PhotograPhy by PhiliP sowels FENDER ’65 PRINCETON REVERB REISSUE £839 Guitar amps 112 Guitarist September 2008 GIT307.
FENDER ’65 PRINCETON REVERB REISSUE £839 Guitar amps Fender ’65 Princeton Reverb Reissue £839 Fender goes back to the archives again for a retake on one of the most legendary amps ever to come out of Fullerton – how does it compare to the original? by Nick Guppy What we want to know 1 2 3 What is ‘blackface’? The term is used to distinguish Fender amps made roughly between 1963 and 1967, although not all models existed for all this time period.
FENDER ’65 PRINCETON REVERB REISSUE £839 Guitar amps The six classic skirted control knobs output accordingly. However, if you’re tempted to experiment with a 5U4 we’d say don’t – despite the forbidden promise of more ‘sag’ at a slightly reduced output, a 5U4 will draw higher filament current which the reissue power transformer probably wasn’t intended to handle.
