A Good One Trick Pony 
by Bluesman 48 from Portland IN USA, May 2007
Music Background:  Musician

This is one of Fender's new offers amp-wise. The amp has 12ax7 and a 6v6 power tube, 5 watts total output and a 6" "special design" speaker. This amp is limited to a edgy kind of distorion when pushed by single coils or humbuckers. It isn't meant to be a clean amp, it is ideal for recording when you want a little "hair" around your guitar sound. The speaker tends to "fart out" when you pushed it with a lot of low end, souund like the voice coil to me. You can disconnect the speaker and connect to a speaker cab. Just make sure your impedances match. I ran mine into a 12" JBL, didn't care for that sound at all, then I ran the amp into my Fender Bassman cab with 2 12" Brown label Jensens from 1965-sweet- very good overall. when I record this amp that is probably the setup I'll use. There is a hum that you notice, but I was able to live with it, you don't notice it while playing, but it might bug some people. I bet Fender sells a ton of these. Like I said it's a one trick pony,but it does that trick very well. For $199 street you can't beat it. I'd like to see it with a tube rectifier but I don't see that happening.
Hope this helps.:)

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