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Jon07 Member
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Reliability of Fender Amps |
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Hi Daved
As someone who has day-to-day working experience of Fender Twins, would you say that new ones are relatively reliable? I need a loud clean amp and a new Twin seems like a good route to go down but I have heard stories of unreliability - I'm not sure how much credence to give to these stories on various forums (or fora for the grammar nerds) so it would be good to get experience from someone working with these amps in a professional capacity. Do you usually end up with rentals which are fairly new models and do you have many failures?
Cheers
Jon |
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JohnnyZ Senior Member
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:17 am Post subject: |
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From Mono Lake Dave's post on last week's Robben performance: "Tele and Sakahastu, 2 Twin Reverbs (one blew up on the first song and Patrick Ford tried to get it back on but it immediately went dark again)."
Perhaps Robben drove too much "tone" into that Twin? |
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Jon07 Member
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: |
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Oh dear! It's always hard to know in the grand scheme of things how often this sort of thing happens with mass-produced amps, but I've heard a few pros who've had issues with the big names' more recent products and won't go there any more. More power to the smaller manufacturers really, but their costs are higher. Does anyone know of a 'boutique' equivalent to a Twin which isn't massively more expensive?
Just realised I should've posted this in the Daved zone - could one of those very nice adminstrator people move it? |
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edpesco Senior Member
Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 449 Location: Austria
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: Re: Reliability of Fender Amps |
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Jon07 wrote: | Hi Daved
As someone who has day-to-day working experience of Fender Twins, would you say that new ones are relatively reliable? I need a loud clean amp and a new Twin seems like a good route to go down but I have heard stories of unreliability - I'm not sure how much credence to give to these stories on various forums (or fora for the grammar nerds) so it would be good to get experience from someone working with these amps in a professional capacity. Do you usually end up with rentals which are fairly new models and do you have many failures?
Cheers
Jon |
Sorry Jon, but the plural of the latin word forum is fori, of the English version it's forums.
GrammEd _________________ www.soultingo.at |
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bluenote Senior Member
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Greetings, I recently had the pleasure of playing the "taste of Chicago" festival and the promoters supplied the back line, out of the 3 or 4 amps I had a choice for, the fender twin was my choice as well as the other guitar player in the group. Mine was very very clean and loud but worked fine...his however, well lets just say half way through the show I seen him pounding on top of the amp, he said it kept cutting out but came back on when he whacked it! the amps were new models, I'm sure his just had a loose tube or socket, but you dont really know these days now that the circuit boards are mass produced and probably cheaply....just buy a dumble and be done with it!
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Jon07 Member
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Reliability of Fender Amps |
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edpesco wrote: | Jon07 wrote: | Hi Daved
As someone who has day-to-day working experience of Fender Twins, would you say that new ones are relatively reliable? I need a loud clean amp and a new Twin seems like a good route to go down but I have heard stories of unreliability - I'm not sure how much credence to give to these stories on various forums (or fora for the grammar nerds) so it would be good to get experience from someone working with these amps in a professional capacity. Do you usually end up with rentals which are fairly new models and do you have many failures?
Cheers
Jon |
Sorry Jon, but the plural of the latin word forum is fori, of the English version it's forums.
GrammEd |
Fori is the plural of the Italian word foro (meaning court) but in Latin the plural of forum is fora. If we all started using the word fora, someone would eventually stick an 's' on the end anyway, so I'll stick with forums! |
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JohnnyZ Senior Member
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: |
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I belong to several other foras besides this one... |
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edpesco Senior Member
Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 449 Location: Austria
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Reliability of Fender Amps |
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Jon07 wrote: | edpesco wrote: | Jon07 wrote: | Hi Daved
As someone who has day-to-day working experience of Fender Twins, would you say that new ones are relatively reliable? I need a loud clean amp and a new Twin seems like a good route to go down but I have heard stories of unreliability - I'm not sure how much credence to give to these stories on various forums (or fora for the grammar nerds) so it would be good to get experience from someone working with these amps in a professional capacity. Do you usually end up with rentals which are fairly new models and do you have many failures?
Cheers
Jon |
Sorry Jon, but the plural of the latin word forum is fori, of the English version it's forums.
GrammEd |
Fori is the plural of the Italian word foro (meaning court) but in Latin the plural of forum is fora. If we all started using the word fora, someone would eventually stick an 's' on the end anyway, so I'll stick with forums! |
Sorry Jon, you just ain't right concerning Latin, yes to Italian. Forum is a neutrum word in Latin and the plural is fori, at least that's what my dictionary says in harmony with what I learned at school. In your language you can't go wrong with the s as an ending, also for the word solo, so stick to it. _________________ www.soultingo.at |
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Millibobs Senior Member
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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Okay guys, allow Millibombs to resolve the issue once and for all; put on your reading glasses and upon closer examination of the Guitarist's Dictionary, you will discover that the precise term is Four/Fora.
