Fender Deluxe 112 Plus

2 channel 1x12 solid state fender amp

Clean channel is very good, the Drive channel is LOUD...takes some tweaking to set it to unity gain with the master volume.
Overall it is pretty good for a solid state amp.

Tank.

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Solid 8 out of 10. Good volume output. A nice backup amp for the price.

Worst Distortion I Have ever heard from an amp, I get Radio stations coming through, Hums like A power station. Clean channel is pretty good, nice reverb

knobs are scratchy sounding ( probably from dust and smoke) have to tap em to work.

Lost or stolen? I wouldnt replace, I wouldnt sell it to someone I know.

I don't know when this was made. It sounds old. The amp is awesome for my style of music. I play oldies hits and classics with my band. This amp is LOUD. I can play biggish outdoor gigs, no problem. It's got two channels. Distortion and clean. Both sound great. You can get tons of different sounds from the gain channel. It's got a footswitch input to switch channels, headphone input, output for a speakercab(which you would never need).

I play a gibson sg and an american deluxe strat(then why don't i have a mesa boogie righ little...)I build my own guitars and save for months to buy the parts. The clean channel really makes the single coils ring. The strat sounds a little bit funky through the gain channel. I just put a tube screamer in front and it sounds great. The gain channel just sounds awesome with my sg running through it. There is never a loss for gain. It just goes as high as you want it. But, if you set it low, it settles down. The speaker it came with was good, but really old so it had lost a lot of treble. I put in a new eminance speaker that sounds amazing.

It's a tank. Never crackled, broken. I don't need a backup. This amp is abused when taking it to practices or shows. Just keeps on going.

I've been playing 5 years, and i love this amp. I'd prefer a really great tube amp, like a fender deville, or mesa boogie, but I'd keep this one anyhow. If it got jacked, i don't think that i could find another one, but if i could get another one for the same price, i'd do it.

I just wanted to add a couple of details to what others have said here. I got mine used, about 10 years ago, and the speaker sounds like it had too much bass put through it, but the more it is used, the more the bad sounds go away and it seems to loosen up. I have the foot switch, and it works fine. The reverb is adequate, and the external effects loop is a nice accessory. I like amps that have either a presence control, or a bright switch; this one does not, but it's not that important.
I hadn't used it in a while, and my kid was using it, and I realized how good it sounded. Too bad it can't run an extension speaker in series, like Crate amps do, so you could beef up the sound, and cut the volume too. that would be a nice touch for a 4 ohm impedance amp like this.

I tend to play an Epi Del Rey through it, which has both a Gibson and a Tele sound. The main thing is that I have found the clean channel to sound magnificent when turned up between 8-1/2 to 10. Yes, it's VERY loud, but it compresses a little bit and sustains nicely for a solid state amp. That's its best feature. It doesn't sound as glassy as a tube amp - a little less detail - but it sounds good. You can always plug into the low gain input and crank it all the way - not as good, but not bad. The distortion is the most outrageous I have heard in a Fender - it can really go nuts if that's what you like. That's probably what damaged the speaker. It's a very notchy, death metal distortion, not a singing sustain, but that cam be fun sometimes, too. I play all kinds of styles - this one could be used out doors and probably sound great. The controls are scratchy, but when used often, that tends to go away.

I used this on a gig in a small bar once, and it was just too loud. The advantage is its small size, and how light it is. Among other things, it would be a good backup amp, that you could throw in "just in case". It's never broken down, and I would use it on a gig w/o a backup, although it would likely BE the backup, as I said. This is an amp where you can carry your guitar in one hand, and the amp in the other, and it's unlikely that you won't be loud enough, unless you're up against the big cab monsters.

No idea.

I've been playing 41 years. If it were stolen or lost, I probably wouldn't replace it, because I have a Line 6 Spider II 30w that would probably be OK. Same deal, light, and loud enough - very good in these old stone-walled Gold Country bars. I have Marshall, Crate, Laney, Session and Vox amps, and a Fender Blues Jr. - that's 15 through 100 watts, so I have plenty to compare to. And I have both single and HB type guitars. It's really a great portable combo amp, if you need the power. It's usually too loud for my needs, but I like having power to spare, not the other way! It's a bratty little beast that has plenty of attitude - not your traditional Fender amp. My kid has a '61 reissue SG, and he is quite fond of this amp, as well.

I've had my deluxe 112plus for ten years, it's done thousands of gigs, millions of practices, been battered in the days that i couldn't afford a flight case, stripped down when the reverb stopped working and repaired in half an hour, every top notch sound guy in the industry has commented on the sound, every producer and engineer i've worked with has loved it, after ten years of humble service today it gave up on me, i will be searching relentlessly for another one, there's just no point in getting anything else. I hate the les paul marshall sound that hides so many bad guitarists, an honest fender sets the jokers aside from the big boys. I use a 1972 telecaster custom and on the single coil bridge pick up the sound is utterly amazing!!!

two faults in ten years? try getting that out of an orange!!

THE FENDER DELUXE 112 PLUS IS AN EASY 10/10 !

This amp features a clean and drive channel, as well as reverb. The clean channel sounds nice - it's especially ballsy for a solid state amp. The drive channel sounds great too. The "contour" pot allows for a variety of tones, though it's difficult to get a straight, bright distorted tone (i.e. marshall-like) without it sounding tin-like. The reverb is good, though not as nice as real tube reverb like you would find on a twin. The 100 solid state watts, however, are a little too much. Even on stage I never turn either volume past 2.

I mostly play a standard American strat, though with my industrial-grunge group I play an ESP with passsive EMG humbuckers. The amp is very versatile - I can get bluesy tones through the clean channel, as well as heavy tones with the drive channel. Like most solid state amps, the sound greatly deteriorates at higher volumes. The distortion is great, it is similar to marshall distortion, though the e.q. on the drive channel is weak and limits your tone.

I've owned the amp for ten years and the only problem I've had with it is the footswitch, which began shorting out (on the amp) about 2 years ago. I've hauled it around quite a bit, and I've never had another problem with it.

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This has been my main amp for ten years now, and I've never been let down. I'm buying a Fender Pro Reverb tomorrow, actually, because I really want true tube tone and built-in vibrato. I'm still holding on to this amp, though. It's fairly light for an amp this size (anyone who says it's heavy must use a practice amp), and that's always nice. All in all, it's the best solid state amp I've ever used.

I bought it new in 1992, what happened was I was auditioning for a band and they hated my Les Paul/Marshall-combo-amp tones and the original guy used a Strat/Fender-amp so I went to buy a strat. I went to a small store on weekday quiet afternoon where I could really listen to strats and i ended up getting this Deluxe 112 plus as (what I thought was) a good compliment to the strat I picked. When i went back they totally were impressed with my fender sound and I got the gig. I sold the other gear.

Amp has all the features I need and i've used it as my main amp with that same strat for the past 12 years. I stuck a mic clip and a SM57 in the back which makes easy soundman setup, always use it angled back at me, micd up into the band PA at lower volumes (with American Strat, std p'ups, I set the Clean channel vol on say 2-3 and Dist channel vol at 0.6 or 0.7 - dist channel vol is Very Touchy!)

Its portable and fits my car ok, seat or trunk. But I still think its pretty heavy (hey - I'm a musician, not a sports star or a club bouncer) but my experience with combo amps is that lighter almost always means worse sound due to cheaper lighter speaker, smaller power transformer, and thinner cabinet construction. This is as small as I dare get before getting into bedroom practise amps. I also use a Fender Frontman 25R which is completely inferior sounding in every way compared to this, but ok for practising alone.

Basically this amp is so versatile, its my main amp and I'd really search high and low to get another if it got stolen.

For my classic rock and edgy-bluesy prasie&worship regular gigs, I use my American Strat with rosewood fingerboard and stock single coil p'ups - but in my opinion you have to REALLY search to find one that suits you, these guitars all sound/feel a bit different from each other once you start to compare. I'd say that I picked a strat that seemed to line up well with this amp.

For comparison, my buddy had a 2x10" Fender Princeton Chorus which has a completely different and thinner sound, also I compared it to my old tube 100W and 2x12" Twin Reverb which again is a very different toneal setup. I also had a Marshall valvestate combo which is another world entirely - best to use Marshall with Gibson/Epi guitars that have dual-coil humbuckers imo. The Deluse112plus beat out these other amps in two ways: first it has more flexible tone variations in both channels (and a good deal lighter!) than I can get with the big heavy Twin, secondly it had much more in-your-face, lets-go-for-it type of distortion tones than I could get with my buddy's Princeton. Who cares for tube amps when they weight a ton and only offer balls at high volume!

Only thing is that with strat, I needed several weeks of experimenting with live band to figure out the sensitive and touch distortion controls. The gain, contour really make big changes in attack and in character of the overdrive, again with a 5-position Strat, and in various room sizes, it means there are all kinds of undesirable combinations - so I have had to build a mental "setting booklet" to fine-tune during certain signature songs and lead passages.

I recently bought a Epiphone Sheraton II with two mini-HB p'ups and it sounds wonderful through the clean channel, super jazz or clean-blues tone so that i don't have to overplay - this setup almost sings the notes out for me. Never use the dist channel with this guitar because I only play clean jazz/funk stuff with it, but fooling around in my apt seems like I could get a good Brian Setzer tone with the epi bridge p'up and the dist channel not too overdriven, and countour around 4-5.

Its reliable enough - I never had it go "dead" and I've used it full out loud in some really big stages, but mostly just beat it to death back and forth in the car to gigs and practices twice a week for years. I've owned it 12 years.

The reverb channel went out within the 2nd or 3rd year, and I tried to fix it myself (I was a guitar tech 25 years ago). I pulled the chassis (big ugly job! remember where all the hardware goes to put it back!) and I discovered that the opamp driving the reverb unit was really hot to touch (drawing lots of current!), so with the amp off and a multimeter set to "ohms" I went searching for short ccts in the coaxial cables to the reverb spring unit. Well, after three days of endless poking around I finally unscrewed the reverb unit out of the amp cabinet, wher it turned out to be that the cheap pinch-on cable connection inside the spring unit was shorting the phono-jack's center to ground shield, causing the drive opamp to fry. Got a TLO72 opamp from Radio Shack, works fine.

Never used it.

Its my main amp. I strongly recommend this amp asd good value for the money. Over the past 35 years I have had several Traynors, a Marshall combo, borrowed a MesaBoogie and a Twin for long time, and this is it! You would have to spend 4 or 5 times to get a noticeably better combo amp that travels as well.

I dont know what year this amp was made in..Yeah, i like to play mostly clean stuff..not too heavily distorted..It has a headphone jack, Drive Channel, i wish it had some delays and more stuff like that..I use this amp when nobody is around and when i want to play loud. Im not worried about this amp haveing enough power, i think this amp might have too much power:P

This amp sounds good, VERY loud, but the sound is so crisp and clean and there isnt any fuzz or crunch..the distortion is pretty good, i dont use it very often because it is too loud for me.

