Fender Deluxe 112 Plus

Over all i thought this amp was very good. I wish it had a little more grunge to it but nothing is perfect. I enjoy using the foot switch because it makes it alot easier to change from the clean channel to the drive channel. The reverb in it is awsome but i found that it was hard to hear afteryou put the gain past 6.

I love this amp it sounds great. It is the loudest amp i have had. When i first got it, i put the volume up to 1 on clean. My sister came running up the stairs and told me to turn it down. It suits my music style almost perfectely. I'm not into heavy metal or hard rock, I just like playing punk and rock. Because the distortion on it isn't that heavy it doesn't work very well playin heavy metal. but for playing punk it's perfect. I did find that the clean channel gets alittle distorted after the volume is past 3.

I bought this amp used. It looked about 4 years old or so. The guy said he has never had to replace anything on it and from the time i've had it, it hasn't broken down.

I haven't needed to get anything repaired yet.

I love this amp. If it got lost or stolen I'd probably go for something alittle smaller because i don't have the money right now. If i had the money i would go out and buy it for sure.I've only been playing for about 9 months but out of all the ams i've came across this one is one of the bests. My band member has a 200watt Crate stack, and my amp can keep up fine with that, and sounds just as good. My other friend has a marshell 45 watt and my amp blows that marshell away. I've come across probably 50 different kinds of amps and out of all of them this sounds the best.

I got this amp as a trade in about 10 years ago and it was new...so about 1995. This amp is great for practice and small gigs. I recently traded in this amp and have had 10 years experience with it to share with you. It was very reliable and the perfect amp for a long time (and I still miss the insane crunch it could deliver at low volumes-more on this later). I needed a small amp for small gigs and this one fit the bill: 2 channels (clean and dirt), effects loop, small, and very reliable. I had this amp for so long I went through 3 foot switches. This is a transistor amp, so you sacrifice some tone, etc, but get it back in reliability and cost.

When I used a humbucker through the distortion channel (and I turned it up all the time) the sounds were manageable, but it didn't like single coils through the distortion channel and gave some squealing. My humbucker strat through channel 2 would deliver the goods up to a certain point (great sustain), but beyond a volume level of about 2 the speaker would just not be able to take it and would sometimes crap out-so, you really had to keep the volume down. Now normally you would never really need to run channel 2 that high (usually 1 to 1.5), so this wouldn't be a problem but on the rare occasions you did, then I would occasionaly get that "frap" sound-it was intermittent, so it would become distracting because you wouldn't know when it would happen. Also, if your band got into a louder room, it became a lot tougher to control the volumes to compete-I wound up having to send my signal through my monitors back to me because of the volume control problems. This amp sounds great in small rooms, but when used in a bigger room it really starts to show its lack of tone-the clean sound doesn't have that nice tube ring, and the distortion starts to show some unpleasant bite (yes, its loud but a little painful as far as tone goes). As you also get into bigger rooms, the amp just didn't have the "full" sound of tubes and good speakers-as you turned up you notice that your sound is actually a little thin. If you want loud clean, get a Fender. If you want loud crunch, get Marshall. If you want insane gain, get a Boogie.

Very reliable amp. I probably played a couple of hundred gigs and no back-up. It was only serviced once (we did a re-solder job) and was back in the bars after that.

Never tried to contact Fender. Did have to get it fixed once, but parts were easy to get and most techs know Fender amps. I tried to mod the volume controls to get more control, but we couldn't figure out how to do it and eventually just left it. I also thought about changing the speaker.

I have been playing semi-pro for 25 years and have owned a lot of gear. I own all the majors: Mesa, Marshall, Fender, Traynor. Mesa has the great sounds but the huge price (probably the best all around amp). Marshall only sounds good one way-loud (a true "rock" amp). Fender has the most beautiful clean sounds (no comparison), but the new Twins do have some nice controlled crunch which has been really helpful. Traynors are a great middle of the road amp, but I haven't used them enough to comment (this is my new small amp upgrade so check back in a couple of months for a review). This little amp made me a lot of money and was a pleasure to use for many reasons: small and portable, 2 channels (clean and crunch), effects loop, very reliable. The main problems I had: clean volume breaks up at about 7 and starts to distort, dirt channel volume is very touchy, dirt volume above a certain level makes the speaker "frap". I traded this amp in recently, but I still miss the versatility, the crunch, and the portability...so, I may just re-acquire this amp and use it again (it has been very good to me despite its drawbacks). If you need a good little amp for small gigs with not too much volume, this is a great amp. If you are moving to cabarets or big rooms, this amp will not do it-you won't get the "full" sound. The one thing I miss most about this amp is the great distortion you get at the low volumes...but it just bites if it gets a little too loud. But if the band is not too loud, its a lot of fun to have all that sustain at your disposal. Fantastic value, versatile, and when used for the correct applications, a great purchase.

two inputs, clean and overdrive channel, reverb, foot switch, VERY loud. As far as Fender amps go the reverb on this one is really really weak. No surf guitar here.

