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Fender Champion 600
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:57 pm
by misc1600
What is everyone's experience with these?
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:39 am
by coldbrightsunlight
They do one sound but it's quite a nice sound. Quite cool breakup at low volumes, I bet if you pushed it with a boost of some kind it would sound awesome, the tone control isn't really that great and the 6" speaker is kinda crappy and boxy sounding. For the price it's a cool practice/recording amp, but only if you have other proper amps.
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:09 am
by misc1600
Well, it's been modded to have a Jensen MOD speaker, PreAmp tube upgraded to a JJ ECC83S and a Tung-Sol 6V6GT power tube.
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:16 am
by masked elwood
i gave mine away.

... it sounded boxy and weak for my style of playing.
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:15 am
by univalve
masked elwood wrote: it sounded boxy and weak
+1
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:26 am
by _r_
I really like mine, you do have to push them a bit to get them to break up but I like my cleans so that's fine with me. Obviously it's going to sound a bit boxy but there's an external speaker jack inside if that's a problem (although God forbid should you actually need to get at this jack to plug something in because it's about as accessible as the Queen's underwear drawer - I think they mounted the jack in a vice then built the rest of the amp around it). When I play electric in my duo it's a Godsend because lugging a 50-watter around seems a bit excessive...
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:22 am
by Caesar
I played one in the store, and I didn't like it. It felt too sterile. It never had that Fender clean punch that i expect from tube amps.
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:41 am
by RR Bigman
Great amp...you have to put it though an extension cab though. I run mine through an old bass cab, great for clean math rock noodling.
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:39 am
by Caesar
RR Bigman wrote:Great amp...you have to put it though an extension cab though. I run mine through an old bass cab, great for clean math rock noodling.
Is there a speaker out, or do you have to mod it?
Re: Fender Champion 600
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:42 am
by RR Bigman
It's in there, but as _r_ pointed out it's fairly well hidden.