NAD... Blonde Fender Supersonic Twin

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Owner of my local shop sent me home with a blonde Fender Supersonic Twin a week and a half ago. Having owned a Twin Reissue a couple of years ago, I was impressed with what little I heard at the store. So he picked-it up (thank God that HE lifted it instead of me!) and hauled it my my truck mumbling something about this being the only one in blonde that he'd seen in the store and wanting me to have it. He and the shop manager are always doing that to/for me -- just sending stuff home with me. I always have the option to bring it back if it doesn't light my fire... but they know what a gear-slut I am, so most of it stays. LOL!

Anyways... I'm REALLY starting to dig this heavy pig! Got that jangly, scooped Twin thing going perfectly. Plus, hit the fat switch for a bigger Bassman tone. The amp is worth the price of admission alone for those clean tones, but now I find myself starting to like the "burn" channel with a heavily modded TS9 in front and my LPs. No, it's not quite the level of crunch heaven as with my Ceriatone plexis. But nevertheless, I'm digging the amp and find myself comparing it to my old Bogner Shiva. I just ordered a nice road case for it (mostly for the wheels), because I have a country-rock gig on New Years and this rig will be perfect. Yeah, it's a bit "rotund"... and the Supersonic 22 1x12 combo seems like it'd be a lot more portable. But I think that this big boy 2x12 will seem a lot more like my Ceri halfstacks than any 1x12 ever will. I have been running the Twin in 20-watt low-power mode. But honestly, it's hard to tell the difference in volume and girth of tone. This amp has WAY more features than a regular Twin.

I think that she'll be staying. I'm sure that some here will laugh about me saying that (considering how many amps I've been through over the past couple of years). But the Ceris are still here, so there's a possibility that the Twin will stick around. Honestly, the only amp I've been jonesing for since I got the Ceris is the Freidman BE. It'll likely be a while before one of those makes its way up here, so I think that my amp stable will remain pretty... stable. ;)

BTW... the shop owner just got a Tone King Royalist 15 head/cab in for himself the day that he sent this Twin home with me and WOW... what an awesome, responsive amp! VERY impressed. Enough to be adding the bigger Royalist 45 to the Freidman as amps that I'm still curious about.

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Great looking Fender/"Marshall" setup. It's hard to not stay satisfied with a rig like that, although the guitar nerd in me says to pull those Line 6 emblems off, and duct tape them to the inside bottoms of the cabs so they don't get lost.

My newest amp is a blue Fender Vaporizer that GC was blowing out at $229. I like it more than my Excelsior, as the Vaporizer has a beautiful natural gain on it's normal channel. It's "Vaporizer" boost sends 100% volume/gain to the speakers, and it's actually better than most of the OD's I've thrown in front of it. Way cool amp for far less than it's normal $400 price tag.

I think the Super Sonic series amps are some of the best PCB amps Fender's made in it's history.
As for the Tone King amps......those are in the top 3 of the best sounding clean style amps I've ever heard.
If I had the money your rich buddy has, I'd own several Tone King amps. There was a Meteor II on CL recently, and it was killing me, but my piggy bank got broke this year for the Elliot Easton Tikibird, Vaporizer, and a G12-H30.

PS - take some cool pics of a few of your guitars and amps, and post them in my Guitar, Amp, Pedal. Ultimate Photo Thread. You've got some great stuff!
 
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Supersonic is the newfangled take on the Prosonic and it has the gain to prove it. Have played through several of these and they all had a variety of good sounds in them. Nice score , got to love a versatile combo even if it weighs a ton.
 
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Of the various flavors of Super Sonic, I'd be most likely to get the head version of the Twin. There's a lot of goodness in those amps.
 
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Awesome amp and rig, looks like plenty of volume and fun!
 
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Gearjoneser said:
Great looking Fender/"Marshall" setup. It's hard to not stay satisfied with a rig like that, although the guitar nerd in me says to pull those Line 6 emblems off, and duct tape them to the inside bottoms of the cabs so they don't get lost.

My newest amp is a blue Fender Vaporizer that GC was blowing out at $229. I like it more than my Excelsior, as the Vaporizer has a beautiful natural gain on it's normal channel. It's "Vaporizer" boost sends 100% volume/gain to the speakers, and it's actually better than most of the OD's I've thrown in front of it. Way cool amp for far less than it's normal $400 price tag.

I think the Super Sonic series amps are some of the best PCB amps Fender's made in it's history.
As for the Tone King amps......those are in the top 3 of the best sounding clean style amps I've ever heard.
If I had the money your rich buddy has, I'd own several Tone King amps. There was a Meteor II on CL recently, and it was killing me, but my piggy bank got broke this year for the Elliot Easton Tikibird, Vaporizer, and a G12-H30.

PS - take some cool pics of a few of your guitars and amps, and post them in my Guitar, Amp, Pedal. Ultimate Photo Thread. You've got some great stuff!
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I'll post up some pics of my current main rig in that thread GJ.

I did have the Line6 emblem off of the right cab for a while, but finally put it back on there when I got the second one. They are both V30 loaded straight cabs and I like them a lot. I did fight the snobbery instinct, but finally decided that all that matters is what I think of them. I've only had maybe one cab that I liked better than them and that would be the Bogner Uberkab loaded with 4 Celestion Silver Label 30s. It was so big sounding. But these Line6 cabs sound as good as the two Bogner OS2X12s, that I had, as well as the various Marshall and other brand 4X12s that I've had over the years.

I've been curious about some of those smaller Fender amps that you mentioned. Will have to try some of them out at my local Fender dealership.
 
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Thanks for the replies guys. I am definitely happy with this amp so far. Will have a gig next month to find-out how she does live.

Was thinking how "ironic" it is that my gear situation has never been better in over 30 years of playing (I'd take this rig on any stage in the world, no matter how big or important). But I'm gigging less than ever these days. When I used to "fight in the trenches" 5-7 nights a week, I mostly had crap gear. Wish I could go back with better gear and do it over again! :oo
 
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had supersonic twin for a while.super loud.i think it runs 50 watt easy at club setting.i throw a quilt on it and craank it at home.123db easy.
 
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Haha well I love my Super Sonic....
As for the Strat, it was sold off.
And the anodized pickguard is back on the white CV Strat again, but with a Tele neck now.
Looks sweet that red one with mapleneck and goldplate though!
 
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