Fender Pro Junior

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this is jus an update for pro junior..i had this amp for one week only and it starts to rattle..i went to the store and askd em to repair it but unfortuntely dey dont know how..so wat dey did dey gave a new one still in d box..if it rattles again il try to change the tubes as eveyrone is suggesting to do..im kina disapointed but dats wat u shud expct if the amp is not dat expsnive..sound still amazes me excpt wen it comes to reliablty

the amp is made in mexico,2004.for my own opinion the only knobs i need are the ones in pro junior..simple but it gives u d best sound ever..make sure u av good guitar leads..as i notcie dat it produces not good sound if u use cheap ones...it only av 1 chanel..volme and tone..i jus bought this amp but i tink it can be gig

well i tried the first pro junior in allans..and it prodcs dis sound even if its still..den i tried it on a differnt store and its really quiet..and when i checkd d back its differnt frm d one in d city..i really love d sound dis amp producs

i dont know i jus bought it last monday

never dealt with em

iv been playing for 5 years..dis is my first tube amp..and im staistfied wth it..if it got stolen i will buy one..its my amp!!!!i chose dis amp cos of its simplicity..like wen on d stage u jus wana play and do ur ting..d best amp ever..i dont hate anyting bout dis skool..totally love it

Little to add to the comments of the others besides:
The amps starts to sound great with volume at 3.5 and that is definitily too loud when you practice in a thin-walled neigbourhood. So I use a (selfmade) powersoak with controllable line-level output instead of the the speakers.
Then i feed the lineout into a fender twin-reverb with volume at 2.5 which is a lot less than the cranked pro.
Practically i use the pro as a distortion unit - I swear the best you ever played if you love to control the amount of distortion with your fingers or your guitar volume!

the build quality is poor. the internal board starts to rattle on all pros i heard.

Tip: open the cabinet and remove the screwes that hold the board. fix the board with tie wrap and sit it on a foammat.

If your are not sure what I?m talking about leave it to a experienced guitar tech

I?m playing for 30 years now, mostly blues rock.

I would buy the amp definitly again

Bought new in 2005. 15 class A watts, 4 tubes, 2 knobs and 1 10 inch speaker. Tubes and speaker were immediately swapped out for JJ's EL84s and ECC803s and for a Celestion Tube 10. $90 of upgrades that double the amps value in my mind. I chose this amp because it is simple and replicates your guitar's tone with great transparency. Don't buy this amp and down it for a lack of features; that's not the point. Versatility, here, comes from the ability to swap tubes.

I plug my Fender Highway 1 Strat directly into this amp w/Monster rock cables. I achieve a raw, beautiful tone that sings whether you're playing rhythm or lead. The sound is full and perfectly balanced. I know that I'm not using the most expensive pieces of equipment here, but they are quality pieces. And that's the sound I'm getting... quality. I play w/the volume relatively low; set at 4 (remember this is a class A tube amp; very loud), and the tone set at 7. I keep the tone on my strat rather low because I find that raising the tone on the amp causes it to break up faster and at lower volumes. Now that I've found a quality clean sound I'm simply going to put a good distortion pedal in front of it. This is an excellent rock amp... it's very raw and edgy.

Prior to the tube and speaker changes the sound was not as articulate or balanced. I'd say it was muffled and bassy. Stock, I'd give this amp a 7.

I have also driven a friends cheap Marshall 4x12 MG cabinet w/this amp. I can't really tell much about this, however, because the speakers in that cab are so cheap. From what I could tell, the amp should have no problem pushing that number of speakers though.

Original speaker popped w/the volume at 8 and up when using a thick sounding SG. No problems with my Strat.

I've been playing for 8 years and have owned many cheap guitars and amps. I sold everything, lost thousands, and bought my current gear. The Pro Junior, Highway 1 Strat and a Martin D-1 acoustic. If stolen, I'd definetly buy another. I love simplicity and tone.

Not too many features on this amp. Volume and Tone. That is what you expect for an amp this size. All tube powered by dual EL84's give a full sound. 10" speaker sounds so full. Unlike other small solid state amps, this one has some bight and fills the room with sound. I give it an 8 becuase you cannot adjust the EQ. Seems to be missing a lot of mid frequencies but when the tone is cranked all the way, the amp breaks up nicely and more highs come out making it sound quite nice.

I primarily use a fender tele and a gibson les paul through some small effects such as tube screamer and some delay. Amp may be a little noisy but mine may need some new preamp tubes to fix that.

I kind of question the reliability on this thing. Just like any other newer Fender input jack, it is plastic and will break in the future. Also, since this amp is on a small scale, the pot's have plastic shafts and are mounted to the circuit board. They aren't screwed to the chassis first and then wire to the board or whatever. So the shafts could break easily if stressed too much. Everything else seams to be quite sturdy such as cabintet, blonde tolex, leather handle, etc.

