Fender Deluxe 112 Plus

The usual 2 channels and 12'' speaker

Bought new, september 2001.
This amp sounds good only good for it's price! The distortion channell is uselles, since it actually does not allow you to change frequencies, and the normal channel is fair. The main problem i think is the cabinet of this amp which produces much more low frequencie than it can take (lot of buzz)!

Reliability means nothing to that amp!!! I had it only 2 months and a few days ago during a gig it started doing terrible and very loud sounds (just like when pluging-unpluging the guitar).
The amp is off now for repair and i do not know yet whats the problem... whatever it is though, it should not be happening in a 2 months old amp!

When i bought this amp i hoped that i could play fair enough for this winter season in which i will be giging 3 times a week, producing a decent sound (which it allmost does), and that it will not let me down in a gig... since it has broken whithin 2 months (and it is not my fault, i take good care of my stuff, and i never play this amp louder than 2)this amp is just a waste of money and now i know that i should never have bought it... perhaps i should have bought a marshall for the same amount of money.
So my rating for this category is a 3, only for the fact that the amp broke on 2 months and not for the sound

Not much to say here that hasn't been said before

Pros: The reverb is excellent! Very natural sounding, unlike others I have played through. The reverb is the reason I have kept this amp.

Cons: This amp is not very powerful at all. I was mainly a bedroom musician for the first years I owned it. I have taken it to various friends' garages to play various styles of music. If metal/grunge is your thing, this amp is not for you. Distortion is bad, and you will be luck to overpower the drummer without being miked to a PA. I have also played in a country band, and the same thing there.....EVERYTHING overpowered this amp on its clean channel. Once you pass "5", it doesn't get louder...only more distorted.

I also play steel guitar, which has a range of notes that surpass those of a standard guitar. When playing bass notes, the sound is muddy. When playing the high treble parts (which is a good majority of what is played on the steel), the sound is very thin. The Peavey amps are best for steel guitar....but sometimes I play through this amp at home only to hear the nice reverb.

I wouldn't trust it without a good backup plan. My buddy has the same amp, and he blew the speaker about three times (never going past 6 or 7, always playing the distortion channel). Not a good thing.

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If this amp vanished from my life, I would most definitely buy something else. It probably would be another Fender, as I love the reverb (did I say that before?).

90 watt, solid state combo. 2 channels, clean and DS, reverb. Non-master volume set-up. Lacks an extention out...

I use a variety of guitars, such as a Vantage Avenger, an Ibanez RG 7 string, and a Robin Medley 4. I play in a hardcore/metal band, and this amp is absolutly brutal. Clean is ok, until you take it past 5, then it just breaks up. Distorted channel is even worse, can't take it past 3, very fake, dark distortion. Reverb is the only good thing about this amp. Also, for 90 watts this amp is NOT loud, anybody who says this thing is loud is on crack. I have a Peavey Bandit 112S which is 80 watts and blows this thing out of the water.

never broken down

never tried to contact Fender...

I've been playing for a couple years, and this thing is probably the worst amp I've ever used before. If it were ever stolen I would thank the guy who took it from me, and use the insurance money to buy a proper amp (such as a marshall or peavey)

Small, solid amp that blows you away. Its 90 Watts are amazing hard to turn on in your bedroom. Two channels, clean en distortion is of course his greatest lack of capacities. Overall, for a combo you could say: the usual stuff.

Damn, what a wreck. I play on Jackson (seymor Duncan) and ARIA pro M650, normally punk, metal and jazy funk. The clean is very great, especially with the outstanding reverb. But don't turn the volume over the 6, than you see the lack of valves. Clean is an 8. Distortion.. nothing else to say than that it stinks. THis is the most muffy, stupid, and noise stuff ever heard. THis is not a distortion, this is rubbisjh. A 0 for the distortion. If you need the distortion often, DONT BUY THIS AMP!

I got it 3 years and it never let me down, goog work fender!

Cant mention anything about it.

