Since my last post have spent some time with the DR, but had a business trip and ankle surgery (will be covered in another post).
Am enjoying this new amp for sure.
Compared to the 6L6’s this has more raspy snap to it and as expected less headroom. The classic Fender reverb and vibrato is all there as well. Need to pick up an official Fender footswitch. Past 4-5 start to get natural grit. Run through a pedalboard it matches well with a Rat, a Fulltone Fulldrive 2 as well as a few compression pedals. Worked on some C&W, jam type, and some ratty R&R all covered well.
Since I’m a mod junky already looking to change tubes and maybe speaker to get more headroom to keep it cleaner for longer. Saw a Steve Trovato video where he changed out all transformers to Mercury Magnetics on a 65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue, but that will wait. If I did tubes, speaker and transformers might as well just get a Twin Reverb.
Did another A/B (Star Touch) today with the Blues Deluxe mentioned beforehand with my ASAT JD-5 partscaster (thanks Mac) and justified the “need” for this because it “does have a totally different tone”
Ran against Boogie Lonestar Special last week as well.
- Problem posting pic from phone, will post pic later
https://imgur.com/a/xQzrKy5