If you want that '50s sound, you need a tube amp. When I bought a Gretsch guitar a little over a year ago to see if there was a Rockabilly stylist inside me that wanted to come out, I bought a Fender Princeton amp to go with it. The amp wasn't cheap (I could have saved a few bucks if I had bought it through Amazon, but I was in the music store and in a hurry as well); nevertheless it was the amp that the guitar (a Chet Atkins Country Gentleman) required. Since then I have picked up a Fender Bass and a basic version of a high-end Yamaha piano, both of which begged for attachment to a punchier amp. I decided to get the Hot Rod DeVille 410, basically a big brother to the Princeton tube amp: Four 10 inch speakers instead of one, more watts, more controls, but still compact enough that one could carry it around if need be.
This is a wonderful amp. For in-house practice I can't even turn the volume more than halfway up without making my ears hurt. The dials allow some very fine sculpting of generated sounds, but if you don't want to let the inner sound engineer spend too much time on the dashboard, just zero the effects and play it straight with limited volume and basic equalization. The default sound is great. As always, a more powerful amp loafing gives you better output than a smaller amp screaming. That's not a complaint about the limits of my first amp, which I suspect I will always use with a single guitar attached. But it recognizes the no-stress output from this fine four-speaker cabinet.
A minor point, but the amp has a clever standby switch that will reduce power to the tubes and keep them slightly warm if you need to power down for a while. Standby protects your tubes from the damage potential inherent in the crash-and-resurrection profile of a complete off-and-on cycle. And when you do turn it off, it is a softer landing from standby than from glowing hot.
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- 15 Watts
- Jensen 10" P10R speaker
- Volume circuit modified for more gradual Breakup
- Tighter bass response when overdriven
- En lacquered tweed covering; vintage-style '50s grille Cloth; Leather handle
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- Available in brown and black polyester
- Height: 14.5" (36.83 cm)
- Width: 15.25" (38.73 cm)
- Depth: 8.75" (22.22 cm)
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Glorious tube sound! Classic Fender tone. (But LOUD!)
There is a good reason this amp has been in production for almost 20 years! It is an incredible amp! 60watts of huge sound, plenty of clean headroom. If you plan to use it in the house or apartment, you should be aware of the enormous sound this thing is capable of. The volume knob is very sensitive and will peel the paint from your walls and leave your ears bleeding at 3 to 4 on the knob. You may no longer be welcome in your home by edict of your family, neighbors or landlord.So how do you enjoy this sound on both the stage and your home (while preserving your marriage?). The answer is you need an attenuator. There are several well known, reputable makers of resistive speaker loads and dummy speaker motors (the 2 main ways of attenuating amps). Hot plate and Weber are among some of the most popular (Weber is fairly reasonablely priced and high quality). There are also several cheaper "volume knobs" available on eBay that have good reputations, such as Carl's Custom Guitars Speaker Soaker, for much less money that plug into the effects loop on the amp panel. Please note in your sizing that the 212 model uses 4 ohm speaker loads. You can also get away with attenuators that are rated for less power than the amp IF you don't have the amp on full blast (aka diming the amp). Recall that the wattage rating of 60 is probably based on the clean non driven signal therefore you probably have the amp pushing even more in the 2 drive channels, (that is really what driving does) and why Weber recommends getting a speaker attenuator with twice the wattage capacity of your amp if you use the amp this way.Comes with nice cover and footswitch to toggle between clean and 2 drive channels with all tube pre-amp and power stages. The reverb is high quality solid state spring unit. Build quality is good(heavy too!). Model is well known by guitar techs and easy to service. (Again it's been around for 20 years!) New black chasis is much easier to read than previous chrome models.5 stars, expect years on years of sweet sounding performance!
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One thing that pops out for customers who order serious items like this ' not exactly cheap' amplifier is: will yours be the one in a hundred shipped with box flaps partially opened due to dampness, an amp chassis screw sticking a half-inch out of the cabinet, and the bonus ......it just simply flat-out didn't work. The instruction booklet is unlike any I've ever seen ----- there's no section about Troubleshooting. I went to the Fender community website to study responses to questions about how to get guitar effects pedals to work. I found one suggestion to which I followed, and to my amazement, the usually 100% reliable and respected Fender amplifier fell as silent as a soft taco hitting a paper plate. But, I'm of the belief that these things happen for a reason, and as long as being able to ship it back for free continues, I'll try again. No hard feelings. It's a study for some, and the homework is never finished.
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