Right on brother. I agree, it is one of the best tones out there.

Unless you've heard a Strat through a Fender Quad Reverb!

@@OzziePete1 then you'd like the Super 6

@@audrianasondej4100 I pulled the original baffle & have my SR set up with 2 celestion 12" gold speakers. To die for!!

@@gatormcklusky5850 Awesome, I have two different sets of old Jensen Alnico's that I swap from time to time. I have a set of gold's , tho I'm using one in a little 15 watt combo amp maybe I'll pull it and throw a greenback in that and try out the gold's. That or a have a little Regal(licensed by Fender) 1961 R1160 40 watt that has a awesome sounding Jensen p12r that has 'that' tone but I've been wanting to throw the other gold in it. Fun to chase tone!!

+sandysingssongs thanks!

Agreed, i have a version on youtube from 2006 where i played it pretty much note for note, but now i can't even remember it haha. My tone isn't as sweet as yours...i was using a Egnater MTS JTM module with a tube screamer on the lead.

Yeah it sounds awesome. My favorite SRV song.

By far the most helpful video on getting the Lenny tone. Absolutely incredible tone and you can really hear the difference in moving from #5/neck to #4 position. Totally nails it. Also thanks for reviewing both amp and guitar volume settings...an art form that I am just starting to discover. I was going to buy a TRRI but am now definitely getting an SR.

DexterGTR did the same thing

Just did that with my 69 Super Reverb (still has AB763 schematics) it was glorious.

Did you put the deluxe reverb on same settings as he had on super

Back in 1960s had a friend that had amp like that one and you could start things on fire with it.

They threw a brick through my window so they could hear it even better!

OliLix thanks!!!

Depends on the gig. Gotta have my 12inch combo amp too. But yeah nothing like a SR

But this amp goes to 11!

Boost pedal?

"But why can't you just make ten louder, and keep it as the highest number?"

Booster and equalizer, Mate!

lol the peeps who haven’t seen the movie

Letzrockitrite thanks so much!!! Thanks for watching

rcoveyduc One of the greatest music videos ever.

It is ! It's so raw and powerful - SRV at his best - that video got me into blues. It's a must for any guitarist.

Here is Mocombo tone right here, my fave too, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp-Cq9Obns_QnXk.html

That hallowed hall on spadina ave , it didnt look like much but many a band rocked the foundations

+Sean Thomas thanks man!

You're exactly right. I liken it to a circuit too, sort of. When you've got the amp moving some air and pushing back at you, there's a complete circle...or circuit... happening there. Each part feeds the other and when that combination is just right, when you can move a certain way and get that infinite sustain or GOOD feedback, there's nothing like it. Certainly nothing that a modeller, low vol amp or DI can provide. Those break that circuit and take you out of the loop...sort of separate you from the music in a way. I hate 'em, to be honest.

Try this...kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp-Cq9Obns_QnXk.html

Plexidust he’ll yea bro Mathew Scott kills with the strat tones.

Half of them are probably only utilizing the preamp section of their amps anyway and it won't have as good an effect as it would on a cranked amp because of the lack of compression/gain staging you get with all preamp distortion. So those kids probably haven't experienced the glory of a cranked twin like we have 😏

@@easton_ography betting this is 100% true. That and they use too much distortion/overdrive (whether from the preamp section or a pedal) most of the time and that sucks all the life out of it. Every time I hear complaints of "just can't get THAT tone" I say "well how loud did you have it?" I'm relatively young but I still realize many those iconic tones we all know and love came from big, heavy, LOUD, amps...they do not sound good at "bedroom volume" (whatever that is?). They're not practice amps, modeling amps, or computer generated effects. They need to be working and they need to have a good player in front of them that knows how to push, pull, and squeeze them to perfection. There are some good solid state pedals out there these days but they can't duplicate the relationship between player, guitar, and amp.

The volume knob: a more elegant weapon for a more civilized age

Absolutely! Saw him last night in Kansas City! It looks like he made a switch to something else now. Probably to keep the miles off his beloved Fenders. Sounded a little thinner to me than the Fenders I've seen him use over the years but, still inspiring never the less.

I think his best tones are with the Super Reverbs

I’m thinking about doing this on my strat, but I haven’t pulled the trigger. I want to keep a brighter tone when I roll back the volume.

+Keith Jackson nice!!

Yeah? I'm still waiting for that day! Soundmen cry if you even get close to 2 on the volume. It would be nice to kick them in the nuts when they complained. Lol.

