Fender Amps: The First Fifty Years(Guitar). Includes detailed model features and specs, rare catalog reprints, classic advertisements, endorsee promo photos, and hundreds of close-up photos of these American beauties. Includes a 40-page full-color section (complete with a 2-page pullout group shot of over 60 amps!) and the choicest vintage catalog covers. Also includes sections on how amps work, basic amp maintenance, set-up tips, and detailed parts info necessary for dating and restoring Fender amps. |
Contents
Fender Company History | 16 |
SolidState Amps | 20 |
Fender Amp Lineage | 24 |
Deluxe 19451985 1994Present | 42 |
Princeton 19451985 | 48 |
Super 19471982 1988Present | 59 |
Champ 19481994 | 66 |
Twin 19521985 1987Present | 80 |
Tweed Series 1993Present | 137 |
FirstSeries SolidState 19661971 | 144 |
SecondSeries SolidState 19811987 | 150 |
Volume Pedal 19541984 | 156 |
19611962 | 162 |
Orchestration + 19681970 | 169 |
Miscellaneous Stomp Boxes 19861987 | 175 |
Amp Basics | 218 |
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aluminum trim amplifier back panel Bandmaster Bandmaster Reverb bass amps Bass Instrument black Tolex blackface Boost Bright switch Bronco brown Tolex cabinet cathode changed chassis circuitry combo Concert control panel Deluxe Reverb distortion Dual Professional Dual Showman early effects loop ELECTRIC INSTRUMENTS Electro-Voice Fender amps Fender Musical Instruments foot switch full-line catalog grille cloth logo maroon grille Master Volume narrow-panel Normal channel output phase inverter photoresistor piggyback players power amp preamp preamp tubes Presence control Princeton Reverb pull-knob rectifier Reissue released replaced resistor Reverb Unit Showman 15 Sidekick signal silverface solid-state amps sound sparkle grille standard studio style Super 60 Super Champ Super Reverb Super Twin tone controls Treble tremolo circuit Tremolux triode tube amps TV-front Twin Amp Twin Reverb twin triode Vibrasonic Vibrato Vibrato channel Vibro Champ Vibrolux Vibrolux Reverb Vibroverb Volume control watts wheat grille white Tolex wide-panel