Fender Deluxe Amp

The Fender Deluxe Guitar Amp by Fender was produced from early 1948 until 1966. Its predecessor was the Fender Model 26 Woodie was produced from 1946 to 1948.

Tweed Deluxe

The Fender Deluxe amp of the 1950s was a "medium - powered " device, designed for guitarists in smaller groups. As blues, Western, and rockabilly bands began to get louder and louder, the overdriven sound of a " wide-open " Deluxe found its way onto countless live performances and recordings. In recent decades, players of all imaginable styles have this tone machine used because of their distinctive rich tube sound.

The earliest version of the Deluxe was the 5A3 and it is often mentioned that he had similarities with the front of a TV set (TV front ), due to the wide aperture around the grill trim around, which corresponded to the appearance of the television sets in the 1950s. This was also true for the smaller students and studio amplifier Fender Princeton, which was introduced in 1946 and modernized in 1948. Later versions of the Deluxe were the Wide Panel Cabinet Design 5B3, 5C3 and 5D3, followed by the Narrow Panel Cabinet 5E3. The Deluxe was the most popular of the products manufactured by Fender Tweed amplifier.

It is relatively small with a 12 inch speaker. He has four inputs and two channels. Each channel has a volume control. Both channels share a tone control. The inputs and controls are mounted on the top of the amplifier. He is often referred to as the Tweed Deluxe because of his disguise - a light brown material, which is actually a cotton twill and often painted.

At the time Leo Fender amps produced with the intention that the amp stays clean even at high volume levels the sound. The Tweed Deluxe is not known to provide a clean tone at high volumes, and therefore he was seen as a repeater. Ironically, however, is precisely the saturated tone that this amp produces at higher volumes, the reason why he became one of the most famous amplifier, the Fender has ever made. It is part of the "signature sound " of many musicians, a few notable examples are Larry Carlton, Don Felder, Billy Gibbons and Neil Young.

For a Fender amp unusual, has the Deluxe (models 5D3 and 5E3 ) both reduced a feedback and a cathode connected output stage ( a unique combination which he shares with the Vox AC30 ). Most push-pull Fender amps use a worn- out of the speaker winding of the output transformer feedback so as to allow more headroom before the power amp distortion begins, and looking for more volume they use the more efficient "negative voltage biasing" (What also the tubes of the power stage operates at a lower temperature ). These aspects of the circuit represents a considerable contribution to the complex, wild and ragged sound of an overdriven 5E3 Deluxe, especially compared to other Fender amps. The former 5C3 model used feedback, although it also worked using cathode bias.

The amplifier has a 5Y3 rectifier, two 6V6GT power tubes operating in the push / pull mode, and a 12AY7 and a 12AX7 in the preamp. The output is rated at about 15 watts.

There are companies that make the copies or variants of the amplifier; either as kits or as a complete amplifier.

Brown Deluxe

Between 1959 and 1961, Fender began with the "re- presentation " of several of its existing amp models by placing them in a light brown material known as Tolex, clothed. In addition, the control surfaces of the upper rear of the housing are moved to the front. These amplifiers as the Brown or Brown Face Fender amps called. The Deluxe was one such model that this transition took place in 1961. The circuit is also modified to insert a tremolo effect, and the output was increased to approximately 20 watts. The combination of the preamp tube has been changed to a trio of 12AX7, and the rectifier was changed to a more potent GZ34 tube. The pair of tubes 6V6GT remained the same, although the circuit architecture has been changed to a "non- variable solid state " to " cathode ." The circuit number was changed to 6G3 and Fender built and dressed continually Deluxe with this circuit and presentation until 1963.

Blackface Deluxe

Between 1963 and 1964 Fender again modified the appearance of their amplifiers. The color of the tolex coating was changed to black, and the control buttons of which were, to those who have the level numbers on the regulators themselves, modified with pointers that point to the level numbers of the control surface. This type are referred to as the " blackface" amp called. The Deluxe was given his new look in 1963 and once again the circuit name has changed; to " AA763 ". The preamp of umbeschrifteten normal and vibrato channels was given a full 12AX7 and the oscillator for the tremolo effect, a 12AT7 tube as a phase inverter, and individual bass and treble controls instead of individual tone controls for each channel. The output circuit was maintained, but a potentiometer was added to make the adjustment of the bias voltage easier. The output was further increased to 22 watts.

As a Fender Deluxe in 1963, redesigned, a by- model was developed, which had a built-in spring reverb in this way came about the birth of the Fender Deluxe Reverb. While the Deluxe Reverb for many years continued to expand during, Fender broke the base Deluxe model from the year 1966.

Reissues

In the years from 2007 to 2012 put Fender 's Custom Shop department the 5E3 Deluxe in its original tweed appearance under the name Fender '57 Deluxe Amp scratch.

In 2012 Fender launched an Artist Signature model whose circuit is based on the 5E3, but with the addition of a tremolo effect. The model bears the name Fender Eric Clapton (or EC ) Tremolux.

In 2014, Fender 's Custom Shop introduced a top version of the 5E3 Deluxe in their product line up, called Fender '57 Deluxe Head.

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