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Post subject: What Fender amp to go with Eric Clapton Strat.
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:37 pm
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Hi I'm a newbie in more than one way. I just got my first American Strat. It does not sound as good as it could through my Marshall jcm 600. I play it through a Fender Champ With out reverb. I need more then the Champ has. Here is what I know I want. Fender tube amp, Great clean channel, 12" speaker min., reverb, (and here is the tough part) Sounds great at low volume so I don't chase everyone out of the house where I will be playing it most of the time. Sounds great at high volume when gigging as well.

What do you think boyz? Is there such an amp?? Thanks.


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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:49 pm
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Well, a friend bought a Deluxe Reverb Re-issue amp. He changed out the 6V6GT for NOS and got a Weber Vintage Alnico 12-inch speaker. He seems to like it. He's has it for 5 years, uses it two, three times-a-week. Been reliable.

The 6V6GT goes brown much sooner than a typical 6L6GC. You get better compression and overdrive at lower volumes. IMHO.


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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:46 pm
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I have an Eric Clapton Strat. I also have a DRRI and a Champ XD. Love the DRRi for blues and during the day when wife/kids are away ( have several pedals to rock). But when I want to play quiter I use the XD. Great little AMP that is perfect with pretty good modeling. When I jam with my friends I usually bring the XD. It's a lot easier to hull around and great amp to play a lot of different tones. One nice thing with EC strat you can get it to sound pretty LP like with a nice distortion/Overdrive pedal or the XD set to a higher voice channel (I think 10 or 11, can't remember, the Marshall stack settings). The DRRI gets load pretty quick, so might be too much for your case. My 2 cents..

Opps, Just saw you where looking for 12" speaker, for the record I replaced my champ XD speaker with a Ragin Cajun it sounds really good. Might want to look at a Eganator(spelling sorry), lots of praise for them....


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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:26 pm
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The DRRI is the 1 x 12 "go-to" gold standard for its classic blackface tone and vintage vibe. Add a couple of righteous pedals up front to provide some "grunt" for small-to-medium gig venues and perhaps a modeling simulator for low-volume practice situations and you'll have a life-long friend.

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Any Fender tube amp will work.

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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:58 pm
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If you have a Clapton Strat, you absolutely MUST use a 57 Twin reissue. It's only 40 watts. :lol:

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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:10 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
If you have a Clapton Strat, you absolutely MUST use a 57 Twin reissue. It's only 40 watts. :lol:


If I put my 22 watt DRRI at volume level 2.5, my house shakes and my neighbors call the police (and I live in a house with a 3/4 acre yard).


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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:44 pm
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zaboaa wrote:
If I put my 22 watt DRRI at volume level 2.5, my house shakes and my neighbors call the police (and I live in a house with a 3/4 acre yard).


+1

It's one loud chingalero for sure!

Thankfully, my neighbors are a little more forgiving......

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Welcome to the Forum Elvis,any Fender tube amp sounds great with a Strat of any type.I get great sound from my little Blues Jr. with all my Stats it has a cool reverb tank that gives loads of classic surf reverb and can play super clean or get a beautifully warm distortion even at bedroom volumes.

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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:58 am
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Bugera V22, or a Peavey Classic 30, or a Traynor YCV40

I use an SCXD for gigging and it works great for me. Even with a 10" speaker.

I am considering building a cabinet to convert it to a head so I can experiment with 12" speaker cabinets.

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