SteveKrell Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Morning Gentelman. I am new to the site and found that Buying a 550 and posting a few Original jazz style tunes to be fun . As I began to look around , I found this Amp section. My first responce was to the Deluxe Reverb mods question. I just cant help trying to help us all to find the Right amp to use for Jazz to Southern rock to Blueeyed Blues. I am so fond of the Fender Concert... Why? takes pedals, wieghs in at less than 50 lbs has power and presence, Outplays my Marshall, Can get parts, Yes . are they available , yes ... Are they underappreciated , Yes. just trying to help out a amp buyer looking for a wonderful Fender amp..Steve
Genericmusic Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 I agree. Nice amps. I let one go a couple years ago and wish I hadn't.
JeffB Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Im enjoying reacquainting myself with one Ive owned since 1987-89ish. So much so Im putting a pedal board together just for using with this amp. Im pretty excited about it. If Im honest Ive gone way over board already and still have some stuff to get to complete it.
FredZepp Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Sounds cool.... I believe that it's a 2 x 6L6 amp.... And the Fenders that I've used before all really liked pedals a lot. The amp I currently use most is a 2- 6L6 w 12" ,it fits what I like very well.
Arcticguitar Posted April 29, 2011 Posted April 29, 2011 Hey, I'm new here too. The 80s concert is a great amp. I have a 4x10 that I put into a 2x10 cab. Hard to go wrong with that amp.
JeffB Posted April 29, 2011 Posted April 29, 2011 Hey, I'm new here too. The 80s concert is a great amp. I have a 4x10 that I put into a 2x10 cab. Hard to go wrong with that amp. Hi and welcome. Are you running 410's and 212's at once? Thats got to be pretty awesome!!
Arcticguitar Posted April 30, 2011 Posted April 30, 2011 Hi and welcome. Are you running 410's and 212's at once? Thats got to be pretty awesome!! I run it 2x10 pretty much all the time. But my main amp is an Allen Accomplice jr. 1x10 combo. The Rivera is a great amp but it is way more power than I need so I use it as a back up and loan it out to friends or bandmates as needed. It is a very loud amp.
Hfan Posted May 1, 2011 Posted May 1, 2011 The 80's Champ is basicly a Riveria designed Fender tube amp? Are they officially discovered by the masses yet? i.e. can they be found cheap?
111518 Posted May 1, 2011 Posted May 1, 2011 The 80's Champ is basicly a Riveria designed Fender tube amp? Are they officially discovered by the masses yet? i.e. can they be found cheap? There are more knowledgeable amp guys here, but I've been reading up on these amps since I've been a Rivera fan and recently acquired a Concert. There is good basic info. on the Wiki entry for Fender Amps. There were two Rivera-era "champs," the Super Champ which shared the channel switching features of the rest of the Rivera-era line, and the Champ II, very short-lived, which did not. I've found in my digging around that opinion about all the Rivera-era amps seem to vary widely, but they definitely have some very strong fans and were the last Fullerton-made, nonPCB Fender amps. This suggests that they may eventually have collector's value, but at the moment the prices at least on the Concert seem to be all over the map. I paid less than $450.00 for mine a few weeks ago, after it had failed to sale locally for months at $600 and then $500, but I see Concerts listed on ebay from retailers at prices in the mid 900's and even more. I haven't really been looking at prices on Super Champs or Champ II's --my starting point these days is not the published price guides but a "completed-auction" search on ebay. The vintage gear market has a vested interest in promoting "collect-ability" and rising prices ... so, having worked in that world a little while, I take most of it with a grain of salt. A piece of gear is worth what you can find someone to pay you for it, and ebay --not that I love ebay-- has become the national clearinghouse for determining what people will actually pay.
JeffB Posted May 1, 2011 Posted May 1, 2011 The 80's Champ is basicly a Riveria designed Fender tube amp? Are they officially discovered by the masses yet? i.e. can they be found cheap? They have a cult following. The handwiring is a mess. Its not the most dynamic amp Ive played through. They are starting to get over hyped. They are good not great. They never break down. They sound consistent night after night. Im never selling mine. I only use the clean channel. Volume, treble, bass. Also use the reverb and fx loop. The fx loop is a bit noisy. Get one if you like a good platform for pedals and like consistency. Dont get one if you want to be blown away by an awesome breaking up cranked tone. Your ears will be bleeding by that stage.
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