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Location: big bear lake | Hi everyone been playing acoustic about 3 years finally got myself an electric. Been looking for the right preacher or viper for months now on ebay. Finally settled for this one!!!
my viper
Now I just need an amp. Just to practice in my house and maybe jam with my friend on his guitar also.
What do you think of the Fender 25R Frontman Series II Guitar Combo? the amp
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Nice guitar. I'm not an amp-junkie, but from what I know and hear the 25R frontman is a good one for the money. Congrats on the Viper. Dave |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Nice place to start! That's a two piece Maple I believe.
If you need an alternative pickguard let me know!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Bought my daughter a little Fender 25 watt practice amp awhile ago and it was a nice amp for the price. It didn't have much power or options if you wanted to do anything other than practice with it, however. There are plenty of used practice amps around cheap, probably because people move up to bigger amps and they keep coming out with more gizmos every year. |
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Location: big bear lake | Cool thanks for the replies guys I am even thinking about the Fender FM 25 DSP Frontman Combo Amp now since it has some fun sounding effects and is just 60 bucks more. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yet another freakin', Jeff! I'm even getting confused as to which jeff is which...
Enjoy your new guitar, yetanotherfreakin' Jeff. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | It's easy, YOU'RE the one in Big Bear Lake and YOU'RE the one in Virginia! See?
Welcome big bear, nice guitar. |
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Location: big bear lake | Ok now I got an amp. I looked around and seen this amp going for about 500 new, so I jumped on it. I also thought the name was sweet!!!
rocktron replitone |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Big Bear California? |
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Location: big bear lake | Yep Big Bear California. I actually graduated from Cal State San Bernardino. Small world |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | The fender 25 frontman is a good amp. I have the 15watt version. I wonder how your guitar sounds with the different pickup. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Got two members in SB, 1 in Yuca-pie and now 1 in BB. |
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Location: Orange County, California | And none of you guys want to come to "the beach" for an OFC get together?? |
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Location: big bear lake | Originally posted by OldLiverJones:
The fender 25 frontman is a good amp. I have the 15watt version. I wonder how your guitar sounds with the different pickup. I will let you guys know how it all works out. Maybe I will even record a lil bit with one my cameras nicer mic's so the rest of you can hear the diffrent pick-up on it.
Anyone ever used anything like that amp I just bought and have any opinions? |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I've played my viper through several Fender combos and practice amps. It sounds great but not as strong as my Les Pauls do. I never heard of your amp before. It 'Features ... Interface Stereo 24-bit Digital effects 16 Vintage and Modern Amplifier Replications'. Don't be surprised if the Amplifier replications are not close to what they are susposed to be replicating. That has been my experience with amps that made such claims. Good catch. Probably a better buy than the Fender Frontman. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Here's what one of the guys on Harmony Central said about the amp. Overall, for your use, it got favorable comments.
I will give my list of pros and cons.
PROS
1. amp is real quiet
2.Excellent line out sound one of the best I have heard
3.great clean and mid gain sounds except the Vox imitation
4.Nice effect loop doesn't add any noise with processors or pedals.
5. responds well to distortion pedals.
6. Great sounds at low volumes.
Cons
1. big volume changes between patches makes it hard to balance a high gain sound and clean.
2. Eq doesn't offer that much at all
3. line out would be great if you could run that and amp at the same time for Live playing
4. Higher gains could of been better.
5. Reverb is good but still needs some work.
6. Effects could have been better.
My Bottom line for 500$ this is not a bad amp. For practicing and recording,rehersals this is great. Well live playing I might pass unless I was in a situation for using line out.The deluxe, tweed and jtm45 are really great and have some good feel to them. |
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My first Ovation