Fender Blues Junior

Very simple amp to use, only one clean channel. A very loud 15 watt, sounds more like 30 watts. All tube amp, two EL84's and three 12AX7's, and tweed covering. Your basic controls, Volume, Master Volume, Treble, bass, mid, and reverb. Also has FAT switch to increase preamp gain, also has footswitch for this. One 12" Fender Gold Label re-issue speaker. Only problem is I wish it a gain channel and a effects loop would be nice. Great amp for its price. Altough I've never tried it I'd like to hear what is sounds like when driving an external speaker cabinet.

Great amp. I play mostly alternative music and I can definatly get the tone I'm after with amp. Just like the name says I sound terrific when playing blues. Pretty good variety of tones, even though it doesn't have a gain channel you can get a natural tube distortion when cranking it. If you can't get this amp to sound good then you just can't play.

I'd use it without a backup, but then again it's the only amp I have and it's never let me down. I'd carry extra tubes around though.

Never dealt with them. Comes with a 5 year warranty and 90 day warranty one tubes.

I'd definatly buy this amp again. I'll probably never get rid of it. Simple to use with terrific sound and just about the loud 15 watt amp you can find. 12" speaker allows good bass response. Better then any other amp in it's price range. I just wish it had two channels and an effects loop.

When I firt bought this amp, I bought it for the sound. I didn't think of it as too feature-rich. However, being fairly basic might be this amp's greatest feature. Pure simplicity. You dial in the tone you want on the eq, and play. This amp will faithfully reproduce the sound you're looking for with minimal interaction between you and the amp. It's controls are Gain, FAT switch, MID/LOW/HIGH eq, master volume, and reverb.

First, let me say that each amp sounds different to each individual player. I don't care if it's a 10watt Peavey Rage. If you like it, and you can make music with it, then buy it. That said, I personally LOVE the sound of this amp. I mainly play blues and this amp is made specifically for blues - and it accels at blues. The clean tone is sweet, sweet, sweet. Roll the gain knob up and you get a warm, creamy overdrive. Press the FAT switch and you get a little more boost for some dirty blues. When I first got this amp, I thought the reverb was a little weak, but now I like the sound. Sometimes less is more. This amp is VERY good at making one nice, sweet, and really tight sound.

This amp appears to be built well. Since it hasn't broken yet, I'll rate it a 10.

When I got this amp, it was the last one in the store. I called Fender and they sent me a manual within a couple days. The guy on the phone was kind of a jerk, but he did what he said he'd do. That's unique in the music industry.

I would buy this amp again. I like the features, the sound and the power. Even though it's so small, it seems to have tons of volume and punch. The amp doesn't really break up at high-volume like some other small amps. I like the 12" speaker because it really adds to the bass-end of the sound. This amp sounds surprisingly good given the smaller cabinet size. The bass response is one of it's best features. Some other amp makers could learn from Fender. There's nothing I really hate about this amp. When shopping, I compared it to the Peavey Classic 20, The Fender Pro-Junior, The Crate VC2110R, and the Ampeg SJ-12r. The Fender easily wins given its features, sound, and price. For the money, you simply can't get a better sounding blues amp. Please don't let the size fool you. Take it for a spin before you rule it out because of it's size. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at this amp. I sure was.

I like this amp a lot. It is very simple and easy to use. Controls are Reverb, Master Volume, High, Mid, Low, FAT switch and Master Volume. This amp has a 12" speaker and offers 15 watts of power. Don't let it fool you - It sounds like 30watts. There is one footswitch jack, but the footswitch is not included. My only gripe is that there is no standby switch.

I LOVE THIS AMP! I bought it in addition to my Fender Hot-Rod Deluxe because the Hot Rod is simply way too powerful. If I put the Hot Rod on level 2, I run the risk of getting evicted from my apartment. The Blues Junior is a perfect supplement. The sound is very similar to the Hot Rod's clean sound, but the Blues Junior has better reverb and a warmer - mellow overdrive sound. The FAT switch further boosts the overdrive and gives you some good fuzzy overdrive when you push it. I really like the fact that you can drive the power-amp tubes harder without playing louder. This amp gives an incredibly WARM sound without being loud. The amp's 12" speaker provides tons of low-end punch which is surprising given this amps fairly small size. Fender designed this amp right. I couldn't ask for a better sound. Further, this amp is powerful enough to use on a small gig. Overall, I'm very impressed. Since I mostly play blues-rock, this amp is a dream come true! Small, versatile, and controllable.

This amp is built rock-solid right here in the USA. The tubes are protected in the back, and the power tubes even have their own "cage" to keep them safe and in place. This is the first time I've seen this design on an amp, and this adds tohe reliability. The only thing I'm skeptacle about is the fact that there is no standby switch. I am worried about this amp blowing tubes prematurely. I hope Fender designed aand implemented a circuit to protect the tubes on power-on. I'm pretty sure they did.

