NAD: Supro Tremoverb

25W, no master volume. 6973 power tubes, which I think are like 6V6s?

I have a PRRI, but always felt it could use more mids. And better OD when cranked up. That, friends, is the Tremoverb.

Even tho it's 25 watts, they aren't loud watts, and I'd say it's more in the Princeton volume range than Deluxe Reverb. It's like a Princeton, but fatter and smoother, with better overdrive. More old-school sounding. Maybe that makes it more like the brown/blonde era Fenders? IDK. It's got:
-less treble than PR
-same amount of bass as PR
-more mids than PR.
-better/smoother OD when cranked (I always thought PRs sound like crap when cranked, they excel at clean sounds.,)

Also- with my Gretsch/Filtertrons-
it mates better than the PRRI does. Those pickups have alot of highs and lows. The PRRI has alot of highs and lows. I find the MIDS of the Supro better compliment the Gretsch. And no- "just turn the treble down" on the PRRI is NOT the same thing... I know alot of people here will think those comments sacrilege, but you have to bear in mind- I am not EVER going for a Chet Atkins tone. If that's what "That Great Gretsch Sound!" is, I'm not interested. I always like a little grit, I like fatness, and I like NON-ice-pick trebles. The Supro delivers on that very well, with the Hot Rod/Filtertrons. As well as the tele.

Obligatory pic-or-it-didn't-happen, sorry it's with the tele and not the Gretsch

 

...it didn't put me to sleep LOL...

Aesthetics... lol but yeah. They seem to be hard to find in shops, even tho they advertise up the wazoo in the guitar mags.... I just got lucky, local GC had one I stumbled across online

 

I toyed with the idea of getting one of their models with a master volume, but... I would have to bought it online, and I had no real idea what these amps sound like. Also, over the years I seem to prefer my Gretsch into amps withOUT master volumes, for some reason. But that's a discussion for another thread!

 

BTW this guy is the reason I got on this "quest" only 3 days ago...LOL. It's the fastest I've gone from "What amp?" to "It's sitting in my house" LOL.

 

It seems very few people have played the new Supros, even tho I remember seeing alot of ads in the guitar magazines for them? They seem to be "rare in the wild", so to speak. I'm so happy I stumbled upon a used one locally, because no one even carries new ones, and I hate buying an amp I've never played through mail... returning it is a PITA.

There's a good chance I'll be keeping the Supro and unloading the Princeton. Nothing against the Princeton, I just think I like the Supro a bit better... I always wanted a bit more mids out of Princetons (I even did the "mid mod" to my last one, as well as put in a Greenback 10 trying to get more mids out of it. The mid mod actually worked really well, and gave me the best of both worlds... but I still sold it, only because I got a Supersonic 22 and it did everything clean I needed (it had a middy-er, beefier tone, with it's "fat" switch on the clean channel).