Fender Deluxe 112 Plus

2 channel 1x12 solid state fender amp

Clean channel is very good, the Drive channel is LOUD...takes some tweaking to set it to unity gain with the master volume.
Overall it is pretty good for a solid state amp.

Tank.

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Solid 8 out of 10. Good volume output. A nice backup amp for the price.

Worst Distortion I Have ever heard from an amp, I get Radio stations coming through, Hums like A power station. Clean channel is pretty good, nice reverb

knobs are scratchy sounding ( probably from dust and smoke) have to tap em to work.

Lost or stolen? I wouldnt replace, I wouldnt sell it to someone I know.

I don't know when this was made. It sounds old. The amp is awesome for my style of music. I play oldies hits and classics with my band. This amp is LOUD. I can play biggish outdoor gigs, no problem. It's got two channels. Distortion and clean. Both sound great. You can get tons of different sounds from the gain channel. It's got a footswitch input to switch channels, headphone input, output for a speakercab(which you would never need).

I play a gibson sg and an american deluxe strat(then why don't i have a mesa boogie righ little...)I build my own guitars and save for months to buy the parts. The clean channel really makes the single coils ring. The strat sounds a little bit funky through the gain channel. I just put a tube screamer in front and it sounds great. The gain channel just sounds awesome with my sg running through it. There is never a loss for gain. It just goes as high as you want it. But, if you set it low, it settles down. The speaker it came with was good, but really old so it had lost a lot of treble. I put in a new eminance speaker that sounds amazing.

It's a tank. Never crackled, broken. I don't need a backup. This amp is abused when taking it to practices or shows. Just keeps on going.

I've been playing 5 years, and i love this amp. I'd prefer a really great tube amp, like a fender deville, or mesa boogie, but I'd keep this one anyhow. If it got jacked, i don't think that i could find another one, but if i could get another one for the same price, i'd do it.

I just wanted to add a couple of details to what others have said here. I got mine used, about 10 years ago, and the speaker sounds like it had too much bass put through it, but the more it is used, the more the bad sounds go away and it seems to loosen up. I have the foot switch, and it works fine. The reverb is adequate, and the external effects loop is a nice accessory. I like amps that have either a presence control, or a bright switch; this one does not, but it's not that important.
I hadn't used it in a while, and my kid was using it, and I realized how good it sounded. Too bad it can't run an extension speaker in series, like Crate amps do, so you could beef up the sound, and cut the volume too. that would be a nice touch for a 4 ohm impedance amp like this.

I tend to play an Epi Del Rey through it, which has both a Gibson and a Tele sound. The main thing is that I have found the clean channel to sound magnificent when turned up between 8-1/2 to 10. Yes, it's VERY loud, but it compresses a little bit and sustains nicely for a solid state amp. That's its best feature. It doesn't sound as glassy as a tube amp - a little less detail - but it sounds good. You can always plug into the low gain input and crank it all the way - not as good, but not bad. The distortion is the most outrageous I have heard in a Fender - it can really go nuts if that's what you like. That's probably what damaged the speaker. It's a very notchy, death metal distortion, not a singing sustain, but that cam be fun sometimes, too. I play all kinds of styles - this one could be used out doors and probably sound great. The controls are scratchy, but when used often, that tends to go away.

I used this on a gig in a small bar once, and it was just too loud. The advantage is its small size, and how light it is. Among other things, it would be a good backup amp, that you could throw in "just in case". It's never broken down, and I would use it on a gig w/o a backup, although it would likely BE the backup, as I said. This is an amp where you can carry your guitar in one hand, and the amp in the other, and it's unlikely that you won't be loud enough, unless you're up against the big cab monsters.

No idea.

I've been playing 41 years. If it were stolen or lost, I probably wouldn't replace it, because I have a Line 6 Spider II 30w that would probably be OK. Same deal, light, and loud enough - very good in these old stone-walled Gold Country bars. I have Marshall, Crate, Laney, Session and Vox amps, and a Fender Blues Jr. - that's 15 through 100 watts, so I have plenty to compare to. And I have both single and HB type guitars. It's really a great portable combo amp, if you need the power. It's usually too loud for my needs, but I like having power to spare, not the other way! It's a bratty little beast that has plenty of attitude - not your traditional Fender amp. My kid has a '61 reissue SG, and he is quite fond of this amp, as well.

