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Fender BXR 25

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Manufacturer URL http://www.fender.com/
Features 8.5 (15 responses)
Sound Quality 9.5 (15 responses)
Reliability 9.2 (13 responses)
Customer Support 5.8 (4 responses)
Overall Rating 9.3 (15 responses)
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Product: Fender BXR 25
Price Paid: US $300
Submitted 10/23/2001 at 06:00am by Andy Daventry
Email: adaventry at hotmail<dot>com

Features : 9
A basic bass practice amp, as others have said. No longer made. A shame as this was the best of the now defunct BXR range.

Giggable with acoustic drummerless bands (I am considering getting a second for better headroom!!!). Only a 9 because it doesn't suffer piezos happily.

Sound Quality : 10
I use and have used an MIA P bass, assorted jazz basses, yamaha active 5 string (forget the number), my current home made fretless five with it. For a tiny amp, it handles the 5 string very well. Well rounded, trad sound. I gig it, and it mikes up well with an AKG D-112.

Reliability : 9
Yes. Though as will all fenders the input jacks eventually go.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Dunno. It's a Fender.

Overall Rating : No Opinion
Excellent. I have never played an amp like it. By far and away the best of its niche. I have had mine for 2 years and wouldn't part with it.


Product: Fender BXR 25
Price Paid: US $200
Submitted 03/31/2001 at 08:41pm by Anonymous

Features : 8
25 soild state watts, dont know what year what it was made its got heaphone jack effects loop 3-band eq

Sound Quality : 10
this has a fantastic sound, especially for the size. this is the ideal practice amp. i played a squire p-bass and my current axe is an american series jazz bass and they both sound great on it.

Reliability : 9
im giving it a 9 because it has never really left my basement so theres never been a chance to test its duribility, it turns on every time and produces that great sound

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 10
i've playing for a year and i just got a peavey 115 combo. this amp is the ideal practice amp, lightwieght, sounds fantastic and its small.


Product: Fender BXR 25
Price Paid: US $230
Submitted 03/01/2001 at 02:24pm by Eric
Email: thrsysdsntwrk4u<at>bored dot com

Features : 10
2 inputs (passive/active), 3 band EQ, tape inputs. General practice amp stuff. The features on this make it sound great for a practice amp. It sounds much louder than it should sound. It says BXR 25 on the front, so one would assume it is a 25 watt amp. On the back it says 75 watts. I havent had a chance to contact Fender yet about this.

Sound Quality : 9
Once again, for a practice amp this is great. The only problem is that I can't get a real bassey sound to it. Something that will make your floor shake, you know. Other than that, it's phatty balls.

Reliability : 8
I've had it for a few years now. Not gigged with it becuase of it's low power. It has broken once, but Fender repaired it. Works like a charm.

Customer Support : 6
When it broke, I took it into Dave Phillips Music & Sound, my local music store. They took it in and repaired it, no questions asked. But it took like a month to repair. Also, Fender never told me what was wrong with it. For that, they get a 6. Other than that, friendly people work at Fender.

Overall Rating : 10
Great amp for jamming at home. Everyone should have a practice amp like this.


Product: Fender BXR 25
Price Paid: US $276.84
Submitted 12/04/2000 at 05:33pm by Brian Tommson
Email: Brian<at>tommson dot com

Features : 10
The Best Features

Sound Quality : 10
Great Sound

Reliability : 10
Hell Yeah This Is a dependable Amp!

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 10
This is A Great Amp For All Bass Players.


Product: Fender BXR 25
Price Paid: US $200
Submitted 03/22/2000 at 08:27pm by Herb Peterson
Email: none

Features : 9
For a low power practice amp, this guy's got some nice features. 10" combo with 25 solid state watts. 3 band parametric EQ, headphones jack, line out, dual inputs - one for passive, one for active. Inputs for connecting a tape player or CD player so that you can play along.

Sound Quality : 10
I'm rating it a 10 in comparison with other practice amps in the $200 range. Seriously, this BXR has some great tone, and it can be shaped very effectively with the EQ. I play a Fender MIA Jazz and MIM Precision with this amp and it sounds great with both. It has a lot of volume for 25 watts, too. Not so much that I'd take it to a gig, but it's loud enough for practice and rehearsal with a drummer. Nice, warm, rounded tone - what a bass is supposed to sound like. And the best part about the good sound is that it motivates me to practice more.

Reliability : 9
Like all the Fender gear I've owned, it's very dependable. I foresee a long future with this amp.

Customer Support : No Opinion
N/A

Overall Rating : 9
In additon to this amp, I have an Ampeg that I use for live performances. The Ampeg is great for its purpose, and the BXR is great for its intended use as a practice and rehearsal amp. Reverse the roles and neither amp is very suitable. Like most things, this is designed to fill a specific need and it does that very well. It's a compact, great sounding low power amp. I'd buy it again without hesitation. Highly recommended as a practice amp.


Product: Fender BXR 25
Price Paid: 90.000 chilean pesos (something like 200 $)
Submitted 10/15/1999 at 10:25pm by rodrigo Garcia
Email: rodrigo_a_garcia at hotmail<dot>com

Features : 9
this is a small combo amp.
it has low, mid and high eq's, tape inputs and effects loop.
it has a 10' mono speaker . solid state. 2 inputs (lo and hi)
i use it in gigs. and not small gigs. in REAL gigs and it sound great! (not by itself, of course, it's amplified to bigger speakers)
i use it with a cheap samick bass and anyway's it sound great. great highs.

Sound Quality : 10
i use with a samick p-bass. i play with pick and fingers metal music.
it sounds great especialy with a pick. it isn't noisy at all. i use it with a zoom 506 fx processor through the effects loop.
the only problem the fx loop is anti-distortion, so if i wanna use fuzz distorion, i have to connect it directly to the inputs. oh! by the way, sounds great with distortion.
i've played at maximum volume and it make everything shake, but no distorion or saturation can be heard. a great amp!

Reliability : 8
i use it without backup!! ( i don't have a backup anyway)
the high eq got broke, by my fault anyway, so don't be scared.
i lose the volume control too. again my fault.

Customer Support : No Opinion
never dealed with 'em. i will sonn anyway, 'cause i must repair the high eq

Overall Rating : 9
i've been using it about 2 years and no problems. if it were stolen, i would buy a bigger fender amp.i love the tone. i don't like the effects loop, 'cause it eats distortion.it sound a lot better than a squire and a samick.simply a good amp. it's kinda expensive for the watts anyway, but it's real good!!!


Product: Fender BXR 25
Price Paid: US $229
Submitted 04/12/1999 at 05:58pm by Anonymous

Features : 8
! The BXR 25 is a 25 watt solid state combo. It contains a 10' speaker, tape/CD input jacks, and an effects loop. The only feature I miss is an external speaker jack.

Sound Quality : 10
I've run it with a Squier Musicmaster (sigle pickup) and a Fender Prophecy II (active electronics)and it sounded great! Plenty of bottom and surprisingly loud for such a small amp. Even so, it is really only useful as a practice amp or for maybe backing up a low power acoustic guitar setup.

Reliability : No Opinion
I have yet to have any problems whatsover.

Customer Support : No Opinion
I haven't had to deal with Fender about this amp.

Overall Rating : 9
I would definitely recommend this as a great practice amp. Best sound I've heard in an amp of this size.

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