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ethanrks

Clean as it gets

The 71' Twin Reverb is a clean machine. With built in spring reverb and vibrato (plus 100 watts of power), it's a beast. It is also one of the more desirable models for not having the master volume knob.

jimmarchi1
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yup, after after 72 the twin (as well as many other fender models) went downhill... how much cleaner can a twin be? ask CBS! While a drip edge silverface is 95% blackface, your is still pretty durned close.... it might have some snubber caps choking the tone in the power section, otherwise I expect she's a blackface thru and thru unless she has the unfortunate ultrilinear output transformer (not sure when that came in, I used to think with the master volume but I have seen ultralinear twins without masters now)

ethanrks

Found it in a music shop in Alabama, played it, and was in love with the tone. I have had a few modeling amps in the past with "twin" settings on them but wow. You can't compare that to actual vintage tone

jimmarchi1
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nope.... tubes and transformers rock, everything else is just, well, there