Do you get a good “Lenny” tone out of that blues deluxe?? Just picked one up a few days ago and stumbled upon this video lol kinda close but not quite getting the chime, but I’ll keep tweaking

@@snowbord57 it's in that ballpark, but when you're talking SRV it's as much to do with the guitar, 13s strings and the man himself. I replaced the speaker with a celestion creamback which improved the high sweetness, and changed the valves for a cryo set from Watford Valves which also improved the tone.

John Stitt most versatile amp on the planet. They take pedals like a champ too right through the front. Very simple great piece of equipment.

Saul Oliver Agreed. It seems like planets were aligned when this amp was designed. And so my journey begins to find “thee” one. I’ll make sure I don’t Mod it to make it go to 11. Watched some Spinal Tap recently.

John Stitt I’m convinced that much of the great tone comes from the 4x10s that are in there. The CTS alNiCo 10s are my favorite in Supers. The CTS ceramics aren’t too shabby either.

Even the first couple years of silverface SRs sound like that and are like that with the blue molded capacitors. Basically the non master volume examples. They can be had for about a grand whereas youll be spending upwards of 2 grand for a blackface version.

Get ur jangle on bro...great Amps

Y'all gotta get outta the house more! ha

5 is *very* loud for a small club gig.. yeah it sounds great but if you're not asked back, does it matter?

People with pacemakers beware.

And just like pouring honey in your ears, you can't hear afterwards! May be worth it though

@@dumbdickler670 😂😂

Absolutely! Saw him last night in Kansas City! It looks like he made a switch to something else now. Probably to keep the miles off his beloved Fenders. Sounded a little thinner to me than the Fenders I've seen him use over the years but, still inspiring never the less.

I was going to write the same thing. Saving your ears is nice but you can't be ridiculous about it. The soundmen want stage volume to be 0 lol.

Funkbutterfly Since I posted that comment I played a sold out show in a venue and the sound man was crying about a Fender Deluxe on 2. It is unbelievable.

Its bullshit.. Drives me nuts

@@Funkbutterfly Its less about saving ears and more about having a good mix and proper FOH volume. I agree that a few inexperienced sound guys can be aggravating about stage volume, but there are many more guitarists who have no common sense about stage volume either. Lots of tools out there playing 100 watt monster amps on small stages, in small clubs, with no concept of either the limits of the PA gear to match them, the size of the venue to handle the volume, or crossbleed to mics that prevents a good mix from being possible. When your amp is louder in the lead voc mic than the lead voc, you're wrong. The goal of being there with the rest of the band is to sound good as a band, not prove how much louder you can be than the rest. A good house mix is more important to your band than your ego. When the mix can match your level, but has to be too loud for the room, it sounds like shit to everyone but you. Having the right wattage amp to get your tone with just the right amount of stage volume (for the size of the stage and variety of instruments on it) to be able to adequately monitors yourself on stage, without having to be so loud that you have excessive crossbleed into other mics, and such that you don't exceed the proper PA level for the room, is the guitarists responsibility. If I "can't help it" because, "darn it my amp is just so awesome, but loud", then I brought the wrong amp for that gig. There's a happy medium that we should work toward, where we can get our tone without being a loud douche about it. The sound guy is still probably going to complain, but if you've used comon sense as a guitarist you can ignore him with a clear and educated conscience.

They’d rather have an easy job doing the sound than have a great guitar tone. Sad. Only met one engineer in 12 years of gigging that encouraged a loud amp - in the cavern club in Liverpool England. The bugger was roaring! I want to marry him! 😂

I’m wondering the exact same thing. When I turn down without treble bleed engaged I lose top end no matter how loud I have my amp set.

Me too, and if you eq it for the rolled back tone it's too bright when you roll up and go for it

@@mikew9788 I found that if you set up your amp to sound good to you with your guitar volume around 8 and your tone knobs around 7 you can then roll the volume up or down without much treble loss. also you now have tone knobs that can cut or boost treble!

@@gastonruiz10 that is a good idea

Had the chance to A/B them, both Blackface 67 with original speakers and all. The Twin sounded much more midrange-y and really needed the ekstra volume to fill the room in the same way in the bottom end. Cranked the Super rev has just the right volume level for practical use, where the twin needs a large club or hall. With pedals both are great.

