Great sounding audio. Excellent recording. Love the blue amp!

They all sound fantastic. Including your strat.

I love what you’ve done to the Deluxe

the reverb on the vibro champ sounds great - much better than my TC hall of fame which i am now getting rid of. and overall the amp can sound nearly identical to the original at the right settings, but is also capable of a lot more.

The blue amp sounds wonderful

Your 68 Custom Deluxe mods are great. You transformed that amp. I sent 2 of them back because of the hum out of the gate!

The stock speaker on my 68 Vibro Champ Reverb sounds fine. You were getting a nice sound out of it for a moment. Good video..!

I've enjoyed watching all the videos on these amps, thank for this closure video ... ill be replacing the 1030 on my new vibro champ reverb soon (Weber or WGS) ... it's making that resonate scraping sound but only on certain notes.

The best sounding speaker that I ever had was 75 W celestians loaded in what was a butcher series PV cabinet. Yes it is subjective but this cabinet was great for hard rock and class crop in some ways. It's like ice cream as you say some people want rocky road some people want neapolitan. Or something of that nature. Keep them coming Lyle.

Completely agree with you on changing the 65 speaker. It’s a new amp once I put a creamback in it. I also clipped the bright cap.

I'm really liking the sound of the champ.

God, how do you choose..😁 They all sound fab..Ed..UK..😁

Lyle - You're videos are always grab-the-popcorn-time for me to sit back and enjoy your amp sleuthery, wizardry and Jedi-level knowledge. I have two questions if you don't mind. 1. Without considering cost - what is your *favorite* speaker for a Deluxe Reverb Reissue? 2. What is your recommendation for the fastest or best way to break in a new speaker? Thanks for any feedback you can provide.

If you want to hear a good digital reverb, Andy Fuchs really did a great job implementing digital reverb in his amps. I wish other amp makers would take some PCB design cues from Mr. Fuchs too. The SPIN chip was developed by the guy who founded MXR way back when I was in still short pants.

Thanks for bringing some clarity to the 57 Custom Champ vs the 68 Vibro Champ battles. For a few hundred dollars more you have an heirloom piece imo that will hold it's value and possibly gain some and as you stated, in 10 years will you be able to replace parts on this Fender PCB? Add the quality pedals that you need to match the Vibro and you will always have an amp that will stand the test of time. I know you don't like 8 inch speakers, but for me as a primary bedroom player, it is more than enough for me. I have the Fender Super Champ X2 and for about half the price that amp hangs with the Vibro.

So you recommend a Katana over the Vibro Champ Reverb? Really? I respectfully disagree :) I have played the other Fender ’68 series amps and I was underwhelmed, hissy and noisy amps. I bought the new Vibro Champ Reissue and it is dead quiet. Fender get much flack for using the cheap Celestion 10-30 speaker, but to my ears it actually sounds really good in this amp. Also, many automatically suspect the reverb to be inferior to a real spring reverb but I have owned many amps with tubedriven reverbtanks sounding inferior to the CVC reverb. Since this amp has a ss rectifier it sounds more lika a mini-Twin than a mini-Princeton Reverb. This means there is no sag and high headroom for a little five-watter. With those ”limitations” in mind, try this with simgle coils: Treble at 4, Bass at 6, reverb at 3, Volume at 10 and back off the volume on the guitar. Voliá! Bonu fun: set the bass and treble both at 0 and full volume, instant oldtimey SF Vibro Champ! My favorite sound for home use right now is a Fender 5F2a princeton clone linked together with my Custom Vibro Champ. The Princeton is little mellow, the CVC has the blackface shimmer. I like it.

Weird thing about the '65 DRRI... There are so many different special editions with their various speakers and tolex coverings... and yet none of them sound like a Deluxe Reverb to me except the standard one with the Jensen C12K speaker. And then I bought a vintage 1967 Deluxe Reverb with an original '66 Jensen speaker and... OMG what a tone! Funny thing though, when I had it serviced after buying it, the first thing the tech recommended is that I change the speaker, and he gave me a list of various unobtainium to look for. Hahaha! Everyone has their opinion as to what this amp should sound like. Although I am intrigued by the Altec Lansing 417-8H... heard a LOT of stories about that speaker in a Deluxe in LA during the 80s

I think i heard a bit of Floyd in there. I like that! Way to go, my friend.

I think the vibro champ sounds better with the stock speaker

Dude you should play more in your videos you did good. that blue fire breathing dragon, dam good mod.

I would love to have that super reverb mod on my 68 custom vibrolux reverb

Speaker coil can detached from cylinder as well the cylinder detach from cone. Cone suspension detachment makes noise. Speaker disassembly may be appropriate for repair.

I decided I needed to watch this just so I don't have nightmares about Mesa Boogies tonight after the last 6 videos I watched.

