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I Have A Fender Super Reverb Silverface. What Can I Do To Get A More Rock Sound And Less Bluesy Sound?

And if i get a Marshall Head will it work with The Fender? Cause my peddles take away from some of the classic sound. Would a head?

I’m not quite sure what you mean by making a Marshall head work with a Fender. If you have a Fender cabinet, and you get a Marshall tube head, then make sure you match your impedances. If it’s solid state, you don’t have to worry about that – just make sure it’s not too many watts for the cab.

If you get a Marshall head, though, it won’t sound anything like the Fender – it will sound like a Marshall. I mean, it’s a new amp, y’know?

It sounds like you’ve got some tone-sucking problems. Invest in a buffer pedal and google “true bypass”. A buffer pedal at the beginning of your signal chain and a signal chain full of pedals with true bypass will give you a very solid signal. Alternatively, if you get pedals that are buffered, you can avoid some of that tone sucking as well. I’ve actually installed buffer circuits in all of my guitars to avoid this problem – it gives me a better signal, and with a low impedance output I don’t have to worry about long runs of cable sucking my tone.

All Boss pedals are buffered. Begin and end your signal chain with Boss pedals and you’ll get much the same benefit.

As far as getting a more rock sound out of a Fender, get an overdrive/booster pedal, or get an overdrive/distortion pedal. With the distortion pedal, turn the gain waaaay down and the volume waaaay up and you’ve got a solo boost… or a way of overloading the amp’s inputs and getting a better rock tone, just play with the gain for a crunchier tone. A Proco Rat would be ideal for this, it’s one of the most common uses for a Rat.

Saul

Will McFarlane plays 55 Tele thru 67 Fender Super Reverb