Pff, a great combo for starters. The clean is very bright and mixed with reverb it turns in a warm, smooth soud. The distortion is the most sucky thing ever heard. If you would noise, buy it. If you wanna play bleus, buy it. Otherwise, leave it. It realy misses a valve.

1995/1996 vintage; pure solid state; has much of the standard features expected from Fender Amps. Two inputs, two channels on a footswitch: (1) CLEAN... volume, treble, mid, bass (2) DRIVE... gain, contour, treble, bass, volume; Reverb is accessible to both channels via the footswitch. Also has jacks for preamp out, power amp in, and headphones. Since the amp is so LOUD, the headphones could be a valued feature for bedroom virtuosos.

I play a Les Paul Classic, a MIM strat with Lindy Fralin Vintage Hots and Torres Engineering Bluescaster Deluxe harness, and a Godin LGXT. I play rock, blues, some jazz. The short version is: the amp is LIMITED IN TONE -- actually I am being nice. The clean channel is okay (maybe a 6). However, for the drive channel, if you like loud mud then this is your amp (maybe a 4). The drive channel is horrible fuzzy, muddy, dank, dark (artificial sounding) distortion. It is unusable to me. Absolutely none of that classic tube distortion that has made the electric guitar so popular for so long -- it truly is a solid state amp. The amp has none of the shimmering quality of tubes. The stock speaker is horrible -- in fact, I replaced it with a Weber C12CH in a desperate attempt to salvage the amp -- it still reeks! The volume pots are poor at best... they have a taper that makes them ultra-sensitive at low volume settings. The volume above 5 or 6 is essentially the same with little change up to 10. This was a design "feature" for sales personnel to trick unsuspecting guitarists to believe that if the amp is this loud at "2" just wait until "6" -- look at all that headroom! What a sham! This amp is worthless to me and has none of the tone that has become my signature. The reverb is typical Fender -- not bad, passable really.

I suppose it is reliable solid state technology BUT it sounds so indistinct that I would never take it out of the house. In all fairness, the reliability of solid state makes this area an "8" overall.

Fender is Fender -- warranty is good so long as local technicians that support Fender are available to you. The very size of the company dictates that they are going to be inattentive to the little guy. Look how Fender has squeezed local music shops out of the Fender business since Guitar Center etc. are given quantity discounts that the little shops cannot possibly compete with pricewise.

I have been playing for 25 years (seriously for the past 5 years). I gave up electric guitar 20 years ago in favor of acoustic. I bought a strat in '96 on a whim and have not really touched acoustic guitar since. I bought this amp as a replacement for my 15 watt practice amp. I believed I needed more volume, unfortunately I didn't know enough about tone to make a proper choice (if I did, I would not have wasted my money on this amp). I am hooked on electric -- it is so much more versatile providing you have the right equipment. This amp is NOT the right equipment for me, and I suspect the same for anyone else. I currently have a '65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue and a Tone King Comet 40B that I could not be more happy with. This amp doesn't even warrant a comparison with those two tone machines and should not be considered unless you are getting it for free.

i bought this amp a couple years ago and i think it was built in the early 90s. the reverb isnt the best but it has a sound i like so i use it. on the other hand the distortion isnt the greatest (tends to be too noisy for my taste) and so i end up using a dist pedal instead. it doesnt sound like a tube but i think it sounds really neat nonetheless - very good clean despite what you might have heard

my main axe is a fender mexi strat and i play through a big muff disortion pedal. i play rock & roll, blues, jazz, alternative, and punk and it seems to handle anything i give it. noise only bothers me in situations where there are crappy unshielded cables running into it or where i'm playing my strat near a magnetic field (the amp actually is dead quiet to hum when played through with a les paul or dearmond) the sounds are awesome- very very super clean and it's only distorted on me at about 7 or higher- the eq is very functional and it's easy to dial in a cool sound. the distortion is only brutal on my sound- and that's why i bought a pedal

i've done everything to this amp and it still sounds sweet. and from the wear and tear there was on it when i got it- it looks like it's had everything done to it too- the original fender speaker is still there and sounds great- the only complaint is that the metal rings around the plugs on the face plate fall off after a while and must be glued back on

