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Fender Super-Sonic tried one out
Tried out a fender supersonic today. For around 900 bucks, these amps are hot. they did a few things that many amp makers should be doing. All of the faceplate buttons are footswitchable. To start with, the clean channel(s) are great. A vibrolux circuit, and a bassman circuit. The vibrolux has the nice shimmering fender clean sound that many seek fenders out for. the bassman sounds well..... like a bassman. Not much more to say about that. Within the clean channel side one can footswitch between these two settings. That in itself makes me give it great reviews. Whenever i have played a boogie rectifier, or the bogner exctasy, I was wishing I could footswitch the old/modern switch, or the plexi mode on the bogner. The hughes and kettner triamp would be another amp that would benefit from an increased ability to footswitch all of the various buttons on the front of the amp. The "Burn" channel sounds great. Anything from classic rock to modern metal. I really liked the way the bottom end sounded. Not at all farty. I went through many of the sample settings, and there wasn't a dud in the bunch. I could easily recreat zep, nugent, alice in chains, and a variety of modern metal sounds. Now the kicker. The Effects loop. the guy at the shop had a cable to jump across the loop, and used the send level, and return level to make it function like a boost. So when you hit the effects loop switch on the footswitch it boosted the channel. It worked for the clean and overdrive channels. I really liked that effect/feature. Also the volumes on the clean and drive channel were independant, so theoretically one could use the drive channel for rhythm, and use a ts-9 style boost on the clean channels at a higher volume for a searing lead tyoe thing. I really liked that effect/feature. One could have used a line 6 delay in the loop and had a boosted delayed lead. I immediatly saw the possibilities of more than just a 2 channel amp.
Some things I would have like changed, were that there is no reverb on the head version, only on the combo. I would also like tremalo/vibrato on this amp also. Oh, and a 1/2 power switch, or a class a/ab like the prosonic.
For the price of this amp i would give it a 7.5/8 out of 10. I played a marshall tsl right next to it, and in my opinion it was the better of the two, for what I like.
Some things I would have like changed, were that there is no reverb on the head version, only on the combo. I would also like tremalo/vibrato on this amp also. Oh, and a 1/2 power switch, or a class a/ab like the prosonic.
For the price of this amp i would give it a 7.5/8 out of 10. I played a marshall tsl right next to it, and in my opinion it was the better of the two, for what I like.
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