This amp is very durable, ive alerady banged into a few walls and i just got it today, i think this amp will be good for me. It hasnt broke down at all:p

I've been playing for about a year now, I have one guitar, i just got a new one today for christmas, and this amp..this amp is very nice, and clean, and loud. I love it so far!

hey i bought this amp about a year ago and its still with me wich is pretty cool caus i've played it so much even in large concert halls. i won't go into loads of detail as there is plenty of other reviews for that like. i play mostly clasic rock and blues but i use my dads vox ac30 for the blues. when i play this amp at the house i'm lucky to get it passed 1 and i'm not joking bout dat lol. its great as it has two drives and reverb which is pretty good on this amp. i bought this amp secound hand with a new heavy duty speaker and a flight case ans i paid 300 pound for.

i am currently using my schecter custom shop stra, a 1964 burn marvin and a fender mex strat i use loads of differnt pickup selections and they all sound good although when i put the fender in the bridge the amp is really sqeaky. the amp in generaly is very clean and bright which is a BIG! downfall as u can't get ne reall tone out of it. the distortion is great as u can really give it some gain and it sounds good unlike the cheap amps which just sound dirty and messy.

this amp has never let me down and it never will as i willl not have it for long enough in saying that i'll have it for a futher 2 years as i'm gonna buy a matchless amp(totaly different leauge like) as i have a flight case for this amp its in really gd shape even thow i give it a littlw bit of abuse lol.

i've been playing for about three years know and have a great love for the guitar. i've become some what of a collector with my father. if i got this amp stolen i would just use my dads vox and buy the matchless in a year or so wouldn't bother buying it again as i'm already saving my balls off for that matchless been saving for over a yr now and it will take another yr before i can get enough money for it so i can't go spending 300 quid dat i need big time on an amp that i won't be using for to long lol. i hate its sharp bright sound but love its distortion and durability. if u'r finking on buying an amp for gigging and can't spend alot of money on getting it repaird if it breaks of even if u just want a good amp that very few ppl have this this is a great amp as i've only ever seen 1 apart from mine (don't know if its a good fing er not but awww well i fink its a good amp and wel worth a couple of hundread quid).

This amo is a really good quality amp. It ha s alot of good stuff on it.

10!

well i got the amp at a pawn shop. It had fallen off a truck and somkeone picked it up and sold it to the pawn shop. So it has scraches on it and the distortion volume, to get it at the right loudness for just play for your self to here it, you have to
touch it so slightly.

For the music that i play(rock and blues, Stevie Ray Vaughan Forever) . i play my Fender americann claifornia series stratocaster, it saonds really good i give it an over all 10!

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.

Bought it from Sam Ash Music in 1999. 94 WATTS, 12" Fender Special Design Speaker, Dual Inputs, Dual Selectable Channels - Clean and Drive, Accutronics Reverb, Effects Loop, Headphones Jack, Independent Tone Controls and Gain, Contour and Reverb Controls. Weight: 33 lbs. ? Size: 16.5"high x 20.75"wide x 9"deep.

TIME TESTED CLASSIC FENDER SOUNDS COMBINED WITH A DRIVE CHANNEL THAT IS TOTALLY AWESOME. I owned this amp for a year and just thought it was an overpowered little monster. Then I got out my Les Paul Custom one day and rolled everything back and was amazed at the quality sounds that could be obtained. I play a lot of different styles using either the Paul, an Am. Standard Strat or Tele and this amp is versatile. It sounds great, has lots of power if you need it, and delivers the sound you want as this is a very controllable amp. Channel 1) Clean channel - controls for treble, bass, mid, and volume; Channel 2) Distortion/Drive channel - controls for treble, bass, drive (how much distortion in the sound), contour (the "shape" of the distortion sound), and volume. Dial in the right amount of reverb and you got it. The footswitch controls the channel select (ALSO HAS A CHANNEL SELECT BUTTON ON THE FRONT PANEL) and the Reverb.

Fenders have a good reputation and with this amps solid state circuitry, it should last a lifetime.

Has a 5 year warranty. Never have needed it.

I bought this amp to fill the gap between a Fender Tweed Bronco and a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Trem-O-Verb. I wanted to get a good sound and save a couple of hundred dollars.

2 channels, clean and dirty. built in reverb. 90w all solid state 1x12 combo.

My setup is a Yamaha Pacifica->Crybaby(once i get it fixed)->mesa bottle rocket->deluxe 112 plus

the clean is about as good as solid state clean gets. it sounds kinda sterile but it is useable(i would give it a 7). the distortion, as perviously noted is awful(i would give it a 1), but that is expected. i only use the clean and i usualy dont have to turn anything past 2, even though as you go up from there all it does is get a discustingly distorted.

With the bottle rocket this thing sings, i cant wait to try it with a fender twin reverb reissue i plan to get soon. if you get this amp prepare to get a good distortion pedal.

the reverb on here is great although i usually only want a tad of it in my overall sound.

it is reliable, ive had it for years, not sure how many though. giged with it at least 6 times and move it from my bedroom to different rehersal spaces twice a week. this thing has had a few notable incidents of user neglect(not to the point of dropping just bumps and a few hard landings here and there) but still looks new.

never dealt with them. dont assume they would be too helpful though

this amp is great although 90 watts really is a lie sounds more like 60 to me. with the right pedals this amp does sing. it does not have tube warmth but it is enough to get by.

i am not including the dirty channel in any way when i say this amp sounds good, the distortion is one of the worst sounding garbage ive ever heard.

This amp is pretty old. It came with a 2 button foot box and it has 2 channels. the usual features...

the tone is pretty good until you really crank it up. then it rattles like a snake. the counter to that is its LOUD. L. O. U. D.

beat it up pretty good. it has some bruises from when it fell out of a car. stands up i'd say. survived some college time. there are 2 inputs, input 1 has always been broke.

no idea.

not bad, could be better. its a throwaround portable amp. could be a bit less heavy. my biggest peave is the volume is huge but the sound deteriorates as the volume increases.

I have no clue when this amp was made to be honest.I don't think it is a very bad amp per say but It is extremely loud.I just use it at home for the time being seeing as though I am just begining to play again.The reverb is nice.

The distortion sounds extremely fake and 1 dimensional when cranked.I like the amp, its just that I cant seem to find any decent settings but that reverb is nice though.I currently play a telecaster through it but sometimes I get an extremely loud buzzy sound when I add any tone.When I play certain melodies,I also get pops and fizzes.Damn,how annoying.If you know of any settings,friends......please,I beg you to email me.

I am afraid sometimes to even turn it on and it is so loud.I am sure it is dependable though,I hope.

I would love it more if I could get some better sounds.Some variety would be nice.So far I can only get a semi-decent bluesy sound out of it.

Mon ampli fender a ete fait en 1995, 2 channels, 1 12" avec 90watt RMS. Juste un probleme on peut pas choisir de selectionner le reverb dans le channel qu'on veut, j'ai eu un fender twin, je l'ai vendu parce que j'avais vraiment besoin$$$ pi criss jregret..., pi j'avais cette fonction pi jpense que c'est vraiment pratique de l'avoir. Y'a aussi le ptit criss de piton sur le panel pour changer channel il pourrait etre mieux placer et egalement le piton du volume du cote de la disto, pourquoi l'avoir mit la?? Je l'aurais mit a droite completement! Si tu teste cette ampli tu va me comprendre parce que lorsque tu toune les boutons du volume entre 0 et 1 esti attache toi on dirait l'ampli vomit d'une claque toute sa puissance. Les boutons des volumes sont trop SENSIBLE pi j'hais vraiment ca. A part ca j'apprecis vraiment les controle...

Je joue avec une Jackson Charvel USA, pick up actif, j'ai changer mon pick up double pour un Seymour Duncan JBmodel (10/10). Le style que je joue est du vieux rock: iron maiden, AC/DC, Rush. Le nouveau rock: papa roach, system of a down. Punk: bad religion, At the drive in. La raison pour laquel je lui donne un 8 est parce que au dela de 5 sur le clean l'amplie commence a disatorsionner un peu trop et ce meme avant. Avec mon twin je le mettais a fond pi pas problem. Le son du clean je le trouve vraiment parfait et quand tu ajuste ton tone bin au moins tentend une bonne difference de son. La disto de l'amplie sonne vraiment vieille disto moi j'utilise un boss metal zone MT2 pi ca fait ben la JOB. Oublier ca pour jouer avec un drum ya jamais assez puissance pour s'dechainner...

J'ai juste eu un problem avec le transfo, les vis se devisais pi un transfo qui vibre laisse moi dire que ton ampli y chit pi pas a peu pres. Donc ya fallu que je change les vis du transfo pi apres ca jai jamais retoucher au vis. SI ta a faire cette job va s'y poliment en autant l'amplie du box et en le remettant le genre de papier d'aluminium qu'il on mit ben y vient avec et quand tu remet l'ampli bin c'est la que ten sacre un coup tellement que j'ai batit une eglise.

see below

I'm actually scared to use this amp. Usually every time I turn it on, I get that enormously painful "POPPPP!!!!!!!" blast. I can't really play with it unless I turn everything on the amp and my guitar down to zero before turning it on. It's fucking noisy as hell, buzzing n' clacking n' stuff. My guitar is great, it's a 1972 Custom Telecaster, so it's not the guitar's fault.

As many have said, the distortion sucks. I just got a V-Wah Boss Pedal, with all different types of distortion in it....so I think I'll use that from now on rather than fucking around with running the risk of losing my hearing from all the goddamn popping.

When it's not aurally abusing you, it sounds nice. The clean reverb is nice. Blah blah, it's not worth it I say.

After all the times it's sounded like it was about to blow....it hasn't. I fucking wish it would have :) Again, very rare to get it so that it doesn't blow your fucking ears off.

never once.

i rock the casbah...i just need a better amp! :)(

90w solid state, 2 footswitchable channels, reverb, 1x12 combo. Nothing fancy but it has everything I need.

I use a standard Fender strat through this amp with a Crybaby and a Boss OD-3. I usually play anything from blues to hard rock, I guess AC/DC is most indicative of my average style. This amp does that pretty well. For the first two years I had it I struggled to find a good sound with it but the other day my buddy asked me if I bought a tube amp. I don't think it sounds *THAT* good but it's still saying alot about what this solid state amp can do. I can come very close to matching Angus or Page tones with it. It's not exactly a metal machine though for all you metalheads. The Drive channel isn't noisy unless you crank the Gain to 9 or 10, in which case you're probably trying to play metal with this amp, and as I said, shame on you if you are. The Clean channel ONLY sounds good if I use the neck pickup on my Strat, but when I do it sounds VERY good. With only a small shimmer from my OD-3 added to the signal, this channel sounds great for some blues. It has a really full sound if you play with it. On the whole this amp isn't going to offer up amazing tone to the faint-hearted. You really have to play with it to get it to sound right, but once you tame the beast it's gonna play you back in spades. Oh, by the way I play with a bunch of guys who like to turn their shit up LOUD and this amp keeps up with them just fine.

I've been playing it on average 5 hours a day for the past 4 years. Never had any problems. I'd trust it with my life.

Never had to deal with Fender.

