My brother just brought this beast home!

Midnight Toker

Midnight Toker

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Got it from a guy from work. $200. Basically a 100w twin w/ 6 speakers just from a quick look inside. Never really seen one of these in person.

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My neighbors are really gonna love me now!! Def needs caps from a quick fire up. It works, but barely as it should. Says it was his fathers who played in local bands in the 60’s-70’s and hasn’t been used in probably 20 yrs.
 
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Smoking deal. Even with a re-cap job.

There are reversible ways of taming Twins which can make the amp more versatile. Pulling two of the 6L6s reduces things to about 40 Watts if I remember correctly. I had friends who would do this when they had to play in smaller clubs.

 
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I have always like the sound of multi speaker cabinets with smaller speakers.

I have a Crate 4x6" and used to have a Traynor bass rig with a 8x8" cabinet.
 
They are great amps. That was my first decent amp. I bought 1976 Super Six second hand in 1979 along with my new, at the time, S300D. Have since sold both many years back. Wish I had them both still. That's what happens in those teenage years. Although I did become almost a Guild exclusive player. Traded up the S300D for a new 1983 Starfire IV with factory XR-7 pickups. Most other brands and models of guitars I've bought over the years were eventually sold as they couldn't match my Guilds... How did I get off on a Guild tangent? :)
 
Bernie said:
A 100 watts twin with 6 speakers !!, that's rare, almost incredible ; sell it to Fender for their museum, and get a Custom made brand new Strat or Tele and a new 65 Reverb Deluxe in return. :giggle: (or sell in to Neil Young !)
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Not common, but there are probably more of them than people who want them. The chassis is absolutely identical to a Twin Reverb (other than the faceplate). Speakers are 8 ohms, with three parallel circuits of two speakers in series. 5.3 ohms was considered 'close enough' to 4.

Same with the Quad Reverb, although I think that used four 16 ohm speakers in parallel. I believe they're the only Fender guitar amps that came stock with casters.

Many of both beasts have been converted to Twin Reverbs by peple who don't want the extra 25+ pounds of weight.
 
I asked a flipper buddy about it. His response:

Ah, the mighty super six. I hate that amp. It’s the best thing I’ve ever heard and I still hate it. I had one with a clamshell roadcase. It was the worst object I’ve ever had to move. Worst than a Hammond B3.
 
GAD said:
I asked a flipper buddy about it. His response:

Ah, the mighty super six. I hate that amp. It’s the best thing I’ve ever heard and I still hate it. I had one with a clamshell roadcase. It was the worst object I’ve ever had to move. Worst than a Hammond B3.
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I love it. (Focusing on "best thing I've ever heard", and discounting the rest. Once this beast gets a spot in the basement, that's where it will stay.😉) plus, I regularly have to lift things at work much heavier than this thing. It's heavy, but honestly, the single handle of a twin weighing on just one arm IMHO is worse than this with two handles giving more weight distribution. Plus it has casters on it's side.

My main excitement is in it having a master volume. (Which a twin "should" have but doesn't) I can still get some grit out of it without breaking any windows in the house. 🤓 All the speakers are still in great shape...which is a suprise for 25 years in a non climate controlled garage.

Already ordered caps and tubes....and a new verb/trem footwitch. More pics coming, once I do a thorough cleaning.
 
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GAD said:
I asked a flipper buddy about it. His response:

Ah, the mighty super six. I hate that amp. It’s the best thing I’ve ever heard and I still hate it. I had one with a clamshell roadcase. It was the worst object I’ve ever had to move. Worst than a Hammond B3.
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This is an amp to safely ensconce in one place & never move again. This is what Midnight Toker is planning by the looks of it. Wise move & great score!
 
Rocky said:
.... Speakers are 8 ohms, with three parallel circuits of two speakers in series. 5.3 ohms was considered 'close enough' to 4.
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Actually it is quite close enough - because speaker impedance vs frequency curve.

In open air - or open back cabinet or closed cabinet wo ports it looks typically like this.

Notice that the nominal impedance actually exists only at three frequensies.

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Nuuska said:
Actually it is quite close enough - because speaker impedance vs frequency curve.

In open air - or open back cabinet or closed cabinet wo ports it looks typically like this.

Notice that the nominal impedance actually exists only at three frequensies.

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That also, because there's an acceptable range of primary impedences for a given set of operating parameters.

Unless of course, you use stupid amounts of negative feedback (I'm looking at you Jim Marshall/Ken Bran/Dudley Craven).
 
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