Reverend Gallery

Originally posted by Jon Silberman
Just tell her the truth: SSCs sound and play great, producing a happy and satisfied husband.

It worked on my wife!

The truth!!! Why didn't I think of that?!?! I'll have to try that more often.

[Greggy]

Just wanted to chime in as a former Hellhound owner. Joe Naylor is top notch in the customer service dept. I've called him on a couple of occasions. His compamy slogan is spot on. Great service and product.

[Orren]

Unless I'm blind, I don't see any options for lefty models on the Reverend site.

Needless to say, that sucks.

Orren

[Pedro58]

Jon, Jon, Jon... I don't know how to say this, but BB King said that thing about his mother first! As far as I know...

[Glenn_K]

Hey Jon, Great to see this new reverend topic here. Let's go cazy. Still pondering What speaker to use for my extension cabinet, connected to my Goblin. The Black Shadow Celestion you mentioned--plenty of low end? Now, I thought you said you had an Eminence in your 1x12 cab?

[Jon Silberman]

Originally posted by Pedro58
Jon, Jon, Jon... I don't know how to say this, but BB King said that thing about his mother first! As far as I know...

Pedro, Pedro, Pedro ... as John Kay (Steppenwolf) put it:

"Just before we go, I'd like to mention Junior Wells
We stole his thing from him, and he from someone else
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he plays the blues like few before
May he play forevermore"

In other words ... it's the blues, for cryin' out loud - it began with Adam and Eve!



On an unrelated topic, when I referred a person who posted a Reverend-related gear question on a different forum to a thread in our Amps section, he replied by asking, "Do you find reviews on the GP more reliable than on H-C?"

[Jon Silberman]

Originally posted by Glenn_K
Hey Jon, Great to see this new reverend topic here. Let's go cazy. Still pondering What speaker to use for my extension cabinet, connected to my Goblin. The Black Shadow Celestion you mentioned--plenty of low end? Now, I thought you said you had an Eminence in your 1x12 cab?

Hi, Glenn! In my Reverend 1X12, I now have an Eminence Red Fang but I wasn't shooting for extra deep bass with it but rather chime (nice upper mids and treble but no icepick).

The MESA 90W Black Shadow is in my Traynor YGM-3 20W (2XEL84) combo amp as pictured below. In that amp, I was shooting for a combination of full/balanced and loud (powerful & efficient). The Black Shadow works like a charm there for that.

But you know, your post has me thinking. I have a 16 ohm Weber C12 California (the C standing for "ceramic magnet") that I used for a while in my Tone King Continental that has an absolutely sick bass response, sick being as in JBL-like.

Two questions for ya. One, does the Goblin have a 16 ohm speaker output jack like the Hellhound and Kingsnake? And two, were you planning, when running the Goblin through your 1X12, to also use, or not also use, the stock 1X10?

If your answers are yes and not use, respectively, when you get your 1X12 you might want to try my Weber. As far as I'm concerned, you can borrow it to try and if you like it, make me an offer, if not, just return it.

Anyway, here's the Traynor:



P.S. Well waddaya know, I just happen to have a pic here of Glenn with one of his Revs.

[Jon Silberman]

Glenn, this is the speaker I was referring to (note the massive magnet).

[Jon Silberman]

Originally posted by Orren
Unless I'm blind, I don't see any options for lefty models on the Reverend site.

You know, you're right about the lack of lefties, I never thought about it before nor have I heard anyone else ID it. If you believe you seriously might want a Reverend guitar, call and ask, there's nothing to lose by asking (Rev's phone number is on their website).

[Glenn_K]

Jon,

yes, the Goblin does have 16 out and no, I wouldn't run the 10 at the same time, or at least I PROBABLY wouldn't. But I don't think I would want your entire combo amp.

