Fender Blender Reissue

Pretty easy to use, you have to tweak it but it??s not that difficult to get cool sounds without a manual.

I use this for a little spice sometimes. It??s in the loop of a Vox Tonelab LE that is placed in the effect loop of my VHT Pittbull CL 50 W head. Together with my old beat-up -77 Marshall cab,4x12 and a good Jackson or Charvel strat is sounds cool and is not noisy at all.
A good thing to point out is that (octave) fuzzes sound best together with an already distorted amp. Also, I only use it with the neck pickup on my guitars because I think that gives the smoothest effect for melody lines and sustaining notes. The octaves pop in and out in a really mysterious and cool way. Tonal glory! I bought this because I read in an old Guitar Player (March 1976) that Neal Schon used one. He claimed that it "..can almost sound like a harmonics box if you set it right". Of course I had to have one! Robin Trower used on too. Enough for me!

I??ve used it live and in the studio quite a bit. So far so good.
I use an adapter so the battery issue is not imortant for me.

No idea

I??ve played for over 30 years, sometimes for a living. I use this in a lot of contexts, mostly pop and rockish and heavier stuff. It realy sings on slower melody parts, the slow tracking in the lower registers makes it usable mostly when wanting to sound like the aforementioned Mr Schon in the higher registers. I own tooooo much gear but this little box was a very nice surprise.

It's a tweaker for sure. I haven't read the manual.

Various guitars through a Jones KL-50 tube amp. Several good tones lurk within.

On/off switch went out shortly after purchasing. I replaced it myself. Otherwise, it seems as tough as the original.

Have not contacted.

For what it is, it fits the bill nicely. I get the sounds I expected from it.

This pedal very easy to use, setting from 4 Konbs control, volume for adjust output level, sustain for adjust contour gain (same as big muff), tone for adjust high low frequencies, blend for adjust more octave.

And, 2 Switch, 1st bypass switch, 2nd boost switch.

The official manual setting is very useful, you can base on this setting to set you favorer sound.

My use for testing gear: LP with 57classic & 500T, Start with CS Fat 50's, Peavey Bravo 112, V847.

This my 3rd Octave pedal, the first is RM Octavia - this sound good for me, but can't set any character tone, second is EH Octave Multiplexer - this only octave generator not oct-fuzz, but this can set a character tone, but when play with fuzz is very strange.

This pedal is very good for solo and rhythm, when play the solo on B E string still feel very warm, not same as RM Ovtavia very dry, and this pedal sustain is good enough for me, the boost switch is a perfect design when you playing rhythum pass to solo.

I don't care the pedal haven't on/off led, and I love this pedal very easy to replace battery, and not heavy.

Customer Support not necessary, My pedal still work, if when this going down, I can fix by self.

This pedal can satisfied me, even I still use RM Octavia, but if I loss this two pedals (maybe three), I only will buy Fender Blender again, although I don't know are this pedal is it really reissue or not, but I love this tone.

The pedal is not too complicated : Four knobs and two footswitches (Volume, sustain, tone, blend, on/off, tone boost). You will need patience to get the sound you want but it's worth it. The pedal could have used LEDs to know if it's on or not. I hate to be in a solo and find out it's not off (because I do not do solos with that on). To set it on my pedalboard I took off the four rubbers and I also had to take off the "master screw" wich is a big screw that opens the pedal. You will need to find another small screw that can fit and makes the bottom flat. Then simply add velcro. People complain about the battery but I always use a 9V adaptor so no problems here. Overall easy to operate but I don't get why they placed the input to the left and the output to the right and it should definitively used LEDs to know if it's on or not. If you know how to add LEDs on this thing, email me at (gabpower@hotmail). I have a good general electronic knowledge.

This is a fuzz pedal so it's not supposed to be a real clear sound. It's pretty noisy but it does it very well. Lot of tweaking capabilities. I'm using it with a Fender P-Bass. I bought this pedal to get the fuzzy sound of Grand Funk Railroad's bassist Mel Schacher. It may sound a bit like him but I've found out that I have an authentic sound wich is great. I get the sustain to 4 and tone to 5 and turn on the tone boost switch and it sounds killer ! You will need to tweak it a bit if you play with different amps during shows because it might sound very different depending on the model. I have a Fender 400Pro Bass amp and it sounds perfect with it. I think it is a true bypass. Personnaly, I always leave the Tone Boost on because it sounds more big and fat. I think this pedal sounds good if you're a mid-range kind of player. If you are into a really low bassy sound, it won't do much good. My setup : GEB7 > CEB3 > BassBalls > Dual Morley Wah > AW3 > LMB3 > Blender > Fender 400Pro Amp.

I think it should be long-lasting if you treat it right. It looks solid but not as much as a Boss. I am afraid it might open if the screw gets loose...

I don't know. There web-site is nice but lacks a bit of information...

