Taurus Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 im thinking of buying a fender blues junior all tube amp, just wondering has anyone used one. if anyone has, would they reccommend it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalefish Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Mine's served me pretty well.. Been using one for exactly a year from today, if I'm not wrong.. It's loud for its size and sounds good.. The reverb isn't that fantastic, though.. In fact, I usually put it at 0 or 1.. The fat switch, IMHO, should be turned on and left there.. One thing I find that's lacking is a clean/dirty channel but that's just a minor thing.. Haven't gotten good results with the whole 'turn the vol down for clean' thing.. I like having both the volume and master knobs, though.. On the whole, a pretty good buy for that sort of price.. FYI, I play a whole bunch of Strats through it.. Hope that helps!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 It's kinda un-"Fender-ish", but it's a nice little amp, for what it does (although I do agree with Stalefish about the fat switch -turn it on and glue it down!). I never could get a real Fender sparkling clean out of the one I played, and it's not up to crushing Metal saturation, but it does the gritty/sweet blues thing pretty well. It even has a little of that EL84 "chime", although not as harmonically complex as a Matchless/Vox/Bad Cat, and it does a fairly convincing "Bluesbreaker" with an overdrive pedal in front of it. All in all, not a bad little amp, especially with a street price of under $400, if that's what you're looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taurus Posted August 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Would you say something like a fender princeton 65 would serve better? Its not tube but its pretty loud for its size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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