Fender Super-Sonic 22 22W 1x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp Black

I owned this amp for several years now but only used it to fool around at low volume in my house. I finally had a chance try it the way it is meant be used. I love it so much I will keep it for infinite sustain and get a Deluxe Reverb for tremolo.

Love this amp! I can do gigs with this and a guitar. No need for an OD pedal. I did plug a delay pedal into the FX loop for a little extra mojo. My only criticism is the speaker. It's ok but not my cup of tea. Replaced it with a Celestion Hempback and WOW! Perfection. #sweepstakes

I consider this to be the best gigging (and home practice) amp I've ever used. The vintage channel is pure classic Fender and the burn channel gives you everything for blues and hard + progressive rock. Maybe someone else might want to add a pedal or two (delay?) but you certainly wouldn't have to. I've always thought the Fender 22 watt amps made a lot of sense for gigging. Nice to have that edge over 15 watts; if you ever need it. Now, I know I was right. There's a reason almost every other amp in the world wants to sound like a Fender --- though they try not to admit that.

I've had the amp now for a few days. The tone of the amp is getting better and better as the speaker breaks in. I've experienced no popping or hissing, or any problems and I think the quality issues with those amp are in the past. This amp is replacing a Peavey Classic 4-10. With the 12" speaker it cuts to my ear just nicer through the band mix. I'm not much into pedals, and this amp is wonderful for classic rock, blues and country. For my needs and taste the best Fender amp out there and most underrated.

I got this amp about a month ago. I use this for the occasional gig and jamming with a cover band. This amp covers a lot of ground for me, from clean rhythm and jazzy stuff to pretty hard overdriven rock. I played a gig over the weekend just plugged straight into the amp, and it sounded great. Using the amp's high gain channel, you aren't going to get a modern metal sound, but it gets plenty crunchy. Also, the two-stage gain is pretty cool; gain 1 on three and gain 2 on nine or ten, guitar on bridge, and you get some pretty sweet blues lead tones. Bring gain 1 up a little more (five or 6) and you get into a nice rock overdrive that cleans up. Put both gains on 10 and it chugs out nineties style grunge and hard rock really well. The clean channel is pretty good too. I haven't come to grips with the fat boost on the clean channel - it definitely brings up the volume and the bass and mids, but I haven't had the amp long so I'm sure I'll find a good use for that. I haven't run many pedals into it yet, but those I did sounded pretty good (muffpi nano and tubescreamer). The reverb is fine - I wouldn't call it super over-the-top lush, but it gives a pretty good reverb effect. Funny story - I was at a rehearsal and the amp quit working (I thought), I was all ready to take it back to the store, but it turns out the guitar cable was bad. I haven't had it long enough to know how durable it is, but most Fender stuff is pretty good. I haven't had any of the problems I read about online with popping sounds when changing channels. The foot switch is nice, has 4 buttons (burn on/off, fat on/off, reverb, and effects loop). I haven't taken advantage of the effects loop. The gain stage can be noisy when you have both gain stages cranked, especially with a single coil. But on stage it didn't matter - maybe a problem for recording. I think this is more of a gigging amp than a recording amp (at least for the high gain stuff if you have quiet parts, but you can edit that out anyway).

22 watts of 21st century power isn't the same thing as 22 watts from the 20th century. I can get thrown out of a lot of places by turning amp volume above 5. If you have foot switches and amp volume is set on two or three, try something else. Turn the volume up, let the tubes talk.