GEAR REVIEW
FENDER TONE MASTER DELUXE REVERB | Doug Doppler
cautiously optimistic when I first heard about THE SOUND
the Tone Master series – until I plugged into I recently read a comment that too many gear
• Classic Fender Tone the Tone Master Deluxe Reverb. Hearing was demos on YouTube focus on high-end gear, and
• All-digital literally believing, holy wow! that really resonated with me. So, if you haven’t
KEY FEATURES
• 100 Watts
played a Deluxe Reverb, I can tell you they have
These all-digital amps are a completely different a lovely clean sound, classic Fender reverb, and
• Power Scaling kind of modeling endeavor, especially coming are a great pedal platform. Weighing in at 23
• XLR Out with Ground Lift from Fender. This amp is designed to look, pounds, they are also much kinder on the back
sound, and feel just like the Deluxe Reverb, and than a Vox AC30, thanks in part to the single
it does precisely that. I seriously thought about twelve-inch speaker. Depending on the output
• Footswitch Included
selling my ’65 Deluxe Reverb reissue, that is of your pickups, the power amp tends to break
Fender took a big gamble when they doubled until I put the two of them together in one rig for up somewhere between 4 and 6, giving you
down and produced digital versions of the this month’s Worship Guitar Show! more of an overdriven than distorted sound. In
Deluxe Reverb and Twin Reverb amps. I was
96
my opinion, you get a more pleasant breakup
March 2020
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