• Awesome Clean! Warm warm Overdrive!

  
  As reviewed by Roadkill Mike on 9/11/2006

  Have had this amp now for three weeks. Traded a Hotrod Deville for a Marshall half stack and have returned to Fender! Man does this amp have the tone! I love the clean channel, and the overdrive, while not as intense as the HotRod, is very retro and warm. Had to get used to that. Used a TS9 through the clean channel to up the ante and now have the best of all worlds. Only wish that instead of the reverb on the two button switch, they had put the brite switch there in stead. That's the reason for the 4.5 on the features. The power is rediculous too. Even though rated at 60 watts, there's something about 60watts of TUBE POWER! I haven't even aproached 3 at any of the three gigs I've played with it, even outdoors! Awesome amp!

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• Nice Warm Tone!!!!!

  
  As reviewed by T-Bone333 on 1/4/2008

  This amp is one of a kind. It gives you the sound that only tube amps can give and make you appreciate the invention of the vacuum tube. I play a lot of SRV and when I heard the clean channel of this amp I new it was the one that I was looking for. Sure you can buy the re-issues of the Viborverbs and Double, Twin, and Super Reverbs but why when this amp can give all of that tone plus some for a lower price. Why is it a lower price when it sounds like that? I'll tell you... because it doesn't have the acclaimed use of recording artists through the past 50 years, thats why. Thats why they can slap those hefty sums of money on those re-issues of classic amps, because people buy them thinking they'll sound like Johnny Winter or Jimmy Vaughan who use them. The Blues Deville is all anyone could need in a tube amp. I have owned amps that have wattages of 150 and as God as my witness I'll say that the 60 watts this thing pushes out is 70x louder. The only problem I have with it is a jingling in one of the pre-amp tubes which is a situation remedied with the changing of that one defective tube. I play it with the drive channel and I also use my own effects throgh it, both work amazingly well, it even supports heavy metal distortion. Hint: It sounds awesome w/ the clean and a TS-808 or Boss Blues Driver driving it. Concluding this is just the cr?me de la cr?am of tube amps, it holds right next to the greats and can be used on stage in a club, hall, large ampitheater, or satdium. People say it can't get loud enough for large venues, but with todays modern microphone technology, just mic up and your good to go, thats what Clapton does. And on the plus side of micing up amps, you can mic it so that you achieve stereo sound from this amp, which would sound great. Check out this amp and buy it if you like what you hear. Peace!

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• 1995

  
  As reviewed by P A on 2/18/2010

  Ok..So I write "1995". Why? Cause that?s when I got my first edition Blues DeVille 410. I got it a bit by accident. I was looking for a combo after years of traveling with full stack HiWatt, went into my local shop in Stockholm, and found my amp. It is also a limited edition blond Toolex (not tweed) covered one with ox blood coloured front. (According to Fender, a very limited special series. The same inside but different cosmetics). Anyway..I?ve used this for hundereds of gigs since I bought it, and also four album recording sessions, and it is simply great. Sometimes I wish I could get the same great sound at low volumes cause it drives some sound engineers crazy with it meaty powerful and edgy sound, together with my Telecaster equipped w Custom Shop Texas Special,so I am always on the edge of beeing too loud. But that is also my "signature"..Loud and proud..HaHa. A few times I have let other players use it at festivals. Even different metal bands, and no one ever complained about the sound for any music style or with any type of guitar. Quality has been fantastic, too. I just had it looked over first time since I bought it and all service needed was a soldering that needed to be redone. Probably cause amp has been banged around a bit on touring. Great amp. Great sound. Great purchase. Love it. Now I wait for a 40-45 watt version from smaller venues. ;o)

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