??? never needed

i've been playing guitar for about 2 years and dont profess to be great- i also own an ovation celebrity acoustic, a fender bxr200 bass amp and a mexi jazz bass that i play in jazz band. if i ever lost this i might get another one simply because it was a great deal for the price

Mostly very useful,esp reverb,two channels(so i can jam with a friend),and headphone socket-although this doesnt sound that good.Bass mid and trebble controls work well on clean channel, but not so good on drive ,never used amp in/out.

ive got two "custom" guitars (i made em!),one with fender reissue '62 single coils ,and tother with dimarzio PAF and super distortion humbuckers,i dont use effects. i do the odd outing but mainly just play at home,amp sounds good at low volumes.When coast is clear, iwhack the volume up to 4or5-enough to make floor boards shake,if iuse super distortion its deafening.five mins latter turn vol down......phew!!! ,that sounded gooooood!!.The clean channel is wonderful, dips,swirls and soars. with trebble and reverb turnedup a few notches can easily get shadows (ahh...)sounds,or with trebble and reverb down a tad and bass and mid up abit on the old PAF you can get BB king type sound (tone not tecnique!).The overdrive channel is not as satisfying as clean, but if you are careful and only use gain,contour and trebble from 9-11 oclock,and wind the bass up, you can get some nice blues/rock sounds with the humbuckers -lets say,Who "live at leeds" and ac/dc"high voltage"-almost.Gain channel is definatly better with humbuckers or series switched single coils,the clean side sounds great with both singles and h/bs.

had it three years -got it 2nd hand-never had a problem.TIP;people have complained of a pop/crack!(depending on volume),when switching off. cure-turn drive side vol right down,also clean down alot(or off) switch to clean side -turn off.bingo!

never used

ive been playing 20 odd years now, and you know ,i think amps/guitars are abit like women -you love the one youve got,but you could easily be tempted to try another!i can remember buying loads off hi-fi stuff when i was young,and remember dissapiontment when sound didnt live up to magazines promises. in our society every one wants YOU to try THIER products,- beware advertizing hype!! i personally think youd have to spend A LOT of dosh to significantly improve this. ..ok.. im off to try a cambridge 30 twin....great reviews...

I've already reviewed this amp, but I recently modified it to run two extension cabs. This has helped its sound quality tremendously. I've had my amp 5 -6 years. Standard features are fine, but my experience makes it pretty clear that the lack of stock jacks for extensions cabs is a major shortcoming.

The speaker is wired out at 4 ohms. I took it to a top notch repair shop to do a simple modification - set up two external speaker jacks so I can run two 8 ohms cabs off of it.

It was given to me as a birthday gift, so the amp itself did not cost me anything. Admittedly, I would not of done this had I bought the amp myself. It would not have been cost effective. However, something needed to be done to improve the sound quality and I did not want to simply toss this thing.

I now run two Carvin 2 X 12 cabs with Celestions Greenbacks off of this baby. The improvement in both the clean and the overdriven tones is tremendous. Before, only single coils sounded good clean. Now, running through the Celestion equipped Carvins, my humbucker guitars come to life.

The amp's overdrive is still a bit nasty, but it is definitely sounds much improved with this set up. I crank the contour, bass, treble and gain all up to 10. With the stock 12" speaker, it sounded like a midrange overdose. The highs were completely lost and the bottom end just distorted to mush. The factory 4 ohm speaker is tonally challenged.

But now: the other night I played a set of Buzzcocks' covers and Clash covers including "What Do I Get," "Ever Fallen in Love(With Someone You Shouldn't Have)," "Harmony In My Head," "Complete Control," "Career Opportunities" and others. I went with these "all 10" settings the entire time. Does it sound just like a good tube amp? Absolutely not! Did it sound pretty decent for a solid state amp overdriven with out peripherals? Absolutely.

This amp always did a very respectable job (for a solid state amp) of giving single coil guitars - particularly Fenders - a tone that was reasonably close to that classic Fender tone, but any humbucker guitar was doomed. No more. I now give the clean an 8.5 and the distortion a 7.

