Fender Champ 12

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.