My 1977 hand wired Deluxe Reverb had a Jensen C12Q speaker in it and I didn't like it. It broke up way too early at volume level 4, especially on the vibrato channel. I put in a Celestion Vintage 30 that's about 25 years old and the amp sounds much better. Oddly enough the Jencen C12Q sounds pretty good in my Carvin Vintage 16 (it outputs either 5 or 16 watt RMS). After finishing watching your video, I didn't like the sound of the Vibro Champ reissue. My original Vibro Champ was purchased in 1979, and had the small 8 inch speaker. I played thru that for many years, but then built a new cabinet and put in 2 10 inch Eminence speakers, and it is a great sounding amp! Of course, I still have the original cabinet with the 8 inch speaker in the event I ever decide to sell it.

I just got hold of a vibro champ for a discount. Are there any other good speakers you would recommend swapping in?

Waiting patiently for the Park 150 videos! Man, I wish Fender would bring back the 6G3 Deluxe or any Brownface amp really. They did the Vibroverb in the early 90’s but it wasn’t too successful. Everyone wanted the AB763 Vibroverb, like SRV used a the time. That brown/wheat/tan combo is just gorgeous! Whom ever owns that brown ‘65 reissue picked a killer version of it. The reissue C10K is horrible in those amps. The Weber 12F125, 12F150, Eminence GA12 SC64 and the Celestion G12H75 sound killer in my hand wired Deluxe Reverb. Replacing the speaker is the biggest tonal change you can do to an amp.

Strat sounds great, I have Kinmans in my ‘90’s MIJ Tele. There is so much speaker info packed into the first minute of this video ! Have you ever thought of writing a book of all the stuff in your head ? Maybe hire a transcriber to listen to your videos and write it all down 😲

Having a Vibro Champ Reverb for a while now and I’m pretty sure the one you got there has an issue. It has happened to me a few times when i turn it on there’s a ratty low end clipping or odd sounding tone. I turn it off and on then it’s fine. Happened only a few times, but sounds similar. But overall yours in the video doesn’t sounds right… or anything like mine. And I swapped for the same WGS.

The blue color model

I'm glad you played through the Vibro 68. Was going to buy 1 not now.

Hi, out of interest do you think the 68 Pro Reverb is a good amp? Considering the Vibro Champ is underwhelming

And I’m shocked! You’d pick up a boss katana over the vibro champ? What model were you thinking of the artist 100? Or how about a deluxe reverb tone master

Wait. The brown guy is a Deluxe Reverb Reissue?? That sounds so good.

So i took your advice and replaced my vibro champs speaker with a wgs G10C and it sounds decent But there is no over driven tube sound any more around 6-7. Isn’t 75watt rating way to high for a small combo where it will just sound sterile and never break up? Wouldn’t a veteran have been a better fit?

In my humble opinion the Deluxe Reverb is the greatest diva in the amp world when it comes to speakers. It can sound horrible, average or glorious depending on which speaker you put in, and there are not too many that make it sound glorious.

For the custom 68 vibro champ reverb would you recommend the g10c or the red g10c/s?

The G10C is a 8ohm speaker? The vibro champ has a 4watt stock speaker.I understand the G10C sounds better but i wonder if the impedance mismatch has drawbacks? Why did you not chose a ET10 4 ohms? I am considering buying the vibro champ and first action will be speaker swap...

ET-65 is based on G12-65 from the early 80s

Hi Lyle, I’ve just received a second hand Custom ‘68 Vibro Champ (original owner bought it new on January) and it sounds dull, also reverb doesn’t sound like it should, only quiet, short and like very far away. There’s a hum too in the background that doesn’t go away. What would be your bet on what’s going on with it? Thanks!

What do you think about the eminence legend 1058 for a replacement 10” speaker?

put a Weber 8 in the Champ.

Vibro Champ...

? Question. Is it worth buying a 1971 or 79 Fender Champ?

Witch speaker do you recommend for a custom 68 princeton?

If they can put a tank in the blues Jr they should put one in the Vibro champ, especially for the price. Bummer...

What model is the blue one

That is bad example of a Vibro champ reverb. I have one and i put in the same GWS and it sounds so much better… clearer and fuller. Sweeter.

The overdriven tone on the blue Deluxe Reverb (~ 2:30) sounded very harsh & unpleasant.

Throughout the ages Fender has put the cheapest junk speakers in their amps except for the early tweed amps. Do you think any of these are worth the new price?

Fender puts a lot of pure garbage speakers in their amps today, and Jensen's of the 1960s were USA made. The Jensen speakers of today are made by Sica of Italy. I have a stash of real Jensen P10 or P12Rs, Qs, Ss, Ns, and C8-C15 Rs through Ns. The old Jensen P12S or C12S had tiny motor magnets. They were okay for 12 Watts and under.

My new stock Vibro Champ sounds a lot better. I think there is still something wrong with that one.

Destupidfied lol

Thank you once again for exposing these subpar problematic amps. Amps are like guitars, Ya have to do your research and spend a nice chunk of change to get quality guitars and amps. Fender is really dropping the ball, even with their new $3000 HW amps. I will be steering clear of them from now on.

A friend had a Boss Katana and a Vietnamese made "Marshall" amp with about 100 different effects on board of the Marshall and both to me sounded 🤮!