Anyone here rocking a...

[Aceman]

Fender Frontman 15G?

Comments? Use - just a risky dinky little bedroom amp. Might put pedals into the front clean.

[Mincer]

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I had one. The Mustang I V2 I replaced it with was much, much better. But still not great. For some reason, the Peavey VIP I was a much better amp.

[ehdwuld]

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Bass player had a Frontman 100 2x12 a few years ago when I cleaned out all his PA equipment
But I missed out on the Frontman
It went for $100 to another guy I know

[mechanic1908]

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I thought about one but ended up with a Kustom ph2012 instead.
Does all the clean solid state I need and has decent bass with the 12" speaker.

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[Blille]

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The 25R is still super cheap and definitely a step up from the 15. Worth the $5 difference on Craigslist

[Silence Kid]

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Small and cheap enough to sound like a broken radio at low settings, still overall too loud to turn up and not bother the neighbors, unusable for practice with a band; they are not good amps. I don't really understand the purpose of most small 15 watt amps; but even the smallest Orange Crush, Line 6 Spider, or Guitar Center Acoustic brand 15 watt are MUCH better amps though. I think small Crate practice amps are really the only thing the Frontman 15 floats slightly above in the barrel.

For bedroom/living room practice at "listening level" I'd rather get a cheap iPad/iPhone interface and a small bluetooth speaker; or the small Orange Crush (10? 12 watt?) actually has a decent clean sound.

[ItsaBass]

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It's kind of in the same vein as my old Bullet Reverb. Cheap, light, small, better than nothing. It's a fine little bedroom noodling amp, but it can certainly get loud enough to get the cops called on you. I bought mine from my roommate in Nuke Training Unit, and it was my only amp the rest of the time I was in the Navy (8 years). Good amp for that: When you have no place to really set up a music room, you might be moving around a lot, it might get broken, lost, stolen, etc. I don't think I used it once after getting out. I sold it to my sister in law along with a Bronco Bass, just so she'd have some kind of amp.

To be completely honest, I highly prefer my Vox AmPlug TWIN model headphone amp. But if the Frontman is 20 bucks or something, I say grab it, and a nice pair of headphones to use with it, and use it as a headphone amp primarily.

[ICTGoober]

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I have one in case my Marshall craps out (it hasn't yet).

[FuseG4]

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I agree the 25R is a step up, I had one and was fun to crank, bit reminiscent of old champs and vibro champ amps, comes with some inherent boxiness to the sound but less boxy/farty/splatty than the 15G if you decide you wanna get louder than bedroom.

[DankStar]

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That’s the free amp I got but couldn’t get it to work so I gutted it. FWIW when I was googling to troubleshoot I ran across a lot of unhappy customers and reportedly dead amps. Would appear they had some inherent issues. Wish I kept the transformer to play with.

[Aceman]

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Yeah - but the 15 is little....

[FuseG4]

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Yeah - but the 15 is little....

[Jacew]

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Small and cheap enough to sound like a broken radio at low settings, still overall too loud to turn up and not bother the neighbors, unusable for practice with a band; they are not good amps. I don't really understand the purpose of most small 15 watt amps; but even the smallest Orange Crush, Line 6 Spider, or Guitar Center Acoustic brand 15 watt are MUCH better amps though. I think small Crate practice amps are really the only thing the Frontman 15 floats slightly above in the barrel.

For bedroom/living room practice at "listening level" I'd rather get a cheap iPad/iPhone interface and a small bluetooth speaker; or the small Orange Crush (10? 12 watt?) actually has a decent clean sound.

You don't need to turn it up. For transistor amps more is just always better.

I've toyed with the idea of getting a 2x12 100w Frontman just in case, if I for whatever random reason have a need for really loud clean amp. Since they're only around 100$, getting anything less seems like a waste of money

[ehdwuld]

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You can gig with 100 watt SS amp or an 80 watt SS for that matter

But my 30 watt roland and 40 watt VIP2 just ain't loud enough for a live drummer

[Aceman]

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There will not be a drummer in my bedroom. Especially when I'm not there...