I've had my deluxe 112plus for ten years, it's done thousands of gigs, millions of practices, been battered in the days that i couldn't afford a flight case, stripped down when the reverb stopped working and repaired in half an hour, every top notch sound guy in the industry has commented on the sound, every producer and engineer i've worked with has loved it, after ten years of humble service today it gave up on me, i will be searching relentlessly for another one, there's just no point in getting anything else. I hate the les paul marshall sound that hides so many bad guitarists, an honest fender sets the jokers aside from the big boys. I use a 1972 telecaster custom and on the single coil bridge pick up the sound is utterly amazing!!!

two faults in ten years? try getting that out of an orange!!

THE FENDER DELUXE 112 PLUS IS AN EASY 10/10 !

This amp features a clean and drive channel, as well as reverb. The clean channel sounds nice - it's especially ballsy for a solid state amp. The drive channel sounds great too. The "contour" pot allows for a variety of tones, though it's difficult to get a straight, bright distorted tone (i.e. marshall-like) without it sounding tin-like. The reverb is good, though not as nice as real tube reverb like you would find on a twin. The 100 solid state watts, however, are a little too much. Even on stage I never turn either volume past 2.

I mostly play a standard American strat, though with my industrial-grunge group I play an ESP with passsive EMG humbuckers. The amp is very versatile - I can get bluesy tones through the clean channel, as well as heavy tones with the drive channel. Like most solid state amps, the sound greatly deteriorates at higher volumes. The distortion is great, it is similar to marshall distortion, though the e.q. on the drive channel is weak and limits your tone.

I've owned the amp for ten years and the only problem I've had with it is the footswitch, which began shorting out (on the amp) about 2 years ago. I've hauled it around quite a bit, and I've never had another problem with it.

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This has been my main amp for ten years now, and I've never been let down. I'm buying a Fender Pro Reverb tomorrow, actually, because I really want true tube tone and built-in vibrato. I'm still holding on to this amp, though. It's fairly light for an amp this size (anyone who says it's heavy must use a practice amp), and that's always nice. All in all, it's the best solid state amp I've ever used.

I bought it new in 1992, what happened was I was auditioning for a band and they hated my Les Paul/Marshall-combo-amp tones and the original guy used a Strat/Fender-amp so I went to buy a strat. I went to a small store on weekday quiet afternoon where I could really listen to strats and i ended up getting this Deluxe 112 plus as (what I thought was) a good compliment to the strat I picked. When i went back they totally were impressed with my fender sound and I got the gig. I sold the other gear.

Amp has all the features I need and i've used it as my main amp with that same strat for the past 12 years. I stuck a mic clip and a SM57 in the back which makes easy soundman setup, always use it angled back at me, micd up into the band PA at lower volumes (with American Strat, std p'ups, I set the Clean channel vol on say 2-3 and Dist channel vol at 0.6 or 0.7 - dist channel vol is Very Touchy!)

Its portable and fits my car ok, seat or trunk. But I still think its pretty heavy (hey - I'm a musician, not a sports star or a club bouncer) but my experience with combo amps is that lighter almost always means worse sound due to cheaper lighter speaker, smaller power transformer, and thinner cabinet construction. This is as small as I dare get before getting into bedroom practise amps. I also use a Fender Frontman 25R which is completely inferior sounding in every way compared to this, but ok for practising alone.

Basically this amp is so versatile, its my main amp and I'd really search high and low to get another if it got stolen.

For my classic rock and edgy-bluesy prasie&worship regular gigs, I use my American Strat with rosewood fingerboard and stock single coil p'ups - but in my opinion you have to REALLY search to find one that suits you, these guitars all sound/feel a bit different from each other once you start to compare. I'd say that I picked a strat that seemed to line up well with this amp.

For comparison, my buddy had a 2x10" Fender Princeton Chorus which has a completely different and thinner sound, also I compared it to my old tube 100W and 2x12" Twin Reverb which again is a very different toneal setup. I also had a Marshall valvestate combo which is another world entirely - best to use Marshall with Gibson/Epi guitars that have dual-coil humbuckers imo. The Deluse112plus beat out these other amps in two ways: first it has more flexible tone variations in both channels (and a good deal lighter!) than I can get with the big heavy Twin, secondly it had much more in-your-face, lets-go-for-it type of distortion tones than I could get with my buddy's Princeton. Who cares for tube amps when they weight a ton and only offer balls at high volume!

Only thing is that with strat, I needed several weeks of experimenting with live band to figure out the sensitive and touch distortion controls. The gain, contour really make big changes in attack and in character of the overdrive, again with a 5-position Strat, and in various room sizes, it means there are all kinds of undesirable combinations - so I have had to build a mental "setting booklet" to fine-tune during certain signature songs and lead passages.

