Upgrade Your Good Little Amp to GREAT (Pro Junior, Super Champ XD/X2, Blues Junior, etc.)

Super Champ X2 - read user manual online or download in PDF format. Pages in total: 24. The Fender Super Champ X2 is a low-watt digital-modeling amplifier for guitars. It combines a tube preamp with a power amp section and produces digital effects for a blend of analog and digital technologies. This 15-watt model from Fender combines a 10-inch speaker, with sixteen selectable voicings, and fifteen digital effects. SUPER CHAMP X2 COMBO/HEAD™ (This is the model name for warranty claims) ROUT signals are the input to the differential amp which acts as a three pole active low pass filter for µDSP PCB de-emphasis. The output of U3-A is applied to a buffer amp U1-A which drives op-amp U1-B which The µDSP PCB is located in the back of the chassis. Fender® Guitar Amplifier Owner's Manuals (Current) This article contains a list of all Fender® Guitar Amplifier owner's manuals currently available. Note: If you have a copy of an old Fender Guitar Amplifier owner's manual not shown in this archive, we'd love to have a copy to post here.

You may have noticed that over the last decade or so Fender has releasedsome cool little tube amp designs, like the ever popular straight-up tube amps theBlues Junior and the Pro Junior as well as the tube hybrid Super Champ XD andX2. All of these amps have a clubfriendly 15-20 watts through either a pair of EL84’s (The Blues and Pro Jr.) or6V6’s (the Super Champs). This is theexquisite power section of the famous AC-15 or Deluxe Reverb … a VERY goodplatform on which to build a club-sized tube amp, and on their own these littleamps sound quite good, but to heck with good … we want GREAT, right?

So, what keeps these amps from sounding truly great?

Is it their PC board construction, pre-ampstage, or poor component selection? No;it’s the cabinets and speakers. All ofthese otherwise excellent combos suffer from the same malady: they have cheapspeakers crammed into cheap, too-small cabinets. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a recipe formediocracy at best. The good news isthat there IS a fix! Let’s talk aboutthat.

Every one of these is a GREAT sounding design, but it’s like having a greatengine in a Yugo(click on the word if you don’t know what a Yugois). The tiny cabinets Fender cramsthese things into are made of particle board so heavy that you would swear it’s partlead; there is absolutely no room for the speaker to breathe, and no cabinetresonance at all. The end result: a boxthat sounds … well … boxy! And so, Iwill present you with two great alternatives that I personally am intimatelyfamiliar with; both of these options will take your little amp from “meh” to “YEA”!

First, I present the “Pro Senior”:

I owned a Pro Junior for a little while … and “meh” was a perfect way todescribe it, I loved that cute LITTLE cabinet, and even made a 3/8” lightweightbaffle and put a 12” speaker in it … but the fact is, that dense little cabinetjust physically can’t sound great. Butwait! Enter the 2x10” “Pro Senior”; thisamp is owned by my buddy and HEAVY gigging player BradSample, and it’s been on hundreds of stages of all sizes all over thecountry. The chassis is a plain oldun-modified Pro Junior, but the cabinet is a healthy sized 2x10 made by JD Newell from Grade A knot-Free pine andhas a lightweight floating baffle for 2 10” speakers. Brad used the stock very bright Fenderspeaker and added the VERY bottom-heavy hemp-cone Eminence Lil Buddy, and theresult is a GREAT sounding simple volume & Tone tube amp that can easilykeep up with a heavy hitting drummer! Awesome, right? (BTW: a WGS G10C and an ET10 would be the ULTIMATEspeaker combo in this cabinet).

Now, I present the truly “SUPER” Super Champ XD:

As you all might remember, I LOVE my little Vibro-Champ XD forafter-the-family-goes-to-bed living room playing. So, I started looking into its big brother,the Super Champ XD as a club-gig amp. Problem was, they just didn’t sound that great … too boxy … plus, notnearly enough clean volume to keep up with a live drummer. So, when I spotted this ultra-cool SuperChamp XD in a high-quality tweed covered 1x12 made by TheMusician’s Hardware Store … I just HAD to own it! As you might expect, I did an exhaustive bunchof speaker tests, and Ultimately chose a ReaperHP as the flat-out winner for this amp, it retains all the Fender sparkleand chime, plus adds a bunch of tight, solid bottom (I like my bottom tight andsolid) … and it’s efficiency coupled with the quality lightweight and resonantcabinet means that this lil gal can EASILY keep up with a slammin’ livedrummer. Oh, and best of all for thoseof us who care about our backs, because the new cabinet is so much lighter thanthe original particle board cab, the final amp is only 2-pounds heavier than astock Super Champ XD … even with the heavy-magnet Reaper. Yea BABY!

Now, if ya wanta go whole-hog, contact my buddy Jimi Lundin and have him whip you up a one-of-a-kind cab for your lil gal. Jim is quite an artist and makes my cabs.

So, maybe you have some OTHER tiny tube amp that suffers from the same comboof a cheap speaker inside a too-small box. Fear not! Folks like Jimi, JD Newell and TheMusician’s Hardware Store can make a superior quality cabinet for most anyamp out there … oh, and of course WGS will always provide the best speaker atan unbelievable price. Feel better? Yep, I thought so :-)

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