Archive for the ‘fender amps’ Category
November 28th, 2011 | 
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High Speed, Amped-Up, And Loud
The new Fender® Mustang™ amplifier series raises the standard for modern guitar versatility and muscle. Driven by incredibly authentic amp models and a huge bank of built-in effects, Mustang™ amplifiers come equipped with USB connectivity and Fender® FUSE™ software, allowing your musical creativity and imagination to run wild.
More info here:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?section=guitaramplifiers&series=Mustang
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http://www.nstuffmusic.com/p-14197-fender-mustang-iii-series-guitar-amplifier.aspx
http://www.nstuffmusic.com/p-14198-fender-mustang-iv-series-guitar-amplifier.aspx
HIGH-SPEED, AMPED-UP AND LOUD
The new Fender Mustang amplifier series raises the standard for modern guitar versatility and muscle. Driven by incredibly authentic amp models and a huge bank of built-in effects, Mustang amplifiers come equipped with USB connectivity and Fender FUSETM software, allowing your musical creativity and imagination to run wild.
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Tags: Fender Amplifiers, Fender Combo Amps, Fender Mustang III, Fender Mustang IV, Jim Graff, music, NStuffmusic, Pianos N Stuff | 
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PG’s Rebecca Dirks is On Location at the Fender Visitor Center for an exclusive first look at Fender’s first ever signature amp line. Listen to the EC Vibro-Champ, EC Tremolux, and EC Twinolux in our demo.
All three amps are handmade in the United States (watch our video of one being made inside the factory: http://www.premierguitar.com/Video/20111005/1653/Factory_Tour_How_to_Build_a_Fender_Handwired_Amp.aspx), with interesting mods under the hood specified by Clapton himself. These include a ’50s-era output tube bias tremolo circuit (which produces a more throbbing pulse than later Fender tremolo circuits) and a switchable power attenuator that reduces speaker output (and can disable one speaker in EC Twinolux for even lower output).
Vibro-Champ MSRP $1,399 (Street $999)
Tremolux MSRP $2,799.99 (Street $1,999)
Twinolux MSRP $4,199.99 (Street 2,999)
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Jim Campilongo Fender Princeton Reverb Amplifier
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Tags: amplifier, blues, Campilongo, fender, Jim, princeton, reverb, Rock |
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2005 Fender Twin Amp — the various features of the amp are being demonstration with a Gibson Les Paul Standard.
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Tags: '65, amp demo, fender twin, gibson, john mayer, les paul, Metallica, Overdrive, Reissue, reverb, stevie ray vaughan, Vintage |
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Phil and I do a little Clapton and Freddie King blues jams. I’m playing through my BFDR and Phil is playing through my Marshall 2204 50w.
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http://www.premierguitar.com PG’s Rebecca Dirks is on location in Corona, California at the fender amps Factory. In this video we get to follow a Fender Eric Clapton Amp from start to finish. See more great videos at http://www.premierguitar.com/video
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Fender Princeton-Amp
15 Watt 1×10″ speaker
Harmonica: Hohner
microphone: Astatic shell with Shure crystal element from 1947
musician: Michael Arlt
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Princeton Reverb 2×12 Cab,Pro Reverb,Twin Reverb
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Tags: 2x12, amp, cab, fender, guitar, head, Princeton Reverb, Pro Reverb, test, Twin Reverb |
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I’ve always played combo amps. Crate, Fender, Marshall, and others. I’ve always sort of put the wattage as a meter of how loud the amp could be (and still sound good in some cases). Now that I am thinking about investing in a stack, I’m lost. I see expensive heads that are 5 watt, 15 watt… it seems like the rules for combo amps don’t apply to stacks. Could someone explain a little to help out?
Hello there,
Thumbs up to LucasMan. Absolutely great answer.
I would like to add a couple things.
With a combo amp, the power rating of the amp and the speakers will be close. For instance a 40 watt amplifier with speaker(s) that can handle say 50 watts. So if you buy that 40 watt combo amp you know you are running 40 watts of power. Some folks get confused with heads and speaker cabs. THey see a 5 watt head and think if they get a 200 watt speaker cab, they get more power. Not so. You will only have 5 watts with that head no matter what speaker cab you use. The power rating on the speaker cab merely tells you the maximum load it can safely handle. You need to know that when you match your head to the speaker cab. You don’t want to play a 100 watt head through a 50 watt speaker cab. That will likely blow the cones out of the speakers. On the other hand running a 5 watt head through a 200 watt speaker cab will probably not sound very good because the head does not have enough power to drive the speaker hard enough for optimium sound. You want to keep your speaker cab to around 1.2 to 1.5 that of the head.
In my opinion tube amps are louder than solid state. I suppose some engineer can come along and explain how that is not possible. But to me a 40 watt tube amp sounds louder than a 40 watt solid state amp. I played a black face Fender Bandmaster for years. It was only 40 watts, but it was loud.
I completely agree that power rating has no direct connection to sound quality. What you will likely find is that a higher power amp may have better sounding speakers. The speakers are probably why you think the higher power amp still sounds good cranked. Better speakers sound better than cheaper ones.
There are cheap 5 and 15 watt tube amps. There are expensive ones. The expensive ones are probably bouquet type amps, hand point to point soldered connections. I cannot think of an expensive 5 or 15 watt solid state amp.
Actually the rules for combos do apply to stacks. Many heads are also available in a combo configuration. It is the same amplifier. In the combo the speaker is in the samp cabinet. In the stack. the speaker(s) are in a separate cabinet. That is the only difference.
There is more to the power rating of an amplifier than just how loud it can get. It takes more power to handle the load from gain and distortion than most newer players realize. That is why a small combo amp does not sound as good with distortion and gain as does a 1×12 combo amp. Tubes are different, but for solid state, I think you need more than 20 watts for gain and distortion. Otherwise the amp runs out of head room.
Later,