything from it, not like the first time i played an AC15 i connected with that. But whats 5 min? Tubes aint hardly warmed up.
Don't diss those Peavey-labeled 6L6 tubes. Those are ruggedized Sylvanias (STR415) and are fine bottles. Plus, when found together I have found they tend to be current matched much better than any two random RCA or GE tubes you might have bought in 1986.
Love the tie dye shirt sir!
Doug I have general question. Have you ever had a tube amp ie Fender that is dead quite? I mean absolutely no hum what so ever coming from the speaker, I mean dead quite? Also the reverb circuit with no added noise? Thanks Larry
I'd go for sag over over filtering especially as a blues player.
Leo knew what he was doing.
Nothing against changing old suspicious parts but strongly against upping the values of capacitors for strictly personal taste
I miss my 74 super verb
A question from a guy who knows very little about electronics but is trying to learn: at 3:11 you show and discuss the filter caps. Are the resistors wired between them bleed resistors to discharge them?
Did you check if the blue caps were actually out of spec or leaking before removing them?
Sounds tons better with the real Tele.
Hi. what does "black faced" mean? something to do with pre-CBS made amps (blackfaced front?)
Better than new!
13:55 If I ever make an amp with vibrato, I'm calling it the "wengengengeng" channel 😂
Terry, do you prefer the orange drops over the yellow Mallory’s? I picked up a chopped up early 70s bassman 10, all the big caps leaked and under side was untouched, I changed all caps except the blue uglies, I want to change those too and by the sound of this I’ll go with orange drops.
I've heard Orange drops sound a bit sterile.. I'm surprised he's recapped the whole amp with these but and have never used them in my builds. Personally I'd go with a nice Mallory Poly Cap or a bit pricier Sozo
There's no way you could hear the difference.
@@fc7896 Are you kidding?
@@jeffmaloney8701 Hear differences between new, in spec Brand A vs Brand B caps, same amp? Def not, especially live.
@@jeffmaloney8701 If you play in a bar band with a drummer who thinks he is John Bonham, you can't tell the difference after the first three songs. LOL
Fender OXFORD speakers they were
Those are CTS made alnico speakers
@@henkkman every cTs speaker I ever saw had a square Magnet
I had to give a thumb down for taking the balance adjustment out of line.
Wish it was mine rip some srv out of this thing
Nice work. Thanks for the look.