Sounds pretty good. Tone you'd expect from a Fender. Kind of harsh.

As has been meantioned, this is very loud and it gets very hot. My friend (stupidly) was using it as a keyboard amp at a show, some guy from the crowd decided that it wasn't loud enough and turned it up to 10. Lets just say that it made it through the show, but not any further than that. I guess it got hot enough for the solder on the cicuit board to melt/crack around one of the capacitor legs. This creates a loud buzzying sound and random very LOUD pops. I'm in the process of trying to fix it right now. Getting to the underside of the circuit board was a pain, but that might be the case for many amps. I wouldn't know as I've never done this before. Well, my friend broke this amp (his) and is letting me borrow it indefinately now, which is nice. Just like you should never drive a car at its top speed, you shouldn't ever need to have an amp at it's top volume. This thing is loud enough that you shouldn't need to turn it up that high anyway.

I can't remember, but I remember it was a pain or something to try to get it fixed, so that's why I'm doing it myself.

It did break, but I think it was kind of due to misuse. It'd loud and cheap. Perfect if you're just starting and want to start gigging.

like the rest. however mine has a fender special speaker, and i know that most have celestion speakers. dunno what it means though. the volume knobs are unbeleivably sensitive in the lower reaches, and are hell to use. i have got usede to them, but even a quarter of a turn too much will deafen you. this thing will gig on about 3 volume without being miked up. i have covered the standard naf tolex in beefy looking tweed like the cases for my guitars. it looks well vintage. supposed to come with a 2 button footswitch, but i got mine second hand without one. they are essential though

i use a les paul copy, 72 custom telecaster, 62 custom telecaster and a standard fat strat. they all sound great through the amp, with their individual tone shining through.i play old skool rock, beatles pink floyd and some indie stuff, and this amp copes with it all. it wouldn't be able to do any really hardcore stuff like korn slipknot or metallica, but it suite me. having the gain up to far creates fuzz distortion rahther than crunch distortion, but its still damn good

i use it without a backup, and it seems to bebuilt like a brick shithouse. this thing would survive armegeddon and then a kick up the arse.took it apart to retro fit the tweed, and i have never spent so much time trying to put every screw back and make it solid again.

never dealt with them

been playing for a bout a year and a half now, i listed my extremely nice guitars, which are all worth buying, and i also occassionally use a zoom 606 pedal, which is also good. if it were nicked id be fucked cos for 100 quid i wouldn't get anything close to it. was gonna spend 250 quid on a marshall mg100dfx, but glad i didn't now. volume knobs are a apin in the arse, and it does get a bit roasty round the back after a couple of hours, but other than that its mega. wich it came with the damn pedal though.

This amp kicks ass for what i use it for, indie rock. The reverb is cool and very useful with clean sounds. I wish it still had the foot switch with it. It did not come with the amp kuz i got second hand. THIS AMP IS DEAD LOUD!!! I've played gigs with the amp below volume setting 1 (10 being the loudest). Stand in line with this amp on full whack and your ears probably will bleed!!!!

Im currently using a squire jagmaster with my deluxe, and the deep sound of the guitar seem to flow beautifully through the amp. The overdrive channel on the amp is pretty toilet, however i don't use that kuz i can plug in my zoom 505 effects pedal. The clean channel only distorts at max volume but sounds dope at any other volume.

no problems at all with this amp, but it does get VERY VERY HOT - do not touch the inside at the top after its been on for a couple of hours kuz it does burn u! I can always rely on this amp though.

No support needed.

I've been playing for nearly 6 years. I have got a little fender frontman reverb, which helped me get to grips with the sensitive volume controls

I got my two 112plus amps back in 98, previously I had played two 112 (60W versions I think). I agree that the two volume knobs are a bit sensitive but I got familiar with them and have always managed to get the volume levels I needed, soft or loud. As for EQ there is enough there to dial in anything you need - and separately - on both channels.