Never dealt with them

For its use as a little practice amp and an amp to play at home, (my class A TopHat is a little loud for home) I must say I am really pleased with it. Sounds nice a clean but can get dirty. I don't move it around too much so i don't worrying about the pot's and input jack too much which really give me comfort.

My PRO JUNIOR is black tolex 2002 made in Corona Calif.
The versatility of the amp is limited, but don't get me wrong.
It's a one trick pony in that it gets a great Classic Rock Blues tone. It's so simple, and the tone is so pure, which is the best thing about this amp. To get the most out of the Pro Jr. you have to be a player that uses their volume knob to regulate the amount of gain in your tone and play with dynamic in your hands not in your boxes or rely on channel switching. There's a place for channel switching amps.. I own a 1999 Tweed HOtRod Deluxe, which is technically more versatile than the Pro Jr. but I would take the Pro tone over the Hot Rod Deluxe any day.
Only Volume and tone, but in this case, less is, Indeed, more!
I always thought you HAD to have treble, middle bass, reverb to get tone. This amp showed me I was wrong. One volume, one tone is all you need. It's the first amp that showed me you do not need reverb.
The Pro JR is in different league than the Blues JR., which to me is over designed. Amazing power for 15 watts.
I play full throttle, open E slide guitar, so I always want a classic, throaty, glassy, distorted tone, and look for in an amp that responds to my dynamics with a touch of my volume knob. The Pro does this job so well.
I read alot of people complaining about the stock speaker and tubes but all I heard was TONE, TONE, TONE right out of the store.
I did replace the power tubes with JJ's but only after three years of playing. As far as the speakers: I A/B'd with various 10" & 12" Eminence & Celestions,including greenback and Red Fang in combination with different cabinets and always came back to the stock 10"Eminence.
I kid you not! Yeah you might not get the full bottom bass, but if you want a great sounding overdrive amp in small clubs & portability, or for recording the Pro is one of the best out there.

I play Blues rock slide guitar. I strive for Duane, Dicky Fillmore East Tone in my over Drive and sparkly, classic fender Jangle in my clean tone. The Pro Junior has both but you have to crank the amp and use your guitar volume knob to go from clean to distorted. I set the Pro Volume at 6-7 and tone full up to 12.
This amp is a chameleon in that if you turn your guitar volume down, it sounds like classic black face fender all jangly and sweet, but turn up your volume and it's like a small Marshall JTM 45. Much more pronouced mids than say when cranking a fender black face deluxe.
It works great both with my 1999 Gibson Les Paul DC and my custom made telecaster. I can get a nice controlled feedback with the Les Paul in the right room and at the right angle of amp
Been playing the amp for 3 years now in many different places:
At house jams with drummer and bass player (too loud sometimes
and onstage at open jams and with my band in various size venues.
I play out in bars and various small to mid size stages with my band and the Pro produces all the volume I need. However, at open mic jams where I have to complete with 2-4 other guitarists onstage, only then is Pro sa little too underpowered: Switching to my 12" greenback and speaker cabinet help get a bit more volume, but better yet, I use my Fulltone OCD pedal (which adds 30db to my volume) with my ProJR ,..then I can play anywhere..Seriously.

I have only had one problem with the Pro Junior:
The input jack is cheap, made out of plastic and the plastic rim wore away making a bad jack connection that would crackle when I plugged it it..
I brought to the store I bought at in Vermont, and since it was under warranty they said they would fix it or they could order a new input jack and I could put it in.
I ended up doing it myself which wasn't to hard for me..(I'm handy with a soldering iron.) When I got the new jack, I opened up the amp and soldered jack into place. It was a little tricky holding the pc board back, but the amp went right back together. One exception,.. only the nut fit back on..it was too tight for the washer & nut to fit back together.
Amps been working like new since. Too bad Fender couldn;t spend a bit more money for quality aon such a great sounding amp.
I usually bring my back up Pro Junior to gigs just in case
(I own a limited addition Woody Pro.)

5 Year warranty. I hope nothing more goes wrong.
My store is an authorized Fender Dealer and they always are ready to help me.

