Fender Deluxe Reverb Tone Master, does it make a good pedal platform?
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- I've owned the FSR Blonde Fender Deluxe Reverb Tone Master amp now for roughly a year and I thought it was about time I shared my thoughts on it. I use it as a pedal platform amp and I often see comments and questions on youtube asking whether it's a good amp for this scenario. So lets answer that in this video!
#fender #tonemaster #deluxereverb #guitaramp
00:00 Intro
01:06 About the Tone Master range
03:15 what is a Pedal Platform?
04:05 Some changes Fender made for the Blonde version
06:18 The Attenuation feature
07:32 A cool feature that needs a little more work
09:16 My approach for the demo
10:18 The demo...Finally
16:31 Final Thoughts
22:26 Outro 
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Very informative video! I ordered the same one (blonde), and love my muffs and rats, and I'm happy you demoed with the fuzz. Thanks!
Thanks! Enjoy the amp! The secret for me with fuzz is to run it into a drive pedal then the amp.
Thanks for posting this video, I bought the Blackface version of the TMDR before the Blonde was introduced… it sounded fantastic with my Strat on those sparkly clean tones but forever I was struggling trying to get pedals to sound good with this amp so much so I almost thought about keeping this and buying another valve amp just so I could use distortion and fuzz pedals. The answer for me was to apply the firmware without the bright cap, and I swapped out the Jenson speaker for the Celestion neo cream back, essentially creating a blonde version in a black housing. Couldn’t be happier with the amp now I use it every day. I don’t feel the need to buy another amp anymore.
Awesome, I like the idea of doing this to the stock one and removing the tone master badge for a stealth tone master that would potentially trick the purists! I still love valve amps but my back is less fond of them.
Great video , Surprised to hear your thoughts on the Marshall DSL , I have the DSL40CR and think it is awesome ,
Really enjoyed what you showed on the TM and think I will be going to audition one in person as soon as I am able ,
Could be dangerous , It may follow me home.😂
Have a great week.👍
Thank you! The DSL40 isn’t a bad amp by any stretch, I just couldn’t get it to do what I wanted it to do. I had a JCM2000 back in the day and for me, the current DSL range doesn’t stack up to that.
Good luck checking out the TM, it’s a great amp for the most part, still using mine daily.
I have to say this amp sounds unbelievably great.
Yeah they are really underrated IMO.
Hey, great vid! Got the same amp and love it. Which preamp from the boss bp 1w did you use? space echo? cheers, Yorck
Thank you! It was most likely the CE-1 preamp but it was some time ago now.
Tele + Neck Pickup + BP-1W + Amp = Wooooooooooow
Not bad at all ey?
Thank you for this! Massively helpful. I am back and forth on this amp, but have worried how fuzz and overdrive will sound with it. Your demo examples sound great. Did you find some pedals didn’t work as well, or were you able to coax good tones out of your favorite dirt stomp boxes?
Thanks for watching and for the kind words! For the most part the kind of drives I like to use work well with it in my experience. I’ve used several bluesbreaker style, klon clones, TS type, it takes all of them just fine.
I literally have 14 pedals (5 drive/boost pedals) on my pedal board and every single one of them sounds good through this amp. It was designed to take pedals and it does it extremely well.
I bought it(regular one) for home use and I didn't like it for this. I like how it sounds on 22w. I sold it and after some time I started to think that it wasn't that bad, but when I compare it with tube virsion, I started to think that Tone Master is good, but not for me.
I use it in 22watt mode, just turned down a fair bit.
This amp takes pedals tremendously. Because no bright cap. That’s the key for those that do not know
This is mentioned in the video as one of the key reasons this makes a good pedal platform amp…..🤷
How does the Black DRTM with the bightmod compare as a pedal platform (with the jenson)?
I’ve not tried it unfortunately.
Do you have to use the cab sims when recording direct into a DAW?
No, there’s 3 options, 2 are different mic options and the third is no cab sim.
@@JasonWharton82 Excellent...in fact you could use "no cab sim" and then hook in, for example, a Mooer Radar Cab simulator and chose from a whole host of cabs & speaker configs..I presume.
Exactly, I’ve experimented by loading up a speaker sim in helix native in my DAW and much preferred the results, these days I tend to just mic it if I can or use the HX stomp for my amp sim. Micing the tone master is my preferred option but obviously that’s not a silent option.
I'm not sure it's so much about fuzziness, but there's a lack of depth with the cab sim. Perhaps that has to do with a lack of mids. 🤔
Maybe, either way, I don’t love the cab sim much.
@@JasonWharton82 I've had mine since 2020, I do love it, but it shares equal time in use with my Marshall sv20c. & not just because of the attenuation in the Tonemaster . Yes they are completely different & so they serve different needs.
Pleased that you're enjoying your Tonemaster and a good time to revisit with a video since the buzz has well died down. 😎
Edit = 'attenuation', not auto corrected 'attention'.
If I had the room I’d have more for sure, one of the smaller Marshall studio reissues is definitely on the want list! One day!
@@JasonWharton82 There's always something extra we want for our rig/s. Room is definitely an issue. Excellent video here man. Good luck. 🎸🎸🎸
@nostro1001 thank you!
It sounds great, but that cab sim needs work
Yeah, seems like an easy one to fix so I don't know why they haven't!
@@JasonWharton82 because they hate direct recording with a passion? Just a hunch 😂😂
You could be onto something there 😂
Record from cab simulation is awful and useless. I will expect better result for this money. Anyway this is bullet prof amp and don't have possibility to breakdown?
Hard to say, mine has been flawless since I got it and I use it multiple times per week but don’t gig. One of the biggest draw backs of this kind of amps is availability of the parts, they are DSP based which means they are not as straight forward for an amp technician to fix as a traditional amp, but at the same time they have fewer parts to break and don’t require re-valving (re-tubing for the American folk).
You make me want things i don't need. STOP IT!!
Yeah your boss katana is plenty mate, you don’t need this!