FuseG4
Our Neighbor Totoro
Turned my practice amp into an extension speaker cab, and it's really surprising me so far!
My fender Champion 20 only gets used as a headphone amp these days and I like the fender tweed champ simulation on it but it could be better. And I have loved old silverface champs and bronco amps I've found in pawnshops and places. I was bored AF tonight so I wired an input jack to the 8" speaker and plugged my Supersonic 22 into it.
My clean channel became a "Modern 22W blackface champ" and has only been pushed to 3 or 4 volume but this is enough to get the speaker moving and add its color, a little breakup, and it's a little brighter and cleaner than a vintage 70s champ but it's right in that ballpark. It is punchy but it compresses easily if you hit it. The bass is spanky but also compressed and not tight but not as mushy or farty as some vintage SF champs. The character of the chime and slight breakup at bedroom volumes is great.
The burn channel picks up where the clean channel leaves off. With the Gain 1 low and the mids back it stays blackfacey but now you have a master volume! The power tubes may not be cooking, but the 2nd gain stage is a cascaded preamp stage and can add back some juicy touch sensitivity and warmth. And the mid knob lets it get less BF fender, more tweed, and with a strat it's very Layla.
Now I really wish I had tremolo on the amp ;-; but reverb rules with both channels.
I'm really impressed with the little speaker and cab, they really did a good job at giving cheap crap an absolutely fender voicing and it just needed a tube amp to bring out the goodness. And my tube amp rules, it's good to know how much Fender vibe sits in it, and that speakers and cabs can give you a lot of variation.
Lets see oh also, I've tried running it in parallel with the combo speaker, both being 8 ohms and me playing low volume it seems decent, at really low volumes the 8" dominates but as I turn up the bass gets deeper but it's got that chimey, spanky thing still. Pretty cool! Luckily I wired them in phase on the first attempt.
I have an attenuator I haven't tried with it yet, should get it to warm up even more.
My fender Champion 20 only gets used as a headphone amp these days and I like the fender tweed champ simulation on it but it could be better. And I have loved old silverface champs and bronco amps I've found in pawnshops and places. I was bored AF tonight so I wired an input jack to the 8" speaker and plugged my Supersonic 22 into it.
My clean channel became a "Modern 22W blackface champ" and has only been pushed to 3 or 4 volume but this is enough to get the speaker moving and add its color, a little breakup, and it's a little brighter and cleaner than a vintage 70s champ but it's right in that ballpark. It is punchy but it compresses easily if you hit it. The bass is spanky but also compressed and not tight but not as mushy or farty as some vintage SF champs. The character of the chime and slight breakup at bedroom volumes is great.
The burn channel picks up where the clean channel leaves off. With the Gain 1 low and the mids back it stays blackfacey but now you have a master volume! The power tubes may not be cooking, but the 2nd gain stage is a cascaded preamp stage and can add back some juicy touch sensitivity and warmth. And the mid knob lets it get less BF fender, more tweed, and with a strat it's very Layla.
Now I really wish I had tremolo on the amp ;-; but reverb rules with both channels.
I'm really impressed with the little speaker and cab, they really did a good job at giving cheap crap an absolutely fender voicing and it just needed a tube amp to bring out the goodness. And my tube amp rules, it's good to know how much Fender vibe sits in it, and that speakers and cabs can give you a lot of variation.
Lets see oh also, I've tried running it in parallel with the combo speaker, both being 8 ohms and me playing low volume it seems decent, at really low volumes the 8" dominates but as I turn up the bass gets deeper but it's got that chimey, spanky thing still. Pretty cool! Luckily I wired them in phase on the first attempt.
I have an attenuator I haven't tried with it yet, should get it to warm up even more.
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