New Fender amps

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:06 pm

I don't know if this has been posted yet but if not check it out.

http://frontlinelive.fender.com/index.php?page=2

James · Post by **James** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:17 pm

It says affordable, any ideas to the price yet?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:24 pm

I heard that the Champ will sell for around $200

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:29 pm

westtexasred wrote:I heard that the Champ will sell for around $200

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westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:33 pm

Here is a 1949 champ

http://guitarville.com/proddetail.asp?invnum=29319

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:57 pm

pretty nice, fifties vibez, fender's answer to low wattage tube amps like the valve jr., tiny terror, that danelectro thing that ain't tube driven and looks similar..whatever

but yeah...kind of interesting.... i don't really like the cosmetics tho..

kim · Post by **kim** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:33 am

some new stuff @ gearwire.com

champ 600 demo

it'll be around 170-200 bucks for this one ... not too bad

there's a demo vid of the '57 deluxe too

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:36 am

I think the Champ 600 looks like you'd really like it, heavium. Although it doesn't look that great it sounds good and will be a nice recording amp.

kim · Post by **kim** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:47 am

the only thing i don't really like about it, besides the look, is the speaker size....there'll be more demos out there soon i'm sure, i don't think stores over here are going to bother having them on stock

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:48 am

That sucks.

Do you have a speaker cab/combo with a speaker cable in it? Because you could use that...

kim · Post by **kim** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:22 pm

it's a cool feature that you can hook it up with an external cab indeed..
but i just made up my mind (well...let's say it's a 95% thing, haha) that this year i'm going to focus a little bit more on my bass gear since i really need an upgrade..100watts ampeg blue rocket..love it, absolutely love it...but it can't keep up with two 100watt toob halfstacks at rehearsals and gigs (fine with a line out and mic sent thru the pa but not for myself on stage, can barely hear myself) so imma go for a 'cheap' ashdown mag 300 head and an ampeg 410hlf cab this year...i heard good things about the mag, it's not fantastic but i don't need much, just a simple, decent amp with a little bit more wattage for the time being... 300bucks for a new one... that's pretty ok.

i hope some of you will get their hands on one of these new fenders tho, and share demos and shit so i can turn green with envy.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:07 pm

It goes to 12!!!

I'm getting one.

kim · Post by **kim** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:29 pm

hm.. i also have a question that i'm sure you'll know about; if a top is 300w at 4ohm and you hook it up with a cab that handles 450w at 8ohm are you going to get the full 300w out of the top or do you need two 8ohm cabs or one 4ohm for that then ?

i should know about this

Post by **Doog** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:43 pm

It won't give you full efficiency, no- you generally wanna match the amp's output to the speaker's/cab's impedance.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:26 pm

If they release some sort of a head version I may pick one up.

James · Post by **James** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:53 am

well it has a speaker out, so you could always hook it up to a cab

luke · Post by **luke** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:03 am

bob wrote:well it has a speaker out, so you could always hook it up to a cab

Yeah but that'd look totally silly.

James · Post by **James** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:20 am

who cares if it sounds good

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:52 am

What, these guitar yokes make noise too?

Post by **Doog** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:30 am

BacchusPaul wrote:If they release some sort of a head version I may pick one up.

You're mad for little tube amps at the mo!