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Re: Any Opinions on This Fender Super Champ?
Does the Super Champ have true channel switching? Does it use a footswitch?
Does the Super Champ have true channel switching? Does it use a footswitch?
Any Opinions on This Fender Super Champ?
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wahwah
GumbyLoveologist
Re: Any Opinions on This Fender Super Champ?
The speaker is only a 10", so it's a G10S-50. It was in the amp when I bought it second hand. The mic in the photo is a Rode NT-2 large diaphragm condenser.
Cheers.......................wahwah
The speaker is only a 10", so it's a G10S-50. It was in the amp when I bought it second hand. The mic in the photo is a Rode NT-2 large diaphragm condenser.
Cheers.......................wahwah
wahwah
GumbyLoveologist
Re: Any Opinions on This Fender Super Champ?
It does have channel switching, but the footswitch was an option and has become a rather expensive rarity. The second one I bought from eBay has the footswitch. But there is a catch. The footswitch is a very unusual design, and actually affects the tone of the clean channel. As a result, I don't use it as a channel switching amp, I just use the clean channel with pedals. I only use the lead channel for recording, where it delivers a tone that somehow just cuts its way through any mix. It's got a rudeness about it that just works.
Cheers.........................wahwah
It does have channel switching, but the footswitch was an option and has become a rather expensive rarity. The second one I bought from eBay has the footswitch. But there is a catch. The footswitch is a very unusual design, and actually affects the tone of the clean channel. As a result, I don't use it as a channel switching amp, I just use the clean channel with pedals. I only use the lead channel for recording, where it delivers a tone that somehow just cuts its way through any mix. It's got a rudeness about it that just works.
Cheers.........................wahwah
Luke Duke
PRSlustologist
Re: Any Opinions on This Fender Super Champ?
Very cool. I would've sworn it had a 12. I'm probably just crazy. When you put another speaker in the other one you should look at the Weber 10F125P. Mixture of American and British tone......I think it would be very tasty.
Yes Keith it has a foot switch.
Luke
Very cool. I would've sworn it had a 12. I'm probably just crazy. When you put another speaker in the other one you should look at the Weber 10F125P. Mixture of American and British tone......I think it would be very tasty.
Yes Keith it has a foot switch.
Luke
Luke Duke
PRSlustologist
Re: Any Opinions on This Fender Super Champ?
I'm sure a lot of the tone and mojo comes from the Super Champ having lineage that points toward a Princeton with the Split Load Phase Inverter.
How does the switch affect the cleans?
Luke
I'm sure a lot of the tone and mojo comes from the Super Champ having lineage that points toward a Princeton with the Split Load Phase Inverter.
How does the switch affect the cleans?
Luke
wahwah
GumbyLoveologist
Re: Any Opinions on This Fender Super Champ?
I'm a technical dumbass, but my tech described it to me by saying that the signal somehow actually passes through the footswitch, almost like it was a loop (I may very well have misunderstood this!). The end result is that the clean channel seems a lot thinner, to the point of making the channel switching option less than attractive. That and the inclusion of the rare 6C10 tube were considered the only design flaws, although Rivera could be forgiven for not forseeing that production of 6C10's would be discontinued in 1986! I think this odd design of the footswitch may have been part of the reason that it was not supplied with the amp, but as an option. The same situation applies to all of the Rivera era Fenders.
In answer to your previous post, I once asked Ted Weber by e-mail what he would suggest for a Super Champ, and the 10F125P was certainly one of his main suggestions.
Cheers.............................wahwah
I'm a technical dumbass, but my tech described it to me by saying that the signal somehow actually passes through the footswitch, almost like it was a loop (I may very well have misunderstood this!). The end result is that the clean channel seems a lot thinner, to the point of making the channel switching option less than attractive. That and the inclusion of the rare 6C10 tube were considered the only design flaws, although Rivera could be forgiven for not forseeing that production of 6C10's would be discontinued in 1986! I think this odd design of the footswitch may have been part of the reason that it was not supplied with the amp, but as an option. The same situation applies to all of the Rivera era Fenders.
In answer to your previous post, I once asked Ted Weber by e-mail what he would suggest for a Super Champ, and the 10F125P was certainly one of his main suggestions.
Cheers.............................wahwah