I've been playing for 4 years by myself and with a band and this amp does everything I need it to that suits my pretty bare-bones style. If it were lost or stolen I might go and buy a 4x12 amp just to try that out for awhile but I'm not in a hurry to get rid of this amp. It's served me well. The only thing that bugs me is the sensitivity of the volume knob, but when this amp gets turned up past 5 the distortion sounds GREAT so long as you're not flogging the gain like Dimebag Darrell or something.

I don't konow the year,sorry,this amp has suited my style, METAL (only) for 6months or so,cheap to, 250 irish punts. it has two channels distortion and clean.gain , contour, treble , bass on dist. and mid treble and bass on clean, each channel has a volume , (a master woulad have been nice)i dont use clean alot though. i use this in my bedroom practiceing at home only uaed it in a band for a while and it came over the other instruments but never played live.alright features but lacking crunch.

useing a squire strat at moment which doesnt suit my means at all! but.. on a low volume(1-3) on the gain channel i get a pretty decent metal tone , metallica , slayer etc. do this by turning everything on to 10 (no reverb obviously)Im getting a jackson rr3 soon and that should beef up the drive channel a bit.its noisey with my stereo on and hums while i put in a distortion pedal on drive channel.clean is great , a great variety in tones but i dont use it unless of writing or playing light intros eg. fade to black. distortion sucks at a higher volume though and ill need to get a boss metal zone or something.

after 2 weeks of having the amp the speaker blew! i got a celestian speaker now and its a shit lot louder. I got the replacement under gaurentee.

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I own a marshall guv'nor pedal. if it were lost or stolen id buy a decent tube amp to get a real metal tone and forget this.i wish it had a mid control on drive channel , that could help.

90 watts through a 12 inch speaker. There is a clean channel which i never use, and a reverb knob which i very rarely use. But I'm not a guitar player who needs a lot of effects or other junk, if i were i doubt i'd be happy with it's versatility.

I play in a large blues band(10 piece, with a 4 piece horn section), as well as classic rock cover bands and original music. I play through an Epiphone dot(335 knock-off with gibson humbuckers that are really hot!), as well as a Dano DC3. I only use the distortion channel, never turning the gain knob above 1 or 2, and i get a killer Angus/ stones "brown sugar" tone from this amp with the epi. When i first got the amp, i didn't care for it that much. It sounded too fendery playing a strat thru it. But a few monthes later i got a killer guitar with humbuckers and realized i could get a great AC/DC tone thru this amp! Very odd and amazing. I've played out constantly the past year, using only this amp in small places as well as outdoor festivals. Our other guitarist plays a gibson les paul thru a Harry Joyce and a marshall 4 by 12, and i think our live sounds are pretty well matched. He could blow me off the stage volume-wise obviously, but we aren't a really loud band and i've rarely turned it up past 6(and then, only outdoors) I agree that the distortion is junk, but if you keep the gain knob down to 1 or 2, you can get a great dirty guitar sound out of it. I get nothing but compliments from other guitar players who are amazed at the tone i get from a solid state amp.

it's never broken down, even after taking a couple of falls. It's built like a tank.

I've been playing for 15 years, and i like getting a good value for my money. I don't use alot of effects, i actually use no effects on stage except for a rat pedal to give a volume boost for solos. This amp is perfect for me, i don't have to worry about hurting it, i don't have to see it as a lifetime investment. It fits my style of music and it's volume is very loud for such a little amp. It is perfect for clubs. It helps to have a great sounding guitar, as well. I find i can create a similiar sound to the bands i love with it. BUT never turn the gain up past 2, if you need more distortion, get a GOOD pedal.

Just read the reviews under mine, I dont want to keep repeating all that.

Distortion sucks, thats all im gonna say on that. But cleans can sound great depending on the type of guitar you have and how you mess with the e.q. At first I thought this amp just sucked, but then I got the Boss e.q., screwed around with it, and got a pretty good sound out of it. I have an Ibanez rg770, with an Invader bridge pick up in it(not exactly a set up designed for blues) but if you mess with the settings you can get a lot of diferent sounds with it. For distortion I use the boss turbo distorion ds-2. If you like greenday, nofx, or pennywise,pretty much anything punk influenced, this is a good combonation.

I dont gig. But ive had it a little under a year and it hasnt died yet.

Like I said never used it live, but for bed room playing its pretty good. And it was pretty cheap.

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.

Two channels. Clean channel:vol, treb, mid, bass
Drive:gain, contour, treb, bass, vol
Reverb

Very versatile, lots of sound possible. No need to spend hours finding the right zound (I'm talking about the clean channel now.The drive channel, well, read what I wrote below)

I play a strat copy, single coil.
Play blues (SRV), rock (form early Dire Straits to Pink Floyd)
sometimes metal. Fits almost everything except metal.
The clean channel is great. Nice sparkling Fender sound to very warm, very nice depth. Great tone control. It sounds really great with the neck pickup. Real loud.
Dont know if is distorts at high volumes. I dont dare go beyond volume level 4 (Id like to keep the neighbours happy.)
This amp tends to be noisy around electronics, esp. tv's. Who cares, just shut you're tv down.
No complaints here, but then again, the clean channel is why I bought this amp)

The drive channel is another story. It sounds a muddy in the low, and harsh in the high registers. You'll have to dial a lot of knobs, before you get something that a smooth, warm lead tone here.
If you want to play metal, stay far away from this amp.

Reasonable sound for blues, but not without an effect pedal (TUBESCREAMER perhaps?)

BTW, the reverb is a little too bright sometimes.

Te clean gets a 10, the drive a 6. So the overall sound gets an 8.

I would use this one without a backup. Feels really reliable. I'm very careful with my stuff, and so was the previous owner, so I can't really tell.

Never dealt with

I've played for ten years now. I play a cheap strat copy, but am looking for a real Fender. Going to buy myself a tubescreamer TS 10.
I own a VOX V830 Distortion, wich I want to get rif of asap.
If the amp was stolen, and I could get another used one for a fair price, I woulnd't hesitate and buy it.
Then again, if I would find a tube amp for reasonable prices, I'd buy that one.

All of the specific features of this amp are listed in other reviews. This amp in and of itself is nothing special...it has ~95 watts, which is more than enough power for many situations. Anyone that says this amp isn't loud enough to be heard over a drummer needs to tell their drummer to tone it down! There isn't anything special about the distortion on it, in fact it's pretty pathetic. But then again, many amps can't create good distortion on their own...a pedal is necessary. I use it to practice with my band and I mic it at gigs we play. It performs as both a good monitor and good source of sound to feed to the PA.

I use an old Gretsch guitar with two humbuckers, but I have used a jackson with two humbuckers, a les paul studio--two humbuckers--, a strat, and even my washburn acoustic. I play everything from Dave Matthews to Sepultura depending on what kind the mood of the day is, and this amp when set properly can do it all with flying colors. There is a definite hum on the amp when its own distortion is used, but it sucks anyway, so why bother? It buzzes when there is electrical equipment around it like a TV, stereo or computer, but that's the fault of the pickups on the guitar, not the amp. As far as versatility goes, this thing is awesome. On the clean channel, it can make intensely full blues sound, crisp highs, and thick, full lows. People that rip on this thing for being a crappy acoustic amp are obviously about as bright as a box of hair--IT ISN'T AN ACOUSTIC AMP!!! But with the volume, treble, and mid turned down a tad, and the reverb cranked, it does a damn good job. For electric, I play through a boss metal zone pedal, which creates the best chainsaw distortion I've found anywhere, and this amp can scream, grunt, drive any rock/metal song out there. The pickups in my Gretsh are about twenty years old and this amp can pick up the slightest artificial or blare out the lowest crunching power cord. When the amp is cranked, the cone does distort the sound on both clean and distortion, but everyone out there knows that when you crank any cone beyond its limits it distorts. It has a line out that can be hooked up to more speakers, which solves the problem. So as long as you play around with the knobs enough depending on your own situation, it can do just about anything you need it to. Just don't expect to get the sound of a stack with four 12 inch speakers to come out of this combo.

I've had this amp for about 5 years, and I've taken it to parties, gigs, on three major moves, all over town to jam with friends...you get the idea. Never had any problems. It does pop when turned off, but that problem is solved by turning the volume down and pulling the guitar cord out of the amp and then turning it off.

Never had to deal with them.

I've been playing for a little over ten years and am yet to play through a combo of comparable size and power that sounds better. And every single player who has heard it agrees. If it were stolen, I would buy another one in a heart beat. I love the versatility--it can go from a slipknot riff on a guitar that is tuned to B to an acoustic dave matthews song flawlessly. The cone should be a better speaker, but no combo is perfect. I highly recommend this amp, but I also recommend you go to the store and listen for yourself. Let the amp talk for itself.

mid-90's model.90 watts, dirty and clean channels with contour, gain, bass, mid, treble, etc.

This is my bedroom practice amp. I play everything from blues to rock to punk to very heavy metal. This amp sounds great through the clean channel for blues. A very warm tube feal to it. Very Fender-ish. The distortion channel is a waste. It is very tinty and buzzes. I prefer to use a distorion effect through the clean channel for some good heavy sounds.

Seems great, no problems.

never used it

I've been playing for fun for about 22 years now. The guitars I own and have run through this amp are very versitile. Gibson les Paul Custom, Gibson SG Standard, Gibson Gothic Explorer w/EMG 81/85, Epiphone Flamekat archtop, Fender USA Standard Stratocaster. The amp is a great for practice or studio, maybe even a garage amp but it doesn't seem to do much more than get muddy when turned up past 5 so I'm not sure it would be much good for live gigs.

This amp is pretty basic. 2 channels, EQ, gain and reverb. It has an effects loop, a headphone jack and a footswitch. This thing is loud as hell. With 90 watts behind a 12" speaker, I find my ears bleeding if I turn the volume higher than 3.

Fender Strat--->Boss DS-1--->Deluxe 112 Plus.
I play all kinds of music, but this amp is my blues machine. It has huge tone, great reverb, and does very well with overdrive effects. The dirty channel is very weak, leaving a very bassy distortion that does not accent finger technique at all. This amp does not play well with distortion effects. The only thing that I can use through it is an overdrive or a light distortion (DS-1). THIS IS NOT A METAL MACHINE. It has quite a bit of noise, but I have installed noiseless pickups in my strat which mostly eliminates that. The effects loop is weak and sounds like it is going to explode when you route mod effects through it. For my purposes, it has great tone and is an awesome amp. If I were you though, I'd go for a princeton. The tube tone is better and it accepts effects more readily.

I've never had a problem with this thing. I don't take it everywhere I go because it's so heavy, but it takes a fair amount of abuse

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I think this is a fine amp, I just think that there are much better ones out there. I regret that I didn't play more through a princeton before buying this thing.

90 watts, 12 inch speaker, 2 channels. You all know it.

It doesn't have the great tone that it's new brother the Princeton 65 has, but it's not bad. I play in a metal/punk band, and this baby has plenty of power. I daisy chained it to a new princeton 65, and believe it or not, i can get the killer metal sound that knocks stuff off the wall. It's a pretty smooth running, potent amp. Go for it.

