THE REVERB KING
The Reverb King Double Dee-Luxe
As reviewed by John Seabury in
The Guitar Magazine
(Vol 8 No 12 - September 1998)
"...the depth and satisfying tone will have you playing for ages."
Selected Reviewers comments:
"The chassis carries quality hardware...delve into the complex interior and you'll find carefully selected components hand-soldered on a modern parts board. The soldering's neat and effective and overall the construction is painstaking"
"The amp is simple yet versatile, producing bold, toneful sounds, nicely graduated overdrive and rich, toneful reverb. Clean tones are solid and well controlled, with fine low string definition and sustain. The midrange is warm giving good articulation without any razor sharp edge. Class A sounds smooth and squashy with a thick midrange, while Class AB is glossier and louder and exhibits extra bottom and top.
With extra volume and gain the amp really springs to life, giving colourful, top-class crunch tones with bouncy dynamics and a natural clear-to-distorted transition. Class AB is great for ringing chord work and wiry riffs, while Class A produces easier self-contained distortion (humbucking rockabilly rythmn work sounds great). Bright gives extra raunch, plus a hint of brittleness with single-coils, ideal for impolite sounds."
Class AB is the top spot for mixing preamp and power amp distortions... at 32W, though, the extra depth and the satisfying tone will have you playing for ages...32W provides pretty butch sound levels."
With more gain and volume, blues and boogie styles are well catered for, while rocky lead and powerchords are even within the amp's reach. There's plenty of attack and aggression. Full channel volume gives a nice elastic-like feeling with poky tone, while boost provides extra juice, fatness and sustain for singing solos with harmonic feedback. On Class AB, via bright, the amp is raucous and naughty"
As
befits its price the Reverb King is handsome and well-made, with a fat,
easily-overdriven sound which belies the tweedy look. For big gigs a straight
50W version might be a better bet, but there are lots of interesting sonic
variations available on this existing Double Dee-Luxe"