In addition to talking about all the good things Mercury Magnetics has brought to the industry and guitar players, he talked about what some of the cutting edge builders are doing. Paul is a guitar player first and foremost and his enthusiasm for great tone is infectious. Although Sergio wasn’t in, Paul spent almost 1.5 hours talking with Mikey and me about their power transformer and the rest of their iron. We called Mercury in the late afternoon, four days before I was due to pick up my amp. We decided to get Paul on a conference call and to also see if we could speak to Sergio. This certainly piqued my interest so I got in touch with Mikey and discussed Paul’s comments. Paul once again encouraged me to talk to Sergio. These characteristics are a very important factor for the player that wants to nail the tonality of the vintage Blackface Deluxe Reverb amp. Characteristics that make the reissue PT different than the original PT involve flux density, AC regulation and primary inductance.
The stock reissue PT does an OK job of supplying the required voltages to the circuit however the overall PT’s behavior under working conditions is not the same as the original vintage Deluxe Reverb PT. Here’s a paraphrase from the email he sent me: He wrote me back with an interesting bit of information I had never considered. I did let Paul know I’d add a comment in this article saying I’d heard from Mercury and the PT would make a big improvement in the tone. I really appreciated the helpful suggestion but I hadn’t ever heard of a PT making a difference in tone, thinking the other pieces of Mercury iron would make 90% of the improvement. Paul invited Mikey and me to give Sergio Hamernik (an owner of Mercury Magnetics) a call to discuss the benefits of the power transformer. He also took a moment to let me know in addition to the other Mercury iron I was using, their power transformer would make an improvement in the tone of my amp. Shortly after sending out an email to Mercury, I heard back from Paul Patronete who graciously gave the OK to link to their site. This included Mercury Magnetics since Mikey was putting their output transformer, reverb transformer and choke in my amp. How this came to be makes for an interesting story.Ībout 10 days before I was scheduled to pick up my amp at Mikey’s shop, I sent out emails to all the companies that I linked in this article. As I mentioned earlier in the article, I had not originally intended to use a Mercury Magnetics power transformer (PT), electing instead to save a little money and use the stock DRRI PT.
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