Nice pedal overall. I play in a groovy hard rock band named Wicked Star and we get really heavy sometimes so that's when that baby comes in. It replaced my ODB3 for good because of the nice fuzz it produces. I recommend an EQ before it.
The only bad point is the missing LEDs. I've had troubles on stage thinking it was off but it was on. Since there is so much noise on the stage itself it's difficult to distinguish. It's time for my clean solo but "Oh No !" it is on ! So Fender can stick to the original design but please add little leds ! Email me if you know how to add some.
Very tweakable, you should have lots of fun if you're looking for a fuzz.

This is not an easy box to use, i wouldnt dare take this thing on stage with me because i truly believe this thing could fry your loudspeakers if it were accidentally set on full blast.

This thing takes a lot of tweaking to get the right sound from it but really, this thing isnt about right sounds at all, this box is all about ugly bruising sounds and it does that job perfectly.
I used to have the original Fender Blender and really, the only difference i can tell between that one and the reissue is that the reissue doesnt hiss as much as the original.
This box will make any amplifier sound like a fire breathing monster, i have used it with everything from Musicman 212s, Randalls, through to a Hohner Orgaphone organ pa amp and it just slays through all of them.

It looks solid enough, its dependable, but like i said id never use this thing on a gig with or without backup, this thing should be used in a controlled enviroment.

Its from Fender, im sure they have good customer support though ive never had to talk to them.

I have used this thing for brutal rock songs and it just shines at that kind of thing, this pedal is useless for polite stuff, it doesnt sound like a slightly overdriven valve amp or anything like that, it sounds like a chainsaw pure and simple.
If it were stolen i might buy another one, im not sure though, it does that really brutal thing very well but it is kind of a one trick pony.

Hands down the key to the castle for this pedal is spending time getting the right setting for you. You're thinking, yeah yeah all pedals require tweaking. seriously. I spent hours alone, hours in rehersal, and several concerts trying to get the perfect sound and I'm getting close. But it's worth the effort! The batteries are a b**ch to take in and out at first, but over time you master the technique. for those of you who already have one, or if you want my advice on how to do it easily, I always push in and up on the back of the battery (the side that is perpendicular to the casing and faces you when you open it up). The manual is helpful, and I've read tons of reviews (mostly on musiciansfriend) where people are stumped and/or misinformed about the thing because they never bothered to take 2 seconds and read it. And the fact that the jacks are switched is really really annoying but I found a way around it that works pretty well (see the sound quality section)

I use this pedal in the following chain:

Fender Nashville Deluxe Tele > Fender Blender > Xotic AC Booster > DD20 Delay > Digitech Whammy > Vox AC-30

I get around the annoying jack problem by putting it sideways on the right side of my setup with the buttons facing to the right (I'm a right handed player). This way the jacks are both facing towards the other pedals and it's no longer a problem, just a teeny bit harder to hit the buttons.

Though it doesn't matter too much where the Blender goes in the chain, it definately should go BEFORE other distortion/OD pedals. At least this is what I found to sound way way better. I play it with the Blend knob pretty low (3-4), so most of my signal is unaffected. for some reason if you distort your tone and then run it thru the blender it just squishes all your sound into a mess and takes most of the nuances out.

This thing is some kind of combination of Fuzz, Octave, and Ring Modulator. The "Sustain" knob controls the amount of the Octave signal that goes into the sound, and depending on where you're playing (on the neck) this octave sound is either immediate or it takes a second or two to come in. This can be really cool if you hold a note out and then let the feedback-style octave slowly come into your sound. Since I use it when I want to go over the top (really that should be all you ever use it for, except maybe for metal rhythm playing or something, which I never do), I play it with the volume and tone pegged and the Tone Boost ON. This way it acts as a bit of a booster and really you shouldn't play it with the tone less than 10 in my opinion. All of the suggested settings in the manual (except maybe one) have the tone at 10. If you want to control the sharpness of the sound, do that with the tone boost switch. I have the sustain around 5 simply because it's really hard to hear what the hell you're playing if the sustain is too high. There's just too much extraneous noise and fuzzy s**t going on. Unless you're Yngvie (or however you spell his name), it's hopeless to try to articulate fast notes. If you're playing whole-note solos, then go ahead and put the sustain on 10 as well, because then you can get cool effects with it.

I say it's part Ring Modulator because when you play multiple notes the overtones and undertones REALLY come out. this can be AWESOME if you play a "powerbend" but let the note you're bending be slightly flat of the other note. The beating of the frequencies can get out of control and if you do it high enough on the neck, the undertone will drop, kind of like a dive-bomb, as you bend the note up. amazing sounds.

It's true bypass (YES!), so it's extremely quiet when off and doesn't color your sound.