I recently bought a Epiphone Sheraton II with two mini-HB p'ups and it sounds wonderful through the clean channel, super jazz or clean-blues tone so that i don't have to overplay - this setup almost sings the notes out for me. Never use the dist channel with this guitar because I only play clean jazz/funk stuff with it, but fooling around in my apt seems like I could get a good Brian Setzer tone with the epi bridge p'up and the dist channel not too overdriven, and countour around 4-5.

Its reliable enough - I never had it go "dead" and I've used it full out loud in some really big stages, but mostly just beat it to death back and forth in the car to gigs and practices twice a week for years. I've owned it 12 years.

The reverb channel went out within the 2nd or 3rd year, and I tried to fix it myself (I was a guitar tech 25 years ago). I pulled the chassis (big ugly job! remember where all the hardware goes to put it back!) and I discovered that the opamp driving the reverb unit was really hot to touch (drawing lots of current!), so with the amp off and a multimeter set to "ohms" I went searching for short ccts in the coaxial cables to the reverb spring unit. Well, after three days of endless poking around I finally unscrewed the reverb unit out of the amp cabinet, wher it turned out to be that the cheap pinch-on cable connection inside the spring unit was shorting the phono-jack's center to ground shield, causing the drive opamp to fry. Got a TLO72 opamp from Radio Shack, works fine.

Never used it.

Its my main amp. I strongly recommend this amp asd good value for the money. Over the past 35 years I have had several Traynors, a Marshall combo, borrowed a MesaBoogie and a Twin for long time, and this is it! You would have to spend 4 or 5 times to get a noticeably better combo amp that travels as well.

I dont know what year this amp was made in..Yeah, i like to play mostly clean stuff..not too heavily distorted..It has a headphone jack, Drive Channel, i wish it had some delays and more stuff like that..I use this amp when nobody is around and when i want to play loud. Im not worried about this amp haveing enough power, i think this amp might have too much power:P

This amp sounds good, VERY loud, but the sound is so crisp and clean and there isnt any fuzz or crunch..the distortion is pretty good, i dont use it very often because it is too loud for me.

This amp is very durable, ive alerady banged into a few walls and i just got it today, i think this amp will be good for me. It hasnt broke down at all:p

I've been playing for about a year now, I have one guitar, i just got a new one today for christmas, and this amp..this amp is very nice, and clean, and loud. I love it so far!

hey i bought this amp about a year ago and its still with me wich is pretty cool caus i've played it so much even in large concert halls. i won't go into loads of detail as there is plenty of other reviews for that like. i play mostly clasic rock and blues but i use my dads vox ac30 for the blues. when i play this amp at the house i'm lucky to get it passed 1 and i'm not joking bout dat lol. its great as it has two drives and reverb which is pretty good on this amp. i bought this amp secound hand with a new heavy duty speaker and a flight case ans i paid 300 pound for.

i am currently using my schecter custom shop stra, a 1964 burn marvin and a fender mex strat i use loads of differnt pickup selections and they all sound good although when i put the fender in the bridge the amp is really sqeaky. the amp in generaly is very clean and bright which is a BIG! downfall as u can't get ne reall tone out of it. the distortion is great as u can really give it some gain and it sounds good unlike the cheap amps which just sound dirty and messy.

this amp has never let me down and it never will as i willl not have it for long enough in saying that i'll have it for a futher 2 years as i'm gonna buy a matchless amp(totaly different leauge like) as i have a flight case for this amp its in really gd shape even thow i give it a littlw bit of abuse lol.

i've been playing for about three years know and have a great love for the guitar. i've become some what of a collector with my father. if i got this amp stolen i would just use my dads vox and buy the matchless in a year or so wouldn't bother buying it again as i'm already saving my balls off for that matchless been saving for over a yr now and it will take another yr before i can get enough money for it so i can't go spending 300 quid dat i need big time on an amp that i won't be using for to long lol. i hate its sharp bright sound but love its distortion and durability. if u'r finking on buying an amp for gigging and can't spend alot of money on getting it repaird if it breaks of even if u just want a good amp that very few ppl have this this is a great amp as i've only ever seen 1 apart from mine (don't know if its a good fing er not but awww well i fink its a good amp and wel worth a couple of hundread quid).

This amo is a really good quality amp. It ha s alot of good stuff on it.

10!

well i got the amp at a pawn shop. It had fallen off a truck and somkeone picked it up and sold it to the pawn shop. So it has scraches on it and the distortion volume, to get it at the right loudness for just play for your self to here it, you have to
touch it so slightly.

For the music that i play(rock and blues, Stevie Ray Vaughan Forever) . i play my Fender americann claifornia series stratocaster, it saonds really good i give it an over all 10!