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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:05 am
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I use my SCXD as my gigging amp. I really love this little amp. I have considered getting replacement tubes, I've had it over a year and it has seen some extensive playing time. I don't imagine getting another amp at this point. I have a Marshall and a Traynor as well as a Princeton Chorus Red Knob. The Marshall hardly ever gets used. The Traynor is kept in my bands reheasal space and my Princeton Chorus is used at home for practice. The SCXD is perfect for my needs. It is small but has a full sound and works great with all my guitars. I would highly recommend this amp for anyone from beginners to gigging musicians.


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Post subject: Re: Any Super Champ XD Players out there??!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:12 am
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I've used mine for over a year and I love it! I can't play it enough. I thought about changing tubes and speaker on it, but really I don't think it needs it. I've heard that I should be using some Russian Tubes and a Rajin' Cajin' for the speaker, but honestly, I don't think it needs it!

I agree. I've left mine alone, as far as mods, and it works great. I could not be any happier with it. If those tubes and speakers were really that great they would be used in new amps. Hmmmm


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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:33 am
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Yeah, I also have no plans on changing anyhting on the amp until it's absolutely necessary. I had started a thread a while ago about how it seemed some folks are too quick to modify stuff, a common one was the speaker and tubes in the SCXD, sometimes planning on it before they even have the darn thing in the door. I maintain you really should give the unit a chance before you decide that maybe it's not 100% what you were hoping for. At this moment I am quite happy with the sound of my SCXD, and as I said, will likely only change out the tubes and speakers when and if I have to, due to breakdown, not for some nebulous and possibly imaginary tonal improvement.


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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:42 pm
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I have had mine since the very beginning, right when they came out. Its an awesome amp. I have had no problems with mine at all, just routine maintenance. About 9 months after I had the amp one of the tubes went out so i replaced them with JJ 6V6s and a JJ 12AX7. I love ch. 1. The only "mod" i have done is I put a Fizzy Lifter Beam Blocker (check ebay) in it to take the brittle ice pick sound away. It does an awesome job spreading out the sound, especially when im soloing on the bridge pup on my strat. No complaints at all except for sometimes i have a hard time dialing in nice distortion tone on ch. 2. to meet my Floyd/Gilmour tones. I usually use voice 12 with the gain around 6-7, sometimes it works for me sometimes it doesn't. Anybody have some good settings for Gilmour tones?

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:06 pm
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Many people I've been playing with have what could be considered nicer amps, by nicer I mean more expensive. Blues Junior, Blues Deville, Ampeg, etc.... Everyone loves the tone and versitilty of my amp. They've all been searching for a used one for what I bought mine for. I spent $200 from a guy on Craigslist. It was a great buy, especially when at the time they were $399. I love this amp. Wouldn't trade it for any other amp...

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:17 pm
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I've only had my SCXD for a little over a week, but I'm very pleased. I can't really play my all-tube amps as much as I'd like to, because I like to crank them so I can really hear them sing. Even the little 5-watters get to be pretty noisy when their dimed. But the SCXD solved that problem for me quite nicely. I can get my clean and cranked Tweed sounds, clean and cranked Blackface, and voice no. 7 sounds like my British amps. Plus, it has nice clarity without being too loud. I've never really cranked the volume on it, if I needed a louder amp, I'd be using one of my other ones, lol. Seriously, though, the SCXD is the perfect bedroom/casual jam amp for me. Now I don't have to drag out a 50-lb (at the lighter end of the scale) amp and a pedalboard unless I've got a need for it.

I do wish it used another preamp tube for the drive stage. The 12AX7 that's in there must serve purely as a PI. Does anybody know? But if there were another 12AX7 in the circuit, post voicing, that would give actual tube touch response, like the Cyber-Twin has, this great little amp would be absolutely phenomenal. Think about it.

As for the effects, I can't judge them too harshly, because I really only use reverb. As for the voicings, none of my true modeling amps (Line 6 Vetta, Line 6 Spider II and III, and Johnson Millenium) had this kind of basic tone quality anywhere in them. I wish the SCXD had been around when I was 17, but then again, I probably wouldn't have appreciated it back then.

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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:58 pm
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Without a doubt, the super champ XD has been the best amp I've ever used. Its loud enough for me and gets the job done. No compliants. I don't see a need to even replace the tubes or the speaker. Maybe when they go bad. (I plan on playing it long and hard, so I just might do it!)

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I thought about picking one of these amps to have upstairs, I have a blues junior in the basement. My only worry, is this thing going to be in a landfill in a few years if the electronics crap out? How's the reliability on the digital side?


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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:07 am
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even if the electronics go bad, isn't it covered by Fender? Also, the clean channel sounds good without the electronics...

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DetroitBlues wrote:
even if the electronics go bad, isn't it covered by Fender? Also, the clean channel sounds good without the electronics...


If you mean by "electronics" the DSP ,apparently, the clean channel IS a digitally processed signal, it's the same as the clean blackface setting (#4?).
However, even so, it dosn't matter, as you say, it sounds good, regardless.


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campfirehero wrote:
I thought about picking one of these amps to have upstairs, I have a blues junior in the basement. My only worry, is this thing going to be in a landfill in a few years if the electronics crap out? How's the reliability on the digital side?

As reliable as your cell phone, HDTV and laptop, lol!


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I just thought I'd make a tangent on the thread. What's y'all's favorite voicing? I tend to stick with 2.3.4. and 7.

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gtrman100 wrote:
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I thought about picking one of these amps to have upstairs, I have a blues junior in the basement. My only worry, is this thing going to be in a landfill in a few years if the electronics crap out? How's the reliability on the digital side?

As reliable as your cell phone, HDTV and laptop, lol!


Well great, I'll buy two cause I'll need to have a backup! When you put it in that context I may have to move along. I have a vox da5 which is a great 100.00 amp...


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I just thought I'd make a tangent on the thread. What's y'all's favorite voicing? I tend to stick with 2.3.4. and 7.


4 6 & 8.

only use reverb

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I've been hammering on mine for well over a year with no issues. As a matter of fact, if you search the forums you'll find little mention of any problems with the SCXD. It's a far more reliable amp than the Blues JR based on the complaints posted.


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