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Well, each his opinion.
After 2 months, and intensive use, I'm still liking mine.
It is a bright amp, and the bass knob is really important regarding the guitar you plug in.
And I never use the first input, but only the second.
I've found the sweet spot of this amp and really enjoying it.
A few "pointy on sound" friends of mine tried it and have the same feeling, they find it great.
One thing I maybe forgot to mention in my first posts is that I swapped the preamp tubes for NOS ones I had in my spares (General Electric and Sylvania I think..), maybe they're lower power than 12ax7, I have no idea, not impossible because I had some in that tube batch.
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07-13-2021 10:03 PM
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I recently played a friend's Victoria 518 (clone of a Fender 5F1), man was I impressed! Sounded like a big amp even played at a whisper, no boxiness, no lack of bass... now I want one! I'm borrowing it for a gig first chance I have..
Not all these small amps work out in the end, but when they do they are magical..
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Originally Posted by Alter
If Fender wants to bring out a new reissue amp model with a twist (like they do lately) then a 5F1 with a 10” is a good choice (maybe even integrate a digital reverb? Love my Boss FRV-1 with it!)
Last edited by Little Jay; 07-14-2021 at 07:52 AM.
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Originally Posted by Alter
As mentioned you almost don't need reverb with a good finger jointed pine cabinet. Hearing that 57 Champ Reissue is what set my g.a.s. going for a small 5 watter. I just love playing though an old tweed Champ with nothing but a volume control on the amp. It really forces you to explore the sounds in your guitar.
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I found an interesting video showing the inside of the new 68 Custom Vibro Champ Reverb.
Speaker is replaced in the video. He had a removed a metal grill at the back to make room for the speaker. Not sure what the grill is for. Protect people, tubes, EMF?
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Originally Posted by DanielleOM
The metal grill around the tubes is due to safety regulations to prevent one from touching hot tubes and get burned, I think.
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The grill is to stop people burning themselves on hot tubes. There‘s probably a regulation somewhere about it.
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One of the 12ax7 on mine was misfuctionning a few hours after using it.
The Tremolo was making a very bad thunk at each cycle above 6 on the intensity knob.
The video shows that he also has a bad preamp tube.
Now that's really not reassuring on a 700€ new Fender amp.
Gosh
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Originally Posted by Alter
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Originally Posted by alltunes
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One knob only, doesn't get any better than that!
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