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G's Bob Goffstein walks us through his latest review on the Fender Custom '57 Twin-Amp. This reissue is based on the '57 manufactured by Fender's Custom Shop, but features a few changes thrown in versatility's sake. The transformers and choke were built by Mercury Magnetics Company. The '57 includes four Sovtek 12AX7WCs, relabeled Groove Tubes 12AX7R, two Groove Tubes-6L6GE and two Electro Harmonix 5U4GB rectifiers. The speakers are 12" Eminence Alnicos designed by Ted Weber of Weber VST. In addition, this '57 reissue comes with separate Bright and Normal channels, each with its own preamp circuit, separate Volume controls and two jacks, followed by Treble, Bass and Presence controls that are common to both channels.

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kc on 12/28/2012	pretty sure this guy can play better than most of you.
mcguitar on 03/11/2012	Not the best review. Try setting the (tone & presence) controls half way up as a starting point, and bring the volumes up a little at a time. I own this amp & the amp you are reviewing sounds broken. Mine came with SEVERELY miss-matched output tubes (one drew 40ma the other drew 63). Shouldn't come that way at any price but they ARE tubes. Sometimes they just fail... A re-tube in mine & bias adjust to 43ma & this thing is as good as I've ever had. I don't need booster pedals, Crank the amp to about 4-6 (VERY LOUD!) and use the volume on the guitar to go from AC/DC to Keef to a huge clean tone. For smaller venues this thing is just too much horsepower. I need an attenuator. For what its worth, I play music for a living. Some nights it's 20 people sometimes it's 3000 people, this amp is better for the bigger rooms.
Lakely on 01/06/2012	You can`t sound good if you can not play! I have one and it sounds beautiful. How can guy like this do any review?
Earl on 12/20/2011	Sounded horrible! He just killed the twin.
SeanK on 11/15/2011	Jeeez - have some respect children... guy's just demo'ing a couple amps, giving a general idea of features; playing with a few tones. If any of you whiners were even half-decent players, or even semi-confident in your own skills, you wouldn't feel the need to belittle; you wouldn't be harshing on the guy, regardless of his technique or chops. Maybe one day when you get some class you'll see things differently. There's always someone else who will outplay you. Imagine if Satch, Vai, Ford or whoever you think is great - imagine if they went around criticizing, trash-talking and pointing fingers at every less-advanced player who was just enjoying playing, whether plinking out a few notes or shredding sweeps. You didn't have to watch. And if you can't figure out the general lay of the amp's tone from what he did, then you are lacking seriously in guitar amp aural extrapolation skills, which are pretty pedestrian (easier than playing guitar for sure). If you want to "beat" other players, then you're as kiddies playing dodgeball on the playground. The guy never claimed to be a pro guitar player (he's a journalist, after all), and if he's having a good time, power to him. Why tear the guy down, publicly even? Bunch o'munch's
Phil on 10/31/2011	Is this a joke - I've never seen such a lousy demo. Who is this idiot? He turns the bass and treble down to 1? He sets the volume past the break-up spot and leaves it there. He spends more time showing off his rubbishy guitars than playing... because he can;t play. And he has the shakes...
Mike-B'ham Al on 10/20/2011	WOW.I really agree with u guys! Crap sound and unimpressive demo. Anyone here ever heard of Kendrick Amps from Kempner Tx? True quality and dead on sound. Original Fender and western Electric circuits improved for better reliability and tone. Beats the hell out of this.
Jirka on 07/26/2011	oh jesus, such a crapy sound!!! first of all learn how to play, then review something. sorry to say this but this review is horrible.
Rouxeau on 11/23/2010	I have one of those guitars and its great with the stock pickups. I don't know why anyone would change them. I want one that amp badly lol
dennisl59 on 09/06/2010	I agree with the previous posters. Why, for the love of God, he's playing some mutt guitars. He should have a stock Strat, Tele or Les Paul Standard. Like most guitar players can afford and use to play live gigs. The Amp sounds like crap because of the Crap Guitars.

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