Could someone please tell me what the functions are on this amp. I got it when i bought my fender to learn on, but i have no idea what the knobs are meant to do. I know the obvious on, volume, LoL. even that, what would be the best settings for practise.
The learning videos on Fender and other videoa are great, but they dont mention the Amp functions.

Also, could someone please tell me how to use the TONE functions on the body of the guitar. Are they supposed to be in sync ??

Gain-the more of this you have, the dirtier and more overdriven your sound will become.

You know volume

Treble-makes the higher notes more prominent.

Bass-makes the lower notes more prominent.

Depending on what you're playing, you could want any combination of these. It also depends on your guitar-if you have the bridge pickup of a strat on fairly high treble, you might want to lower the treble on the amp to make it a bit easier to listen to.

I would say, that generally, play with a fairly clean sound, some overdrive if you want. This allows you to hear the mistakes you make, and you can concentrate on playing well. Gain and distortion can be quite a comfortable place to be where you make numerous but not very obvious mistakes. They always say perfect practice makes perfect

Experiment with different combinations-try the Zakk Wylde method of turning everything up to 10 and then what you don't want back down. Mat Schofield says that there is a cusp point on every pot(that is every dial)that you can feel, and if every pot is turned to its cusp point then the amp is in perfect balance. Now change what you want slightly, to get the best sound you can get for what you want to do out of the amp.

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Many thanks for that. I do appreciate it

For the dirtiest of the dirty, go with your bridge pickup, guitar tones set at 1, bass at 1, treble at 1, and gain at 10. I get crazy sounds with those settings.

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What position will that be from the floor up please ? many thanks.

the pickup selector switch is wired so that the position nearest the bridge is the bridge pickup and so on, depending on which guitar you have... if you got a new strat then the switch will have 5 positions... lets say position 1 is for the neck pickup and position 5 is for the bridge pickup...

position 2 would be the neck and the middle pickup on, position 3 would be just the middle pickup and position 4 would be the middle and bridge pickup on...

tone pots vary on guitars... on most strats either the middle or bridge pickup is wired "wide open" which means that it has no tone controll and is set at full... the other tone controlls will be for the other pickups... best thing to do is just play around... use one pickup at a time and see what the controlls do and change...

peace out!

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If you are into the more bluesy sound of clapton, I would go with a more bassy, treble rounded sound. Try your neck pickup (Switch all the way up to you), with the volume and tone to ten, and then the amp with gain at 5 (relatively low, just turn up the volume, with overdrive switch on), bass at 8, treble at 6. It should get you a scooped blues tone (John Mayerish..)

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I thought the positions on a strat were:
1. Bridge pickup
2. Bridge and Middle pickup
3. Middle pickup
4. middle and neck pickup
5. neck pickup

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Yep.

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lol i knew it was one or the other

thats y i said "lets say that"

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Hmmmm...

The Fender Frontman 10G is a nice little practice amp. It's just loud enough to crank it up and wail without the neighbors calling the cops.

As it was explained before, let's go over the knobs on your amp.

Gain - This is your amp's distortion channel. The more you turn it up, the more your amp will "rock out". Put it on "10" and you'll be in heavy metal territory jamming to Ozzy's "Crazy Train". Put it on "5" and you'll be in 70's classic rock territory with a nice overdriven tone, playing BTO's "Takin' Care of Business".

Volume - You already know how this works. It also works with the Gain knob, where you can have the Gain on "10" and the Volume on "3" and very quietly play some heavy metal tunes. Put the Gain on "10" and the Volume on "10" and you'll be in Jimi Hendrix territory with extreme feedback and serious volume!

{Basically put - you have to play with these two knobs and find the best rock tone, gain, and volume level that you like.}

Switch (square white button) - This activated the amp's drive channel. Push it in to play rock/metal. Leave it pressed out and the amp will be on its clean channel.

Treble - This is your brightness tone knob. Turning this up to "10" will make your amp sound like two cats fighting, or be so brittle and harsh, you could peel the paint off the walls!

Bass - This is your amps bass knob. This works with the treble knob to create a balanced tone. Too much bass, and your high tones won't come through as well. Too little bass, and your amps tones will almost be like what I said above for Treble.

{I would start with a setting like Bass: 6 Treble: 4 and go from there. Adjust them as you see fit.}

I have the Fender Frontman 65r amp and it is a great amp, but very very loud. Mine is 65 watts with a single 12" speaker. Yours is 10 watts with a single 8" or maybe a 6" speaker. I have to keep my volume knob on "2" because it's so loud.