Fender Super Sonic??

No idea, but if its being looked into: I'd prefer it's predecessor: the Bruce Zinky designed Fender Prosonic with the extra versatility of its switchable rectifier circuits: Tube A, AB or Solid State. LOUD sucker, I had to use it with an attenuator, and the shared tone stack meant choosing whether the clean or lead channel was going to be optimal: this narrowed channel switching choices for live use, though you could get around some of that with pedals. (not a problem with modeling, though). The Supersonic makes good on independent adjustment to both channels. Fantastic lead and crunch with its cascading gain (both Prosonic and Supersonic Lead) but I don't know how different or unique it may be from some of the early Mesa designs which are alleged to be similar. If it's unique enough: it may eventually show up: if not: other amps are close enough, so I'm not pining for one. (I actually sold my Prosonic to fund the AX8 - Do I miss the Prosonic? - sure, but the AX8 is great any time, anywhere at any volume, and the Prosonic needs to be cranked to reveal its riches - and I couldn't often do that.)

The Prosonic clean channel has a hint of Vox in the A mode which I find beautiful and is different from the usual Fender clean. (the Supersonic has a Silverface type clean circuit). Haven't tried the 6v6 version.
 
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The one thing that sticks out for me is the dual gain knobs. Early Mesa amps were based on Fender circuits, so I wouldn't be surprised if the gain channel is kind of based on the Mesa stuff. I might start with the Mark series amps.
 
Sold my Prosonic to fund my AX8. It was way to loud for what I needed. I feel like I’m getting everything I need from other Fenders and effects in the AX8 but it is always good to have more choices
 
I still own a Super Sonic 100 amp and while I dearly love this amp and will NEVER get rid of it, I see no reason to model the Vintage channel because it recreates the Showman and Bassman amps which are already covered in the Axe-Fx. I would however like to see the Burn channel added to the Axe-Fx because it not only sounds great, but it also can't be emulated by any other model currently in the Axe-Fx and because It has features I've never seen on any other amp.
 
I own and use a SS22. 2nd favourite all time amp for me. (VH100R is my favourite)j
I’m about to sell the SS22, so if Fractal modelled the burn channel I’d be super stoked!!
 
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