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Wonderful little amp
I don't usually write reveiws...for anything. So it shows just how much I love this little amp (Fender Champion 600 5W 1x6 Combo Amp). I was looking for a good practice amp, so I went to guitarcenter. I grabbed a Les Paul, plugged in, and man does it sing. The clean tone is very glassy and thick. Great for Jazz. Crank it up, and you get a beutiful bluesy crunch. The simplistic design, the leather exterior, and retro look sealed the deal for me. For 200$ you're getting a whole lotta amp. Though it's only 5 watts It's actually quite loud. I think it would be unreasonable to gig with it, but I record with the thing alot. It's well suited for everything-except maybe metal. I actually play in a Hardcore band, so I use a pedal and it sounds wonderful.
Reviewed by NotepadSucks on 6/4/2007 who plays Hardcore, Punk Alternative.
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The Champ is the Amp!
When I saw this amp, I thought what can 5 watts and a 6 inch speaker do? I am impressed! The sound this amp produces is awesome! Just buy a Holy Grail Reverb Pedal to use with the amp and you will be ready to go.
Reviewed by JNorum on 8/6/2007 who plays Rock, Country.
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Special Use Amp
OK, I've been using this for about 3 weeks now, mostly with a Gibson Les Paul. I also own a Fender Princeton Recording amp so I'm hooked on that all-tube overdrive sound. This little amp is only 5 watts with "low" and "high" gain inputs. It has a wonderful tone in either mode: instant full-on cranked tube amp sound. The issue for some is that you can really only use it at a low volume: assuming your guitar volume knobs at 10- you can only do about 6 on the amp volume before it gets muddy. It's perfect for using in an apartment bedroom, you won't need any pedals unless you favor metal. Price, tone and quality are top-notch, just don't expect too much in the volume department.
Reviewed by vaillantk on 5/11/2007 who plays Intense Rock and Blues.
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Cool Lil' Combo
I picked one of these up a week and a half ago and I am impressed with the tone of this little beauty. With a Strat, you get an amazing amount of bass for just a 6" speaker. Cranked, it sounds like the tone in ZZ Topp's "Blue Jean Blues". It is not a loud amp. But it makes up for it in crisp clear tone. Put a reverb or delay in front of it and it's like a trip to the fifties.Les Paul owners will have to back off on the guitar volume to avoid too much mud.Strat players who love blues will dig this amp.
Reviewed by Bluzman54 on 5/22/2007 who plays Blues, Classic Rock.
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Sweet little amp
I bought this amp the day after I bought the Crate V8 Palmino. I wanted a small tube amp after selling my big tube combo. This little amp has the sweetest tone if you want a clean to slightly overdriven sound. I think it really lets the tone of your guitar shine through because there is no tone circuit, just pure, sweet, glistening sound.
I am playing a Schecter Blackjack with Seymour Duncans on it and running a Digitech RP250 through it.
In short, while the Crate screams, this little honey sings. This amp is staying with me, the Crate is not.
Reviewed by Fred on 6/19/2007 who plays blues rock.
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toneful little amp
I had a chance to mess around on this for a little bit at Guitar Center today and I have to say I was impressed. The build quality is definitely solid and harkens back to that vintage vibe. The leather handle makes it a little more boutique. I liked the idea of putting high and low input jacks on there, with the low I could crank the amp to achieve some slight fuzz without getting hassled by the GC tech guys. It also had a great suede grille clothe as opposed to other materials, but it def. didn't hinder the tone. Here's how I know it's good: I plugged in a new Squier Bullet because I was getting nostalgic of owning a similar Squier as my first real electric. The thing sang like the best of any Strats and I'm being serious, sure the frets felt a little raw, but the guitar actually sounded purely like any other Strat, especially in the in-between settings. So out came "Little Wing", "Yellow Ledbetter" and "Sultans of Swing". The amp was excellent and like other users wrote, it allows you to really use your guitar as the EQ. This may be why the Squier sounded better than it is. Also, it had a hard tail bridge and I think that really kept it's tune and tone much better than those crap tremolos that are usually on them. Very cool little amp, if I had the "extra" money, I'd buy it.
Reviewed by SkyBlueStrat on 6/1/2007 who plays Alt rock/indie/reggae/classic.
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CHANGE THE TUBES!!
This is a beautiful amp IF IF IF IF you upgrade the tubes. I've had two of these with the same problem. Both had an audible sizzle at all volumes and a frequent "pffffft, pfffffft" sound." I now have an American tube in the pre-amp and a Russian 6V6 power tube and the tone is gorgeous. I give this amp a 5-plus if you swap tubes. With the stock tubes it was a constant annoyance and disappointment. Props to FENDER on their customer service. They were very attentive when I contacted them.
Reviewed by Blue on 10/13/2009 who plays Blues.
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Sounds Big
I have found this little amp to have a true warm tube sound found only the older fender amps. Lots of small amps have a noisy small amp sound but this one even with the 6" speaker sounds great. For the best sound, I use the external speaker out and power an old Dual Showman cabinet. It is amazing what 5 watts can sound like. With a bit of front end reverb, it sounds a lot like a bigger older Fender tube amp.
In a larger place it will need to be miked but will still sound great.
Reviewed by Tony Baggett on 8/8/2009 who plays Country, Folk, Some Rock.
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Tiny Tone Machine
I have an OR80 Orange with 4x12 cab. "Tone Monster" I can't play it at home, but with this little dude I can play all day. The Champ with 6" speaker can be cranked up and played with lite drums. It does start to break up when cranked and looses it's low end some. Thanks to the speaker jack you can Plug into a 4x12 or another cabinet. Runs peadals thru it like a big amp. I pluged in my zvex "Box of Rock" and it didn't blow you can hear this pedal on you tube shoot outs Thanks Zack! With the M-169 Carbon copy you get this serious vintage sound. The Champion 600 with it's retro look and sound is the perfect amp for pratice. The speaker cover is the only fake thing on it..I might replace that with chicken wire. Sure you can kick in an extra $50 bucks and get more power with built in effects if you like The "big fat fuzz sound". The Champ is clean and lean just add your favorite pedal and have at it! Test drive one today at you local Guitar Center.
Reviewed by Jim Shutt on 8/5/2009 who plays Classic Rock, Blues.
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Fantastic rich warm tone, but defective batch
I love the sound of this little amp; warm, sparkly Fender clean, easily-overdriven at modest volume and full of fat rich harmonics. Unfortunately I believe Fender's Chinese manufacturer has shipped a bad batch of these things recently. The symptoms are this: let the amp warm up, volume up, between 5-15 minutes (varies with the amp). Then plug in a guitar and play some low notes. If the amp has the problem, you'll here an unpleasant static crackling along with the notes (not distortion, not farty/blatty speaker sounds... electrical crackling). I got and returned 2 of these from two different Guitar Center stores in Colorado. Both exhibited the same problem. I tried a used Gretsch G5222(same amp and design, different brand) and it did NOT exhibit the problem. I went to a 3rd store (not Guitar Center). They carried both the Fender and the Gretsch. I warmed up both amps. After a few minutes the Fender was crackling during low notes, the Gretsch was not. So I believe Fender has experienced a bad run from the factory. I hope somebody from Fender will investigate this, because the Champion 600 can be a terrific sounding amp... it would be a shame to see them lose this amp's good reputation over a batch of bad ones.
Thank goodness for Guitar Center's 30-day return policy. I needed it on this one...
Reviewed by DTSlaus on 8/2/2009
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