Fender Tone Master Pro....

[Nsurround]

Where do you see the 2x12?

Where do you see the 2x12?

Just looked again and did not see a 2x12 and must have gotten confused on seeing a TM twin reverb originally.

 

[mr_fender]

Good on Fender for rolling with the times. Their Tone Master amps are a great compromise for folks that want the simplicity of plugging into a traditional form factor amp and turning a few knobs yet still take advantage of the consistency, reliability, and weight savings of a digital based amp solution. The Reissue 4x10 Super Reverb is 65 lbs. The Tone Master version is 36 lbs and costs just over half as much too.

 

[Jmschroeder89]

I pulled the trigger on one. Been wanting something smaller to move around the house or when I stay in hotels on a trip. Love my Fractal stuff, but I like the simplicity for use without having to drag along my laptop to edit something quickly. Excited to give it a try tomorrow when it arrives.

 

[Karl Houseknecht]

You might note that FAS is stepping up with gapless switching, mentioning scene controllers as a way to achieve this.

This has been the case for years.

 

[∞Fractals]

Noise floor is reportedly awful. I’ve seen a clip or 2 demonstration- plus someone just got one and plugged it in is reporting the same same.

Can’t confirm as I don’t have one in my hands

Might be a bug w/ a work around … from another site:

 

[norpe]

My intention was to wait for some more reviews of the Tone Master FR-12, but a local store had one in stock so I got it today.

I will only use it for low volume playing in an apartment with my Axe-Fx III, and my initial impressions for that scenario are positive. The tone controls and cut control seems to work well. Most of my presets had way too much bass though, with the base control at noon on the FR-12. Need to do some more testing to see if lowering the bass in the presets or on the FR-12 sound better to me.

 

[Henry]

My intention was to wait for some more reviews of the Tone Master FR-12, but a local store had one in stock so I got it today.

I will only use it for low volume playing in an apartment with my Axe-Fx III, and my initial impressions for that scenario are positive. The tone controls and cut control seems to work well. Most of my presets had way too much bass though, with the base control at noon on the FR-12. Need to do some more testing to see if lowering the bass in the presets or on the FR-12 sound better to me.

Nice! I have an FR-12 on order from fender.com !

 

[200man]

couldn’t help myself…just ordered an fr-12 too from musicians friend.
15% off, 8% credit works for me

 

[State of Epicicity]

Not for presets.

Yeah, you can't have a gapless switch between presets, but you really can have tremendous gapless switching within a single preset. It would be great not to have to avoid amp channel changes for this, but I think for most live scenarios one of the available methods would work fine.

I mean, to me personally, the accuracy and quality of the modeling is the main thing. I can deal with a more involved process for a gapless switch easily. I used to set up gapless switching with plugin modelers before this, and the thing I could never get past was the wrong sound and feel of the models.

 

[My name is mud]

What’s certain is that I didn’t see it coming from Fender. otherwise, well... well... nothing really. This product doesn't do anything to me. It reminds me of a headrush, maybe a little better, but the touch screen looks average like the headrush at the beginning (I didn't follow up afterwards). I don't know if they're really going to have an audience. on the other hand it will be distributed in music stores so they will perhaps sell some anyway. But yeah no hype here.

 

[wcfieldskx]

The FR10 and 12s look promising. I bet those are popular. Pricing is very reasonable

 

[Jmschroeder89]

Might be a bug w/ a work around … from another site:

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What site is this on? Does Fender have a forum

 

[SASouth]

Judging by my past experience with Fender’s long term support of their other digital modeling devices (Cyber Twin, Mustang Amp v1 & v2, Fuse) I predict that this product will be quickly abandoned and will no longer receive long needed fixes and it’s corresponding software will totally disappear from their website with no mention that it ever existed. Even if this device is moderately successfully it will quickly be replaced with a new version that is totally incompatible with this original version requiring a new purchase and downloads.

 

[Jmschroeder89]

Judging by my past experience with Fender’s long term support of their other digital modeling devices (Cyber Twin, Mustang Amp v1 & v2, Fuse) I predict that this product will be quickly abandoned and will no longer receive long needed fixes and it’s corresponding software will totally disappear from their website with no mention that it ever existed. Even if this device is moderately successfully it will quickly be replaced with a new version that is totally incompatible with this original version requiring a new purchase and downloads.

So is Fender lying?

 

[levipeto]

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So is Fender lying?

Subscription is hell of a drug.

 

[SASouth]

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So is Fender lying?

Based on past experience, my guess is probably. They told us over a span of many months that an upgrade to Fender Fuse was coming soon. What actually happened is that they discontinued Fuse without ever delivering any update and then they proceeded to remove the software so that it could no longer be downloaded.

 

[notalemming]

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So is Fender lying?

The key word is plan. Plans don't always go as expected.

 

[SASouth]

Just saying their track record isn’t good.

 

[Jmschroeder89]

They’re promoting this way more so than Fuse. Giving it a flagship treatment almost. I think they realize modeling is the future and are getting on board.

 

[Dave Merrill]

Just saying their track record isn’t good.

As a former CyberTwin owner, this is 100% true, sadly.