Fender Twin Reverb to HEAVY!! some alterations?

[teepeeasel]

Im going on tour soon and I wanted to make my fender twin lighter. So far i've removed the metal tilts on the side of the amp and I just removed 1 speaker. Ill be playing acoustic guitar through the amp, surprisingly it sounds awesome through 1 speaker.

Since I removed a speaker, should I remove tubes as well? Would I be over powering the one speaker if I leave the 4 power tubes and 6 preamps?

Any advice would be appreciated!

[RichardM]

Im going on tour soon and I wanted to make my fender twin lighter. So far i've removed the metal tilts on the side of the amp and I just removed 1 speaker. Ill be playing acoustic guitar through the amp, surprisingly it sounds awesome through 1 speaker.

Since I removed a speaker, should I remove tubes as well? Would I be over powering the one speaker if I leave the 4 power tubes and 6 preamps?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Go to the gym?

[Steve Conner]

+1, or sell it and get a lighter amp. Don't cut the balls off the poor thing.

edit: Hey, you could always replace the speakers for the new Neo magnet types.

[Gibsonman63]

There is a guy who shows up at one of my local sessions with a modified Twin Reverb. His father made cut it in half to make a head/cabinet arrangement many years ago because it was too heavy for him to haul arround. Of course this was done way before the amp was collectible and not recommended for an original vintage amplifier cabinet.

I picked a used Anvil type case with wheels for my TR for $150 from the CraigsList. Why not just invest in a case and roll the amp around? It would have a much better chance of surviving the rigours of the road intack.

[MWJB]

"Since I removed a speaker, should I remove tubes as well? Would I be over powering the one speaker if I leave the 4 power tubes and 6 preamps?" Remove the 2 outer power tubes (V7 & V10), this will restore impedance match and save you blowing your single speaker.

However, your Twin is also heavy because it need to heavy 100W transformers to work, depending on the year, the cab may also be unnecessarily heavy.

Don't cut/remove anything else. steve's suggestion for the neo speakers will help, but wont affect the weight of the cab/transformers.

+1 on Gibsonman63's suggestion of a head & cab. Buy a "head only" cab for the chassis, buy a light pine 1x12" cab for the speaker, makes the whole thing much more manageable, even with the 100W transformers. If you ever want to sell/restore the amp, just put all the parts back in the original cabinet.

[Krwkka]

I also like the sound of a Twin Reverb with a single speaker and as stated above popping out two tubes matches the impedance to a single 8 ohm speaker.

One very important ingredient of the TR sound is that wide cabinet. After experimenting with my TR for awhile I finally settled on a separate head cabinet with interchangeable baffles: one baffle is cut for a single speaker and the other for two speakers. That cab sounds great with my Deluxe Reverb, too! I was surprised at how much like the TR the DR sounds through that cab.

Good suggestion on the Neo speakers. I went with the Jensen Neo 12 speakers. Super lightweight and a single speaker is rated to handle 100 watts. The Jensens sound pretty good.

[ThermionicScott]

Go to the gym?

+1. Squats and farmer's walks are your friends.

- Scott

[Bruce / Mission Amps]

Im going on tour soon and I wanted to make my fender twin lighter. So far i've removed the metal tilts on the side of the amp and I just removed 1 speaker. Ill be playing acoustic guitar through the amp, surprisingly it sounds awesome through 1 speaker.

Since I removed a speaker, should I remove tubes as well? Would I be over powering the one speaker if I leave the 4 power tubes and 6 preamps?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Use a 4 lb, 8 ohm Eminence ACOUSTINATOR NEO magnet speaker with two 6L6s biased at about 15 watts each.
Eminence - The Art and Science of Sound