Fender Tone Master Twin Reverb Guitar Amplifier, Black, with 2-Year Warranty

I’ve always wanted a Twin, mostly because they are well-respected, but they have been so heavy and so loud (to get the best tone) that I have always shied away. I have not tried to make an A/B comparison between my new Fender and a real ’65 reissue. There are plenty of those reviews on the internet and most seem to be fairly presented. My modeler is programmed with both a Twin and a Marshall JCM 2000, in parallel. That is my holy grail. I’ve only had the Tone Master Twin for a week, but I’m close to getting the Fender part of that tone from the Tone Master; while getting just the Marshall part from my modeler. It’s not there yet, but it is close. It takes analog pedals well, and my several modelers.I play in both a rock ‘n roll church band and a 10 piece oldies band with horns. For the latter, all I need is an amp with lots of clean headroom, some overdrive and reverb. The Fender has all of that. Then, why did I even bother to buy this amp if all my needs were met with just a modeler (and an excellent powered speaker)? Just because I can, and it LOOKS COOL!!The built-in attenuator is a big plus. The great, over-driven, compressed sound of a tube Twin is only available at the high end of its volume control; and that is incredibly loud. With the attenuator, you can get that same sound at six different volumes, from two watts (tube equivalent) to eighty watts. All, from its 200 watt class D amplifier. By the way, one watt is a comfortable, but not quiet, volume in my practice room.All In all, I’m glad I bought it and you probably will be, too. It sounds good, it is light weight, and it looks very cool. It is every bit a Twin.

I always wanted a Twin Reverb, but those good old traditional tube versions are just too loud and too heavy to lug around.I have another Fender modeling amp, but seemed to spend more time messing around with all the various amp options than I did playing my guitars. Then Fender turns things upside down, and instead of modeling a bunch of different amps, they focused all their attention and digital signal processing magic on dialing into the tone and dynamics of a classic Twin Reverb. Now I just turn it on, get the sweet tone and dynamics I want, and spend more time playing my guitars than messing around with amp settings.The attenuator on the back panel solves the volume problem and the digital amp and neodymium speakers solve the weight problem. The XLR output is a nice addition for live sound or recording and adds to the flexibility of applications for this professional quality amp. And did I mention that it sounds great?I bought through Amazon because I wanted it now and Amazon delivered it quickly and in good condition.

I'm still pretty new to the guitar world. This is my second amp. The first was a little 10watt that came with the guitar. This one is absolutely awesome. It gets super loud. The sound is amazing. Im waiting on a distortion pedal to see how well that works. All reviews that I've seen say it does great with pedals, so...we will see.

This is a terrific powerful versatile amp! Wattage control makes it quiet enough for practice upstairs while the the wife is watching TV downstairs, and LOUD enough to clean fish when you want to crank it up. Clean tone at all volume settings. Works great with effects boxes.All digital, solid and reliable. Looks like they did back in the day, but really high tech under the hood.

This is a great single Amp Modeler, that accurately captures the sound of the tube model, but it seems odd that they were so focused on that sound, that they left out some features that could have been easily included, such as an effects loop. I suspect that soon, similar future models will include these features and that this model will become obsolete, undermining the investment.

I am Fender man and absolutely love my new guitar amp.

