Frodebro
Power User
Fender seems to be doing a lot of goofy stuff these days, bless their hearts.
A few hundred more than the "handwired" blackface deluxe. You won't find Bartel at Sweetwater, but they're out there. Or I should say in here
Fender probably only sells a few of them and then prefers to sell them to rich "collectors" in order to make some money with it. The modelers leave their mark. That's the future for non asia tube amps. The same with the guitars.
Companies want infinite growth in a finite space.
Very well done but over $5000 ....... if you love it might be worth it. Looks as if it would last a lifetime.Depends who is doing the wiring. Fender, highly likely. This one - not so much
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The amps last too long, in contrast to e.g. smartphones or simple modelers. The "problem" is that young people will start with modelers even more and when they have more money, a tube amp will hardly inspire them anymore (too loud, inflexible, etc. for the price). Tube amps have no change to survive in my opinion. They will end like dinosaurs, tube amps are dinosaurs
Large, loud but wonderfulThe amps last too long, in contrast to e.g. smartphones or simple modelers. The "problem" is that young people will start with modelers even more and when they have more money, a tube amp will hardly inspire them anymore (too loud, inflexible, etc. for the price). Tube amps have no change to survive in my opinion. They will end like dinosaurs, tube amps are dinosaurs
I dont really care if tube amps survive, mostly because music is one of the first activities humans did and wont be going anywhere. For all the beginners with modellers theres player parents “only a tube amp!” etc. Until no one can afford either, there will be both.The amps last too long, in contrast to e.g. smartphones or simple modelers. The "problem" is that young people will start with modelers even more and when they have more money, a tube amp will hardly inspire them anymore (too loud, inflexible, etc. for the price). Tube amps have no change to survive in my opinion. They will end like dinosaurs, tube amps are dinosaurs
So long as the panel is silver, they can be affordable. Change to black and laugh at the price though.
When the silver version came out it was despised in my circle, really different. That was the first post-CBS one, wasn't it?
I laugh at $3000 + for a new hand wired Fender. It’s not even made as well as the old ones. Bean counters are gonna do their thing.
My Sugarland 1-12 combo was closer to 3.5K. Which is about the same as the Fender, and not that much more than an FM9 and a good FRFR. Totally different tools but the same end goal - making music. I'm lucky to have both as they serve a different set of use cases.
I’m not sure when post-CBS starts, though it seems like a fact I would have picked up.
A DR is anything but "a loud tube amp." It's a pretty low-volume tube amp as gigging amps go.
CBS bought Fender at the beginning of '65, but it took a few years for changes to happen. Silver faces started in '67 (as did bigger Strat headstocks). A lot of stuff in those days was a hodgepodge of parts, often amps had components from different years, just depending on what they had on hand.
I once owned a 64 and a 1970 DR and preferred the 70. Crazy…
