'64 Vibroverb

Few amplifiers have earned a place in music history quite like the 1964 Fender Vibroverb. Built on the AB763 circuit that defined the Fender blackface era, it combined lush spring reverb, hypnotic vibrato and the punch of a single 15" speaker. It was the amplifier Stevie Ray Vaughan made his own, the beating heart of his tone that has moved players to tears for decades. To play one is to understand immediately why it deserves its legendary status.

The Recreation

This amplifier began not with a soldering iron but with two years of obsessive research and collecting original parts. Original factory schematics, period photographs and technical documentation were studied in exhaustive detail before a single component was soldered, or a single cut made to timber. The result is a recreation faithful enough to honour the original, yet built with the understanding that some modern alternatives, particularly in capacitors, are simply better than their vintage counterparts. Where originality serves the amplifier, it has been preserved. Where modern excellence serves the tone, it has been chosen. The outcome is an amp that is visually indistinguishable from a 1964 original and tonally, this is the best amp I've ever played.