Reissue '57 Fender Deluxe owner comments

[shuie]

It's been a while since we have had a thread about these. I'm not talking about the 5E3 quasi boutique clones or kit builds, I mean the recent Fender reissue. There were a ton of threads leading up to and shortly following their release at the 2007 NAMM show, but I don't recall seeing much discussion about these amps for a good while

Question for the owners of this amp: What do you think of it 1-2 years later? Other than tubes & speaker, have you modified anything like the signal caps or other parts for a better sound? I found one locally that I'm looking at. It's cheap enough to at least try it out.

I'm very aware of the great non Fender 5E3 builds & kits and I'll do a comparison of a kit or hand built 5E3 later on if I buy the Fender, but for this thread, I'd just like some input from owners of the Fender reissues.

TIA

[korby]

I'd like to know also .

[MeMota]

Ditto

Anyone replaced one of the two 12AX7's that Fender put in theirs back to the "normal" one 12AX7 and one 12AY7?

[Peppy]

I had one...switched out for a Swart AST-PRO. Indeed I put the 12AY7 upfront. Added a touch more headroom. Changed out the speaker to a G12H30. A bit more headroom. At the time I was only using single-coils so I have no idea how humbucking pickups would do, but I think it's easy to extrapolate how they would drive it a good bit harder.

[itgoesto11uc]

I still love mine and haven't changed a thing. I've had several originals over the years and to me me the biggest difference is the original speakers with thousands of hours on them.

[adnan76]

I've only had mine for a short time, but love it. There is a huge difference between how a humbuckers drive it compared to single coils. With my Les Paul, the Ch1 Instrument input will start to break up very nicely with the amp vol on 3. With a Tele, you need to crank the amp up a good bit more (which, interestingly increases the breakup more, but not necessarily the loudness). Great amp.