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Fender Cyber-Twin SE
Harley Hexxe:
Hey Gang,
As a few of you know, I've been a fan of Fender amps since my early teens, and have owned and sold enough of them to stock the showroom of GC twice over.
I've still kept a few of my old Fenders that I liked the most, which would be my 1973 Vibrolux Reverb, Two Twins, and 1971 & 1972, and a 400PS with three Fender cabs to go with it, loaded with JBL's and Altec speakers.
On the more up-to-date side of Fender, I purchased a NOS Fender Cyber-Deluxe with a foot controller and paired it up with my '73 Vibrolux, which is one of the baddest sounding tone rigs I own. (Very happy with that one).
Last September, I drove down to West (by God) Virginia and bought a Cyber-Twin SE, just because I've been curious about having one and what kind of tones I could coax out of an amp like that.
As I stated in one of my posts about this amp, I wasn't impressed with the factory programmed sounds that were installed in it because they were thin and wimpy sounding, but I did manage to figure out how to make it sound more like a boss Twin should sound like by flipping one of the speakers out of phase. I've only had this amp out and messed with it about four times since I bought it.
Saturday, I was watching a Youtube video by Ragdoll, and listening to the guitar tone on a song called "Break You." Well, I pulled out the Cyber-Twin and did a little editing, and Wham Bam Thank you Ma'am, I nailed that tone in about 15 minutes! That rig was sounding SOOOOOO good, I wanted to keep playing all night! I had to keep the Master Volume down around "1" because it was getting late, but had I cranked it up, I would have been peeling the plaster off the ceiling! That amp can ROAR!
I think I'll be keeping this one. A little more time tweaking, and jamming on it, and it will be a killer combo amp that can hang with the best of them.
I'm also thinking about taking the direct outs from this amp, and plugging them into my '71 & '72 Twins. What a rig that would be :whoohoo!:
Harley 8)
Dante:
Nice! Glad you're diggin the Cyber Twin. I monkeyed around with one at a pawn shop and fount it quick/easy to edit too, but too damn loud to sound 'full' in the store. Need to turn it up past 0.5
Haha
rnolan:
Hey Harley :whoohoo!: :thumb-up: . I like your idea with the direct outs into the 2 twins, it's going to be loud :metal:
Harley Hexxe:
--- Quote from: Dante on August 16, 2021, 03:24:58 PM ---Nice! Glad you're diggin the Cyber Twin. I monkeyed around with one at a pawn shop and fount it quick/easy to edit too, but too damn loud to sound 'full' in the store. Need to turn it up past 0.5
Haha
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Hey Dante,
It is easy to dial in tones and such with the amp, what gets a bit tricky is when you try to dial in the effects. As I mentioned before, it's not as flexible as the Cyber-Deluxe in that respect. There are limited tweaking choices in the Twin when it comes to effect combinations. You can add and tweak single effects in this amp no problem, but combinations are preset and you can't do too much about that. However, I'm pretty sure I can live with that since there is also an effects loop that I can add effects pedals to. (Kind of defeats the concept behind the Cyber-Twin to begin with, doesn't it)?
--- Quote from: rnolan on August 17, 2021, 01:33:40 AM ---Hey Harley :whoohoo!: :thumb-up: . I like your idea with the direct outs into the 2 twins, it's going to be loud :metal:
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Hey Richard,
Getting loud is only part of the idea. The amp itself is already louder than a battlefield, but the idea I have about it is because of the stereo effects. You see, How much stereo separation can you get with a single 2x12 combo? But if I take the Direct outs and run each one to it's own amp, and separate them, that would give effects like ping-pong delays some air space to move through!
I already experience this with the Cyber-Deluxe and Vibrolux rig. It's cool as heck when you have a good tone going that seems to fill the room at a volume that is not overbearing, but then, when you add stereo effects like chorus and/or delays, you almost "feel" the movement through the air. I place those combos on either side of the drum riser, and that's more than enough to play with spatial dimensions.
Harley 8)
rnolan:
Hey Harley, either side of the riser will sound awesome :headbanger: . Decent space between amps (well speakers really) with a stereo set up really enhances the sound, if the cabs/speakers are to close they couple and also phase cancel etc. Sounds like a great buy, lots of fun to be had :whoohoo!:
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