Super Star

OFTEN VIEWED AS a tweed Bassman with reverb and tremolo, the iconic blackface Fender Super Reverb combo is really a model entirely unto itself, embodying elements from the musical-equipment maker’s best designs of the late ’50s and early ’60s.

Amplifier development was moving at breakneck speed at Fender in the early ’60s. In 1960, the company concluded its run of the tweed 4x10 Bassman combo, one of the greatest rock and roll amps of all time. Fender had already passed through its entirely new and short-lived line of brownface amps by late 1963 and early ’64, when