Fender ’68 Custom Princeton Reverb
Model/Circuit Number: Fender ’68 Custom Princeton Reverb
Years of Production: 2013 – Present
Era: Vintage Modified
Configuration: Combo
Controls: Silver front facing w/ blue screened labels
Knobs: Black skirted w/ chrome center, numbered 1 – 10
Faceplate
- Front: Instruments 1 & 2, Volume, Treble, Bass, Reverb, Speed, Intensity, Blue jewel pilot
- Rear: Power cable port, 2A fuse, Power switch, Int speaker jack, Ext speaker jack, Footswitch jack, Reverb output, Reverb input
Cabinet
- Dimensions: 16″ H X 19.875″ W X 9.5″ D
- Handle: Vinyl strap w/ nickel plated caps
- Feet: Round black rubber
Covering Material
- Tolex/Tweed: Black Tolex
- Grill Cloth: Blue sparkle w/ aluminum drip edge frame
Logo: Grille mounted, raised, chrome & black script “Fender” w/ tail
Weight: 34 lbs.
Speakers/Load: 1 x 10″ / 8 ohms
Effects: Reverb, Tremolo
Watts: 12 Watts
Tubes
- Pre amp: 1.5 X 12AX7 preamp, 0.5 12AX7 phase inverter, 1 X 12AX7 reverb recovery & tremolo oscillator, 1 X 12AT7 reverb driver
- Power: 2 X 6V6GT
Bias: Fixed
Rectifier: 1 X 5AR4
Comments:
When 2 6V6 tubes put into a Deluxe Reverb puts out 22 watts, what limits this amp to only 12 watts with identical power tubes? If Fender put in an output transformer only rated at 12 watts, that’s the same error they made on the 15 watt Tweed Deluxe amps running a pair of 6V6 tubes. Why would they do that?
To create another model in the line of amps. Plus as power requirements increased models were renamed .The Deluxe tweed started as a 12 watt and eventually went to 22 watts. The Tweed twin started out as 35 watts and went to 135 watts!