Fender Champ 12

I wish it had a tad more bass. but this amp is a screamer. I would show up a gigs where my twin was too much and they would tell me to turn down and that was un miked over a p.a.!!!

NEVER LET ME DOWN!!!!

i OWN ALOT OF VINTAGE AMPS AND WHEN I NEED A SMALL AMP THIS IS WHAT i GRAB....IT KICKS ASS in the dollar/performance ratio....great sustaining feedback with any guitar

This is a very cool amp!It has reverb,footswichable distortion/clean channels,tape input jacks,line output,and an HEADPHONES JACK!12 watts of tube tones!!!1-6L6 2-12x7.

Kickass tube vibe,12 watts of tube tones!!!!!!!!SRV,KWS and Texas blues in a little amp!It's so warm and friendly.This bad boy will do rock,blues,country(ughh!)and top 40 with ease.It doesn't have the gain or the bottom for metal.Great for clean tones,and very nasty for da blues.My only gripe is that the reverb is digital and not spring!!!

It's over 10 years old,all original and still kicking it!Ron Rivera did a good job designing this amp.

They need to work on this problem(but not as bad as Ibanez!)!!!!!!!

I love this amp!!!!This amp was designed by Ron Rivera,he also designed the badass Super Champ(Rivera amps).This amp was made by Fender from 89-91.I hunted for this amp for awhile(also looked for a Super Champ for a good price!).If lost I'd be very upset!!!I now can jam at home without pissing off anybody,and have late night jams with the headphones.This Champ12 will CRUSH the new Blues Jr&Pro Jr,plus a heck of alot cheaper$$$$!If you Find one ,snatch it up!!!!!

This amp is not bustin' with features - only 6 knobs. However, with 2 inputs, line out, headphone jack, just enough tone control, reverb, and a {albiet limited} overdrive, it's versatile in comparison to other amps in its size and price range. Put a speaker out jack on it yourself.

Buy this amp if you want a small valve amp with a beatiful clean sound. Get the clean channel to break up for that fabulous blues sound. Use the other channel if you really don't want to pack your favourite pedal. Some other reviews have mentioned lack of bass response. This is due to the small cabinet, not the amp. I use this amp with other cabinets regularly with both guitar and bass - it is not lacking in bottom end. For me, the clean channel sound rates near to a 10, and the other considerably lower due to lack of variation - it's near to being just either on or off. However, I see this channel as a useful extra. Few people won't use a multi effects unit or 1-15 pedals anyway, whatever amp they have.

I haven't had this amp long enough to tell. I do like the fact that there are only 3 tubes to replace.

This may well be the only guitar amp I ever own. I'll track down another one if it gets abducted by aliens or whatever. I use it by itself frequently, but otherwise add to it at either end with effects, mic/PA, power amp, other cabinets. Small amps rule the known universe in my opinion. See www.cybtrans.com/guitar/ for some great info and ideas about this. For example, did you know that a 12 watt amp is 65% as loud as a 50 watt amp?

This is a great practice amp. I bought it new in 1990 for $225, it was my first all tube amp, having previously played a Westbury 1000 ( a loud, sterile solid state amp that was somehow related to Marshall, but I digress...). The amp has two channels, one clean, one overdrive. They share tone control, basic treble and bass with a mid boost pull switch on the treble. The mid boost makes my Pro-Tune strat all muddy. There is no effects loop, just an output jack for speaker extension cab and head phone jack. The amp came with a single button footswitch for channel switching. There is a reverb circuit, but it sucks...dry and uninspired.

As far as sounds, this is a good practice amp. I play a Squire Pro Tone Strat with 3 single coils. Mainly I use the neck pick up as I am working on my SRV and Kenny Wayne licks. I had this amp sitting in a closet for the past four years and only in the past six months did I really start to play with it. The clean channel breaks up slightly with the volume at 10 (I've set the treble at 7 and bass at 8), I nice tone for the SRV mellow stuff. Not much power on the clean channel, definitely a practice amp. The second channel has a gain pot and master vol pot. The master is sensitive, practice levels are achieved at no more than 2 or 3, beyond that, this Fender is loud for only 12 watts. The volume level does not seem to change much beyond 5 to 10. The overall distortion is slightly clipping, no massive gain with the gain set at 10. This amp is tight and bright, no bass here. I've tried a friend's Les Paul, doing my best Noel Gallager licks with the gain on 10 and there is definitely the need for a stomp box. This is a clean distortion. Best overall comparison is SRV's "Texas Flood" solos, bright and tight. This puppy will not feed back on me, only when I drove it insane with a short term ownership of a Zoom 1010 unit did it cry out. The noisy on the second channel can be high a full volume, if you have a strat, just don't take your hands off the pick guard during non playing moments or the hiss will get you.

