Fender 75.....anyone heard of these?.........

[Jerry Hayes]

I just aquired an old Fender 75 combo amp. I had one of these awhile back and now I have another one.... These were made in '81 & '82 according to a search I did. Mine has the blue label Fender speaker in it. They came in both a 12" version and a 15" speaker version. They're all tube and have a power switch to drop the power of the amp. The info I have is that it's a 75w amp full on and with the switch to "Low" it drops it to 15w. I took it to the gig the other night and it's strange but I didn't really like it with my pedal board plugged into it. I'd tried it out in the workshop just plugging straight into it and it sounded great. I unplugged the board and just went straight into the amp at low power and it really sounded nice. I think this might be a good blues amp but I don't see a future for it in country as for the clean country stuff my Peavey SS sounds better (with the effects board, not straight in) Anyone else ever have or use one of these........JH in Va.

[Bob Carlucci]

I had one with a factory EV 15 if I recall correctly.. heavy as hell for a medium size combo amp!!It was avery good sounding amp, plenty of power for most steel gigs, and really nice reverb.. probably a little less of that "classic" Fender tone, than I like, but it was still a Fender sound.. I also owned two of its big brothers over the years,, the Fender 140,,
140 watts RMS, all tube,,,

The 75 I had I teamed up with a 1970 or so Silverface bassman head into a Peavey Classic 115E speaker cab loaded with a 15 D130.. I had a great sound from that rig for both steel and 6 string... Too much crap to lug, but they sounded great together,. the 75 is a very nice vintage fender amp, but don't sell easily.. No one wants to give much for them for some reason... bob

[Tim Marcus]

I think its one of those Rivera Fender amps. They are usually handwired and easily moddable back to pre CBS circuitry.

My Rivera/Fender Bassman 20 has Carbon Comp resistors, orange drop caps, and the same teflon coated wire that Fender used in the Silverface amps. The phase inverter is a bit strange, but easily converted back to a standard pre CBS long tail. Also, there are a lot of ceramic caps in there to kill oscillations and hum that needed to be cut out.

I have reason to believe that this amp is similar - I bet with a few hundred dollars of work you'll have a very nice sounding little monster

schematic:
http://ampwares.com/schematics/fender_75.pdf

[Clyde Mattocks]

When Curtis wright played in Super Grit, he had one of these. If I remember correctly, it was touted to be Fender's answer to the Mesa Boogie. It was an okay amp, crunched up real easily, but lacking in the Vibrolux type warmth.

[Brad Bechtel]

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