It is a well known fact that the Romans would typically conduct their debate and classical discourses to a precise blues tempo, also known as Bluesius Discoursius.
As Ceasar once remarked, 'I woke up this morning........uuurgh", Sadly, he never completed this statement due to his friend Brutus stumbling and accidentally impaling the Emperor upon an experimental instrument constructed of alder and maple which came to be known as 'Fenderus Telecastus'.
A number of colleagues rushed to Ceasar's aide. They had been sitting outside the Forum (singular tense) eating low calorie snacks of tomatos, celery, rocket, green peppers and onion. In their haste to assist their leader, they all fell upon him in such a manner that their eating implements caused further, fatal injury and his body lay twitching amongst a tattered heap of vegetables. This is what ultimately came to be known as 'Ceasar Salad'.
I hope we can now move on to a more constructive assessment of Robben's blues method and use of solidified salad dressing as a cure for microphonic pickups. |
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Bluelobster Senior Member
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edpesco Senior Member
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: Re: You Da man |
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Bluelobster wrote: | Strati,Strato,Strata,Stratum.
Evidence. |
But seriously folks:
ask me - I'm Dr. Knowitall
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Bluelobster Senior Member
Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 1172 Location: France
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:47 am Post subject: Re: You Da man |
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edpesco wrote: |
But seriously folks:
ask me - I'm Dr. Knowitall |
Edmund El Pescador , we all know you rule .
But can U Knowitallishes my teeth?
What 's up with rosi rosa rose rosum ????? i obviously tought you were loosing some of your legendary Austrian Loose upper lip syndroma.
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it's me, ok i apologize in advance. _________________ http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=147748 |
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edpesco Senior Member
Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 449 Location: Austria
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: Re: You Da man |
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Bluelobster wrote: | edpesco wrote: |
But seriously folks:
ask me - I'm Dr. Knowitall |
Edmund El Pescador , we all know you rule .
But can U Knowitallishes my teeth?
What 's up with rosi rosa rose rosum ????? i obviously tought you were loosing some of your legendary Austrian Loose upper lip syndroma.
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it's me, ok i apologize in advance. |
Sorry Jon, Bob, I'm the idiot, for sure it's FORA. I apologize!
Kirk please banish me from this board for unbearable senility.
Btw Blob, did I tell you the I am the new hope of the senior's boxing club in Bregenz? no apology _________________ www.soultingo.at |
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JohnnyZ Senior Member
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:59 am Post subject: |
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Millibobs wrote: | Okay guys, allow Millibombs to resolve the issue once and for all; put on your reading glasses and upon closer examination of the Guitarist's Dictionary, you will discover that the precise term is Four/Fora.
It is a well known fact that the Romans would typically conduct their debate and classical discourses to a precise blues tempo, also known as Bluesius Discoursius.
As Ceasar once remarked, 'I woke up this morning........uuurgh", Sadly, he never completed this statement due to his friend Brutus stumbling and accidentally impaling the Emperor upon an experimental instrument constructed of alder and maple which came to be known as 'Fenderus Telecastus'.
A number of colleagues rushed to Ceasar's aide. They had been sitting outside the Forum (singular tense) eating low calorie snacks of tomatos, celery, rocket, green peppers and onion. In their haste to assist their leader, they all fell upon him in such a manner that their eating implements caused further, fatal injury and his body lay twitching amongst a tattered heap of vegetables. This is what ultimately came to be known as 'Ceasar Salad'.
I hope we can now move on to a more constructive assessment of Robben's blues method and use of solidified salad dressing as a cure for microphonic pickups. |
Classicus, MilliBombs. Classicus! |
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jconstant Senior Member
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 762 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:23 am Post subject: |
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Millibobs wrote: | Okay guys, allow Millibombs to resolve the issue once and for all; put on your reading glasses and upon closer examination of the Guitarist's Dictionary, you will discover that the precise term is Four/Fora.
It is a well known fact that the Romans would typically conduct their debate and classical discourses to a precise blues tempo, also known as Bluesius Discoursius.
As Ceasar once remarked, 'I woke up this morning........uuurgh", Sadly, he never completed this statement due to his friend Brutus stumbling and accidentally impaling the Emperor upon an experimental instrument constructed of alder and maple which came to be known as 'Fenderus Telecastus'.
A number of colleagues rushed to Ceasar's aide. They had been sitting outside the Forum (singular tense) eating low calorie snacks of tomatos, celery, rocket, green peppers and onion. In their haste to assist their leader, they all fell upon him in such a manner that their eating implements caused further, fatal injury and his body lay twitching amongst a tattered heap of vegetables. This is what ultimately came to be known as 'Ceasar Salad'.
I hope we can now move on to a more constructive assessment of Robben's blues method and use of solidified salad dressing as a cure for microphonic pickups. |
This sounds remarkably like something Cliff Clavin would say. _________________ "Somebody's got to make some music around here." - Robben Ford |
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