Fender Supersonic Head

[Jay 77]

Anyone have experience with this one at all? I'm really liking the idea of getting excellent cleans, as well as modern & classic gains. I can't afford anything until the new year, but it'll probably come down to this or a Marshall TSL60.

Any help would be great here fellas! Thanks!

 

[beggar_guitar]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

Anyone have experience with this one at all? I'm really liking the idea of getting excellent cleans, as well as modern & classic gains. I can't afford anything until the new year, but it'll probably come down to this or a Marshall TSL60.

Any help would be great here fellas! Thanks!

They are nice, but I dunno about the price tag. They seemed a bit pricier than they should be. My opinion anyway...

As far as sound though I like 'em, but I personally didn't find the OD channel to be anything special. Clean tones were awesome though.

 

[stangme01]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

They are nice, but I dunno about the price tag. They seemed a bit pricier than they should be. My opinion anyway...

As far as sound though I like 'em, but I personally didn't find the OD channel to be anything special. Clean tones were awesome though.

sounds like a typical fender then :smack:

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

I actually really like their drive channel. To my ear it's the best high gain amp Fender has made.

The two gain knobs offer a lot of versatility and tonal variety. With the first knob down and the second knob up, it does a pretty nice Marshall-y crunch. Vise versa sounds Boogie-like. Both up is a very fat, chunky gain even at low volumes.

The cleans are great, and I liked the Tweed/Vibrolux switch. There is a distinct change in tone - pretty much like what you would expect them to sound like.

The downside for me is the price. It's a great amp, but probably priced about $200-300 too high for what it does. You could get a Traynor YCV-50 and a couple of good pedals for less money and still have a great rig.

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

i LOOOOOVE the gain channel

buy it

 

[Gunny47]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

Definitely a totally different animal from a TSL60. I am not a fan of the TSL series at all, but the Supersonic and the TSL pretty much have their strengths and weaknesses opposite (strong point of the supersonic is the clean and the strongpoint of the TSL is the overdrive) but I definitely like the pure 6L6 tone of the Fender Supersonic much better. The burn channel is such a surprise, sounds very thick and harmonic on lower volume. Pretty much what ratherdashing said about the 2 gain knobs tuning them up to get your sound, blending them and such. Definitely get the matching cab also, the cab construction on these Fender blow the TSL and matching Marshall cabs away IMO from my experiences at least. And of course, TSLs have some reliability issues.

Both are great amps though, with a retube of the TSL you can get it to scream, but it doesnt sound good at all IMO at low volumes compared to the Supersonic which is quite amazing with the volume knob low. And of course, you get the amazing Fender reverb and cleans too which has the fat bassman setting or the thinner twangier vibrolux setting (both I think modded after the piggyback blackface era amps). I would defintely go for the Supersonic though.

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

I didn't like it at all.

 

[TimmyPage]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

I love the one in the store - the drive channel gets that Fender grit without excessive volume. Its the amp I play second most - Next to the Vox Ac30.

 

[Boogie Bill]

Re: Fender Supersonic Head

I like these amps, but...

There's NOTHING here that would make me want to give up one of my Mesas to buy a SuperSonic; and if were going to buy a new amp--I'd still be looking at the LoneStar, Stiletto Ace or even the F-Series Mesas before I'd get a SuperSonic.

Bill