Is the Fender Champion II 50 the Best Home Amp for Guitarists?
Exploring the new Fender Champion II 50 Watt Combo Amp to see if it is a good choice for home practice, and for playing live. This video compares channel switching from channel 1 to channel 2, shared EQ knobs between the channels, the channel 2 distortion channels, and the use of the effects models. The audio is captured with a Shure SM57 positioned just off the dust cap, and also a Shure KSM32 large condenser microphone at a distance. No post processing, no EQ, and no volume gain matching were applied.
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Originally posted by UCHrL3_N852nXWlQsmMIGrkw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0LC6iG0FvA
Is there a foot switch available for this model? I am overseas (Bangkok, Thailand) and purchased this amp. Love it, but the foot switch was not available and the store couldn’t order it. Thanks.
I bought a used one a while back. Didn't need it' already had a vox AC-10/ BS debut 50 and 65 Princeton reverb for practice.
Bought it because it was cheap' had it 2 days and it flubbed out just like the one our bass player had and I used one night at practice' sounded like crap and the built in effects are useless if you're serious about practicing. The AC-10 along with a couple of pedals is the best practice amp I've used so far. The debut 50 was a disappointment also.
The effects retaining their tempos independently can actually be a good thing. If you have different songs, with different effects on your set list, you wouldn’t have to reset the tempo every time.
Nah, certainly not the best.
Very noticeable white noise accompanying any emulation, and it's gated noise.
This thing is going back, and I really wanted to like it. If you're looking for a practice amp and care about how things sound, you might look elsewhere.
Yeccch…..keep your Blues Juniors guys????
How does it compare boss katana mk2?
Is this amp really able to handle a band practice with a loud drummer? I want the 50 cause it is light to carry around. But I want enough ass for gigs. How does it fare with a full band?
All that volume dropping and weirdness was the Champ adjusting itself to Texas, that's all. ????
can't you just use headphones if it's getting too loud? I know you lose some of the magic of amp speakers, but these are all modelled sounds anyway right?
Sounds just like the original or first version 40….incredible! ????????????????????????
These Champ amps really have a lot more features now. I have a Super Champ that I got back in the mid eighties and it has basically a higher gain switch (it has a foot switch or you can pull one of the knobs to do the same thing) and it has reverb. This thing has a LOT more going on. I will say I like the old school tubes and real reverb but I’m not sure they actually sound any better than these new DSP amps. Probably the biggest difference is that I doubt you will be able to fix this after a few years when they stop making the circuit boards. The old ones are just circuits so they can be repaired. But, for the cost not that big of a deal. And if you have to replace all four tubes on one of the old ones it’s over $100. So, awesome choice for a practice amp or for small gigs!
You also have to drive the speaker enough to get it to break up which is really hard to do it low volumes unless you have a smaller speaker or have a power soak ✌️Also I played one of these at guitar center I thought it sounded great
I paired my gibson les paul tribute woth this amp and its the perfect sound! These amps really have value
This sounds much more pleasant compared to usual suspects. Like Katana. Attack on that one made my head hurt. Don't know if it's Youtube compression or this actually mimics tube amp sag.
I have the champion 40 ,not the v2 and sound realy bad ,seems that v2 sounds way better