Replace the reverb tank with a three spring 9AB3C1B. Reverb will be lush and controllable.

I’ve got one, I like it very much. I think people think it’s supposed to be a blackface sound, but it’s more brownface. The knobs.give it away.

Jesse, that is an interesting concept and one I haven’t considered. I recently purchased a 95 fender custom vibrolux reverb and it was not the cleanest of amps from abuse. As you know Fender builds a tough product whether its a guitar or an amp and I have a fondness for every product I’ve owned with the exception of SS amps. I have a short buzz that accompanies the played note, I don’t know why but I have to take it in to get addressed. Because of your post I am wanting to know more. I am familiar with the Moyer mod, I bought the amp because it was clean and pure at a low volume but the amp turns into a beast after 3 and thats quite loud for my ears (sensitive). I am interested in what you said in regards to “keep the reverb and tremolo intact”. I thought the Moyer mod’s main purpose was to get rid of the hiss which was mainly provided because of putting reverb on channel number 1? Could you elaborate more on your modded amplifier.

I brought mine home from Guitar Center — they knocked off $300 since it had been used as a demo in the VIP room. I did notice the hissing and the abrupt bumps on startup, but that’s just the nature of the beast until it’s modded with the proper components. Once modified, it has a totally different sound. This model doesn’t have the vintage tube rectifier, and after the mod, it loses the high-end hiss and low-end thumps. It becomes an even greater tone machine than the vintage versions! Keep the two-channel Tremolo/Vibrato and Reverb intact (they’re easily removable), replace the tone stacks with four key pieces, and you can turn it into a Super Reverb-style amp at 40 watts — or switch to a Bassman mode with a nice, biting tone while keeping the Trem and Reverb. It’s capable of excellent headroom, and with a lower-gain twin triode, you can use one channel for a Tele or Strat and the other for a Les Paul or SG. At 40 watts when tube-rectified, or 45 watts with the solid-state rectifier, it’s loud — and while that extra 5 watts may not seem like much, it makes a big difference in the breakup between 9 and 10 on the dial, giving it a beautifully sweet saturation.

Indeed, it is a noisy amp, but…it sounds amazing, very touch sensitive and more dynamic than say a ’65 Deluxe Reverb RI, ’65 Twin RI, Super Sonic 22, etc. The speakers really fit the sound of this amp. The reverb is a little thin and weak, but the tremolo is fantastic. Gets a little crunchy around 3. Very loud amp.