Fender Blues Junior

[JimN]

I have just three words to say to you, Benjamin. I want you to promise you'll think about it.

Fender. Deluxe. Reverb.

Enough said.

[RUSSET]

The Fender Blues Deluxe is worth a look at. It's the original version of the Hot Rod Deluxe, & I suppose the big brother to the Blues Junior. It has less of the hi-gain pre-amp that the Hot Rod Deluxe does, & at 40 watts is a very loud amp. You should be able to get plenty of clean headroom from it, before it starts to break up. You can get it in Black vinyl & also that rather nice '50s Tweed finish.

Tony.

[cockroach]

I'm afraid that most amps these days seem to be designed to start distorting at about half volume, even transistor amps!

I suppose those of us who want a clean sound with enough headroom for live work are in a minority these days..

If all else fails, an old model Peavey transistor amp will give plenty of clean volume, but it won't sound like a Fender valve amp!

[peter roest]

Handling an amp with gain and mastercontrol (like AC 15CC.. , AC30) Fender etc:

1. Getting clean sound: master high and gain low 1 or 2 or more, depending wished speaker volume.
2. Getting distorsion : master low 1or 2 or higher and gain high, depending speaker volume/distorsion.

Gain control pot. is positioned after the first valve step (preamp).
Mastercontrolpot, is positioned directly before the poweramp. In Vox amps the mastercontrolpot is positioned in the poweramp between the push-pull valve (ECC83) and the 2 or 4 EL84 valves.

Peter

[neil2726]

After much checking around on a suitable amp - I went for a RAT 15watt Fender Blues Junior clone - it sounds great and has lots of clean volume for my needs!