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Rivera is not hype at all! Clubster 45!! Marshall and Fender both!

songsmith1950

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It is all true my friends and a lot more too.
You can get the clean Marshall and all the way up into Plexi country, including Bluesbreaker tone with these things.
But, you can also get Blackface Fender tones that will make you truly appreciate what they are and were. Clean Fender, driven Fender, doesn't matter, it is here in incredible quality.
38 pounds of joy with the special voiced Celestion.
EL-34's for power tubes. They do give it a stronger bottom end and to me a much nicer fullness. But again, you can still hear the Fender in there.
I understand what all of the Rivera hype is all about. The thing is it isn't hype at all. . . Play one and see.

Tom
 

GCDEF

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Glad it works for you. I've heard a lot of good things about the Chubster. I had much different results with a Fandango. I couldn't find a good tone in it to save my life. People actually came up to me at a gig to tell me how bad it sounded compared to my usual rig.
 

Mr. Papa

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Are you talking Clubster or Chubster? Are the two very different? I always found the Chubster to be good (really freakin good), but not great. Maybe the Clubster is better?
 

songsmith1950

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Actually started out with Clubster 45 and took it back today so I could upgrade to the Chubster 40 for the cost difference. Clubster used some FET's and two preamp tubes while Chubster is 5 12AX7's. Lots of difference. Also a better speaker and cabinet and more controls.
Will take more work to interpret controls on Chubster but to me is awesome.
 

Mr. Papa

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I liked it even better once I retubed the preamp (there's info about this on the web, somebody has a great website with recommendations that really worked for me) and put a Weber California speaker in it. I think it's a great amp, and I hope you get years of enjoyment out of it.
 

bbigsby

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I really wanted a Clubster 45. So bad I took out the cash and was ready to buy one used. Plugged in and tried it out and sadly had to walk away. It was allright but did not have that fender clean thing going on.

I was expecting the clean to sound like my Deluxe reverb and the dirty to sound like my old JCM 800. Yeah, kinda, maybe, but not really. Clean was too punchy and bright and did not sound quite right in the bass department. The Dirty sounded like a marshall but did not have the same fullness.

Does anyone else have the same opinon or was I trying a bad one? Don't get me wrong I am not dissing Rivera some people may like the more modern tighter sound, I guess I am more old school.
 

bigomw

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I love my old 55-12. I mainly use channel 1 (the 'Marshall' one) with my Gibsons. Sounds great. I have played around with the Fender tones too with a Strat. I don't think it nails the tone as good as my Blues Junior but for an all in one, portable gigging machine I think it takes some beating. I understand most Riveras have the same pre-amp set up? Just my thoughts.
 

grimlyflick

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+1!!!

I tried one in a shop a while ago and it sounded awesome!!!

:salude
 
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