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Gorgeous overdrive This 40 tube watts is loud. It will peel the paint off your garage doors. This is no Jazz players Amp. This is serious Blues amp. The Clean channel is a copy of the 1959 Fender Bass man with a bright switch. The overdrive channel is like a style SRV flavor Channel. Although it has no tremolo it has a pre amp out and power amp in for effects loop or Line out for recording. The Fender Jensen speaker is quite capable and has a smooth breakup like suede leather. It has plenty of power and an ext speaker jack to plug into a 2x12 cabinet.
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This is a very clean and twangy spring reverb amp with a lot of power. It stays clean (a lot of head room) turned all the way up. If you want an amp that doesn't get distorted or driven when you play loud this is the one for you. It's crunch channel isn't heavy and gives you a lot of control, for a 40 Watt amp that is amazing, at least in my experience. With that said, it also takes pedals really well. I can play metal through this thing and I could play twangy country back to back without issue, which makes it great for prog-metal, classic rock, jazz-metal fusion, etc. it is an all around great amp for playing small shows and jamming with a small or large group. The reverb and presence are superb. I've played Vox, and have a Line 6 practice. The vox AC30 is great and all but it doesn't match up against this at all. I'm seriously digging this, hooked up to my Pro-Fender Strat, My Ibanaz high gain, and my self-built high gain guitar. Seriously, This amp takes the cakeRead full review
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This amp is the real deal. Great sound from a combo/all-in-one amp. Excellent reverb, Channel-switching, Clean, super clean, all tube overdrive. 1-12inch speaker. I get all the sounds I need for country, rock, blues, and jazz (the second input offers a darker tone which is perfect for jazz). Plenty of volume, I also have a Marshall avt-50 Combo (the AVT does have a lot of excellent features not on the Fender, and also serves as my backup amp). The difference in sound is amazing. The Fender sounds more 'real'... warmer, fuller, bigger. The Blues deluxe 'RE-ISSUE' is much better than the hot-rod deluxe I had before. Playing a really big club? - get an extension cabinet, or mic it through the PA, or start building a Wall of Blues deluxe amps. With the tweed covering, it just completes a great amp with a great vibe.Read full review
We're all familiar with the volume pot problem with the HOT ROD Deluxe. Well here's a simple fix. Just put this in the effects loop, and instant relief. I used pedal board cables, but may do some custom shorter ones in the future. Now there is no sudden jump in volume. I have the Volume Box set about 1/4 and even at 5 on the HRX it's practice friendly. More importantly, with the amp opened up a little , it seems more alive. The plastic box is sturdy and the pot seems nice and smooth. Well worth the price.
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I've been playing guitar for 40 years and am currently using this amp to make a living in a top 40 rock and country band. Old to new we cover a ridiculous variety of music, and I do it all with a factory stock and original MIM FBDR. My amp sounds absolutely amazing! But only because I use a power soak (also known as a speaker attenuater) I turn the volume, master and drive to full, use little bass or treble but use a lot of mid, use the #1 input, and I use the drive channel mostly. WOW! It sounds as good as ANY vintage Fender amp! All that ice pick harshness people talk about....GONE! It's just classic amp tone! It seems magical. Roll the volume on the guitar back just a hair and it has sparkly cleans. Dime the guitar's volume and Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way is coming out of it. You know that 3D sound a cranked tube amp is capable of? This is it! The tone no distortion pedal can produce. The amp reeks of vintage goodness. You'd never know it wasn't a real cranked 1958 Tweed Deluxe just by listening to it. I didn't need a booster for leads really, but I used one anyways, and the soloing was CLASSIC Page, Hendrix, Eagles, etc. I'm really blown away. I was ready to throw down $3000 for an old Fender Tweed cause I was so frustrated with everything else. So now, I've been thinking....that the magic here is simply resistance in the power section. As an aerospace technician, I know a little about electrical resistance and how it increases in electrical windings with use and age. The FBDR is all a vintage Fender is, but without the TIME effect on it. Like a bottle of wine, an amp sound better with age due to the resistance build up in the windings that comes with time. The coil in the speakers too build resistance with age. You can't read high voltage resistance on your ohm meter, because your meter is doing a read with super low voltage. The resistance is present only to high voltages, not low ones. In aerospace it's called a dielectric test. Where resistance (and leakage) is measured using high voltages. My experience is that am old amp sounds best right before the output transformer blows. Transformers blow because the windings have failed. They fail because the resistance in them gets so high that their windings melt from the heat the resistance causes! The pieces are all fitting here! That's also why a fan blowing on an old transformer is such a good idea! Because it's running hotter than ever before! Heat causes resistance and resistance causes heat! One day I won't need the power soak anymore. Time and use will age the speaker coil and the amp's transformers to the point where I can crank it on full without the need for adding resistance. In aerospace, the vintage amp would be scrapped and replaced due to it's high dielectric resistance readings, but in music...now the amp is a golden collectible! My power soak cost $30 brand new! It's the best $30 I ever spent, but I might buy a higher quality one. Good luck!Read full review