Anyway, the Red Fang--I know you told me you had this before and it was before I had researched this stuff. Now I am interested in that speaker too. You see, I am not really looking for super-deep bass necessarily--really I just want a lot more than the Jenson/Alltone Reverend model gives. And the idea that the Red Fangs come close to Alnico Blues is attractive as well. But I have heard "don't expect a lot of low end from the Red Fang" which starts pushing me toward some of the other British Eminance speakers, so maybe they're not for me. The ToneQuest review of Private Jack basically says if you don't like that speaker it's YOU and not the speaker! LOL!

Question: does an Eminence speaker drop right into the Hellhound cabinet? Anyone know??

[Jon Silberman]

Do you mean literally into a Hellhound amp or rather into the Rev 1X12 ext. cab?

When I asked Joe about putting a Jensen Neo into the former in which the speaker is front-loaded, he replied that the baffle hole would need to be enlarged by around a 1/4" of diameter to fit it in.

The Rev 1X12 cab is rear-loaded so you can pretty much put any 1X12 in that one.

P.S. Rev 1X12's turn up on eBay every now and then. Search eBay for the words Reverend and Hellhound, completed listings and at least 2 will up now.

[Glenn_K]

I meant the Hellhound amp, since I have one--I've been using it as a cabinet, which has it's benefits because it serves as a backup amp in case the Goblin goes down. But it probably makes more sense to just get an avatar cabinet--much lighter and I can use the Hellhound for practice amp and sell my Peavey Classic 30--or vice versa and sell the Hellhound.

By the way, there was a 1X12 Reverend cab that just went on ebay for $280 which I think is way too high considering I would want to swap the speaker out.

Oh, one more thing--I took the metal tube guard off my HellHound and gained a little bass out of the amp (using it as a cabinet) not not a huge amount, but it's noticeable. Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else wanted to give it a try.

[Jon Silberman]

Glenn, you know, now that I think about it, if you get a chance to run your Goblin through a MESA 1X12 cab with the stock Black Shadow, I'll bet it's close to if not exactly what you're seeking.

The reason I say this is for a few months, a couple of years ago, I had a THD Univalve which didn't overwhelm me either on the bass/headroom side of things. It sounded awesome, however, through my friend Vic's MESA 1X12, so much so that I ended up buying an unloaded Jenkins 1X12 and filling with it a Black Shadow.

When I sold the Univalve, the buyer (Carl Werkmeister, a BAM regular) also bought the Jenkins cab with the Black Shadow. I always missed that speaker though, so when I was looking for another one for my Traynor, I contacted Carl and the necessary arrangements were made to return that speaker to daddy.

This is the cabinet I'd advise for you. Don't be fooled by its diminutive size - it kills.

1x12 Boogie Open Back Cabinet

Additional Features & Options:
1x12, 90 Watts, Celestion Custom 90 Speaker, 8 Ohms

15 1/2" x 19" x 11" 38lbs.

[Avenger]

Another Reverend fan checking in... I have an Eastpointe Avenger (three strat style pickups) and a limited edition Hotshot Jr. (single Rio Grande P-90). You can see my guitars in Jon's group shot (I'm next to Mike with the black and white guitars). I also have a Hellhound and a Drivetrain II.

Originally posted by Pedro58
Yeah, I realize that you don't have the models I'm asking about, but maybe others will chime in. It seems that a p90-style pickup is the perfect match for these guitars. Did you change to any after-market p90's or are the stock ones good. It's my opinion that it's hard to screw up a p90!

I can tell you my impression of the stock p-90 vs. the Rio Grande. The Rio Grande is a bit hotter and a little darker. I've heard some complain it is too dark, but I disagree. I think you still get a good amount of high end sparkle when you roll the volume back a little. With the volume rolled back the Rio Grande sounds similar to the stock P-90. The benefit of the Rio is that extra crunch with a little bit of compression when it is cranked. It gives a very full classic rock sound.

Terry:RoCkIn

[Glenn_K]

Thanks Jon, the Mesa cabinet looks good. And in the meantime, I'm spending my time reading the Eminence thread!

On another subject--how did Mike's Spy hold up in your Jam?