FENDER BROWNFACE DELUXE
1961-1963
Configuration: Combo
Power: 15 Watts
Effects: Tremolo
SCHEMATIC
LAYOUT
- Front Panel: "Normal" In, In, Volume, Tone - "Bright" In, In, Volume, Tone - Speed, Intensity, Pilot Light
- Back Panel: Ground Switch, Fuse, Power Switch, Speaker Jack, External Speaker Jack, Tremolo Jack
CABINET
- Dimensions: 21" x 17 1/8" x 9 1/2"
- Tolex: Rough Brown
- Grill Cloth: Beige Brown (Wheat)
- Handle: Raised Brown Leather
- Feet: Chrome Glides
- Knobs: Brown Barrel
- Hardware: Medium Chassis Straps 4 5/8''
SPEAKER
- Size: 1 x 12
- Impedance: 8 ohms
- Model: Oxford 12K5-6 (For more info, check out the Mojotone Replacement Speaker Guide)
TUBES
BUILD YOUR OWN
Brownface Deluxe Amp Kit
Brownface Deluxe Combo Cabinet
Comments: Early models had the baffle screwed in from the front. These models also had the channels reversed with the Bright channel on right and the Normal channel on the left.
8 comments
Everyone loves my 1961 Deluxe Reverb!
His name is “Spanky”.
He sports a Celestion Blue as recommended by Brophy Dale.
My gearhead friend brought over a bunch of overdrive type pedals to compare one day.
Spanky was on about 2.
When my friend determined which pedal sounded best, I had him take the pedal out and plugged guitar straight in.
Then we put Spanky on about 4 3/4 and completely blew away all those “best” pedals!
PS – By far the best tremolo on the planet.
The trem on the smaller brown Fenders (Princeton, Deluxe, Vibrolux) was bias vary, the trem on the “Pro Line” brown amps (Super, Pro, Concert, Twin, etc) was harmonic.
Is the tremolo harmonic or bias on the Deluxe?