Incredible Amp, Horribly Ugly, trip hazard Power and Footswitch Cords/Cordage.SUMMARY so you don't have to read all my blathering observationsthat follow below, here is a quick summary;Great amp, tons of headroom, just note that if you use a processorand pedals for classic rock, blues etc, the tone settings of this amp willmake or break your experience, at first I thought this amp was aP O garbage, then I lowered the bass, upped the mid, lowered thetreble and put bright setting 'on' . Went from crap to incredible.There is no speaker out jack/provision, there should be.No effects loop, which is fine by me.####My 1 star rating (hoping that Fender will take note*)is solely do to the idiotic cord management treatmentin packaging,which gives us terrible looking, trip-hazard cordsthat will never look nice, nor straighten out and lay flat andneatly on stage.####Gen review;The first thing I did was plug in my strat tothe amp, direct, with no processor or pedals, I playeda surf tune, which sounded authentic to the style, andvery good, then I just 'noodled' around a bit,the tone was pretty amazing and my strat soundedlike a strat, I kept all settings at '5' , which is usuallya good starting point for an amp.Then accck!!!, plugged in pedals so I could check outsouthern rock/blues/texas/blues, as well as differentpedals for classic rock, from Van Halen to Duane Allman,Bad Co, Skynyrd, Aerosmith etc...Terrible sound of the gatefor these genres, acckk... all the magic sparkle that Iget with my overdrive pedals for that nice SRV, Skynardwith overdrive, and then the harder edged VH, etc stuffusing distortion, delay etc,was totally unacceptable and painful to my ears, flubby,scattered, and just plain painful to the ears. My thoughtswere that it does not take pedals well, at all.Then, before I put it back into the shipping box, I thoughtI'd try different tone settings on the amp itself, andwas blown away in a good way.I set treble mid and bass to approx 4,9,4 respectively,with Bright Switch on, and wow, everthing cleared up,and I got most of the magic sparkle for the south/texasstuff back, not all, but most of it.I could go on for hours about pedals I use and why,etc, but I'll spare you lol...Suffice to say, the headroom of this amp is huge,I eventually tried this amp at 7 or 8, and it is morethan you would need at stadium levels, though you'dbe micd' anyway, the volume levels available willshock you , not surprise you, but shock shock you, andnot painful to the ears if everything you plug into itwas already giving you good sounds.Some amps sound like crap once you start turningthem up, I put the attenuator full on, the highestsetting and controlled volume with the volume knobfor the 'true' testing. The attenuator at lower settingswith volume knob turned up, gives you 'breakup' butit is not pleasant nor desirable, best us pedals for anyoverdrive or distortion, though I'm sure that someoneout there may take a liking to the onboard attenuator,I can only see one good aspect of having it; volume-safetybuffer, you can put it on the lower or lowest settingand subsequently not have the amp volume knob upon high by accident, risking structural damage toyour home or occupants (yes, people can be 'structurally'damaged too).------------------------------------------------------------The Good;I have had the amp for a day, doing tons of A/B betweenthis (Fender Twin Reverb Tone Master) amp and myother amps.So far, I find the amp to be incredible for Classic Rockand other genres, though testing continues, the biggestheads up I can offer is that if you're using processorsand pedals, which you would definitely need for ClassicRock etc, amp tones at 5 are not going to work wellif you pedals/processor is set up similar to mine,I found the amp needed to have bass set down to 4 orless, mid knob up, and treble down some, and bright switchon, otherwise the sound is horribly flubby, and scattered,clarity totally gone.I wasn't sure what the issue as, I think the biggest solutionwas turning the bass knob down considerably, andmid knob up. I indicated settings elsewhere in this review.(((Do make note if you rig up an ext speaker,it appears that the load this amp wants is 4 ohms,you can see that they are 8 ohm speakers but wired inparallel, so the actual load design for the amp is4 ohms, not the 8 ohm designation that you see on thespeakers themselves. However most of what I readindicates that hooking up an 8 ohm load (speaker cab)to a 4 ohm amp is not a issue, or not a problem.))))The bad;The power and footswitch cords come to us in thatindustry-standard figure and 'wad' that makes thecords kinked and bent permanently, there is noexcuse for this kind of packaging other than industrythinks it looks professional in packaging. I includeda photo comparing what a neatly coiled up cord/s looklike when straightened out and what waded up fig8cords look like permanently. None of us want to beon stage with bad looking equipment and trip hazardcords that have bends all over them, shame on Fenderfor going along with the rest of the pack of mindlesspackaging designers that could care less how a cordlooks and performs, they just want them to look goodin the package. Rolled up cords (in a circle, even fairlytight circles) take up NO MORE room than the idioticallywaded up figure8 configuration pervasive throughoutindustry.*I will change my star rating, if Fender acknowledgesthe cord issue and addresses it accordingly.