Spudman
October 3rd, 2006, 02:14 PM
I went to one of my better music stores the other day and tried a Fender Princeton 650 Dynatouch amp.
This is a 1x12 65 watt into 8 ohms solid state amp with Fender's Dyna Touch circuitry. Looks like they sell for around $300 give or take.
I played a 2005 MIM Strat with maple fretboard and Texas Special pups.
It was nice and sparkly on the clean channel and seemed to have a nice growl on the dirty channel. I didn't turn it up really loud on the dirty channel but I think it would probably sound better than the Hot Rod Deluxe dirty channel no problem. The amps touch characteristics were really responsive and variable. By using the volume on the guitar I could change the character nicely yet still retain that Fender spanky clarity. I turned it up to 5 once and hit a couple of chords and it sure felt like a quality tube amp. It had that 'thing' going on. Hmmm.
The amp has some digital effects built in and I thought they sounded pretty good. Probably not a versatile as having a distinct effect pedal but still good enough to get a unique usable sound from. I liked the vibrato a lot. Reverb was good, not phony, flanger nice and clean, delay I wasn't that impressed with, but I didn't have any instructions or salesperson to help me figure out delay time or if it had a tap tempo function. Mostly I varied the effects with the two knobs provided for intensity and rate.
This is not a Heavy Metal amp but more of a home/club gigging amp.
It's functionally loud enough to work on stage yet able to get good sounds at a practice in the bedroom volume. It could do some metal tones, but for that I would recommend a pedal of some sort. It also had a convincing acoustic simulator as one of the effects. There is a built in tuner that mutes the guitar signal when in use as well.
My time with the amp was limited and not all encompassing. There may be some ugly warts hiding under the makeup. I don't know. Lifting the veil for me would be a full night of gigging. Then I'd know if she could hack it. Otherwise, it was fun to play with for a while.
The specs can be found at this link
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=2267400040
Try it yourself before you buy it.
This is a 1x12 65 watt into 8 ohms solid state amp with Fender's Dyna Touch circuitry. Looks like they sell for around $300 give or take.
I played a 2005 MIM Strat with maple fretboard and Texas Special pups.
It was nice and sparkly on the clean channel and seemed to have a nice growl on the dirty channel. I didn't turn it up really loud on the dirty channel but I think it would probably sound better than the Hot Rod Deluxe dirty channel no problem. The amps touch characteristics were really responsive and variable. By using the volume on the guitar I could change the character nicely yet still retain that Fender spanky clarity. I turned it up to 5 once and hit a couple of chords and it sure felt like a quality tube amp. It had that 'thing' going on. Hmmm.
The amp has some digital effects built in and I thought they sounded pretty good. Probably not a versatile as having a distinct effect pedal but still good enough to get a unique usable sound from. I liked the vibrato a lot. Reverb was good, not phony, flanger nice and clean, delay I wasn't that impressed with, but I didn't have any instructions or salesperson to help me figure out delay time or if it had a tap tempo function. Mostly I varied the effects with the two knobs provided for intensity and rate.
This is not a Heavy Metal amp but more of a home/club gigging amp.
It's functionally loud enough to work on stage yet able to get good sounds at a practice in the bedroom volume. It could do some metal tones, but for that I would recommend a pedal of some sort. It also had a convincing acoustic simulator as one of the effects. There is a built in tuner that mutes the guitar signal when in use as well.
My time with the amp was limited and not all encompassing. There may be some ugly warts hiding under the makeup. I don't know. Lifting the veil for me would be a full night of gigging. Then I'd know if she could hack it. Otherwise, it was fun to play with for a while.
The specs can be found at this link
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=2267400040
Try it yourself before you buy it.