My favorite Fender amps (used with 60/61/62 Strats) were Black and later 70’s (75-76?) Silver faced Champs/with add-on Fender reverb tanks (miked through a PA for gigs).
Black face Princeton Reverb (still miked for medium sized rooms) and Deluxe Reverb (could play straight (no PA) for smaller venues.
Always loathed the Super Reverb (loud/clean, but no soul), and owned two.
If my Strat/amp combo could not pull of the "chime" thing that a good mating could do I was not interested.
Oddly enough I played through a Leo Fender Musicman amp in the early 80’s with my last remaining Strat (63) @ a local Guitar Center when looking for a guitar for a friend’s young son and the sound was killer (SS preamp/tube power amp maybe, but not certain).
I may have had the first "master volume" in a Champ that a neighbor/electrician modified in 1965, or so.
It was a few electrical parts wired to a volume pot hanging off/taped to the back of the amp (he wanted it to be completely reversible).
It allowed me to achieve sustain @ much lower volumes when practicing.
He (Don Burns) was also into HiFi.
Owned various other guitars, but my favorites were always the Strats, plus an oddball Ibanez PF-300 that I picked up (for its easier action) after breaking the crap out of my left hand.
Addendum:
Think I've posted about if before, but in the late 70's/early 80's I used "special' Mesa Boogie hookup wire for speaker wire.
It was only supposed to be used for repair of their amps, but a friend/musician who worked @ a local shop gave me a partial roll for such use.
As far as I recall (40 years ago - thank you) it had a Blue covering/clad and was perhaps 16 gauge /stranded.
The Mesa guy did something with HiFi in the 80's but I forget and am too lazy to look it up.
DeKay
Black face Princeton Reverb (still miked for medium sized rooms) and Deluxe Reverb (could play straight (no PA) for smaller venues.
Always loathed the Super Reverb (loud/clean, but no soul), and owned two.
If my Strat/amp combo could not pull of the "chime" thing that a good mating could do I was not interested.
Oddly enough I played through a Leo Fender Musicman amp in the early 80’s with my last remaining Strat (63) @ a local Guitar Center when looking for a guitar for a friend’s young son and the sound was killer (SS preamp/tube power amp maybe, but not certain).
I may have had the first "master volume" in a Champ that a neighbor/electrician modified in 1965, or so.
It was a few electrical parts wired to a volume pot hanging off/taped to the back of the amp (he wanted it to be completely reversible).
It allowed me to achieve sustain @ much lower volumes when practicing.
He (Don Burns) was also into HiFi.
Owned various other guitars, but my favorites were always the Strats, plus an oddball Ibanez PF-300 that I picked up (for its easier action) after breaking the crap out of my left hand.
Addendum:
Think I've posted about if before, but in the late 70's/early 80's I used "special' Mesa Boogie hookup wire for speaker wire.
It was only supposed to be used for repair of their amps, but a friend/musician who worked @ a local shop gave me a partial roll for such use.
As far as I recall (40 years ago - thank you) it had a Blue covering/clad and was perhaps 16 gauge /stranded.
The Mesa guy did something with HiFi in the 80's but I forget and am too lazy to look it up.
DeKay