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I have a Reissue Deluxe Reverb. Overdrive on it sounds fad, but then i have a big muff (a pedal that can only be good on a certain day) and it sounds mostly terrible and god awful on the vibrato channel. Now i have heard some Twin Reverbs with fuzz's and they all seem to have this kind of annoying, no bass, shit fuzz sound that kinda pisses me off(Maybe its the sign of good rock n' roll). BTW, on the normal channel. The bigmuff, overdrive and neck pickup on my git sounds kinda legit mudhoney heavy.

Are other pedals good to the vibrato channels on these amps? Is it my Japanese Fender Jag? I kinda want a silverface Twin Reverb cause of the cleans and overdrive but fear that it cant take the heavy fuzz.

Also on the topic, i heard from several peeps that a Silverface Super Reverb takes dirt pedals and all much better then the Twin. Truth?

granted, people can get different sounds out of diffrernet guitars, but playing jagz is onna lend itself to that sound (thinner and brighter...)...Different versions of muffs as well as different versions of the fender amps make a difference as well. Often times it is just taste. Alot of people love that thin biting fuzz sound and a fener amp with a big muff will nail it.

That said, you should have little problem dialing in a fender amp to take pedals. It may be the guitar, the pedal, or just how you are eqing it that is the problem. Who knows. Deluxe/Super/Twin while all sounding a bit difference, all have that fender clean tone and will take pedals well. Of course the deluxe will break up earlier and that will affect how you have to set up and EQ the pedals where a twin has to be fairly cranked to get much break up and a super has to be at 4 or 5 or more. Again, alot of variables, but with a deluxe you should be able to mess aorund with different pedals and find your sound alot cheaper than trying other fender amps out to fit one pedal.

are u using the muff on a completely clean amp setting..... I love muffs but I prefer to have a bit of drive on the amp before I hit it with the muff just to fatten it up.....

also if u have a newer muff they do sound a bit thinner.....especially the Little Big Muff Pi

if you want fat go Russian....

SGJarrod wrote:are u using the muff on a completely clean amp setting..... I love muffs but I prefer to have a bit of drive on the amp before I hit it with the muff just to fatten it up.....

also if u have a newer muff they do sound a bit thinner.....especially the Little Big Muff Pi

if you want fat go Russian....

I got it running with a Maxon Tubescreamer thingy.

With DR's you have to cut the bright cap on the vibrato channel.

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I have the same problem. I have an MXR distortion+ pedal that sounds like garbage when plugged in through my 77 twin reverb. Absolutely no bass at all, even with the bright switch off I can't get a balanced sound out of it. If I cut the treble too much it gets muddy, but if I put the treble at the lowest setting possible to get the right amount, and then crank the bass, it's still too thin and trebley. I thought about modding the pedal to get a different sound out of it, but I don't know if I just need to be looking at different pedals.

Here's my experience.
MOST amps have a MUCH lower headroom than a twin reverb of the tradiitional type. The amp imparts no drive and a pretty wierd kind of compression. So when you plug in, you hear what is actually happening. In a lower headroom amp, you get overdrive on top of your fuzz signal which tends to amplify the bass tonez.

The twin is not a "trebly" amp, it's a true amp. Its just kind of rare (in the world of guitar amps) to play through something like that, so pedals and things sound very different. I've tracked tons of huge roaring bassy guitars through my twin, you just gotta have the right shit and set it up right.