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began life in 1946 as a six-watt, 1x8 combo with a wooden cabinet. It subsequently evolved into more powerful and higher-gain forms through the tweed and brownface eras, before it became the iconic blackface model of 1965, which, with its cleaner sound and addition of spring reverb, made it an amplifier prized by session guitarists and working players alike. So the logical process of evolution means that the Tone Master Princeton Reverb now makes its debut as a digital version of the tube-powered classic, giving

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