Fender. What do you think?

Fender. what do you expect?

Pretty good little amp. If you use it with some other pretty good stuff, you can get a hell of a rig.

Not sure what year but prolly mid to late 90's. the amp is very versatile can go from surf rock to punk in one stomp of the channel selector. only thing is that it needs to have speaker outs. it has the power to push a 4x12 cab or 2x12 cab. i play shows and at practice and dont have to turn it up past 3 or 4

i play thru gibson sg's one standard and one custom. sg's are the best guitars to play thru. its great for surf-punk music. i can get a really fat distortion sound on it which would be great for metal. you have to turn the gaim to 10 and then adjust the volume on the distortion channel to get good distortion. you can get just about any sound you want with this amp if you have a good guitar. all these people that say it sucks have shitty guitars. ibanez and fender strats arent going to give you a good sound thru it. you need a 2 humbucker config or even 3. the clean sound doesnt seem to break up at 4 but havent had to push it past that yet. i dont really use the distortion channel but it seems heavy as shit

its a fender. hasnt broken yet and i dont like carrying 2 amps to gigs.

never dealt with them. apparently it has a 5 year warranty

ive been playing for about 7 years and ive owned numerous amps and effects and this one is the best one for the price. i'd rather have this than any marshall combo. if it were stolen or lost i'd be pissed off and have to get another one. all these people on here that gave it bad ratings either have a crappy guitar or do not know how to adjust the knobs on the amp. email me i will tell you how to get a killer sound out of it.

I'm not really sure what year this beast was made. If that info comes off the S.N. then it's either 65 or 62.
I use this unit at gigs with no problem, rarely cranked over 3 to maybe 4 at the larger venues. She has two channels, (clean & dirty), I've read a few reviews with people commenting that the distortion sucks. I'm running a US Tele through a Korg G3 throught to 112. This unit has a lot of bite.

We play covers, 50's 60's 70's up to and including top 40. We particularly do a lot of Tom Petty. I can achieve the perfect sound for "Makin' Some Noise" by-passing my G3 directly into the second channel with Treble at 6 Mid at 3.5 to 4, and Bass at 4. It depends a lot on what you're using for a guitar. Try shopping somewhere besides K-Mart and you'll find this amp is "ample".
The dirty channel (2) has a contour control. I honestly seldom use this feature, preferring to adjust through the G3 and the Tele.

It's a Fender...solid as a brick shithouse.

Haven't required any repairs but I'm pretty sure Fender stands behind their stuff.

I've been playing around 35 years.
I play a Telecaster.
12 string Danelectro
12 string CBS acoustic
Korg T3
Rickerbacker TR35B
Korg G3
I have one rule...Steal from me and I will find out what it is you love the most....and KILL it

It is a pretty simple 2 channel amp. Clean channel has treble mid and bass. Drive has treble bass and a contor control. 94.4 watts into a very cheap 12.

I have a stock IbanezRG520 and a mexican strat. I really don't like the amp that much. You can't play lound to hear your self over drums. The speaker makes a farting noise when it is loud with heavy distortion. It is not my main amp. I got a JCM2000DSL about 7 months ago and had to seand it in to get it fixed. the weekend that a took it in I found a drummer for the band I am tring to start. I tried to play with the 112plus but I couldn't hear my self over the drummer and the other guitarist. I getto rigged my 2x12 cab that I use for my marshall and worked well.I think if you have this amp you should replace the speaker cause it sucks!!! The sound is ok. For the price it is a good amp. I don't like the contour control it only sounds decent on 10 and you can't get a good blues sound cause if you move the contour off of ten it makes the sound very tinny and thin. It really has no punch. I would also suggest if you have a small practice amp and want some thing with more volume save your money and get a "TUBE"amp. You will thank your self in the long run. O yeah the clean channel also sucks a big one.

It sounds bad but I have had no trouble with it.

Ive only been playing for about 2years. I also own a DSL50 a 1936 2x12 cab a boss DD-5, digitech wammy pedal, and a cry baby

I am writing to follow up on my 2/7/00 review below.

I have been reading all of the reviews submitted in the hopes of getting better ideas on how to bring out the best this amp has to offer. I hope others who have contributed also experiment and share their experiences here with the rest of us.

For a loud little practice amp, the features are pretty good. No change from my prior opinion.

The distortion channel is just about useless. I have run every guitar in my arsenal through it. It is a hopeless cause. The sound is tinny. The harder you driver it, the "tinnier" it gets. And it is noisy! The hiss is too much. It makes the amp unusable for recording and extremely difficult - if not impossible - to mic when run through a PA.

I can get some nice sounds using the low gain input on the clean channel. With treble on 10, bass on 10 and midrange at 0, I can get very nice range simply by dialing the pots on the guitar - the old fashioned way. These also seem to be the most receptive settings for a processor to run through.

Playing with the reverb while working with these setting also adds some interesting sounds. I have run these settings through a mic into a Mackie 808 PA with no trouble at all. Considering that this is cheap little solid state amp with a very modest PA, it performed pretty well. Running an extension cabinet (I rigged up plug to allow this) helps the sound; but for the price of this amp and an extension, you may as well just put that same amount of money up front into a better amp.

I have tried some of the other settings others have recommended, but I just can not find settings on the distortion channel that deliver good tonal quality. As the volume goes up, the tinny sound with a hollowness to it engulfs everything.

Admittedly, lots of this is personal taste. On the other hand, everyone I play with (in two bands) feels the same way, i.e., decent clean channel and an awful, atrocious distortion channel.

Still going. As reliable as any amplifier I have ever owned in 22 years plus playing. Still tends to make a "pop" sound when turned off.

Never used.

It is a decent, reliable practice amp. I just can not see it being used for anything else. The sound quality just is not there. It can definitely get loud, but it is better played clean.

For the price, this amp is certainly a great value. This is a two channel amp, however, the distortion is weak, but it has that definitive clean fender sound. I play it through an '87 floyd rose series strat and it sounds really nice. Of course, this is a solid state amp, but for the price you can't get much better.

I play it through a strat with a seymour duncan sh-12 pickup and it has a great clean tone. The distortion is weak, so I suggest buying a pedal like the boss metal zone. I think that this is a great practice amp, it's light, and it is very loud. I would even use it at a small gig, it's really a good value, especially if you can find it used.

I've had this amp for two years and have had no problems.

I have a a mesa boogie studio .22+ that is a tube amp and the fender matches up very well. It has that old vintage fender sound with a small pricetag. This is a great practice amp, or for people that don't play gigs and don't need a super amp. It is packed with features and as long as you invest in a distortion pedal, this amp is really nice.

There are two channels. One is a clean that pretty much can't be used. It's ok. However, it's nothing that I would ever use live or on a record. Maybe ok for screwing around. The distortion on this thing is amazing. I was absolutely astonished to find that fender could make anything that sounded this good. There are a few drawbacks though. There are no speaker outs. So even if you did like this amp, you would have to mike it to use it live. This sucks because there is plenty of punch to power a 412 with this thing. In my opinion this is a one trick pony. It won't give you that "Metalica tone," (Play a boogie if you want metallica) And it won't give you that "Nirvana tone" (take a Crate amp and throw it into oncoming traffic a few times if you want that sound). But if you want a great, I mean great lead tone like Satch or Vai...you owe it to yourself to check out this amp.

Like I said, the clean is not that great to my ears. It was kinda flat with no character. But the lead was so good I couldn't believe it. This is the most under rated amps I've ever played. I played this amp with a custom strat that had two Duncan 59's in it. The tone I could get out of this solid state beauty was absolutely unbelievable. It doesn't do rhythem playing that well, and it doesn't do clean, but man ! This baby sings ! I don't remember my exact settings, I had the reverb up until it gave me a nice Eric Johnson sounding echo. The contour was at about 7, and the gain bass were craked ( I think ) The treble was about 6 or 7. If you own one of these or are trying one out, please, I beg that you tweak. Good sounds are in there. Keep in mind however, that pickups are a big part of this amp. I don't know if it will sound with crappy stock Fender single coils. So try different guitars. But all you fans of good lead tone need to try this amp. Think of the nice sustaining notes on "Flying in a Blue Dream" or "For the love of God."

I don't really know. I spent about two hours in a store with it. It seemed like it would hold out allright if it were treated properly.

If you want a truly great tone in every channel (clean, crunch, lead)then by a Bogner, Soldano, Egnator, or a Hughes and Kettner. Be prepared to spend about $2000-$3000 too. I saw this thing for $200 and I was blown away by what this thing could do. Any studio musician that needs a small, affordable amp that sings should try this puppy. I'm not kidding. This amp will amaze you (provided you're not a sloppy player and you have good taste). I will say it again...This is the most under rated amp that I have ever played or heard. It has it's drawbacks, but if you need a one trick pony that does great leads, this is one killer amp.

This is your very basic solid-state, 94-watt, 12 inch speaker amp. It's got both clean and dirty channels. Low, Mid, and High for both. Reverb too. Both channel switching can be controlled by a included footswitch. It also has an effects loop and headphone jack. I only wish it had chorus.... oh well.

I play Grunge/Punk/Metal/Rock. Stuff like Metallica and Nirvana.I'm using Fender Strats, Teles, and a Takamine acoustic through this amp. Now, I have to say that the amp distorion is just crap, it's noisey and fuzzy. So I use an Ibanez SM7 for distortion. But, I find the the gain channel works pretty well and a volume boost. What I love about this amp is it's clean channel. You can get just about any clean sound out of it. The two things I don't like about this channel is that fact that it sounds like shit with my acoustic. It's really trebly and make it sound nasty. The reverb is also a little on the noisey side.

Never broken. Never had any problems. Fender amps are like rocks.

Never dealt with 'em.

I've been playing guitar for 4 years now and this is my second amp. I love this amp. If it were stolen I'd cry and buy another. It's got power, it's got a great sound, and it was cheap. What more could you want?

This is a 2 channel amp (clean and gain) with master reverb. It's rated at 94 watts, has footswitch controls for channel switching and reverb on/off. It's got 2 inputs, but you really only want to use the first input. Do NOT hook up two guitars to this amp. It's also got pre-amp out and a power-amp jacks for hooking up effects. I assumed this would operate like most effects loops, but after looking at the schematic of the amp, it does not. The purpose of an effects loops is generally to apply things like chorus and delay AFTER any distortion has been applied by other pedals and/or the ampplifier itself. If you use a delay pedal BEFORE distortion, you get what is univerally accepted as a horrible sound. Sadly, the pre-amp in/out stage of the amp is really "pre" amplification. All the effects will be processed BEFORE the gain is applied. So, you can use a delay pedal or a chorus pedal with this amp on the clean channel, but not on the gain channel.
This is ok with me, but it makes the amp a little less veritle then it otherwise could have been. It would have really taken little effort and no cost for this to have been done properly. Does anyone know what the purpose of this pre-amp in/out is and why you would need this
as opposed to just patching the effects on your chain before you even patch into the amp? Anyway, the two channels are both usable for clean to moderately distorted volumes. If you are looking for a heavy metal amp, you should probably buy a marshall tube amp. But if you like to play the blues and you don't want to shell out for a tube amp but still need to be loud, this is a fine amp to use.

