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Fender Super-Sonic Amps And Enclosures

April 07, 2011
Fender announced the Super-Sonic series of amplifiers and enclosures, with new heads, combos, and more.

If you want some high-performance, no-nonsense tube amps, then check out the new lineup of Fender Super-Sonic amplifiers designed to provide Fender clean tones and expressive high-gain tones without masking the tonal character of the player's guitar. The Super Sonic series includes the Super-Sonic 100 head, the Super Sonic 100 412 Straight Enclosure, the Super Sonic 100 412 Slant Enclosure, and the Super-Sonic Twin combo.

According to Fender, these professional-level flagship amps and enclosures raise the power of the Super-Sonic line to an arena-worthy 100W and introduce several versatile new features.

The Super-Sonic 100 head pairs well with the Super-Sonic 100 412 Straight and Super-Sonic 100 412 Slant enclosures. The Super-Sonic Twin combo has dual 12" Celestion Vintage 30 speakers.

Both amps feature:

  • New Fender Automatic Bias control, which lets you set the output tubes to the recommended factory setting and to your preference of "hotter" or "cooler" bias with no need for meters or tools

  • A Notch Tune control that lets you move the midrange notch and fine-tune distortion characteristics for a variety of American and British amp sounds

  • A rear-panel damping control that lets you select normal, loose, or tight speaker response for sounds ranging from warm and loose to tight and focused

  • An Arena / Club switch that takes the power down from 100W to 25W to preserve great high-volume tube tone at lower club gig volume levels

  • Vintage channel for shimmering clean tone derived from Fender Twin Reverb and Showman amps or the thick, punchy sound of a 1960s-era Bassman amp

  • Burn channel for edgy breakup and distortion with variable compression, thickness, and sustain

  • Custom Schumacher transformers, tube-driven Fender long-spring reverb, effects loop with level control that also works as a footswitch-operated boost, Black / Silver and Blonde / Oxblood cosmetic treatments, cover, and pedalboard-friendly four-button footswitch

Fender's Super Sonic 100 412 Straight Enclosure and Super Sonic 100 412 Slant Enclosure both feature four 12" Celestion Vintage 30 speakers, Baltic birch-ply construction for increased resonance, Black / Silver and Blonde / Oxblood cosmetic treatments, casters, and cover.

To learn more, visit fender.com.

For more information, visit the official Fender Web site.

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This amplifier is about as close as one is going to get to finding the proverbial amp. The two clean channels are amazing reproductions of the amp circuits they are modeled after (Vintage mid-60s Vibrolux and Bassman), and serve extremely well for styles of music requiring that classic clean tube amp sound.

Wed, 2012-04-25 08:56

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