I got a really good deal on this amp and I think it is well worth the money. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. This amp is just what I wanted. I love the sound and features, and I LOVE the reverb. The reverb isn't overkill on this amp like my Hot Rod Deluxe. The overdrive is warm, smooth, and creamy. This amp really cooks when cranked. I recommend it to ANY blues or blues-rock player. I'm sure it would also sound good with a decent overdrive stomp-box, also. Therefore it would make a good amp for any playing style. The only thing I wish it had is a standby switch. Ohwell... can't have it all. I'd give this amp a rating of 11 if I could.

Gain, Treb, Bass, Mid, Reverb, Master and a FAT switch that increases the input gain. All tube amplification, though it has solid state reverb drivers on a spring pan, solid state rectifier, and uses a transistor to increase the gain with the FAT switch.

Very warm sounding, maybe due to the Eminence speaker (standard). Not as trebley as my Super Reverb, neither does it have the very deep solid bottom of that amp. As the name suggests, its a blues amp. Also, don't let the 15 watt size fool you, it sounds very big (12 inch speaker helps I suppose) and seems made to be driven to get a real classic blues flavor.

It's new... so far so good.

I'd use this for any small to medium venue, its that good.

I previously owned a Fender Blues Deluxe and found that it was impossible to overdrive except at extremely high volumes. The Blues Junior has a beautiful sound, from clear and clean to fat overdriven. I rented it and played with my loud drummer friend and it was easily loud enough, even though it's only a 15W amp.
I don't understand it but the Blues Junior is everything I wanted: small (1x12), loud enough for jamming, compact for carrying, full tube sound (100% tube circuitry).

I play pop blues (a la Chris Rea's Road to Hell) and pop alternative (a la Stone Temple Pilots). This amp can sound clean and full or heavy and sustained. I used to hook up a Real Tube Driver to my Blues Deluxe and don't bother with this. The FAT switch takes the place of the effect pedal. The only thing is that the clean channel will overdrive slightly if you turn it up, oh well, can't have it all.

Just bought so don't know how reliable, but it has a 5 year warranty which is good enough for me. It seems very solidly built, compared to the other amps I have had: Roland and Marshall.

5 year warrantly, have never contacted Fender

I love it being cute and small and so powerful. I love the creamy sound and the portablity.
I have the black finish, also availble in classic tweed...

well everyones pretty much covered everything, so I'll pretty much ditto everything said. This amp is not versatile, it does one thing and one thing very well. It gives you one sweet guitar tone, You can do what ever with it after that.

This is an amp that you can really crank (it goes to 12). I usually come in from work at about 2:00 in the morning. Put my volume on my strat about 2 or 3 and the sound comming out of that very nice clean. You just want to keep playing on and on. As a little bit of icing, I sometime run my Real Tube to get a smokier sound.

I've had it for about a year, I try to keep things just as they were when I bought it .i.e. no problem

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I had heard quite a bit about this amp through the grapevine, And it all pretty much turned out to be true. The idea of being able to crank 15 watt without bleeding any ears (mine for one) sounded very appealling. Once the the tubes get nice and hot, your pretty much cooking. I do believe the longer its on the warmer the sound gets. No regrest, would buy it again at the same price of course.

This is a "meat and potatos" amp. I wish it had an effects loop as Fenders web page implies, but as someone else said before, this is one of the best kept secrets for bargain amps now!!! This is an INCREDIBLY loud amp for only 15 watts. Plenty loud for most gigs.

This amp is FANTASTIC!!!! I have owned many amps from Ampeg to Vox and been tweaking and modifying them for 20 years and this amp blew me away!!! I believe the thing that makes it so good is that it has been designed to be a clean sounding loud tube amp so since it only is a 15 watter, by putting an overdrive box between your guitar and it, you have the correct volume/tube drive/SRV creamy type sound that most of us Blues/Rock guys strive our whole delinquent life in search of!!!! If you are a Marshall player, don't consider this amp, it is too clean for you, but if you use a smooth OD pedal like a Tube Screamer or a regular RAT pedal and like the classic overdriven "Fender on 10" sounds look no further,,,this is all you'll need.... I can't believe the sounds out of such an inexpensive amp!!!! I use a couple of Strats with different humbuckers and single coils and they all agree with this amp. I've owned many Les Pauls before so my bet is those would sound great too but havn't tried one yet. It is definitely geared more twords the Strat sound though.

Have only owned it for 3 days so who knows....

In the past for me Fender has been very helpfull in getting info out of so I guess I'll find out if they still are when I request the schematic for this little puppy!!!!

As I said, I can't say enough about this amp!!! It sounds soooo good!! I wish it had an effects loop but can't have everything. I compared it to several but the Pro Junior, Peavey Classic 30 and the Marshall JTM-30 were the finalist and this blew them away with its tone and loudness!!!! I would buy this amp for twice the price today to get this great a sound without tweaking till the cows come home!!!!