I play a Strat and Tele (both with Joe Barden Pickups) and an old Les Paul de Luxe. The 112plus is by far the greatest amps I have owned in 26 years of playing ! If, with time and experience, you have moved towards a medium to high action on your guitar, you usually do not need an amp colouring your sound. The 112plus will help you to PROJECT YOUR sound. Everyone has already commented on the good clean and reverb sound. So let's be fair on channel II: this is not an amp for a heavy metal type of distortion, however if you set the Gain to around 1.5 (quite sensitive too !), Contour all the way to the left, Treble to around 5 and Bass full blast, you can unlock one of the thickest and balanced blues/crunch sounds around, the stuff history was made of. Moreover it CUTS through your band without aggressivity, something mashy distortion - particularly with pedals just eating up your sound - has never managed to do. And ever tried to hook two 112plus together via the Pre-amp out / Power-amp in jacks for that extra DIMENSIONAL tone ? The "pop" at switching off is not really a problem, and providing your guitars have decent shielding you should not really suffer from above normal noise level.

So happy to have a reliable sound/performance night after night without having to manage (and pay for)constantly deteriorating tubes ! If you drive this amp hard and often though, I would recommend replacing the speaker every two years or so as it tends to lose a bit of sound "tightness" with time.

No problem at all to get any replacement speaker parts.

I actually bought a third 112plus three years ago as a spare and for rehearsals. Incidentally it got stolen last year, but I have not been able to replace it because Fender has in the meanwhile aleady moved on to a new generation of amps that definitely do not sound the same ! Anyone holding a 112plus or a 112, STICK TO IT !

90 watts solid state, only 30 someodd pounds. big plus there. spring(?) reverb, independant eq's for each channel. countour knob for the gain chgannel. it works pretty well but i haven't had much time to figure it out yet. it does have footswitchable reverb, but the footswitch i got only does channel switching. oh well, not that it matters

ibanez GAX 70 stock right into it. no effects as of yet. my musical style is alternative rock that covers a lot of ground, from finger eleven to u2. obivously, it doesn't sound EXACTLY like finger eleven or u2, but they use bogners and voxes, and this isn't either. it sounds pretty good. not a perfect sound, but i'm not a perfect player. it can get a great radiohead type of crunch (johnny greenwood uses a similar amp), though. the clean channel is very nice, very repsonsive. this thing is LOUD, too. fpor the money, i don't think i could have gotten a better amp

it's at least 5 years old as is and is in solid condition. a few knicks in the tolex but i'm not plugging into the tolex, now am i?
solid state, so no tubes to fry. the guts of the amp are pretty safe, they are guarded by a metal chassis. i doubt this think will break down

discontinued amp, that could make things difficult

for the money, i could not have found a better amp

90w solid state 1 x 12" combo
2 channels (normal and drive) switchable w/ a button or footswitch
Seperate EQ and volume for each channel
Spring reverb (can be turned on/off w/ footswitch)
Pre amp out, power amp in, and headphone jacks

It would be nice to be able to add an extension cab. An actuall FX loop would also be nice. The manual says the pre amp out/power amp in can be use as an FX loop, but it seemed to work shitty for me.

First of all the volume controlls SUCK!!! They're way to touchy at first. The thing is blasting by the time the dial is at 1. However the more you crank it up the less impact it seems to have on volume. So basically it makes wide jumps in volume levels at the begining of its range, but doesn't do much of jackshit at the end. Maybe some different pots would help.

The normal channel has some faily good cleans at lower volumes, but starts to distort at higher volumes.

The drive channel is O.K. depending on your style of music. The contour controll can really shape your tone. Turn the gain up past 6 or 7 and you should expect to get some feedback. This thing can produce some decent blues and mild rock tones, but it doesn't do much more than that. It just flat out doesn't have the balls or crunch to play hard rock/ heavy metal. When you try to crank the distortion up too much it gets pretty noisy and buzzes, and feedbacks.

Reverb is pretty good to my ears. Especially for cleans. I like that you can dial in your reverb to the setting you like, and then turn it on/off via the footswitch. There is no button for this on the controll panel, you'll just have to turn it down to 0 when you don't want it on.

As stated above the pre amp out/power amp in just dosn't cut it as an FX loop as far as I'm concerned.

Headphones - I don't ever remember using them. I just play w/o any sort of amplification if I need to play real quit.

The speaker also sounds like it craps out when trying to use high gain at higher volume. It becomes pretty muddy. Most of the time I play in my bedroom w/ the amp sitting in the corner. I think this also traps some low end and adds to the problem. I remember it sounding better out in the open 2 or 3 feet of the ground when I used to jam with my buddy in his garage.