I've been playing over 27 years and owned and played many types of amps.
I own everything from a '51 Gibson Sky Lark to a 1962 Fender Princeton and 68 Bassman amps, Hot Rodded by Trey "Phish" Anastasio' amp tech extrodinaire Bill Carruth, over haulled with Mecury Magnetics and Allen input and power transformers, NOS Tubes National Union 6v6 tubes,Black and silver RCA, 12ay7, tubes, JJ El34 bla, bla bla...and I'm the first to addmit that the Pro Junior gave me a tone whip lash!!
I'm an addmitted tube amp snob and the Pro Junior is the first cheap, mass produced amp that made me get off my high horse and admit that
it doesn't have to cost thousand of dollars to be amazing.
I have been on a quest to find a great sounding portable amp for over 15 years. It had to be light compact and sound great. Somthing I could
take to gigs without a car. Something I could just run up onstage with
if I was sitting in quick with the band.
Well, the Pro Junior is it. In my opinion, there is a lot of snobbery out there. I know, I was one of them. If people would just listen with their ears instead of their eyes you might find some great gems out there. I would buy the ProJR. again in a heart beat. In Fact, I own two Black tolex and the Woody and I'm now looking to find all
styles, white and tweed. Can't wait to run all 4 together onstage!!!
See you all on eBay!!!

This is a very simple amp. It has one tone control, a volume control and an on/off switch. Also, the internal speaker is hooked up to a 1/4" plug, so you can use it with another 8 ohm cabinet. I hate amps that have too many knobs, so I liked the simplicity of this one.

Don't fear the stock speaker. Mine has a brown label ceramic Eminence "v1030." It is a bright, "chimey" speaker and sounds good in this combo.

I use the amp with a p-90 equipped hollow body. I think it would sound great with any single coil guitar. I play jazz and blues, so the amp suits me well. It sounds like a vintage tweed amp. Also, the sound is very loud and distorts above about half way on the volume knob.

I tried swapping tubes, but that turned out to be a mistake. My amp hums like crazy with any pre-amp tube except the stock Chinese made 12ax7's.

The amp seems well made, except the tubes are mounted to a circuit board, and I hate when manufacturers do that. If Peavey can build a nice litte tweed amp with the tubes mounted to the chassis, fender should be able to do the same. Having said that, the tubes are at least above the chassis (not sunk down through it), and the board they are attached to is a separate board that is securely mounted. So the construction is still better than what you would find in a Marshall combo, based on my experience.

I've never tried contacting Fender, and I have no idea how one would go about doing that. If you need help, I'd try where you are looking now (harmonyj-central) and the "Fender Forum." There is a lot of good information in both places.

I like this amp a lot. It sounds great, seems fairly well made, and is light weight to carry. If you want to go play over a friend's house, or practice in the bedroom, then this type of amp is perfect. I'm not sure I would go on the road and gig with it, but I'm not planning to do that anytime soon. I also think the Fender vintage series amps are better (i.e. the Deluxe Reverb, Bassman, Twin, etc.), but the Pro is a heck of a lot less expensive and much more portable. So its a keeper.

VERY IMPORTANT!!!
This is just a follow up to a review I did on 5/3/05, I left out a very important tip to those who would own a Pro Jr. new or old. Two out of three of these amps will sound EXTREMELY NOISY! This is not normal for this amp, but rather a flaw in the design of the back panel attached to the chasis. The middle screw is to long and actually touches one the the pots causing a short. Simply take the top middle cabnet screw out and the noise GOES AWAY!

Volume and tone controls. THAT'S ALL YOU NEED!

It sounds brilliant with my strat, sg, and les paul.
It produces superb bell like clean tones.
Crank it up to 4 and you get a beefy powerchord crunch.
Crank up to 7 and you get even more crunch (very marshall like). Wack it up to 12 and you get a compressed warm fuzz.
You can get jazz, funk, blues rock etc. out of this amazing amp.

Had it 2 months and I've cranked it up 10 million times, it sounds as good as new, still the same valves/tubes.

This amp doesn't need one, its too simple and reliable.

Get one if you want an amp for under #300.

After a well known "boutique" and very expensive amplifier with all kinds of circuitry started smoking then literally blew up on stage on me (still under warranty, luckily) I set out to find a simple club amp with great tone and found one, a slighty used tweed pro jr. with one excellent feature, "NO FEATURES"! I Iike the fact that it just has a volume and tone control, this is it's greatest feature!

I use Strats and Teles exclusively and this amp sounds great with both, I did however, add a jensen neo-100 10 in. speaker for MAJOR headroom. Makes a big diffrence! Works great for all styles and sounds really Marshally when cranked, Excellent!

I have not owned it long enough to submit an opinion, but i've done 12 grueling 4 hr. party gigs with no problems.

Probably not a big suprise, but i've owned a lot of Fender amps over the years and still have yet to deal with their customer support.

I've been a party band musician for going on 25 years now, and it's a relief to own an amp thats easy to carry, plenty loud, and simple enough to trust it. For reverb, I just plug in my Electro Harmonix Holy Grail and I'm set. If it was stolen, I could buy another used one with pocket change and THATS WAY COOL!