{"id":2635,"date":"2008-05-30T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2008-05-30T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:00:57","slug":"hot-gear-friday-the-fender-deluxe-reverb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Hot Gear Friday – The Fender Deluxe Reverb"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the world of gear, there are toys – things that’ll give you that little burst of pleasure instantly – and then there’s machinery, the things you have to work <\/em>to get what you want with.<\/p>\n

A fuzz box?\u00a0 It’s a toy.<\/p>\n

I don’t mean, by the way, to disparage toys.\u00a0 Toys have their place, and it can be an important one.\u00a0 They give adults, like kids, something they need; a learning experience, something to enjoy, something that ties learning to fun, or just that little jolt of fun you need.<\/p>\n

The Fender Deluxe?\u00a0 It’s machinery.
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I bought my Fender in 1978, for $100 worth of paper route money.\u00a0 It was 50 watts of power through a 10 inch speaker, the bare-bones two-knob tone controls, a simple spring reverb tank and a tremolo unit.<\/p>\n

That’s it.\u00a0 No overdrive circuit.\u00a0 No power soaker.\u00a0 No EQ.<\/p>\n

The basic tone, after you got done cranking on the tone controls, was basically…clean.\u00a0 You had to crank <\/em>it to get overdrive distortion – and 50 watts cranked <\/em>was very, very loud.<\/p>\n

But this was the fun part; after a while of noodling around with it, you found (or I found, anyway) a combination of things that made it, with all its faults, mine<\/em>.\u00a0 My <\/em>sound. In my case, sometime after I moved to the Cities and after maybe seven years of playing the thing, I cracked the code:\u00a0 My guitars (a Fender Jazz and an Ibanez SG), into a cheapo preamp stompbox, thence into a DOD rackmount delay line (that I left sitting on my amp, since, sheesh, who’s gonna buy a rack?), and then into a switch pedal (to jump between the Fender and my Peavey Bandit, when I wanted a wash of cheap, overdriven fuzz.\u00a0 The preamp gave the Fender a little film of crunchy distorition, while the DOD could be tweaked to give just the right amount of slapback to fill things out, making the Fender sound…<\/p>\n

…damn good.<\/p>\n

It, and the DOD, got stolen probably in 1989.\u00a0 That thief, unfortunately, I don’t know.\u00a0 Hope you enjoy it, douchebag, whoever you are.
\nAnyway – one of these next tax refunds…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the world of gear, there are toys – things that’ll give you that little burst of pleasure instantly – and then there’s machinery, the things you have to work to get what you want with. A fuzz box?\u00a0 It’s a toy. I don’t mean, by the way, to disparage toys.\u00a0 Toys have their place, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-gear-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}