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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:04 pm
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Best bang for the buck???

Fender's pro junior, for a few reasons:

-The TONE: Its a great recording amp, ive used it many many times in the studio, often choosing it over 10X more expensive amps. Two buttons: Volume & tone and with these 2 you can dial in almost any sounds...

-The price!!! In this price range....No competition; again, like I said, in the studio, I often prefer it over much more expensive models

-Light (who wants to carry a brit stack or a 65lbs Super reverb to a gig...Well, Unless you have roadies)

-In Today's world most concert hall, bar, church, etc will provide you with a PA, so just mic the amp and use monitor (besides, your ears will thank you) if not loud enough.


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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:22 pm
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Oups...

Forgot to mention that Ive also used it live on countless occasions and never had a complaint about it...

This might help you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIC_gAMq7VQ


In my opinion...The pro Junior is probably Fender's best kept secret, the tech team working on this little gem probably had an over zealous techie who got a lot of %?&*%? for making such an amp for such a price...

Having said that...We all know that its a matter of taste but Ive done a lot of research before buying mine and Im still looking for a bad user review...


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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:47 am
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yanick7219 wrote:
Oups...

Forgot to mention that Ive also used it live on countless occasions and never had a complaint about it...

This might help you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIC_gAMq7VQ


In my opinion...The pro Junior is probably Fender's best kept secret, the tech team working on this little gem probably had an over zealous techie who got a lot of %?&*%? for making such an amp for such a price...

Having said that...We all know that its a matter of taste but Ive done a lot of research before buying mine and Im still looking for a bad user review...


Thanks for sharing that link. The Blues Jr seems to get all the love on this forum, but I have been eyeballing a Pro Jr. Seems like a real sweet amp!

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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:43 am
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They sound even better through a bigger cabinet. Well built and designed too.
They should have designed the Hot Rod series like this little gem.


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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:49 am
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63supro wrote:
It just depends on the venue and the type of music you play. We used to play some of the bigger clubs in Philly and Twins and half stacks were common. If I'm paying a cover to see a band, I'm usually there to hear the band, not so much to chat with friends until a break. That's just me though.

I saw Les Paul at the Iridium Jazz club in NY in November and I was up against the stage and you could still have a conversation if you wanted to and it sounded great. Like I said, it just depends on the circumstances.

Amps are just tools of the trade. I've owned amps from Ampeg to Sunn.
I always liked my Fenders except my HRDlx. A good professional series amp will always get you through. It's still always nice to have enough power for your circumstances. Only you really know what you need.


You make some good points, and when you say you're "usually there to hear the band" I can only agree...but garbled lyrics, clipping guitar tones, and distorted bass notes because everything is too loud makes it difficult to hear the band, and difficult to identify songs. Everyone on stage thinks they have to blow out the other musicians, and that leads to chaos, sonically. I'm not speaking of anyone the caliber of Mr Paul, but rather of groups in and around this part of Texas and other cities I have lived in. To be sure, Lightnin' Hopkins, when I saw him in Austin, did not crank his amp to "ear-bleed" but he was a little more experienced than many. Equally with Charlie Musselwhite's blues band -- there was a lot of horsepower there, at an outdoor gig, but they sounded pristine.

Those guys aren't the problem. The problem is walking into a club and hazarding ear damage without there being any benefit -- such as there being the possibility that actual music would be heard. There are guitarists (and bassists) who ought to be banned from anything over 50 watts. I played many of large venue with my 40 watt B15N and a mic to the PA, and more recently, a 100 watt B100R with a direct out to the PA. I could hear the singer, the drummer could hear me, and the audience was dancing, not holding their hands over their ears like the listeners in the AFB gig in Spinal Tap.

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