Wak Job Maybe 7 or 8 maybe but most amps definetly don't max out at 5

@@Claptonisgod33 lots do. Often you'll get more volume until about 5-6 with some overdrive and then after that it's all about the drive, not much increase in volume

Having said that, the sound up to 2:20 is not as nice in the top end it is after that point.

I think Pete's actually got a nicer tone here than on the original SRV version.

I haven't played anything digital that responds dynamically anywhere near a dimed Super Reverb. Everyone associates this amp with Stevie Ray BUT blackfaces were a staple for Jeff Beck as well and took them to places SRV simply wouldn't goto. Jeff's playing MUST have amp with high dynamic range - even many tube amps can't cut it let alone a digital model of some sort.

+Tye Claridge I’ve just seen so many gigs recently locally where guitar players get royally screwed. Can’t hear them in the PA and I can hear what they’re doing on stage (Amps are barely on, and then they hit drive pedals that seem to stay at the same volume or actually drop the overall output of the guitar)- and they tell me after what happened, sound person told them at soundcheck they were way too loud to the point of having to turn the amp way down. You guys need to listen to the sound of the drums acoustically on stage at sound check and make sure the guitar and bass at least matches that on stage, I.e. The band sounds balanced with no PA. I know that can be difficult with a drummer that bashes way too hard. I’m trying to be informative here for guitarists as well, teaching them to play with some dynamics lets face it the drummer gets louder right? So they need to get louder too and that can’t come from you the guy with the faders- that just doesn’t work, the band needs to do it organically themselves. Sure you can ride stuff but isn’t it nice when I guitar player can just jump up for solos themselves? That’s what I do and believe me sound people don’t have a problem with me. They like the fact they could just leave the fader alone and I kind of do everything from my end. It sounds so much better out front when the band is dynamic and playing properly! I’m advocating here for the band sound balanced and a good overall level, and then to have some room for dynamics. Let’s face it how much do you push up a solo with a fader? 6 dB? 8 dB? Why can’t the guitar player just do that on their own? If you don’t know the music, it’s a band you’ve never mixed before - how many times have you missed the first few bars of the solo and then push that fader up? A great oldschool band like Govt Mule, they have big amps up there, and they play so damn dynamically! We’ve turned the guitar into the keyboard - the synthesizer. I’d like to get it back to Jimmy page, David Gilmour, Jimi Hendrix, something a little more organic and exciting if possible. We need help from folks like you and yes it’s supposed to be a team, I just don’t like seeing bands neutered and controlled by local sound people that many times don’t really know what they’re doing. You know what I mean, kick drum heavy mixes lots of fucking vocal SO MUCH vocal - and I can’t really hear the guitar player over there. It’s a shame and all too common. And at the end of the day - listen to this damn amplifier. Set so great, sounds so good - so to going to a club and have somebody just yell WAY TOO LOUD you need to turn that down- That is totally missing the point. We never would’ve had a Jimi Hendrix if he didn’t play the way that he played. Through the amps he played. Sorry I’m pretty passionate about this ha ha

Totally with you. Also, having tried working for one PA company (lots of respect for you guys, you are indestructable, doing night after night of hard work from early morning to early morning, I learned a lot in a short time) I noticed that there's some care put into acoustic instruments like drums and horns etc., but when it comes to electric guitar even the amazing guys I worked with were like 'I just put this mic here and it should be alright', while casually hanging a Sennheiser E mic randomly in front of the speaker.... The only time one guitar player got a compliment was when they brought a digital multi-FX, 'because we just plug it straight to the board, so simple'. :-((( In my opinion an electric guitar with an amp should be treated and set up to par with other acoustic instruments - after all that's what it really 'is', just in this case the soundhole is detached from the instrument and needs some electricity to run.

Amen!

true.. really it shouldn't be this tough though, it's really about musicians playing well and being dynamic and sound people mixing well and being supportive of the good musicians. My pal Arianna Powell is an amazing guitar player and she plays out around LA much more than I these days, she tells me about the stuff she encounters, and I've seen her play recently and I cannot fathom some of the mixes...amps set so low, they tell her she has to do that, and it's like you have this amazing musician up there and you're neutering the whole thing b not letting her just shine, ya know? I mean, ok I get it if the players suck or are just bashers. But if they are doing check and are obviously good- then just let it happen!

exactly, like really dial it in! and let it breathe and be dynamic. We wouldn't have Hendrix, EVH, Brian May etc if they couldn't do their thing, ya know?