Rickenbacker TR25 Nice Little Amp 1978 First Year

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rcboals
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Rickenbacker TR25 Nice Little Amp 1978 First Year

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Bought this on impulse at a black Friday Music Store sale for $50.00 SCORE!!!!. :D Took it home cleaned it up. I got to say it is a very nice sounding amp. I will do a YouTube later and post it. After research this is a 1978 according to the serial number. The speaker is a CTS 12" dated 50th week of 1976. It has an aluminum dust cover with felt in the center hole. The amp has a very nice clean tone with the tone controls responding to tweaking and very usable. This amp has a "master volume knob" the later ones say "distortion'. The master volume knob is an on and off knob and is a distortion not a true master volume. The mater/distortion sound pretty good at 2-3 for a light over driven sound crank up and it sound like the ****** solid state fender distortion we all know. The reverb is ok and will do the trick but not surf territory like Fender and the tremolo is pretty darn nice all the way around. Anyway the guts look like this thing was made with very good quality heavier parts and and since it has lated 35 years I think it may be good to go some more.
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Re: Rickenbacker TR25 Nice Little Amp 1978 First Year

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Cool!

I bought one of these on Ebay last week myself, although mine is from 1983... Cost was $50, shipping was a $100 - so you got a better deal then me.

http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... =29637&bl=
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A neat solid state amp - mostly stronger on clean tones... Reverb and Tremelo is great... The Distortion is not so hot...

I mostly play through a Pod 2.0 anyway - so a clean little amp was what I was looking for.

I am pleased...

Also I wanted the "winning combination". As I had a 1980 FG 620 12 already this completed the combination need in order to win!!

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Brian Morton
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in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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67 FG 625
74 JG 4000
76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
79 JG 4001
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
78 TR7
83 TR25
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Rickenbacker TR25 Nice Little Amp 1978 First Year

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Good deals on those amps guys, at $50 each !! :) :)
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You can't beat those deals with a stick! I have a TR25 too and it's a great amp.
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chuck_king wrote:You can't beat those deals with a stick! I have a TR25 too and it's a great amp.
Agreed! I am very pleased with my TR 25.

Looking at the vintage advert - I have now come to believe that a TR50 and a FG 620 12 are in fact the winning combination... sigh

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Brian Morton
A Rickenbacker Fan
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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67 FG 625
74 JG 4000
76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
79 JG 4001
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
78 TR7
83 TR25
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