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OK I have been looking at these for quite some time. The other guitar player I play with bought one of the Reissues on my recommendation. I personally feel this is one sweet little Amp. At The Long Island Guitar show I found a 1967 that was quot;priced rightquot; So I bought it. It has a 12quot; Emmenince speaker (not original). and has been recapped by the previous owner. All in All its a very clean sounding and looking Amp.

I have now had a few days to work with it and I gotta say this Amp Kicks some serious Butt. It has one Minor Mod to it. The guy who I bought it from is a Jazz player, and he felt he needed a little more gain out of it. What he did is replace the Vibrito pot with a on/off type pot. He wired the tube for the Vibrato into the power section or the Preamp section( I can't remember). Which ever it is it adds just a very small amount of gain/volume when turned on. It does make a difference..... not a lot, but on a few pieces it worked really well.

At rehearsal the other night I used my Clapton Strat and an old Boss Super OD just to give it a little Clean boost. The Amp smoked. I was real pleased with the way it worked out. I have had some time to play my 335, and my SG as well as my LP thru this as well, and quite frankly everything sounded exceptional tru this little killer! 22 Watts can be soooooooo Loud

The Amp I was using prior to this was a Carvin X60. Sort of a 50 caliber clone. This Amp worked well, but not even as close to this. ( I should point out that I also own a 1968 Super Reverb, and a Marshall 900 50W combo. I don't usually use these at rehearsals We don't play loud at rehearsals)

As much as I love the RI Deluxe....... It just can't compete with this thing! Woah................... I'm getting chills just thinking about gettin' home and playing thru it One of the Amps I have been looking for is now mine.

I have always liked the Fender 65' reissue stuff, but I had never played an original 65 until recently and man did I notice a difference. The main difference was that the reverb on the original one was lusher and not as thin and bright sounding. It really blew me away. The reissues still have a great sound, but just not as quot;lushquot; sounding to my ear!!!

I play through 60's blackface DR's alot. If you replace the speaker with something more efficient like the Celestion Vintage 30 or G12h30 you'll get alot more volume and clarity out of it and it'll compete with a 50 watt amp alot more sucessfully. Also get it up off of the floor maybe 15quot; to 24quot;. It's hard to make a 22 watt amp like the DR as loud as a cranked 50 watt amp though. Lew