good amp not built to last

An amazing sounding amp, pristine cleans and amazing on board drive. I've had two of these and loved them to bits. However, both had serious faults that render the amp unplayable. the amp is not made of the best components and only lasted me year and a bit. I gigged with it nearly every other week and looked after it very well too. gutting that they just are not built to last

Good but lackin

A little low in the bass response but otherwise its got that sweet Fender glassy tone. The overdrive channel sucks and if you turn it on you instantly age 100 years and wither away and die. I don't know if mine just hates me but whenever I turn it off it switches to the overdrive channel automatically for like a second and just screeches in overdriven agony. It never doesn't happen and I'm really embarrassed

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very great amp

honestly out of all the amps ive used and owned (marshalls, peaveys, orange, boogie etc) this is by far my favorite amp. it has 3 channels, clean, drive, and more drive. it comes with a ab switch pedal. the clean channel is very clear yet can be a bit hard to turn it down for late night jams. what surprised me the most was how clear and brilliant the distortion channels are. fender is not a company praised by their drive channels but when you set the drive to 5 or 6 volume to 4 bass to 7 mids to 5 and treble to 4 you can easily compete with any super lead amp ever made for you metal guys :) the only problem ive found with this amp is that the treble is boosted so high that you almost have to turn it all the way down to get that super fat sound... which is true with most fenders

Good amp compared to the price.

To be a low rate amplifier, the Fender Frontman 212r stands out for its beautiful clean sound. Equipped with 2 speakers of 12 inch each you feel the 100W power. I higly recommend it to a begginer/intermedium guitar player who wants to have his first amp and doesn't have a huge wallet to spend his money on a 100% valve powered amplifier, i used it live and i can tell you that this amplifier do his job very well! I gave 3 stars because the overdrive isn't good as the clean (It doesn't respond very good when you want to clean up the distortion with the guitar volume knob), if was not for the extra features (Spring Reverb, Mid Contour button and More Drive) i would have given it one less star.

If you want to see an indepth review about the features do not forget to see the video link down here (It have subtitles on English)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocXDqmvh5ek

Endurance !!

This transistor amp, made in China with original Italian Fender speakers, has working hours double than average. It was supposed to be a cheap replica of Fender Twin Reverb, but design with two channels ( clean and distorted) and footswitch with option to boost both channels gives you 4 different levels of sound. Even, there's a 5th variety of sound as there's a switch for midworks on the distortion channel. It is loud enough to rehearse with Motorhead, you can carry it easily on the gig and you can play jazz on it as well as a death metal. Distortion level goes to brutal hi gain noise, while played on clean channel sounds very close to real deal Twin Reverb. And , yes, reverb is made more than good. This amp did a lot of things!!

This is a great amp !

So much bang for the buck. This is an amazing budget amp, great reverb, drive sound and it's loud!

A great and very loud amp.

This Chinese-made Fender has been my main stage workhorse amp for the past six years. Great features, extremely loud, and pretty great tones, for a non-tube amp. She has been fantastic, but only recently started making a steady crackling noise whenever a guitar cable is plugged in. I have electronics geek-friends checking her out now, but I guess I should have spent a few hundred more for a USA-made rig. But for $300, I got some good use out of her!!

Great clean tone

The clean tone on the Frontman 212R is beautiful, and highly compatible with my single-chain pedalboard. I've found that with the right amplifier settings, I've been able to avoid using a boost pedal or compressor, because the sound is clear and round. Had a few troubles here and there trying to get certain tones with the drive settings on the amp; the drive will bring up mids and gain by a lot if you want it to, but it's hard to keep the attack.

great!

so weird thing i have one of these amps but in a weird way. I have a fender FM212r.....but at one point of time someone had took out the speakers and put in the fender 2 Special Design 12" drivers and redid the chassis in red leather. nice leather haha

Varied Distortion, Not Pretentious but Reliable

Ideal for gigs in venues, I don't use the distortion but I wouldn't mind using it when I don't have my pedals nearby. It has two levels of distortion that make this a versatile amplifier but with a slight lack of presence or attack.

It reaches a very high volume, I use it at 2 and it already sounds like a cannon.