Fender Champion: I'm crossing my fingers for upgrades in the future

[jon the art guy]

I've really gotten enamored with the Super Champ X2 with the combination of the tube power section, the pretty good front-end of useable features in a simple package, and the FUSE plugin which allows for some real deep tooling, including stuff like tube sag and weird biasing (emulations, I assume).

The only problem with it seems to me that 15 watts kind of relegates it to being a practice and recording amp, small venues, or PA plugging via the emulated speaker line out. Sometimes you need to get over the rambunctious drummer with some wattage.

I started looking around on the Fender site and, lo and behold, the new Champion series of babby's first Fender amps have the same front panel with many of the same functions of Super Champ's setup, only there's no USB, no line out (I think), no FUSE and no tubes. It does come in 20, 40 and 100w.

I'm hoping in the near future they'll develop a series of Tube Champions with the Super Champ functionality, only with more oomph. Maybe some 2x6v6, 2x6l6, 4x6l6 power sections.

 

[coachc55]

Re: Fender Champion: I'm crossing my fingers for upgrades in the future

I've played the 20, which isn't bad for a practice amp. The 40 is a two channel with a 12 inch speaker. The demos I've seen of them look pretty good. Looking at the price I'm thinking about switching out my Frontman 25 for a 40. If you don't want to go the computer route like the Mustang and now somewhat with the Roland Cubes it may not be a bad choice, also considering the price.

 

[Top-L]

Re: Fender Champion: I'm crossing my fingers for upgrades in the future

I think the mustang replaced the SuperChamp. Because of the tube saturation modelling, real tubes are redundant. Try a mustang sometime and crank the patch master volume while lowering the patch volume and you will hear the "tubes". You can get it at any volume and they make a 100watt version suitable for gigging.