What is a Fender London Reverb?

[dan]

Does anyone know anything about the Fender London Reverb? Is it all
tube? Does it have channel switching? Is it one of those Rivera designs?
What kind & size speaker does it have? How does it compare to the
Princeton II or Super Champ? Thanks in advanced.

[nuke]

It's a solid state amp.

I've got nothing good to say about them.

[Robert Whitaker]

Yuck! It's all SS.

I think I have seen them as heads and combos, certainly as a head.

You can't compare it to a Princeton II or Super Champ - totally
different animals.

The reason few people have heard of them is probably because they suck
although I have never heard one.

[Paul Brannon]

Actually, for SS it doesn't *suck* too bad. According to my music dealer
friend, Paul Rivera designed it, along with the Fender tube amps of the
time, and it compares with the Yamaha G-series SS amps which he also
designed. It does have channel switching, FX loop with level controls for
send and return, spring reverb with level knobs for each channel, and
footswitchable graphic EQ assignable to either or both channels, I think.
The lead channel with two gain knobs plus a master, with careful EQ-ing,
could sound fairly tube-like, or at least somewhat pleasant in an 80's sort
of way. I used one live, and a bit in the studio around '85- '86. I'm
using all tubes now, Matchless, Marshall, Fender, Boogie, but I have kept
the LR anyway.

PB

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[StratKat]

In article <39F4734C...@ashly.com>,

dan <sz...@ashly.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about the Fender London Reverb? Is it all
> tube? Does it have channel switching? Is it one of those Rivera
designs?
> What kind & size speaker does it have? How does it compare to the
> Princeton II or Super Champ? Thanks in advanced.
>
>

--
I had one of these and for a small practice amp they are ok i guess.
They CANT compete in a band setting though. No real volume. Tone was ok
for SS but nothing to write home about. 10" speaker is part of the
problem in my opp. Nice cute lil fender for posterity sake but nothing
to run out and buy unless you just want one.

Robby

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[George4908]

>I had one of these and for a small practice amp they are ok i guess.
>They CANT compete in a band setting though. No real volume. Tone was ok
>for SS but nothing to write home about. 10" speaker is part of the
>problem in my opp. Nice cute lil fender for posterity sake but nothing
>to run out and buy unless you just want one.

You must be thinking of something else because the London Reverb was a 1x12
combo, slightly larger than a Deluxe Reverb. About 75 watts, as I recall (I
had one).

[StratKat]

In article <20001027191116...@ng-ct1.aol.com>,

-- To be honest i remember mine as a 10 inch speaker single combo. and
the 75 watts was what it was listed but mine never seemed to make much
volume. I have pics if it though i kept for insurance and i'll go back
and look at them. I could be wrong though on the size i guess.

[StratKat]

In article <8tdl5o$v0e$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

--
ooooops! It was a 12 ( i checked my old pics ) nevermind....

[James Rossen and Dina Janzen]

How is this Jensen alnico with smaller magnet for blues?

[TimTube]

In article <8tg7ej$c2r$1...@news.inav.net>, "James Rossen and Dina Janzen"
<d...@ia.net> writes:

>How is this Jensen alnico with smaller magnet for blues?

It is only good for about 8 watts...

Tim
A great amp can make a lousy guitar sound great.
A lousy amp will make a great guitar sound lousy.
A great player will sound great with anything.

[grob...@gmail.com]

On Monday, October 23, 2000 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, dan wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about the Fender London Reverb? Is it all
> tube? Does it have channel switching? Is it one of those Rivera designs?
> What kind & size speaker does it have? How does it compare to the
> Princeton II or Super Champ? Thanks in advanced.

VERY late to this, but I can confirm that Paul Rivera designed the London Reverb. He personally gave me one in the early 80's (head plus 1 x 12" open-back cabinet). I have recently been troubleshooting and repairing it since several of the chips went bad (it's almost 40 years old now!). It's all solid-state. I replaced some of the op-amps with more modern versions and it runs much quieter now. The clean channel is pretty much classic Fender; the lead channel has controls out the wazoo and isn't bad for SS. It's fine as a practice/rehearsal amp. (Gearhead note: the lead channel has a bias pot so you can set the soft clipping to be either symmetric or asymmetric, more like a Marshall.)

