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Title: Fender Making a 64 Princeton.
Post by: Ed_Chambley on January 23, 2020, 09:20:10 am

https://shop.fender.com/en-US/guitar-amplifiers/vintage-pro-tube/64-custom-princeton-reverb/8181000000.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200123_64CustomPrincetonReverb_B&utm_term=fender&src=email04DT012320b&smtrctid=




Link to description and video.  I found an error in the Circuit Description.  Sounds right.

Title: Just some guy playing thru an amp
Post by: sluckey on January 23, 2020, 09:54:17 am

Hmm, I was expecting to see Carlitta actually wiring one of these.  :angry:

Title: Re: Fender Making a 64 Princeton.
Post by: Ed_Chambley on January 23, 2020, 10:28:52 am

Might be the wrong time period, but every once in a while Fender comes along and just steals a bit of the market with some sort of vague memory that somehow Princetons in 64 were cherished.  The bring a good dollar now, but I never used a 12 watt amp until 2000.  Yep, that is about the only thing Y2K took away.


Still like them tho.

Title: Re: Fender Making a 64 Princeton.
Post by: SILVERGUN on January 23, 2020, 10:34:50 am

You're much more well spoken in that video than I imagined.
How do you have time to wire those up and then shoot a video?
With the paint by number boards I imagine even Jimblob could cobble one of those together.  :dontknow:

I'm thinkin about doing a run of these for $2298
That's one better. I'll be rich!

Title: Re: Fender Making a 64 Princeton.
Post by: mresistor on January 26, 2020, 02:55:21 pm

...microphones worth more than the amp..    handwired  on a sort of pc board..    humm ....

Title: Re: Fender Making a 64 Princeton.
Post by: Bantam on May 14, 2020, 03:48:10 pm

Many years back I played in a original group where  the singer played a Tele and the white knob, blackface version Princeton. I played the silver with a 12in EV. Everyone used to rave about my tone, I just used a Thomas organ, rotovibe, old rat box, Sonic distortion and Tube screamer.

He plugged his tele straight into that white knob Princeton,  must have had some cord, because I had variety but his tone was just so completely right! I think it just had the tone knob, no TMB or TB. If it was a crowded 200 seater or up you could just drop a little microphone in front of them.  Mine would lose all stage volume but his you could still monitor yourself a little. You can even run them up on something then just step away from your microphone and get a little bleed from there.