Never had a single problem with this amp in 5 - 6 years of use. I could always count on it to give decent clean tones and atrocious overdriven ones.

Not really fair for me to compare my set up to what most everybody else is using. I mean, I've got $100 into modifications plus $660 of extension cabs(I bought them for my tube head, not for this) contributing to my improved sound. It ain't the stock set up! And if you have to spend this kind of money to make this thing sound decent, you ought to just buy a better amp up front. On the other hand, if you've got good cabs that you use for another amp or head, spending a few bucks to modify your practice amp (this amp) so you can run extensions cabs may be an investment worth considering.

Sold-State, 94 watts into a 12" fender special design speaker. 2 channels, normal and drive. Normal channel has volume, treble, mid and bass. Drive channel has gain, contour, treble, bass and volume. It also has a universal reverb control. 2 inputs (passive/active). Footswitch (supplied), Preamp Out, Power Amp In and Headphones. No external speaker outputs which would be useful, as the onboard speaker is overdriven very easily.

I use a 62 re-issue Jaguar with a Seymour Duncan hot rail in the bridge and a Jagmaster with a SD Custom Custom in the bridge. I play grunge/punk-rock and this amp can easily create this sort of sound. In my experience at low volumes this amp can create almost any sound, so is perfect for a practice amp for almost everyone. However up the volume and the speaker justs rumbles, which sounds shit. When gigging the lead guitarist, who also own one of these, links the two together. This is done by connecting the Preamp Out of amp1 to the Power Amp In of amp2. This gives you a total of 188 watts of power so neither of the two amps get overdriven. I use a Line 6 POD through my PA, but if we have to use the PA for vocals I can easily link up the POD to the Deluxe 112 Plus. This was the first real amp I bought and originally used just the on-board distortion which was good enough for my needs. Now 2 years later my setup has changed with the addition of my POD. My basic setup now is as follow:-
Jaguar/Jagmaster--->BOSS DS-1 Distortion--->BOSS BF-2 Flanger--->Line 6 POD--->Fender Deluxe 112 Plus. I plug the POD into the Power Amp In and use the amp as a small PA which sounds great.

I've had this amp for 2 years now. It's been treated like shit and taken to plenty of gigs and I've never had any problems.

I've been playing for almost 5 years now and this amp has definitely helped my playing. It's perfect for a loud practice amp and for small gigs. It can also be used as a slave amp which is very useful but a speaker out would be nice. I originally bought this as my friend had one and I really like the sound, but I hadn't heard it at volumes and I wish I had.If it was stolen I probably would get head and cabinet instead as I think I've "out-grown" this amp.

The amps go 90 watts through one twelve, I can get just about any sound with it. It's got two channels, I wish it had an effects loop. I use this amp in my room and church, it's got plenty of power for both, I've never had to turn the volume past 4. It's solid state, great for reliability, but therefore lacks that tube feel.

I use a peavey patriot, it's a simple setup w/ 2 singles and I run that in to a digitech rp3. I can play anything from skynyrd to metallica on this thing with no problem. Excellent for my style,metallica, deftones etc, I just turn the mids and treble to 6 and it sounds awesome. I mainly play through the clean channel with my effects and this amp has incredible bottom end. this amp sounds better than my friends stage 160. It's a little hard to get the clean channel sounding good at high volume, but it can be done and also the distortion isn't as articulate as I'd like. It's loud enough for any venue, I played in concerts with the volume on 3 and yes it's loud enough for drums. a great amp for volume/portability/price. Merely good alone, but near perfect when used with effects.

I've used this amp for 3 yrs and I've never had a single thing go wrong with it. It's taken falling over in my trunk, being dropped, kicked over...etc. still works like the day I bought it. I've never taken a backup with me.

never had to deal with them

I've been playing for nearly 5yrs. If this amp were stolen I would most deffinently buy another. I like it its power/low range and portability. The only things I don't really like are the tone difficulty at high volumes, it's slightly noisy reverb, and the preamp out could be better also. I mainly chose this amp for it's power/price.