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Kustom with a Fender '63 Reissue Reverb box [message #26217]

Fri, 30 June 2017 09:32

vintagefan
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Registered: March 2014
Location: Dallas

Senior Member

Thought I'd share this experience with you,,,,These Kustom's tones keep amazing me.
To preface, I only play Fender Telecasters into my left channel of my Kustoms.

My Kustom's reverb is excellent, but I wanted to experiment with a lot more reverb doing the early 60's surf sound.
I bought a Fender '63 Reissue Reverb box. It has tons of reverb with some slapback sound, long decay, and a bit of delay.

But what has really amazed me is when I plugged the Fender '63 Reissue Reverb box into my Kustom K100C-8 4x10's right channel(top input), and adjusted the Kustom and the Reverb box to sound just like my regular non surf sound on the left channel. I get a little bit of noticably compressed sound, more touch sensitive, much more blended evened out sound, more sustain, and a very clean sound.....It's like the Telecaster practically plays it's self.

I'm not a tech, But I'm thinking this little bit of compressed sound is due to the Fender '63 Reverb Reissue box's three tubes, and whatever is inside the Kustom interacting with the reverb box.

I have also found, that when plugging any pedal, eq box, reverb box, or guitar into my Kustoms, if I turn these devices down 10% or 20%, the Kustom's tones become cleaner and sweeter.

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