I have a question about a Fender Princeton Reverb electric guitar amp?
Jun 24, 2009 by Tad R | Posted in Other - Music
I was just wondering what this amp would be worth if i were to sell it. Everything on it is completely vintage except for one of the 7 tubes in the back. Yes, that is right, it is a vintage Fender tube amp with the original tubes, and i believe it is a '62 or '63. It sounds amazing. Buy, yeah. I was just wondering if anyone had any idea what it would be worth. So, thanks for your help!
I've heard of them going for anywhere between $80 and $800, depending on the shape of the original components and the year it was made.
Fender Princeton's go back to the 40s, but the Princeton Reverb models only go back to 64. The early models of Princeton Reverb were blackface and they later introduced the silverface version in the early 70s.
The blackface models are more desirable. If yours is a blackface model and in great shape with all the original parts, it could go for close to $1,000 to a buyer who really likes vintage Fender stuff.
At a local music store, I don't think they would put any higher than $800 on the tag.
| Jun 24, 2009
Can I blow a guitar amplifier by giving it too strong an input signal while the volume is on 11?
Apr 28, 2009 by Kyle | Posted in Music & Music Players
I have a 1966 Fender Princeton Reverb and a 1965 Fender Twin ReIssue. I also have pedals like the Keeley Katana clean boost and Keeley Blues Driver which give large amounts of volume boost. If I have these amps up on 8 or 10, and then give it a super boosted guitar signal, what is going to happen to my amp/speaker ?
Oh...there's all kinds of things that could go wrong. Too much low end and a quick transient pulse through the amp would likely take the speaker out due to over excursion. If the rectifier or power tubes have any defects, then one of them could arc over, which would take out some resistors.
Or nothing, other than a very very noisy signal.
With a lot of signal going into the amp, you're going to saturate the first input gain stage and drive it into compression. At some point, you're not going to get any more volume out of the system, just noise and distortion.
Like the other poster said, start out low and increase the volume slowly. If the speaker sounds like it's grunting or rubbing against something, back off.
Greetings from Austin, Tx
Ken
Ken C | Apr 29, 2009