![]() Today, we're looking at five such amp models that offered something different in their day and are deserving of a second look. Looking at Fender amps specifically, there are all sorts of models that were perhaps too far ahead of their time and remain mostly forgotten and relatively attainable on the used market. Yet for all of Fender's many successes and innovations, there remain plenty of products that simply never caught on with players. Fender's legacy has persevered for decades, and judging by its current lineup of guitars and amps, that won’t be changing anytime soon. Really loud but IMO doesn't have the charm of the clean channel that the Princeton Chorus has.Since the late '40s, Fender has launched many of the world's most revolutionary instruments and amplifiers, earning the California company a well–deserved reputation as a titan of the industry. The Princeton Chorus was ok but lacks some headroom. The other guys were using a Messa Boogie (6L6's) and a fender 6L6 amp (not sure what model). I have jammed with a couple of guitarists, bass and drums using my Princeton Chorus. I prefer to run pedals on the clean channel instead. The overdrive channel can sound ok if you get the gain, limiter, mid boost, presence dialled in right but it really only has that one 80's solid state overdrive voice to it. The sound is clear & defined with no flab. it sounds great with my tele or my Ibanez AR100 (mahogany/maple, set neck, humbuckers) it can't be beat with my ibanez AS100 (think ES335). The clean channel has a crisp but not too bright sound, mono + stereo effect loops, real nice reverb tank, bass, mid, treble and a great chorus with speed & depth. It's solid state and probably the sweetest sounding clean channel amp you'll ever hear. I've still got my Princeton Chorus red knob (the amp in my profile pic). The same amp On "Briefcase" and the Blues Brothers version of "Soul Man'." On Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" I used my Fender Super Reverb. ![]() I still have my Fender Harvard which I used on "Green Onions" and most of Otis's recordings. Most of the albums I overdub on at my studio are played through a Victoria. I play live now through a Fender "THE TWIN" red knob. It was a super amp but not my usual sound. It had been stored there for a few years so no way to find out when or where it went. We wanted to try it on an overdub while I was at Cherokee studios and the case was empty. ![]() We didn't discover that in time to track where it might have gone. That amp by the way was stolen or taken and not put back in it's road case. I don't think the show with the Mesa was recorded. Which is live with a few over dubs and re-mix. We performed 9 shows at the Universal Amphitheater of which they recorded 4 to assemble the tracks for the album. However, after one show with it Belushi requested I bring back my Fender Super Reverb which was the one recorded on the album and one I still have in a road case stored. ![]() 'I'm sure you saw a picture of the band with me playing through that amp. "Shock and disbelief when I got a reply yesterday! Here it is straight from Steve. Steve Cropper actually replied to a user on the Mesa Forum at: This is a recent an email response (mainly with regard to a Mesa amp Steve Cropper used briefly with the Blues Brothers). Mine is not so red knob these days as I swapped out the knobs for black ones. The Eminence designed speaker is very capable and projects well on stage. It's also worth mentioning that the clean channel is very pure and clean and has huge headroom and takes pedals pretty well. I've swapped it out sometimes with the DRRI just for the hell of it. The Gain channel is now lovely and is extremely flexible. He put JJs in there rewired the reverb and tweaked the caps or some other stuff to tame the lower mid hump and make the top end is so much sweeter. The Super 60 in my set-up was replaced with a DRRI but my amp tech (Greg from GuitarAid London) worked on the Super a couple of years ago. Then I snapped one up and used it in a pair alongside with my Marshall 50 stack. Each time I recorded there I used it for something. Not so many in the UK, but I tried the Super 60 in a studio once and the engineer there said it recorded really well so he kept it as a recording stock in that studio.
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