I'm playing a Heritage H-140CM with two humbuckers. I play mostly blues and "hippie" rock I suppose, with a little REM/U2 type stuff thrown in there. Although I don't actually like REM/U2, I find myself playing in that style every now and again, kinda weird. Anyway, this amp is pretty good as you can get some nice tones out of it if you set it up right. If you keep the clean channel low, at 2-3 and use the neck pickup a humbucking guitar at 10, with the reverb on 10, you will get a NICE, bubbley, very Jazzy tone. You aren't gonna sound exactly like Grant Green or George Benson, but it's a sweet tone for playing clean lead. If you keep the gain moderately low (2-3) and the reverb on 7, gain chaneel volume at 3, and your guitar at between 7-10, you will get a nice, bluesly lead tone. Once again, you arne't gonna sound like SRV, but you will sound more like YOU, and that's what this amp will help you to do. Once again, it's not a 60s erra VOX tube amp, but it;s a 90s solid state amp with ALOT of power behind it. So don't assume you will sound like Santana playing through it (although some guy told me I had the "Santana Tone" playing though it just last night, but he wasn't exactly sober :-) but it's not a bad little amp buy any means. In terms of it's cost and for what it is, this amp is like an 8-9 for tone, but compared to a Mesa Boogie Heartbreaker it's about a 3. That's not really a fair comparison tho so, for the money I'll give it an 8.

I haven't had it long enough to really find out. Now, to address some peoples complaints about picking up radio stations on it. DON'T USE CHEAP PATCH CABLES. They are not shielded and are acting as antenae. The amp is solid state (i.e. like a transistor radio) so if you hook up an antenna to it of course you will pick of radio stations cause you are turning it into a freaking radio. Also, follow the manual and use a stereo type patch NOT a coax guitar type patch for the footswitch.

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I've been playing guitar about 6-7 years now, but only playing electric for little while. Well, to clarify that, I've played electrics, but I never owned one myself, just played through whatever equipement was left in my basement after rehersals. That said, I've used a 100 Watt Marshall Half Stack, Peavy 112 Stereo, TONS of crappy little 15 watts solid state jobbies, Fender Princeton Chorus etc etc. To be honest I don't think I'd replace this with another 112 plus right about, but a 90 watt solid state amp has it's purpose in your arsenal of gear (unless you want to be in a death metal cover band, then you don't want this amp) and this is a very good one. I really like the clean channel with the reverb cranked for a jazzy tone.

The features are addressed in the previous reviews. They are basic, and that is probably better suited to most players in this day of processors, digital effects, etc. The headphone jack makes this ideal for use as a practice amp, which is what I think this amp honestly is. The lack of a jack for an extension strikes me as Fender's way of telling us that they intended this to be a practice amp. (I had my tech rig up a plug so I could hook up an extension. The sound definitely improved with a Fender 1 x 15" extension.) Footswitch controls channel selection and reverb. It is adequate.

I play lots of 60's covers, power pop and lots of power chord, guitar hook driven material(early Kinks, early Who, The Clash, The Jam,etc.) This amp is good for low-to-moderate output, single coil pickups played clean. It does not do justice to my Rickenbacker or my humbucker guitars.

It has a surprising amount of power for a lightweight, compact amp...enough to hold its own during practices, but let's not confuse power with good sound.

I think this amp does a poor job of delivering a humbucker's sounds. It does a decent - but not great - job with single coil pick-up Fender guitars played clean...like my American Standards - one a Strat and the other a Tele. On the other hand, my Epiphones and Gibson's sound very bland. This amp does not do them justice. Two exceptions: the bridge pickups on my Gibson SG standard and Epiphone Les Paul standard both have a nice "growl" at one particular setting.

The clean channel distorts as you near 8 on the volume. And it concerns me because the speaker sounds like it is being pushed a little too hard. That volume level also starts to expose the tonal quality limitations of the 1 x 12 set-up.

Like other reviewers, I think the distortion leaves something to be desired. It lacks a fullness to its tone. It sounds one dimensional -all midrange. The distortion has no bottom end and no highs. "Brutal"...on the ears! This may be the amplifier which best demonstrates what a solid state amp can lack vs. a tube amp. When playing live, I would not use this amp for anything that involves distortion.

This is the amp's strength. I have had it four years and taken it on numerous practice gigs. I also almost exclusively use it when I just want to practice on my own. Never had a problem. I have brought this amp to live gigs just in case I needed a back-up, but never needed to use it. As a practice amp, it has never broken down on me.

I have one concern: when you shut it off, it makes a loud popping sound. Sounds like a capacitor discharging. Not good, but it has not given me any trouble...yet.

I have never had to deal with them, so I have no opinion.

I've been playing 22 years. I own 11 electric guitars. I have played tons of amps over the years. I have owned LAB SERIES and AMPEG amps before, and currently own a CRATE GX-140D. I think it a mistake to expect any one amp (or guitar) to be able to do everything well, but I think this amp just falls a little too short in too many areas. The clean channel is O.K. The distortion channel leaves much to be desired. The inability to hook up an extension handcuffs you from doing one of the things that might help the sound.

On the other hand, the Fender Deluxe 112 Plus has proven itself a reliable practice amp. I am definitely going to keep it as a practice amp, for which I think it is good, and as a backup. However, I think it has too many tonal limitations to be your frontline amp.

If this amp were lost or stolen, I would buy something else.

Two channels, clean and dirty, reverb (horrible sounding), headphones, effects loop yadda yadda yadda.... Basically what u would expect.

I use a Jackson Ps-4 trans which is the best guitar i have ever owned. unfortunately with this amp the qualities of the guitar just sink without a trace. The clean channel is largely unusable unless u pluck the strings with a feather. Once u put the volume up and give it a whack u get this HORRIBLE high end quack. Also when u use effects through the clean channel with a lot of bass at high volume u get this farting noise when the speaker f*cks up.
The dirty channel is fairly weak. If u want slightly bluesy type stuff then this is ideal. However, if u are a metal type of player then u will HATE this thing with a passion. There is no crunch at all, just a buzzing that sounds like it's broken. Without back-up from pedals the distortion sounds crap and then with pedals u get noise that no amount of compressors will get rid of. The channel by itself is pretty noisy, with reverb it's a fucking nightmare. It sludges everything up when i record.
At high volume u have to do all sorts of shit to make sure u get the right sound - TOO MUCH FU**ING HASSLE.

Broke in the first six months. Don't know what the fuck it was. However, i am fairly abusive with my equipment and do play at continuously loud volumes with lots of power going in the front end so maybe it was just me. Has never given me to many significant hassles but now and again it might throw a tantrum which is just not cool.

When i went to get it fixed they did it under warranty, replaced additional parts free of charge and also gave it a bit of a tune up (fixed up the speaker that had come undone etc..)I was quite impressed.

I have been playing for a while and the amp has been with me for a few years. The reason i have kept it is cuz i'm a student and can't afford to buy another amp. It has taken me maybe two years to start finding REALLY good tones which is shit considering i could plug into a crate and get the same tone in about 30 seconds. I play metal/hardcore mixed with electronica and although i don't have what u'd call a traditional metal crunch tone, this amp is no good for anything heavier than indie music like Oasis or some lame sh*t like that. WAnt something with balls? Go buy a Marshall.

2 channels, never use the second it is terrible,apart from that the features are pretty much standard. Would have been nice to have a chorus.

i only use the clean channel with a u.s telecaster this gives me a good sound ( my tele has lace sensor pickups so the output is very high,not that this amp needs any help)for heavier work i use a frontline distortion pedal this sounds suberb i play alternative rock so my distortion sound isn't massive and this amp can quite easily cope with that.

i gig 2 or 3 times a week and this amp has never let me down.

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i,ve been playing 8 years before this i always used marshall amps. i brought this for the claen sound and that only. If you want power and don't have much room for a big rig i strongly recommend this amp, but if your looking for a classic overdrive buy a marshall.

I think this amp was made in 1997. It's pretty versatile but It doesn't really suit the kinds of music that I play (punk, emo, ska, hardcore)THis amp has got 2 channels, clean and dirty, headphone jack and a bunch of other useless stuff
THis thing has a contour knob which I think is kinda cool, it changed the o.d. from blues to death metal.
THis amp suits me well, i use it mostly for practising because i don't have a band yet. This baby has got 90 watts which is plenty or too much for this little amp. oh and it's a solid state

I'm playing an epiphone lp with stock pickups and the clean channel sounds incredible, it really sparkles, which is good for some ska, and emo. BUt then theirs the o.d. channel which I say just sux poop for punk, or actually almost anything besides blues. Clean channel stays clean until you get to about three then it kinda makes this growling rumbling sound which is umpleasant, but that's with humbuckers and playing power chords. When you set the gain higher it gets really crappy. THere's absolutely no crunch, it gives this crappy fuzzy buzzing sound. I thought it might've been my guitar but I goto play through a valvestate 100 marshall stack hooked up with a dod tec 4 and it blew this thing away. If you want killer distortion stay away from this thing

I think this amp is built well, it's built in the u.s so i don't think it could be that bad, haven't really banged it around so I wouldnt' know how realiable it is.

I got it from my local music store Mountain Music, and the guys there were pretty friendly. They weren't pushy at all and they didn't make up crap. I got a 30 day warranty from them plus a 2 year warranty from fender, which is pretty good. But i don't know about fender, I heard they suck crap.

I've been playing for about 2 years but I just started playing the electric guitar. When i bought it i thought it was great until I heard what good sound was. If you want a good clean channel but a not so great o.d. channel buy this thing it rox. But if you want the best from both worlds, try taking a look from something else like a fender roc pro 1000 which have killer distortion.

I don't know when the amp was made but I got it in July of 1998. It works great for what I play. I play a mix of alternative and progressive rock. I like to call it alternaprog. The clean channel sounds great with me Strat. Thats a given. The distortion channel is pretty good if you know how to work the knobs right. Sometimes the sound gets boring after a while so you gotta keep turnin the knobs. I wish it had a chorus but its not a big deal cause I got a Danelectro Chorus pedal that sounds fabulous. Its got plenty of power for me, if not more then enough. I can't wait to do an outdoor gig, so I can crank this bitch up.

I use a strat with the middle pickup probably 80% of the time. It sounds great and maybe some of the not so hot sounds out of the distortion channel are due to the somewhat bland stock pickups, oh well, when I can afford it, I'm gettin Duncans. It works great for my style of playing. It isn't that noisy to me, but then I don't know much about noise. The clean channel just sounds great. The distortion channel can sound great in numerous ways. The contour is the pivotal control. It can make or break the sound. with it past 8 it gets too staticy and mushy. So I mainly have it at about 7.5. The bass is usually at about 8 and the treble at 5 but from what I've found, those two make little difference on the distorted channel. The gain is usually at about 7 or or so. The distortion is good if you set it right. I used to use a Boss DS-1 distortion pedal for all of my distortion but then the batteries ran out so I was forced to try the amp's distortion. I played with it for a while and found a great setting. NOw the pedal sounds really bad to me. Its too icky. The only way it could be a 10 would be to be a tube amp.

