Fender Red Knob Super 210
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Skarekrough
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Re: Fender Red Knob Super 210
Red Knobs are mutants....QC wasn't anywhere near as good on the amps of that era as the guitars were. I know Robin Trower I believe is a fan of the Red Knob Twins....
For the money you're a hundred or so away from a much better amp for your buck.
Red Knobs are mutants....QC wasn't anywhere near as good on the amps of that era as the guitars were. I know Robin Trower I believe is a fan of the Red Knob Twins....
For the money you're a hundred or so away from a much better amp for your buck.
Gearjoneser
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Re: Fender Red Knob Super 210
It's not a bad amp, if you're looking for a cheap Fender tube amp, but they never had any collector interest or high resale. With brand new tubes, and maybe speakers, that little amp would be a nice one to have for $300.
It's not a bad amp, if you're looking for a cheap Fender tube amp, but they never had any collector interest or high resale. With brand new tubes, and maybe speakers, that little amp would be a nice one to have for $300.
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Lewguitar
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Re: Fender Red Knob Super 210
I don't think you'll make enough on it to make it worth the effort. The Red Knob Fenders are not highly prized although they sound fine for jazz, blues and cleaner styles. I heard Robben Ford a few years ago through a rented Red Knob Twin...the evil Twin that so many dislike so much. Sounded just like Robben: GREAT! Lew
I don't think you'll make enough on it to make it worth the effort. The Red Knob Fenders are not highly prized although they sound fine for jazz, blues and cleaner styles. I heard Robben Ford a few years ago through a rented Red Knob Twin...the evil Twin that so many dislike so much. Sounded just like Robben: GREAT! Lew
JeffB
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Re: Fender Red Knob Super 210
I liked the red knobs one too
My Brother had a little red knob champ 12 or something, and that sucker sounded better than the silverface champ I had for awhile as a teen (and that was no slouch).
Maybe not alot of collector/monetary value, but I always thought they were nice sounding amps.
I liked the red knobs one too
My Brother had a little red knob champ 12 or something, and that sucker sounded better than the silverface champ I had for awhile as a teen (and that was no slouch).
Maybe not alot of collector/monetary value, but I always thought they were nice sounding amps.
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Skarekrough
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Re: Fender Red Knob Super 210
When I was about 15 a buddy of mine sold me his Champ 12. It had a few years on it then. It was my main amp up until I was about 28 or so. Had it for 13 years...crazy. I played that thing in every band I was in; metal, rock, R and B, Blues....
Never in my tenure with that amp did I like it. I hated that amp from about the moment I got it until I unloaded it for a Line 6 Spider. It never ever sounded like anything but garbage. The second channel was god-awful on it. And unless you needed those obnoxious squealy-cleans the regular channel was worthless.
Had that amp forever...God help me...I hated every minute of it.
JeffB said:
When I was about 15 a buddy of mine sold me his Champ 12. It had a few years on it then. It was my main amp up until I was about 28 or so. Had it for 13 years...crazy. I played that thing in every band I was in; metal, rock, R and B, Blues....
Never in my tenure with that amp did I like it. I hated that amp from about the moment I got it until I unloaded it for a Line 6 Spider. It never ever sounded like anything but garbage. The second channel was god-awful on it. And unless you needed those obnoxious squealy-cleans the regular channel was worthless.
Had that amp forever...God help me...I hated every minute of it.
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Lewguitar
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Re: Fender Red Knob Super 210
Sounds like my Musicman HD130 that I got stuck with for a few years in the mid 70's...hated it from the get go! :laugh2: But stuck with it anyway, and for way to long. Kept hoping I'd find a way to get it to sound like a vintage Fender or Marshall...never could! Then I got my blackface Pro Reverb and played that for the next twenty years. Anyways, the red knob Fenders are not the totally awful amps guys say they are...but they're not so great for metal and really hard agressive rock.
Skarekrough said:
Sounds like my Musicman HD130 that I got stuck with for a few years in the mid 70's...hated it from the get go! :laugh2: But stuck with it anyway, and for way to long. Kept hoping I'd find a way to get it to sound like a vintage Fender or Marshall...never could! Then I got my blackface Pro Reverb and played that for the next twenty years. Anyways, the red knob Fenders are not the totally awful amps guys say they are...but they're not so great for metal and really hard agressive rock.
Re: Fender Red Knob Super 210
I know a guy in the 80's that took $50,000 and built a home studio in his house... the stupid part was he rented must of the recording gear and ended up paying as much or more to buy for it and then returned it! The guys was smoking some pretty heavy stuff in those days i think! Anyways i found it so strange that i would walk into this studio... he had a little sound booth, all the walls were sound proofed and had a mixing desk with the gear and a rack full of effects...... Sad part is he had a TV and VCR in there and i think hi mand his buddy spent more time in there watch pornos and tv then working on the album he was trying to record...... i used to laugh when i saw his guitar gear...... he had a 1982 strat... the type with the jack mounted on the pickguard.... and a little red knob champ 25.... he spent all this money on the studio gear and he had some awful sounding amp and guitar set up.... In the end he would never let anyone hear the album when it was done..... said it was full of Cr*p...
WHOFAN
I know a guy in the 80's that took $50,000 and built a home studio in his house... the stupid part was he rented must of the recording gear and ended up paying as much or more to buy for it and then returned it! The guys was smoking some pretty heavy stuff in those days i think! Anyways i found it so strange that i would walk into this studio... he had a little sound booth, all the walls were sound proofed and had a mixing desk with the gear and a rack full of effects...... Sad part is he had a TV and VCR in there and i think hi mand his buddy spent more time in there watch pornos and tv then working on the album he was trying to record...... i used to laugh when i saw his guitar gear...... he had a 1982 strat... the type with the jack mounted on the pickguard.... and a little red knob champ 25.... he spent all this money on the studio gear and he had some awful sounding amp and guitar set up.... In the end he would never let anyone hear the album when it was done..... said it was full of Cr*p...
WHOFAN