Never broke, batteries last a really long time.

never had to deal with em

I use this in my rock band which I guess is mostly softer classic rock/indie rock but with some explosive guitar crap stuck in there. It works really well on a couple of our songs, so that's what I use it for. It's not for ballads, it's not for singalongs, it's for ripping songs apart and it does so very well. I've been playing for 6 years and now am attending the USC school of music where I study jazz guitar performance. No, I don't ever use it for jazz. I wish it had freakin LEDs to tell you when it was on or off, and I wish the jacks were switched, but other than that I like it. I would get another if I lost it.

It Takes FOREVER to get just the right sound out of it, and when you do write it down somewhere.

It sounds very good WITH the right setting, when you don't have the right setting on it, it sounds very nasally and the note floats up.(you'll see what I mean)

I've had it over a year, and have never changed the battery, it's pretty much all metal, very durable.

Never Dealt with them.

Please don't get one of these if you want a Pumpkin Style sound, you WILL NOT get it, go out and buy a 71 stratocaster, load it with lace sensors, pay thousands of dollars modifying your ORIGINAL JCM800 and then buy a 4x10 cab, about 2000 effects, and run a rack of processors if you want a Pumpkins sound, just mess with it, and make something new and original. It's a very distinct sound that can versatile, or a worthless peice of sh*t.

This pedal is easy to use, but slightly difficult to get the right sound you are looking for. The manual gives tips as stated earlier, however, if you don't get it exactly right, you won't realize the true potential of this pedal.

I have run each of my 8 guitars through this thing(all gibsons and epiphones) and recieved pretty much the same sound..."destroyed" signal. It is a rather quite pedal in comparison to the original.
I found that running an EQ pedal directly before the Blender with the db turned up on the EQ gives it that edge that I was looking for.

If you honestly NEED to sound like Corgan, buy an original; if you want to create great tone, play around with the reissue.

Very solid pedal it uses carrington DPDT switches which are the same as the original and stand up to any abuse. I wouldn't let this be the only distortion pedal on my pedal board, but I would say I wouldn't go without it.

The Fender dealer in my town has always helped me with anything, but I have had no reason to see them about his pedal yet. Then again, most players who own the original have had no reason to talk to the guys at fender yet.

The reason the in and output jacks are on "opposite" sides compared to normal effects is because when the effect makers first started it "made sense" to them, that since you read from right to left, the signal should flow in that order as well(no, I'm not making it up).
This arragement has cause some problems on my over crowded pedal board(I use up to 28 pedals at a time), to compensate I simply bought 12" jumper cables.

If you can solder and don't mind depreciating value(which I do) you can easily unscrew the bottom of the effect and solder the switches to extention wires to run to their original positions on the circuit board and have the jacks on the "normal" sides.

My over all opinion is that I'm glad Fender tried to stay true to the original(minus the dc power jack),and it is a pedal worth owning if you can't afford the original. This one is 1/3 the asking price for an original.

First, it uses DC. Second, the battery goes inside the pedal, so you have to take out three screws first. Don't even get me started on the stubborn piece of plastic that won't let go of the old battery. And finally, it takes a little time to dial in the sweet sports. They're all over... but it takes a little fine tuning.

Sounds muddy through a solid state amp. Sounds better through a hybrid. Sounds amazing through a single knob class A tube amp. Not as over the top or out of this world as the MXR Blue Box. Playing loud feels like sex as opposed to the Blue Box, which feels more ilke Atari.

Um.. it's fine except for the part about opening it up to change the batteries. Am worried that I'm going to break something.

It's Fender, but I got it from a pretty sketchy store, so I have no idea if anyone's going to help me. Am not worried though.

I think you're better off with a regular fuzz face. No seriously. You don't want this pedal. Get your own tone damn it!

It's pretty self-explanitory, though you will definitely have to sit down with it and figure out where in your chain you want it and what levels you want it at. The manual gives some tips on how to get certain sounds out of it but I've always been one to completely ignore such things and try to figure out just what the hell to do with it myself.

I give this a 10 because it does exactly what I want it to do...destroy. There's no prettying up this lil' piece of metal. It sounds like a beast. The tone boost makes it near painful, which is honestly kinda fun. I'm not one for "pristine" anything, and this is anything but. However, that's what I wanted and it's what I got. As has been mentioned, though, it's surprisingly quiet when you're not playing. There's no large amount of buzzing like with most distortion-esque effects.

It seems far more sturdy than a lot of pedals I've seen and owned. All metal construction and cased neatly. I wouldn't have any problem not having a backup for this thing.

No need to deal with the Fender folks as of yet.

I fell in love with this thing shortly after I switched it on for the first time. I'm definitely going to have to spend more time setting up my board to see where I like it the most (plus, get it just the right place, position wise...the only thing annoying about it is that damn reverse input/output thing). I heard about this where most people heard about it for the first time; the Smashing Pumpkins. Apparently, My Bloody Valentine used it quite a bit as well. It's nasty and definitely not for everyone. Don't expect some "classic fuzz" sounds to come out of this box. But, for those that do enjoy a good amount of noise to play with, you can't go wrong here.