This thing is solid. Its never broken down at all. It just plain works. There is a little tear in the tolex covering dealy but thats ok. It adds character.

I've never dealt with them...maybe because I lost the warranty sheet thing. Stupid!

I've been playing for 2 and a half years. This was my first amp although I did borrow some little ones from friends and this is way better. If it were stolen I would probably get something better, something tube. But at the time I got it, it was the best I could afford and is still one hell of an amp. I like the versatility of the distortion channel, theres alot of sounds in there, you just gotta coax them out. I give it a 9. It is probably the best you can get for a middle price range solid state amp. I want a tube amp now.

A 90 watt solid state floor amp with 1 twelve inch speaker.It has alot of knobs.2 channels (clean,distorted) 2 inputs I'm still not sure why, #1 is the only one to use ,#2 sounds like crap, and dont even think about plugging into both.Basically both channels have volume and a 3 band eq, the distorted channel has a gain level,and there is 1 reverb knob for both channels. It has four 1/4" jacks.1 for foot switch (switches channels and reverb on/off), 1 for head phones, and preamp out, and power amp in.

If you're a beginner to intermediate player and you like playing blues,or good times rock & roll then this amps for you.If you're a metal head like me and you love that thick,saturated, heavily distorted brutal crunch, stay far away.You wont get that sound without a pedal, and evan with a pedal you wont be able to turn it up very loud because the speaker is so pussy it gets fuzzy and muffled if you turn it much past 2.The clean channel is alright. It's got that typical clean fender tone.

I've never had a problem with it.I use it alot as a practice amp.However it seldom leaves the house so I'm not exactly sure of the durability, but it seems pretty tough.It does have a five year warrenty that is transferable to different owners

Never had to deal with them.

This was my first amp.It worked good for me at first but I outgrew it fast.Kind of expensive for what it is.If I had it to do over again I probably would have started out with a less expensive amp,and upgraded later to a tube head and cabnet.I'm thinking about going with a Mesa dual rectifier.If you have any info on them please e-mail me.

It's pretty straight forward. It has a 12 inch speaker and is rated at 95 watts. 2 inputs, but I wouldn't use them both at the same time at high volume or you might blow a fuse. It has 2 channels(Clean and Gain) that can be controlled by a included footswitch. The footswitch also turns the reverb on and off. It also has an effects loop. Channel 1: Volume, Low, Mid, High Channel 2: Volume, Gain, Low, High, Contour (Mid)

I use this amp with a Fender Strat w/Deltatones. I play punk/grunge/metal/blues/rock kinda stuff and its great for all of it. Turn the gain and contour down and you get a real nice blusey sound. Turn the gain and contour up and you get a smooth heavy distortion that you can use for metal and punk kinda stuff. It dosen't have as much crunch as I'd like but it's not a huge deal. This amp is also loud as hell. If you just practicing around the house, you don't even need to turn in up past one before the whole house can hear it.

My friend has had his Deluxe 112 for about 5 years and nothing has ever happened too it. It still works like it did when it came out of the bos.

I've never had to deal with Fender about amps. But a while back by guitar had something wrong with it and Fender was quick to replace it.

I love this amp. If it broke or was stolen I would have to go out and buy another. With the reliability and power of this amp, I doubt I'll need a new one in a long time.

this amp has a horribly noisy distortion and a horribly fuzzy reverb(but its got good SUSTAIN!)
o, andit has a horribly fuzzy "clean" channel
in my band we play hardcore rock, with osme softer songs smilar to bands like far or deftones, so this fuzz pisses me off

i play a gibson SG, the only reason this amp is usable now is because i have a nice guitar, i previously played a fender strat. feedback was a big problem. hearing what i was playing thru the fuzz was another.
it has ok volume(90) but the problem is the speaker can't handle going past 3, (5 on clean, maybe 6)

it hasn't broken, but im sure it will

i (surprisingly) have not had to deal with them

i've been playing for a lil over 3 years, have had numeous different small amps, and this one has been great for me for practicing....but it goes no further than that. i have to be pumped thru my bands PA to get enough volume to be heard since i cant crank this thing higher, and its too fuzzy anyways(oui 10-year old 500watt PA has cleaner sound)
this has been an ok amp for about a year, but it has really sucked the past few months with the new applications, im purchasing a line6 this month (ax2 212 bwahahahahaha) since it has a nice, loud, crisp, full, sound, yes.
i would suggest this amp if u want fuzzy practice amp that u want tp pay too much for. or need a beer coaster that costs under 300 dollars

Made in 1997. Has the drive and clean channel, effects loop, you know. The footswitch is nice because you can also contol the reverb. I play lead with it.

I'm using a Les Paul Custom, sometimes with a Zoom Multi-Effects. It is very quiet. I just dont like how it distorts at all volumes unless I turn the bass setting to 0 or 1. I can never rely on it to play clean. Plenty loud with the drive channel however.

After about 3 hours of practice it will fry out and you have to change the equalization and maybe switch it off for a few minutes. But It seems to be in good shape, especially after I walked in and found my bass player plugged into it. Didn't seem to cause any harm tho.

I hear they suck.

I've been playing for 3 or 4 years and Its time for me to get a better amp. If you are considering buying this amp, please look into an ultra chorus, or try and get a used 1/2 stack, you will be much happier in the long run.

I bought this amp as a succesion from my fifteen watt Park Combo, what a great choice! The amp has two basic channels which are footswitchable, Chanel 1: Clean. Volume Treble Middle Bass Chanel 2: Drive. Gain Contour Treble Bass The reverb pot is located last in the sequence, this is also footswitchable. I give it a 9 due to the lack of a Master volume, but still pretty much the bollocks!

I use a custom Washburn guitar with twin humbucking pickups, the amp handles this very well but I think that it sound its best on the drive chanel, it makes my pickups really scream!

If their was an 11 for this catogorie i would give it to the 112, i have played seventeen gigs with it and not a single problem, i would not hesitate to use it without a backup.

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I think that the rating speaks for itself

94 watt solid state 1 X 12 combo. Clean channel has basic EQ (Treble, mid, bass) and drive channel has gain, contour, treble and bass. Maybe a chorus would have been nice with this amp.

I use a Fender Stratocaster with single-coil pickups. I'm goingo to replace the bridge position with a stacked humbucker soon. Play alternative/rock, sometimes metal, blues occasionnaly. This amp is very okay as a first amp(which is my case.) However, it is quite noisy, especially in the drive channel. The distortion is not that great, it's mostly static, and sounds cheap, but it's warm enough. The lows on the clean channel tend to distort at high volumes.

This amp is very reliable, well built and solid as hell. Haven't had any problems with it so far.

Never dealt with Fender.

This was my first amp. I got it in July 1998. I got my strat and amp togther. I've been playing electric guitar since. I also have a Metal Zone. If it were stolen, I would definatively go for a tube amp either Crate or Fender. It would have been nice to have a chorus on this amp to make it somewhat more versatile. By the way, this amp is very loud !!!! I've never gone higher than 2 and the volume goes all the way until 10.

This amp has clean and distortion chanels, reverb, and a foot switch. All are very nice features to have, but they SUCK! Read on to find out why.....

I am running through an Ibenez 320DX(2 humbuckers and loaded with features, very nice) and the amp sounds HORRIBLE! The clean channel wasn't very clean, and it broke up a lot(lots of crackels). I like to play heavy(Pantera, Slayer), and the amp totally sucks for that! The distortion channel isn't very distorted(more like static) and no matter how long you play with all the knobs, it isn't going to sound much better. When it's cranked, but the guitar is down, it hums very loudly, too.

This amp SUCKS!! I fried the clean channel from having it up too loud too often(regular practice/gig use) and it sounds like the distortion channel is starting to go too. Reverb dosn't work any more(I don't even know how that happened!). Can't depend on it at all.

Never delt with them, but I heard they really sucked!!

I have been playing for five yrs., and this is by far the worst amp I ever had. If it was stolen........who would want to steal this peice of crap?!?! I also own a Crate GFX65, and it totally blows the Fender away! Don't buy this amp if you want a heavy sound, or want it for over 6 months, cause if you gig or practice a lot it gonna break!!!!! BUY CRATE!!!!

This is a standard 1x12 reverb combo with a clean and gain channel. It has an effects loop, headphone jack, and a two-button footswitch. The preamp was covered with knobs--all of which where cheap plastic deals that wouldn't turn smoothly. The 90 watts is plenty: if this thing was turned up all the way the entire neighborhood could hear it. I usually keep the volume at midway between 0 and 1. When it's at 1, you can hear it outside.

This amp has horrible sound quality. The lows on the clean channel distorted at almost every volume. The distortion is really nothing but static. The amp picked up so much radio interference that the local jazz station came in louder than the guitar itself--it was really a pain. I took it back at the end of my 30 day satisfaction guarantee period and bought a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe tube combo--much better.

I never had a problem with this amp. I only had it for 30 days and I took very good care of it--even though I hated it.

never had to deal with them.

I've been playing for a while now. I play a Gibson Blueshawk. Do not buy this amp, whatever you do. Fender makes very good amps, but they must have slipped on this one. I took it back and bought a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe tube amp. It is one of the greatest amps I've ever played. Scrounge around for some extra money and buy tube.

I bought this one from a pawn shop, although you wouldn't be able to tell. Made in 97, 90 watts solid state, 1 12" speaker (thus the name...), Clean with the usual bass, treble, mid, and a drive channel with bass, treble, volume, mid, gain, and contour, and a master reverb control. Came with footswitch, Power amp in and Pre-amp out-If anyone can tell me what in the sam hill this is used for please do. I love it, this amp was an upgrade from my old squier amp- EEEEEKK!! Plus, the price tag of only $275 was nice.

I like to play everything, mostly classic rock. I use the clean channel more than the drive channel- it suits me fine, but you metalheads out there probably wouldn't like it to much. If you like to piss your neighbors off this is the amp for you. IT'S LOUD!

Like a rock.

Never had to, but Fenders Customer Service pretty much sucks. No e-mail adress or phone number to be found on thier web page. The only contact was on the back of the owners manual that came with my strat.

I've been playing less than a year, with a newly bought Strat, which was also an upgrade from a Squier. If this amp were stolen, i'd never pick up a guitar again. There's not much I can complain about- your classic fender sound, but again, the drive channel is fine for me. I compared this amp to a Peavy Classic 50, and this was more of a value to me. The footswitch and cover were all flawless. I love this amp.

This amp has 90W of pure power. Good enough to play anywhere, it works good miced or on its own. It comes equiped with tons of EQ knobs for ultimate acuracy in the sound you are looking for. The two channels (clean and drive) have separate bass and treble options. The clean channel has a mid knob while the drive channel has a contour knob. It also has an effects loop and a headphone jack. Its nice that it has two inputs, but it doesn't have separate volume controls for each. The Deluxe 112 Plus also comes with a channel and reverb footswitch.

