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Post subject: Deluxe 85 red knob
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:58 pm
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Have a chance to get one of these. I know nothing about them

It is solid state from the 80s, somebody changed speaker to Celestion 30
guy wants $215 for it.

Am I just asking for trouble, or...???????

Any comments welcome/ haven't been able to find out much of anything about these amps


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Post subject: Re: Deluxe 85 red knob
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:02 pm
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I think you'd do better for that amount with a used Pro Jr. YMMV.

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Post subject: Re: Deluxe 85 red knob
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:11 pm
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Sounds like a very good deal. These are some very good solid state amps, very reliable, nice tone, both the clean and distortion channel...if you can take the red knobs and grey grill cloth on your Fender amps.

They came out in 1988 and ran thru 1993. This amp was part of the "Fast Four" solid state amps and were part of the red knob series, they had a solid state line like the one you mention and a tube series all with the red knobs, gray grill cloth, etc. This was a pretty comprehensive line of amps, everything from a Champ 12 (Tube) up to "The Twin". The solid state line consisted of the Fender 15 with an 8 Inch Speaker, the 85, the Deluxe 85, Stage 185 (2x12 spkrs) and the London 185 Head. The numbers represented the power of each amp. The amps product number was 22-5200. Specs are as follows. 85 Watts CIP (65 RMS) 2 channels, Gain Boost, Mid Boost, Limiter, came with a 3 button footswitch, effects loop, head phone jack and 1x12inch Eminence speaker. It listed for $449.99, $20 for the cover.

These amps were part of the new Fender Company's first amp line. They were actually the first successful implimentation of solid state amps in Fender's history. They were the first amps that "Sounded good, were priced well and were successful" a quote from Mike Lewis who was one of the marketing guys at Fender and is from John Morrishs book called "The Fender Amp Book". They were designed by Mark Wentling and Bill Hughes and were built in Lake Oswego Oregon.

Well that was about all I could find on the amp, you might want to try to track down the book by John Morrish listed earlier, it has a pretty extensice section on the red knob series of amps. These amps were later revamped looks wise into the Standard Series and had black knobs (like the red knobs only black and white) and silver grill cloth.

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Post subject: Re: Deluxe 85 red knob
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:34 pm
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T2Stratman wrote:
Sounds like a very good deal. These are some very good solid state amps, very reliable, nice tone, both the clean and distortion channel...if you can take the red knobs and grey grill cloth on your Fender amps.

They came out in 1988 and ran thru 1993. This amp was part of the "Fast Four" solid state amps and were part of the red knob series, they had a solid state line like the one you mention and a tube series all with the red knobs, gray grill cloth, etc. This was a pretty comprehensive line of amps, everything from a Champ 12 (Tube) up to "The Twin". The solid state line consisted of the Fender 15 with an 8 Inch Speaker, the 85, the Deluxe 85, Stage 185 (2x12 spkrs) and the London 185 Head. The numbers represented the power of each amp. The amps product number was 22-5200. Specs are as follows. 85 Watts CIP (65 RMS) 2 channels, Gain Boost, Mid Boost, Limiter, came with a 3 button footswitch, effects loop, head phone jack and 1x12inch Eminence speaker. It listed for $449.99, $20 for the cover.

These amps were part of the new Fender Company's first amp line. They were actually the first successful implimentation of solid state amps in Fender's history. They were the first amps that "Sounded good, were priced well and were successful" a quote from Mike Lewis who was one of the marketing guys at Fender and is from John Morrishs book called "The Fender Amp Book". They were designed by Mark Wentling and Bill Hughes and were built in Lake Oswego Oregon.

Well that was about all I could find on the amp, you might want to try to track down the book by John Morrish listed earlier, it has a pretty extensice section on the red knob series of amps. These amps were later revamped looks wise into the Standard Series and had black knobs (like the red knobs only black and white) and silver grill cloth.

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+1

They sound pretty good, run pretty reliably, and they're affordable.

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Post subject: Re: Deluxe 85 red knob
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:53 am
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Hey thanks for the info on this amp
I will get to play it later this week
I am curious how changing the speaker out to a Celestion influences the sound.
OF course, this is all subjective, you either like what you hear or you don't


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Post subject: Re: Deluxe 85 red knob
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:59 pm
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My guess would be the celestion 30 would be an improvement over the stock speaker...IMHO.

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