The only problem I have is the input jacks, the first jack no longer works I guess a soldier joint has let go. The second input jack is getting scrathy now too. This is the only problem in my eight years of ownership.

N/A, never used the support.

Having been an off and on player for eighteen years, I never collected a lot of gear, mostly recreational playing. I play mostly blues and straight on rock now (Oasis, Sting, and some rock based country- Yoakum, Garth and Parnell) as I get my chops back in shape, ready to gig soon after I trade this amp in on a DeVille.
This amp would be a great step up from solid state for a beginner. It opens your ears to the potential of all tubes, run it wide open and blast away. The tube tone will wet your appetite for larger and more functional tube amps as your chops develop. For those beginners, this amp will not shred or do "death" metal, (whatever that is) if you want those sounds, just play a chain saw anyway. If you need a nice practice amp, pick one of these up used.

2 channels, boost largely preset not flexible really - clean or heavy overdrive (footswitchable)

Good for rock and warm crunchy sounds very good for home/studio use good with strat, clean channel 5 times quieter than overdrive, I had to get a mod to get the amp to crunch at all on the clean channel, but noe very good

very cheap construction, but light reverb tank wrapped in cardboard + PCB construction

playing 17 years, got lots of other kit it's cheap for what you get great practice / studio amp but no real bass or tightness in the sound

This amp has 2 channels. You can't really get any distortion on the second channel unless you turn it up all the way. I use it for blues and rock, and it works fine. It's pretty loud for 12 watts. I'm not sure what year it is, but it's covered in black tolex. The reverb unit doesn't get very slushy, but it's a solid state reverb unit anyways.

I use a G&L legacy with this amp, and I think it sounds pretty good. My Gibson ES-330 sounds a little bit to dull and undefined with this amp. It's great for playing rock and blues. On the second channel, it gets a little noisy when you turn it all the way up. The clean channel stays relatively clean when it is turned up all the way. The second channel turned all the way up with the distortion turned up to around three o'clock is where I think this amp really sounds great.

This is a very reliable amp. I bought it from my guitar teacher a few years back, and I've only had one problem. The jack is kind of screwed up and it will sometimes cut me off while I'm playing, but usually it's just fine.

Never had to deal with them

I've been playing for five years. I also own a little dean markley amp, which sucks. I would definitely buy it again because I only paid fifty bucks for it and you can't beat that.

For its size and price, this is one excellent little amp.Although it lacks a real Fender reverb unit, the solid state unit it has sounds good. The overdrive is more than just a little unadjustable,but it provides a good tone when the volume and tone controls are set on ten. The little amp provides plenty of volume for the size of my living room although it's not loud enough for much more than that.

Although my Hamer with 4000volt humbuckers is a little bit much for this amp, my '66 fender Mustang really produces some nice sounds through this amp. If you don't just go crazy with the overdrive, it really has a nice bluesy, gutsy tone. The clean channel sounds real nice when fed with humbuckers on ten. The neck pickup does the best Santana around.

Being an industrial electrician road-whore, I've drug this amp across the nation several times with nary a busted knob . Really, it's a very rugged little amp.

I bought it almost brand new out of a pawn shop and have never had to use the warranty in almost ten years.

I wish it had a little more volume, but then again it's a Champ isn't it. My Dean Markley was louder, but it didn't have half the sound of this amp. This amp also weighs half as much. I love it. It is well worth the fifty dollar pawn ticket I got it with.

This amp uses 1 6L6GC for power, and 2 12AX7's. It has an overdrive channel, switched by a button on front, or by footswitch. There are 2 inputs, high and low, reverb, 6 red control knobs, and 2 1/4" outputs for headphones, and 1 vold line out, in addition, it has input for stereo RCA jacks, so you can plug a stereo device in. No effects loop., 12" speaker, in standard deluxe/champ size.

Clean channel is crisp Fender when played with an Am. Std. strat and gold lace sensors. Overdrive channel is much too loud for low volume or headphones, you can't get a low volume, overdriven tone, when overdrive knob is turned up, volume knob must stay way down, so it's not flexible at low volumes. At mid volumes, the overdrive sounds great. I've only used one effect in front of this, a Vodoo Labs micro vibe, which sounds great on the clean channel.

I'm the second owner, no problems so far.

A good practice amp, loud for 12 watts or so, classic modern fender sounds.