I play an Epiphone LP100 using the bridge humbucker pickup. My style of music is grunge/punk/alteritive and this amp really fits me nicley. All I use is the clean and drive channels so I don't have to worry about carrying around foot pedals. The sound comes through good, but the low volume is actually pretty loud. I have to keep it under 1 when I play in the house because its just too loud (not that that's a bad thing). The clean channel starts to snap and pop a bit at around 5, but after that it doesn't get much louder anyway. What really bugs me is that when I turn it off, it turns to the drive channel and pops loudly. My friend has one to and his does the same thing. All in all, if your just beginning to play in a band and are mainly practicing in a garage or your basement, this amp is great. Since its the only amp I've got, I have to bring it to gigs. I mike it of course and it does the job.

I depend heavily on this amp. Like I said I don't have a backup but I don't think I would need one. It has never broken down and has taken quite alot of beating while traveling. It's built solid enough.

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I've been playing for two years now. I formed a band about two monthes ago and that's when I got the amp. I used to be a gear head, buying tons of foot pedals and then selling them off for new gear. That is no longer a problem. The drive on the Deluxe 112 Plus sounds better than any pedal I've had (DOD Grunge, Danelectro FabTone, Big Muff). I'll stick with clean and drive. If it were stolen I would probably look at upgrading to a Marshall combo. I would want to have a built in analog chorus though, but I'm not going to by it separate. If you are in a beginning band, get this amp. Enough said.

This Fender Deluxe 112 Plus is a 1998 model and has some very nice features. I play thrash heavy metal/hardcore and this amp is great. It has two main channels: Normal and Drive. Under the Normal channel, there are settings for volume, tremble, mid, and bass. Under the Drive channel, there are settings for gain, contour, tremble, bass, and volume. There is also a reverb setting that can be used for both channels. I wish this amp had more of a clean distortion. All the features are great for the price.

I'm using an Ibanez GRX20 guitar and it sounds great with this amp. Like I said before, I wish I could get a more cleaner distortion sound. This amp has alot of sound variety in the settings. This amp is cool.

I've only had this amp for a week or so, it's still new. It's been reliable so far.

Never had to deal with them.

I've been playing for only about 6 months. This amp definitly serves my needs. When I bought this amp, I compared by price and features with Marshall and Peavey and this was the best for the price.

Not bad for features. As seperate EQ's for both channels. The contour knob has a huge effect on the gain channel's tone. There is no mid control which sucks.

This depends. If your using it just as a practice amp at low volumes than I would give it a 7. However if you are using it in a band situation it get's a 3. The clean channel breaks up to the point of being unusable. The distortion channel feeds back like crazy it you put the gain at 10. Forget about playing metal with this amp. This thing has no balls at all. Might be ok for blues but I don't play blues so I don't care.

Never had any problems with it. Other than the fact that it sucks. But it has never broken down. I can always rely on it to sound like crap.

Never dealt with them

It's ok has a practice amp but even than not really. The clean channel is twangy and thin and breaks up high volumes. The distortion channel is crap. If this amp was stolen I would feel sorry for the thief cause he really could have done alot better than this. All in all I hate this amp and I refuse to play through it. It gives you the kind of sound that makes you not want to play.

Two channels w/footswitch. 3 band eq on each with gain and contour added to drive channel. NO external speaker out, but has fx loop, headphone out, preamp out. Would like speaker out. 94 watts. Loud. 94 is more than the 1 12" speaker needs, but still packs a punch.

I use a standard 3 pu strat...clean is excellent, typical, excellent fender clean. Drive channel is very loud. Feedback is almost impossible to avoid, especially when you're within 10 feet of the thing. If you love loud, ringing, power chords, its sounds excellent.

I've lugged this thing everywhere! Been banged several times, but never dropped. No problems at all.

No service...drummer ripped grill cloth, which was covered under warranty but i dont mind cosmetic flaws.

Probably wouldn't buy it again simply because it doesnt suit my band's needs anymore. For small / medium-small gigs or jamming with friends it is excellent.

Extremely versatile... I play everything... and I do mean everything... White Zombie to Dylan. Dual channels w/footswitch, reverb, effects loop, headphone jack (never tried using it though). Only thing its missing is an external speaker out. 94 watts... more than enough power.

I play two guitars through this bad boy... (BTW, I named mine Boris). I play a Standard strat and a sorta custom jobby Strat with a Stratbucker in bridge. I can honestly say that this is one of the best amps I've ever played. Despite its dimensions, this sucker has MORE than enough power. This thing has got the clean tone of champions, the one that people are talking about when they say "that Fender clean tone". It is MUCH warmer than any Marshall I've ever played (and I've played a lot, and I still don't get the hype). The clean channel doesn't distort at high volumes at all... btw, high volumes is anything past 1.5 on this thing! The drive channel is VERY cool... got a great little knob labeled "Contour". Go from punk to metal in the middle of a song with that knob... for a classic kinda tone leave it somewhere around 4 or 5.

This thing's been hauled all over, never had a problem with it. Ever.

Never needed it, see above.

I've been playing for about 2 1/2 years, and this baby compliments all of my other gear perfectly. Actually, since I got it I've been using less gear... just Guitar - Wah - Amp most of the time. Its got tones to die for. I compared this to a lot of amps... nothing touched this thing... like I said in features... it'd be nice if it had an external speaker out. Otherwise, its my dream amp.

This amp is awsome very powerful 90 watts wich is good enough for a small crowd at a talent show or something. It has two channels and it comes with a two button fender foot switch wich changes the channel and reverb. It also has power amp in and out inputs and headphone input too. So if you are at a big gig you can run amps together usin power amp in and out.

I play a Fender Stratocaster and it souns great on this amp. I like metal and alternative music so the ditortion in my opinion is not heavy enogh for me so i bought a Boss Metal Zone but for other people the distortion might be good enough for them but most people really dont use the distortion on their amp anyway. The reverb is cool on th amp. The regular channel without the distortion is very clean and very good.

Hasnt broke down on me yet and I dont have any more amps. But I am workin on gettin a PA system.

Never dealt with them.

For that price I think this is a great amp. If i were stolen or lost I would probable buy a big stack amp or somethin like 300 watts. I compared it to a peavy amp and this one was a better deal. I am very happy with what I had got!

In my opinoin this amp is vary versatile You can play rock bluse and jazz ; wich is all I play. It's got two channels; comes with footswitch. The effects loop sucks. you can't adjust the volume so I don't ever use it. It's rated at 90 watts wich is too much power for a 1x12. It needs an exturnal speacker jack. It does have a headphone jack though wich could be used as an exturnal speaker jack. I wouldn't use head phones with it though beacuse it would probibly bust you're eardrums.

I use a Fender strat and a Hamer slamer both with stock picups. I play rock. It suits rock vary well. Unfortunitly it makes alot of noise with the gain all the way on ten. It DOSNOT CRUNCH. You get a nice rythem and lead distortion. I haven't ever turned the volume above three beacuse it sounds muddy and it's too loud. The clean channel is great. It dosen't distort at high volumes either. If you're looking for an amp that has great cleans this is the amp for you.

I've only had it for about four months, but so far no problems

I have'nt ever dealt with the company.

I've been playing for about four years. I use a Zoom 1010 effects board wich with this amp gives me a wide range of sound. It is a pretty good amp, but I would not buy it again. It's TOO LOUD. 90 watts is just too much for a 1x12. It at least needs an external speaker jack. Other than this I love the amp.

Pretty good versatility. Distortion channel and clean, plus reverb. LOTS of power - I blow away everyone in my group if I set it above 3.

I use it with an American Standard strat and a Yamaha 700SE. On the clean side, it sounds very good - rich, balanced tones which can be shaded with the three tone controls on this channel. I get quite a bit of radio interference (ze practice near an airport), and the reverb sometimes adds a lot of buzz if it is above 4 or so. I think the distortion channel is pretty sucky. It is either total fuzz, or nothing. It is tough to get a semi-dirty sound through it. However, I play clean most of the time, so I can accept this.

No problems

Good - the shop I bought it from is good - they do their own service.

Good overall. It has a good sound, and gives a lot of power for the money. Good for playing in a group with a limited PA system because it is lound enough to stand on it's own in a large room.

The thing is f*%king great. Versatile as anything, i can play anything from heavy metal to blues, to even jazz and alternashite if i want.

I play a Yamaha rg421 through thisd thing, i play mostly metal and this amp delivers. Initia;;y i couldn't get a crunch sound with enough balls but after a few days of messing around if found a tone i loved. For a good solid metal sound set the bass to 8, treble to 4, contour to 5, and the gain to 7. This'll give you a nice tight rhythm sound that works real well for leads. And the clean channel rocks, fenders have the best clean channels around. The tone is bright and full.

Hasn't broken down on me yet and i don;t think it well. Very dependable amp.

1 simply because there is no zero available, fender customer support is about as bad as it gets.

This is a great amp, very versatile and loud as hell. I can drown out my band's drummer, and this dude has a 13 piece drum set and he's insanely loud to begin with. Great calue and if it got stolen i'd definately buy a new one.

This is a great amp for features. It's got any kind of equalization knobs you would want. Seperate bass, mid, and treble for both the clean and distortion channels. It's got pretty good reverb, room for an effects loop, headphone jacks, and usually comes with a footswitch. Oh yeah, it's LOUD for 94W.

I use an IbanezRG270 with this amp. I play anything from Panteraish metal to Toad the Wet Sproketish pop(?). I really don't like the tone on this amp. When I got it about a year ago, I thought it was the greatest amp in existance. I was wrong. I recently got my old Randall 15W amp back, and it kicks the crap out of the fender. The only reason I'm even keeping this amp is because i like the reverb. But I'm getting a delay/reverb pedal soon so it doesn't matter. Anyway, the clean sound is clean, and the distortion isn't actually that bad, but I still think I need something with more balls. The bottom line: this amp just isn't ballsy enough if you want to crank it up.

I've never had to deal with fender in any way shape or form. It hasn't broken on me, and I bought it used at Sam Ash. God knows how long it was used before I had it, but it works fine.

I never dealt with the company.

I've been playing for a little over 2 years, and i've had this amp about half of that. I don't think that I would buy it again, but I think that it's what I wanted at the time because it fit well with what i was playing, which was kind of moderate to softer bluesy rock. I love that it's loud. That's the best thing about this amp. I just can't express how loud it is. But it just doesn't kick me in the ass. The tone just doesn't do it for me anymore. The reverb is a nice touch, but even combined with the volume, it just isn't enough for me.

Veristile isn't the word,Excellent Is
Two channels(Clean and Dirty),bass,treble and mid(Clean channel only) FX loop,reverb,headphone jack.
Needs a mid on the Dirty Channel and a Speaker jack.
I play in clubs and this thing gets great

I play blues,R&B and Country(Telecaster country) and this amp makes great with the music I play.You can get a Buchanan type tone with on setting on dirty and Scotty Moore on another.I play dirty almost all the time and this thing kicks.Clean channel can be cleaner.

No Problems!

None

I am Getting a Stage 112 or a Peavy Bandit 112 in the summer.I am keeping this one though A little more wet on the reverb(Delay Pedal to take care of that)and I am set. This is a great amp.

