Ross Fame Series Chorus 50 R

great amp with its tube blaster has reverb

i have an esp ax50 with standard pickups suits my music style pretty well i play mostly metal

great amp u could probably throw it at a brick wall and it would still work mine has been underwater for 2 days in a flood and still sounds great

great amp if u can get 1 i realy recomend

I bought the amp in 1984, IS NOT a tube amp, but I think was created to imitate, the cracking tube sounds quite faithful.
One imput, two channels (clean and tube blaster). And a switch to go from one to other.
Another switch for a mixer channel (mix chorus and rate, both regulated by knobs).
Headphones output.Line in line out, etc..

GUITAR PLAYED:
Used various guitars: Gretsch round up solid body, Fender stratocaster, Danelectro dano pro, Ovation electro-acoustic.
Used other instruments: Blues harp.
MUSIC Y PLAY:
I play from vintage 50??s rock and roll to jazz-punk and neocountry. It fits my music almost perfectly, (this is not a tube amp, of course), but I am sure it can close up to any style of music.
NOISY?:
Is totally free of noise, no tubes breathing or bad conecctions.
SOUND:
Sprising to be a solid one.
Perfect for small gigs in pubs accommodating about 100 persons, where I can??t play my Tone King Comet or my Fender tween reverb more than 3.

I played this amp for two weeks when I was a teenager (1984), but I put it in a corner soon, as I didn??t know much about sounds those days, and the bad cone hide his soul.
I rescued it for a small gig a year ago, as my twin reverb was too much powered for the gig, and renewed interested, I change the cone folloing my intuition.
Yes, that??s the worst part of the original amp, the cone. It??s is one of the poor cones I have ever played.
I change it for a medium-high quality BEYMA, and Then I could see the real power of the amp.
Enormously versatile, you can play the channel clean (superb clean), but giving if you want a crescent crunch while increasing the volume from 7 to 10, combined with driver knob. Again to imitate the tube crank when the tube is overvolumed. Or you can turn down the knob and turn up the volumen to a superclean powered sound.
Only one imput, but a switch to change from clean to "Tube blaster" channel, than increase the volume and cracking very powerfully, giving a power near to a tube amp of same watts.
You can mix, that sound with driver knobs and volumen opening the sound posibilities from 6L6 to 6V6 an continuing towards EL34, reaching a very closing sound to a tube amp.
But still the best is the pure sound when clean, full of armonics and mellow when strumming and plenty of forceful bass end and a pure clean and brilliant trebels,but empty of harsh, near to 50-60s blackface.
Perfect for small gigs in pubs accommodating about 100 persons, where I can??t play my Tone King Comet or my Fender tween reverb more than 3.
remember: ONLY CHANGING THE CONE TO A GOOD ONE this amp is a 10.

Is enormously robust, only after 24 years of none use, it has got some rust that affected a pair of knobs that I had to clean. After that, perfect.It will live some years more. The exterior box is something similar like a plastic composite, but no wood. Nobody can break that.

Never repaired. Well, almost never played until last year

OTHER GEAR:
I have been playing for 25 years, I have got a TONE KING COMET 40B, A Tween reverb blackface from 90??s, a sinmarc g50r.
IF WERE STOLEN...
Impossible to find another like this: no much units, no builded from 80??s, but if I lose or break it, i should try to find another, but not during a lot of time, the past is the past...
LOVE:
small, superlight (12kg?), superclean, powerfull, versatile.
HATE: no tubes at all, headphones sounds whitout bassis,

I think it was probably made in the 80's It's in great shape for such an old clunker. Looks a lot like a Fender combo and has a similar grille clothe and shape. Has a clean channel and a footswitch for 'tubeblaster' which sounds nothing like tube distortion as it's all solid state. Spring reverb is not working on mine, basic high mid low EQ, master volume and a nice chorus with a footswitch to turn it on and off. The effects loop is cool and has headphone jack as well. Made of cheap particle board, I might end up putting some wheels on it cos it's bloody heavy!

