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

N/A

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.