You've likely seen the features. I have trouble with the gain channel's settings as they don't do all that much it seems (other than contour). Footswitch is nice, lots of power. It's nicely loaded for the type of amp it is. Couldn't really see any more or less features on this.

I play alot of Smashing Pumpkins but like to dabble in whatever I can. The amp definately has enough power to do whatever I need it to, and the clean channel is beautiful. Sweet, full bodied tone that surprised me. I run a standard strat through it and it gives me very nice clean tones, though I can't find a use for the gain channel. It's noisy and thin and cranking the bass doesn't help. I bought it for it's clean for use with pedals so that I could customize my crunch easily. The reverb is hissy when turned up any. So again, crappy gain, great clean.

Hard to say. I bought it used and haven't had a problem yet. I don't expect any, and I take great care of my equipment, but who knows?

Never dealt with them.

It sounds incredible clean, but I wish the gain channel was a little more useful. It could be me, but I can't even get a nice OD sound out of it. I bought it cos I wanted a big loud full clean so I don't mind terribly. I tried a Pro Jr and the clean didn't really make me want to drop any more cash on it.

This amp is pretty damn good. I've had it for about a year now, and I still haven't figured out everything you can do with it. It's great how it has 2 footswitchable channels, it's got a decent amount of knobs, and it's effects loop is okay. The only thing I really wish this amp had is a built in chorus, but there is reverb, so it's good. And another thing. THIS AMP IS LOUD AS A MOTHERF*CKER! Put it on 4 and you won't be able to hear somebody screaming right next to you. Great solid state power.

Ok. The Drive Channel is wonderful. There is a bunch of gain. That's good. But the clean channel gets some of this gain. When you turn the clean up loud and hit a power chord pretty hard, it gets a weird sound, and it shakes the speaker. The amp makes a lot of different sounds, and that's good.

This thing is pretty reliable. After a year of use everyday, it's still going strong. Fender Customer support sucks though. And the amp sometimes picks up the signal from Walkie Talkies, from the McDonalds drive through window, the radio, other places. It's fun to listen to that though.

Fender Customer Support is bad.

This is a good, solid amp.

Solid state 94 wattsRMS combo, 33lbs (14,9kg) (it's size isn't exactly proportional to it's power :) ), 2 inputs, dual selectable channels, independent tone controls (clean: colume, treble, mid, bass; distorted: gain, contour, treble, bass, volume), reverb, EFX loop, headphone jack, 2-button footswitch. A comment about the EFXloop... I use a Boss ME8. This effect device has a limiter-effect; I could put up the volume of the amp as high as I wanted, the output thru the loudspeaker did not change too much. Conclusion: do not hook effects like distortion, limiters and so on to the effects loop. This loop is mainly made for effects like reverbs, echo-machines and similars. So I'm using the ME8 directly to the amp's input. The amp is VERY loud (My mom thinks that too :) )... no gigs yet, but it will certainlly do the job perfectly. Good for a stage... good for your room! An eight because this amp sometimes is too loud... the neighborhood is not always wanting to hear me play 1234, 1243, 1324 (...) exercises, besides I can't hear my metronome :P

SIMPLY FANTASTIC! The best I have ever played on... bright, clean, full tone... VERY LOUD!!! When testing, I pushed the volume to the max... the amp was moving on the floor because of the vibration! :) I HARDLY recommend this amp... GREAT! You just have to tame it... believe me... this amp has a huge response... sometimes it can even bring some problems... but nothing non-overcomeable :) The highlight on this amp is the clean sound... the distortion is very good and versatile, but the clean channel RULES!!! Doesn't distort!!! I'm having Strat sound of my headbanger's Jackson PS1 :) Anyway... I can have some nostalgia and play those traditional metal tunes too :)))) No brutal distortions... just enough :)

Seems VERY strong. I'd trust firmly on this amp. Anyway... haven't disappointed me YET... a nine it's ok :)

This five is for the 5 year warranty... the zero goes to Fender's support itself. I had to ask people around internet to solve my volume problem on the FXloop... Fenderworld didn't have an e-mail for contact!!! :(

I had a Crate gx30m (which I've heard to say it's not a bad amp...) and I assure you... FENDER AMPS RULES! hmmm... 8+10+9+5... 32:4... that gives us an 8... anyway... it's a fantastic amp!

Solid state 90 watt combo. When I bought it at the store the salesman told me it was forty watts, but the other reviews prove me otherwise. It consists of two channels. The clean channel has treble, mid, and bass controls. The other channel has gain, contour, treble, and bass controls. There is one knob for reverb. There are outputs for active and passive pickups, an effects loop, headphones and a footswitch. A footswitch w/ channel selector and reverb was included w/ my amp. It has plenty of power.

I play with a Rogue RP-250(humbuckers) and a Fender strat. The amp sounds nice and full with humbuckers and a little thin w/ single coils. My amp is rather noisy, and it picks up radio stations real easily. I play in a band that covers many musical styles, and it fits them pretty well. My only complaint is the distortion. If I could describe it in one word, it would be "harsh". The distortion pierces my ears. There is to much squeal at high volumes. Our other guitar player plays, through a Mesa/Boogie tube combo, and our distortion sounds just do not match. The clean channel however, sounds like a million bucks. The distortion side is my only complaint.

I've had a few problems with it. I've heard a buzz lately, and sometimes my whole amp physically shakes. This rarely happens, so I haven't worried about it.

There is a five year warranty, but I have not had it serviced.

This is a very good clean amp, however the distortion does not sound the greatest. I am trying to sell it, I want to get a tube amp instead. If I had enough money, I would keep it and use it as just a clean channel amp. It has plenty of power, and it is good for the price. However, I would probably go the tube amp route.

I don't go out and just buy things, research is my maiden name. After weeks of reviews and guitar shop chopping and hacking and hundreds of laughs, dirty looks, and back & forth headshakes, all the way from Ft. Worth Texas to L.A. ; I decided this was the amp that suits my needs. It has 2 channels with foot switch supplied, solid state with plenty of power. The paperwork says 90w, I don't know about that but I do know I can make the dog disapear for hours.

I play a Heritage 150cm with standard humbuckers, my first electric guitar and amp, finally felt ready to move forward from acoustic ranks. After 3 months of almost daily use I rate this amp a 10, however my girlfriend thinks the sounds I make suck, so I will drop the rating to 9 out of respect for her opinion (surely its the amp and not my musical talent).

No problems but havn't had it long, 5 year transferrable warranty speaks for itself in this day and age.

Never contacted.

I have played a Martin D-1 for several years, owned a Kay flat top since 1965. This amp totally suits my needs and skills so far, I wonder if I will ever have the skills to use it to its full potentials. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention....ITS LOUD!

this is a kick ass amp! i have apicture with kurt standing next to it. That says enough for me to believe in it's reliability. He destroyed everything. The distortion is kinda gay though. not enough sound. It's 94 watts and in my band right now i can drown out everyone including the drummer.

I play nirvana, metalica, nirvana, and my own stuff. I LOVE this amp. It has a great sound on the clean channel. The distortion is kind of weak though

It NEVER broke 4 kurdt kobain(kurt cobain) or me enough said

Fender's web site i went to and couldn't e-mail them it pissed me off.

Yes i'd buy it again but only if I could get it in a 2x12 at least.

This is a three channel amp (reverb,distortion,and clean). The amp is equiped with preamp,poweramp, footswitch,and headphone jacks. It has two inputs, two seperate volume controls for clean and the distortion channel , it ha s trebel knobs and bass knobs,this amp also has a contour,gain,mid,and a reverb knob.

This amp picks up lots of feed back with hardly any volume on the distortion channel with the slightest amount of gain. And the contour knob has no purpose being there becuase you can't use because it picks up feed back so bad. The clean channel is great. In conclusion I play in a band and we use lots of gain so if you're looking for lot's of gain this is not the amp to buy.

has'nt broken yet

Never dealt with the company

Overall this amp has a great clean channel. But the distortion bites.

Two channels,reverb and channel switching from footswitch,effects loop,headphone jack.

I play everything blues,country,metal,even clasical through this amp, amp sounds excellent. Every person who tries it tell me its the best amp they have heard including users of tubeworks,marshalls, and peavey classics.Sound ranges from very clean to very heavy metal sounding, very loud.

No problems yet

Never needed them

Would definitely buy again, still have haven't heard an amp I like better. The only thing I wish it had is a post volume on the clean channel, its hard to make fine volume adjustment without blasting your ears.

Two Channels, clean and drive, pre-amp out, power amp in, foot switch, head phones, and reverb. Very versatile amp, you can push just about any sound out of it. This is a very loud amp, good enough for clubs maybe even smaller arenas. Chorus is the only thing that I wish it had, but you can fix that with a pedal.

Wicked sound, I tried several other amps, including several tube amps, and the duluxe had a richer sound than all of them. No noise even at higher volume levels, the clean channel is surprisingly loud and doesn't distort. I play a tele through it and even with the higher volume levels the tones stays rich and doesn't start to break up.

It's brand new so I don't know yet. But the two other fender amps I've owned haven't given me any problems.

Haven't had the chance to find out.

I would buy it again in a second. Compared to the other amps I tried this one had the best sound for the price. I have no complaints and am really happy with it. It has enough volume to cut through the drums. Great amp! Buy it!

I was surprised by the versatility and especially the power of this amp. The Fender catalog and the tag at the store said it has 65 watts. The amp is actually 94 watts. Dual selectable channels, independent tone controls, reverb, EFX loop, headphone jack, and footswitch included. I wanted an amp primarily for practice and private playing that could also be used in a warehouse jamming with some friends from work. This amp does a great job at both. Sounds good at low volumes (and doesn't make me miss the tube amp I had before). From warm and bluesy, to crisp and crunchy it does it well. And, it holds its own with bigger (and more expensive) equipment. I'm impressed. Especially for the price.

I play Beatles/Stones/CCR etc. stuff on my Rick 330. It all sounds great on this amp. It's also capable of some brutal distortion, but I don't play metal or lead so I wouldn't be a good judge of the amp's capabilites in that area. (You need to ask some of those kids who are always wailing away on the Strats at the music store.)

Haven't had it long enough for anything to break. I don't expect problems from Fender. I have had good experiences with their equipment.

Haven't needed any repairs.

I definitely would buy it again at this price. It's perfect for my needs. I'd have no trouble recommending it to others.

Has some cool stuff on it. 2 channels both with volume and EQ. Reverb that works in both channels, headphones a preamp in and power amp out, which can be used with a mixer or recorder. the in and out that be used as effects loops also. This is one LOUD amp! At home I don't push it past 1 or 2 in fear of breaking the windows.

95 watts of pure power. This has a nice clean tone that can be changed to make any sound you could possibly want. The Distortion is great to mess around with the contour and EQ and you can get some anything from a little dirty sound to pure Death Metal.

Never broke down, hadn't had it that long

never dealt with them. 5 year warrenty, has a service center 5 minutes away.

I am very glad I bought it and I recommend it to anybody, but I would not buy any one amp twice so I would buy it again. I always get better and better amps.