There was also a Montreux model that was the same circuit with the 5-band graphic EQ removed.

I'm currently looking into putting a couple of small speakers in the head cabinet (it has a lot of empty space) to make a very portable practice amp.

[FirstName LastName]

On Monday, October 23, 2000 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, dan wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about the Fender London Reverb? Is it all
> tube? Does it have channel switching? Is it one of those Rivera designs?
> What kind & size speaker does it have? How does it compare to the
> Princeton II or Super Champ? Thanks in advanced.

I found it on a google search but not on Fender's site.

[FirstName LastName]

On Monday, October 23, 2000 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, dan wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about the Fender London Reverb? Is it all
> tube? Does it have channel switching? Is it one of those Rivera designs?
> What kind & size speaker does it have? How does it compare to the
> Princeton II or Super Champ? Thanks in advanced.

I have a Mustang™ GT 200 and a Twin Reverb. The Mustang being SS can do lots more than the stand alone Twin. I'd like to invest in some Marshal amps but at present I have no place to put them.

[FirstName LastName]

I saw two models on the google search.

[FirstName LastName]

It's all a bunch of Riff Raff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXbMB9R5-0

[Lord Valve]

On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 10:40:54 AM UTC-6, grob...@gmail.com wrote:

<snip shit>

Jeez, thanks for dredging up some 20 year-old bullshit
nobody here could *possibly* give two-thirds of a dead
rat's ass about. Just what we need.

Have A Really Nice Day, mmmmkay?

Lord Valve, ThD
Expert (fuck you)

[NoName]

On 9/24/19 11:40 AM, grob...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, October 23, 2000 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7,

A 19 year old posting

[FirstName LastName]

You face, the ass of a goat. One and the same.

[benj]

You couldn't find your own ass using both hands and a map, fagot Jewboy.

[BOB DISDELL]

On Monday, 23 October 2000 at 08:00:00 UTC+1, dan wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about the Fender London Reverb? Is it all
> tube? Does it have channel switching? Is it one of those Rivera designs?
> What kind & size speaker does it have? How does it compare to the
> Princeton II or Super Champ? Thanks in advanced.

Dan/Fender london reverb is a 100watt transistor amp designed by Paul Riveria to sound like a valve amp.Our guitarist has one and really rates it.It has 2 channels clean and overdrive with a graphic eq and loads of features.Bags of power and has a 4 way switch to change channels and switch reverb in plus graphic.I did have to replace some of the ics but most components still available.Comes with eithe single 12 inch speaker or 2 I Think 2 10 inch speakers.
Expect to pay around £200 for a fully working one.
bob

[Lord Valve]

The London Reverb is a conglomeration of cheap-ass parts that was
built to a price point that the suits at Fender (at the time) thought
people would pay for something that looked like a real Fender amp.
It absolutely does NOT sound anything like a valve/tube amp, and
people who play these are usually noobs who don't know any better.
For that amount of money, a basic valve amp (with a bit of wear on it)
can be had in most locations. TONE is the goal, not channel switching
or other bullshit whiz-bang features.

London Reverb = POO. Save your money up and buy a valve amp.

Lord Valve
Expert (fuck you)

[NoName]

you are kind of late - it is a 20 year old thread

[Defiant]

You just replied to a twenty year old thread, son. Get a clue.

Also, there is no SS amp that sounds like a tube amp. There is only
one SS I know of that has great tone, and I own the only copy.

If you had to replace some IC's, then the design is truly a turd. IC's
are not a component that fails unless it either runs stupid-hot (like a
lot of cheap graphics cards) or it's in a piss-poor design (like a lot
of cheap graphics cards, or Fender London Reverb amplifiers). It is
possible for an IC to have an issue that eventually causes the die to
fail. Seagate's metal migration issue from back in the 90's comes to
mind. But such failures usually take MANY hours. Far more hours than
a typical transistor amp owner would woodshed in twenty years. That
being the case, I'm going to declare the Fender London Reverb to be a
complete piece of shit without ever opening one up.

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