This amp also seems to pick up interferance signals, mainly radio stations. It is a real problem if you have a crappy guitar coax cable (poorly shielded) but is aslo noticable (to a much smalled degree) with good cable.

Another thing I've noticed (but maybe it's just me) is that after playing for a while the tone seems to flatten out a bit. Maybe it's just my ears lossing it after a while or maybe the amp really does do it???

I mainly play metal (Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Sabbath, etc.) and offten play other syles also. As said before the amp alone WILL NOT do metal very well, that is why I use a pedal on the clean channel. But hopefully I'll have a nice half stack on day.

I have ran many guitars thru this. Strats, an Ibanez RGR270DX (stock), Jackson PS-4 (was stock, but now has EMG 81/85) and several of my buddies guitars.

Most of the time it just sits in my room, but back it high school I used to jam with my buddy in his garage fairly offten. I've had it cranked up lots of times and never had a problem. Once it even took a spill from 3 feet in the air (bass drum knocked it right off the "stand" we had it on. Cracked the wood shell, but the amp still works like it did before the accident.

My only concern is the loud popping sound you sometimes get when turning the power off. But this has never caused a problem.

Never had to deal w/ them.

I've owned this amp for 6 or 7 years now, but someday hope to get something better. Its been fairly good to me, but I've never really been satisfied with it.

If you're looking for a lower priced practice amp this could be your ticket, depending on your style of music. Once again if you're looking for something with a heavy tone - look somewhere else.

what can i say? its a fender...
i have an older model (with the fender special speaker, not celestion)
this baby can get so loud it will implode your head.
it has the usual 2 channels clean and drive and comes with a cool footswitch.
i play heavy metal and this amp really does it for me
the contour and gain knob make it possible to shape the dist to anything you want. very versatile.
this amp doesn't have all the effects available in some other amps like marshall dfx series, only reverb, thats why im giving it a 9, but oh my god what a reverb!

i use a modest fender squier affinity series with an ibanez pickup at the bridge and a hamer slammer explorer.. i usually put the gain and contour as well as eq to the max (drive channel), sounds awesomely heavy and cool...
mine is quite new i haven't gigged with it yet but i see a lot of pontential in this little dude.
one kinda weird thing is that the distortion at max can sound kinda fuzzy when you stare into the center of the speaker, but the only way to hear it is if you tilt it against the wall, if you let it sit normally you will only hear the brutal powerful distortion. my advice is to never point it directly to the audience.
nevertheless, it's a great massive distortion with great trebles and basses.

the clean channel is simply incredible. i don't use it much as most of my songs are distorted, so i haven't tried out all the possibilities, but i never heard anything like it. turn the reverb to 8 or more and you will get a sound to remember.

overall this amp has an awesome sound. the fender special "12 speaker can really put it out. this amp is LOUD.

it never broke down on me or anything, i wouldn't need a backup gigging with it...
the only modification made by the previous owner was the capacitors installed at the power switch to kill the popping noise it makes when turning on and off by eliminating sparkles at the switch.

as i said i never had any trouble with it

i play guitar for 3 years now and this is my first 100W amp. if it wa stolen or lost i really don't know it if i would buy something else (in this price range) but i'd definately be really upset if something like this happened.
i really can't think of anything wrong with it, not that it's perfect, but nothing bad comes to mind. i love it

I bought this amp new about 4 years ago, so it's really not that old. For what I play (indie rock mostly), this is fine. I don't use a lot of effects so I normally keep it on the clean channel with a DS-1 distortion pedal and sometimes a chorus and it sounds fine. The distortion channel is ok, I guess... I never found the sound I wanted from it.

I mostly play a '72 telecaster thinline reissue through this, it's semi-hollow with 2 humbuckers. That guitar sounds great through this, but I also think it'd sound great through a lot of other amps. It can get muddy at times, especially at higher volumes. It can also get a lot of hum and buzz. Other than that, the amp doesn't really distort the sound and it's pretty solid for what it is, although it could be louder

I wasn't going to write a review until I saw other people had the same problems as me. The first input went about a year ago. Now the amp only makes horrible buzzing noises and can sometimes be fixed with a hit to the side (real technical) that makes some scary popping sounds and then it works again. It has never taken any major falls or exposed to anything horrible. I'm now in the market for a new amp. Also, the footswitch broke after about a year.

I wish I knew how to contact Fender. Their website is horrible for customer service!

I wouldn't get it again if it was lost or stolen, but it's worked for me for the past 3 years without any major problems. It's just a basic amp if you're not doing anything fancy and won't be beating it up too much.