I use a Les Paul straight into the clean channel and a Big Muff Fuzz for distortion cos the built in distrotion is dreadful. It's ok when i cant be bothered plugging in the pedals but it sounds to much like a bad 'Joy Division' sound when you add reverb and delay. It's damn loud for 50 watts, I had a small Marshalll combo and this thing kills it! It's amazingly noiose free even up loud but it feeds-back nicley with a compressor and loads of fuzz. I play a lot of different styles, pedals are the only way to change the sound if you just leave it on the clean channel. It's quite bassy although.

I have dropped it already getting out of a taxi! it's solid as a rock and you can pretty much forget about looking after it. When I bought it home it was dirty and rusty and looked neglected but there is no hiss or crackles whatsoever.

I have never heard of Ross and i doubt they still exist. Anyone know anything about them? I bought it from a second hand shop that had a bout 20 similar amps, this one had the most features and it was cheap.

I have been paying for about 15 years and have owned about that many amps : ) I've got a few classic valve amps and nothing beats the valve sound... but this is perfect for practice and taking to a friends house! If it was lost i would probably buy something else but you can't beat it in the second hand market. There are 1000's of combo's like this.
Sure if i had the money I would buy a little Mesa Boogie, this amp is fine for a quick guitar fix!

Actually, I don't really mind this amp. Basically I just use it for jammin with my friends so I like it. It is very small and easy to use. I must say though, it does not have very many features. I got mine used and it is missing the effects loop and the headphones jack, but overall it is a pretty good little amp. I wish that this amp had a good reverb and a little bit more power. It is good enough for what I use it for though.

Right now I am using a Harmony and a les paul, it sounds great. For such a cheap amp it aint to shabby. I think it has a very nice clean tone and the distortion has quite a bit of punch to it. It has a very flabby low end sound to the distortion. The clean is a little bit tinny but I don't mind.

Solid as a rock, a good sturdy amp.

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Overall I think it is a good amp. If I ever lost it, I probably would not buy another one though. I would just get a job and buy something a little bit better. I got it for free so it cant be that bad.

I feel the features on this amp are VERY descent! First off, it has a high-quality spring reverb; none of that imitation crap. Along with it is a chorus feature that I find to be invaluable to my music. It also features a solid-grinding Tube Blaster; an all tube distortion feature that ranks right up with Marshall and Fender, in my opinion. A headphone jack, effects loop, and a channel switch join the package, and each of the effects (some might see it as a draw back) have individual quarter inch jacks for footpedal control. My personal amp has a rebuilt Cellestion cone, and the overall output is 80w, which is more than enough for my uses (my uses being small area concerts, in house jamming sessions, and recording) The equalization includes Treble, Mid and Bass, and with an overall master volume knob, I can crank the distortion, without having to worry about the neighbours next door bitching about the noise. (This being one of the reasons why I'm not crazy about Peavey, with it's three volume knobs. I don't want to have to be a audio scientist to work my amp, ya' know!

Well, in my case, I need an amp that will punch when necessary, and yet still be full and rich for the mellow stuff. My bands music is very sporatic; very loud and crunching, then soft and mellow. (It plays with your head!!! Heh heh.) I can't really label it, and besides, I hate labels. Anyway, the Ross amp handles vast amounts of input volume, and produces a limitless amount of different sounds. On the down side, the clean sound will get distorted somewhat at peak volume. However, when yoo decide to screw it and go for some distortion, damn, it KICKS! And not that high treble, garbage, I-Only-Use-My-Humbucker distortion either. Very full and sustained. Add a Boss dual overdrive pedal, and there's more distortion than you can handle.

I would not have the least worry in a concert, if I went into one with this amp and not a backup. I have yet to have a problem with it. I'd worry about my gitch riding up before I worried about this amp's reliability.

Now I bought this amp second hand, and have not dealt with the company, so I don't know what they're like. The retailer that I bought from told me that he himself had replaced the cone, but not because of any audio or mechanical problems. He just wanted a more powerful amp. The amp itself is a product of Fort Worth, Texas.

I would definitely buy one again. Of course, an affordable Marshall stack WOULD take precedence, but for a compact (single 15" speaker) yet powerful amp, I love it. I like the fact that you are not limited in many ways with the variety of features on it, and I feel confident using it because of it's great reliability. It would be nice to not have the clean channel fuzz at peak level, but I don't believe that there is a PERFECT amplifier. The only things I wish it had are a Slurpee cup holder and a jet engine.