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3.5W Fender Champ Selfbuild

3.5W Fender Champ Selfbuild

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florian_tennstedt

florian_tennstedt

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about 5 years ago

Best at home amp

This is a selfbuild 3.5W Tube Amp based on the early fender champ circuit. It has an 8" Electroharmonix Musical Instrument Speaker and controls for Gain, Tone and Volume. You can switch to 2 slightly different bedroom distortion modes with much lower volumes compared to the clean channel. You can have very nice tube drive sound in that channel, too, and at fairly low volume thanks to the master volume. I love this amp!

Preferred Settings + Usage:

Gain 3, Tone 5 and Volume 7 when played with my pedals, for crunch sounds from the Amp it would be Gain 10, Tone 5 and volume 9.

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Singer Guitarist Composer

Genres:

Rock Blues garage punk blues

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