Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

[Sleepy]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

The Egnater Tweaker and Ibanez TSA15h both have really nice Fender-ISH cleans for 15w amps.

 

[JimmyO]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

I guess I'd recommend taking your favorite guitar to a fender dealer and plug into a pro junior, blues junior, Princeton etc and see if you can get the tones you are looking for before it gets crazy loud, in your opinion - using your ears and experience with the church you play at. Any of the 15watt Fenders you listed can get great clean tones, cranked overdrive tones, and play nice with overdrive pedals if you need overdrive at lower volume levels.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

Okay small to medium sized churches got it, my bad on the confusion

You sir want an 18w Marshall, with a drummer and a bassist and especially 12ax7s in the pre you've got a rock machine that will also play clean. Excuse the Billy Mays Lololol

Ha! No worries at all! I changed the OP after I saw your comment because I really should not have thrown the apartment in there.

I do love the tone of Marshall's–personal preference has always leaned to Fender Clean tones but a Marshall is definitely not out of the question. (My Suhr Riot pretty much nails the Marshall tone I love)

The Egnater Tweaker and Ibanez TSA15h both have really nice Fender-ISH cleans for 15w amps.

You know, one of the guys over at the amp shop I go to now, Acorn Amps, spoke very highly of Egnater and I've seen some videos of them that sounded really good. Something to seriously check out!

I guess I'd recommend taking your favorite guitar to a fender dealer and plug into a pro junior, blues junior, Princeton etc and see if you can get the tones you are looking for before it gets crazy loud, in your opinion - using your ears and experience with the church you play at. Any of the 15watt Fenders you listed can get great clean tones, cranked overdrive tones, and play nice with overdrive pedals if you need overdrive at lower volume levels.

Well, what happened was I played at a bigger venue and had my Hot Rod Deluxe on 5/6 as opposed to 3 and what an awesome difference there was in the tone and response. Everything felt "pushed" more and had an edge that I don't get when at lower volumes...so that is what got me started on trying to lower the Wattage to bump up the volume and push the amp more.

But you make a great suggestion–I should do that.

Thanks!

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

The Blues Junior is fantastic. In my last band, when I joined, the guitarist was using a Blues Junior, and it had no trouble keeping up with a loud-as-hell drummer, keyboardist, and bassist. It's in fact the loudest band I've played with. The reverb is KILLER too. Warm. My friend liked it better than the tube-driven reverb on his (expensive!) Orange Rockerverb. So did I.

I do feel the Blues Junior feels more at home at loud-ish volumes, though. The stock speaker is a bit ice-pick-y until you get it cranking a little, but you probably already know those speakers since your Hot Rod probably has the same speakers.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

The Blues Junior is fantastic. In my last band, when I joined, the guitarist was using a Blues Junior, and it had no trouble keeping up with a loud-as-hell drummer, keyboardist, and bassist. It's in fact the loudest band I've played with. The reverb is KILLER too. Warm. My friend liked it better than the tube-driven reverb on his (expensive!) Orange Rockerverb. So did I.

I do feel the Blues Junior feels more at home at loud-ish volumes, though. The stock speaker is a bit ice-pick-y until you get it cranking a little, but you probably already know those speakers since your Hot Rod probably has the same speakers.

Thanks for the info! If I got one I would most likely change the speaker to something like a Cannabis Rex as well as get the capacitors, jacks, etc. upgraded.

Thanks for the info!

 

[dystrust]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

You know, one of the guys over at the amp shop I go to now, Acorn Amps, spoke very highly of Egnater and I've seen some videos of them that sounded really good. Something to seriously check out!

I have a Tweaker and I love it; Fender, Vox, and Marshall all in one box, both clean and high-ish gain. The only possible deal breaker I can think of is a lack of reverb, but the effects loop seems to be decent.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

I have a Tweaker and I love it; Fender, Vox, and Marshall all in one box, both clean and high-ish gain. The only possible deal breaker I can think of is a lack of reverb, but the effects loop seems to be decent.

Reverb is not a make or break for me–I really like the EHX Holy Grail, so that would not be a deal breaker for me.

 

[Sleepy]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

You know, one of the guys over at the amp shop I go to now, Acorn Amps, spoke very highly of Egnater and I've seen some videos of them that sounded really good. Something to seriously check out!

Love mine. I tend to keep it on the clean channel all the time. Just turning the gain knob will take you from jazzy cleans to ac/dc crunch pretty easily without using the "hot" settings. I couldn't click with other low watters like Blackstar because it seemed like they went straight from clean to dark/mushy without that vintage jangle in between between. Autobiasing feature is handy too.

Here's a video comparing the tweaker's cleans to a hot rod deluxe (as with anything else on youtube... not "scientific" but it gives you an idea...)

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

Love mine. I tend to keep it on the clean channel all the time. Just turning the gain knob will take you from jazzy cleans to ac/dc crunch pretty easily without using the "hot" settings. I couldn't click with other low watters like Blackstar because it seemed like they went straight from clean to dark/mushy without that vintage jangle in between between. Autobiasing feature is handy too.

Here's a video comparing the tweaker's cleans to a hot rod deluxe (as with anything else on youtube... not "scientific" but it gives you an idea...)

Thanks for the info and posting!

 

[allbutromeo]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

Go for a 65 DRRI or 68 Custom Deluxe, or if you're on a budget checkout the 12w 2×10 Vaporizer or the 15w 1×15 Excelsior

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Fender Blues Jr. or Fender Pro Jr. or other suggestion

Go for a 65 DRRI or 68 Custom Deluxe, or if you're on a budget checkout the 12w 2×10 Vaporizer or the 15w 1×15 Excelsior

Those are very nice for sure! But more than what I was hoping to put into it. lol