I use this amp at home only. I was looking for a pure low-power tube amp sound, not features (I found my Marshall stack a bit oversized for private practise). But when comparing it with Pro Junior, I realized that more versatile tone control, 2 volume knobs, reverb and specially the "Fat" switch make Blues Junior much more desireable.

I'm keen to find blues/R&B/rock type of tube distortion sounds from my amps. this amp is killer for that purpose. Sometimes I experiment with heavy distortion, but then I plug in my Ibanez PUE5 Tube pedal. I'm using a modified American Standard Strat (Seymour Duncan littl' Screamin' Demon humbucker in bridge position, coil split, floating bridge). However, this setup is not perfect. The sound is slightly damped and dull. Not to blame the amp, though - a -62 Reissue Strat created killer sounds (I think I'm gonna by one...). was

I bought it yesterday so I really don't know. The tweed cover etc. makes it look nice, but it's not a roadworthy solution. Again, I'll never use this amp outside my home so I don't care.

Very nice treatment when making the purchase. It was a trade-off - I came with a Marshall 1960TV cabinet and left with the Blues Junior.
A 6 month warranty.

I would definitely buy one again. Being a Marshall lover, I'm suprised how much I really love the tone of this amp. I compared the amp with Pro Junior, and the difference is incredible. This amp does not need any extra device to beef up the tone. My main amp is a vintage Marshall 50W bass head. I love that too, but it's way too loud when "entering the tube distortion zone".

This little amp is one of the best kept secrets, and sounds great for every type of music that I play - from clean to blues to rock and roll. It even sounds good with my Takamine acoustic. I was looking for a low-powered that would suit mainly playing at home, but also for practicing and small gigs. This is it. Don't let the fact that it only has 15 watts fool you -- this thing can cook. I almost bought the Pro Junior, which is also an amazing little amp (15W, 8" spkr), but when I tried the Blues Junior right after, the difference was astounding. While it doesn't have channel switching, it does have a 12" spkr, reverb and bass, mid, treble, and two volume knobs (master and volume), along with a "FAT" button, the tone coming out of this little unit sounds like it's coming out of a much larger and more expensive amp. It can go from clean to creamy, and even creamier on its one channel, although I wish it had channel switching.

My last amp was a Blues DeVille which I liked a whole lot, but because I used it mainly in the house, I was totally impractical (on "2", I was on the verge of being evicted. I had a chance to compare them side-by-side for a couple of weeks, and what amazed me was how the Blues Junior could sound so close the the DeVille's quality and creaminess. My Humbucker-equipped 1979 Ibanez Artist sounds like it was built for this type of amp. I don't get any distortion at the clean setting's high volume, and while the distorted is easily adjustable (from creamy to enormously overdriven). Matched up with my Boss ME-8, I'm ready to roll.

I bought the amp a month ago while on holidays in Myrtle Beach (I'm from Canada), so I can't comment about its reliability. But I can say that it survived the long trip back (almost 2,000 mi) in the trunk, and the bumps and hot sun didn't affect it one bit.

Fender's warranty is 3 for years

I would buy it again - in fact, because the ME-8 is a stereo unit, I may buy another one. The fellow who sold it to me said his buddy had two of them working in stereo and that he was in amp la-la-land. As I mentioned earlier, I just wish it had channel swithing, or at least , some way of going from clean to creamy without fiddling with the knobs. Other than that, this is the best bang-for-the-buck going. If and when you get one, try the blindfold test on your friends - they won't believe that the sounds they are hearing came from such a small small amp.

One input, 15W, tube, reverb, treble, middle, bass, master and volume control with a 'fat' switch to od the pre-amp tubes I suppose. Tweed covering, leather handle. Has internal footswitching capabilities.

Using a std strat for blues, this has a lovely warm sound, with reasonable reverb and enough volume to blow you out of the room at home. Have not tried yet but am confident it would work well at rehearsals, jams, and could be miked easily for larger venues. Not a thrash amp, but has warm overdrive capability if pushed.
Noisy at loud vols and the reverb can be noisy at times but re-seating the tubes seems to settle that for my amp anyway. I have a TS5 pedal for more overdirve but have given up using it as I like the straigh thru sound best.

The build quality is questionable. There's a lot of amp crammed into a small box and the rear cross support is very weak - would expect damage to be done if the amp fell on its back. Don't lug it around so can't vouch for its roadworthiness.

Standard Fender warranty - 5 years except for tubes (3 months) etc.

Can be obtained cheaper it seems, even if the MRP is over $440 - but the local dealer let me demo it for ages and agreed to haggle for cash deal so I was happy to give him the money - would buy again without a doubt.Better than any Peavey I played, or Marshall, but this is a blues/jazz amp, not a metal machine.