Fender Hot Rod Series Blues Junior 15W 1x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp

Love the vintage Tweed look! I put a Celestion Vintage 30 speaker in this to beef it up, and now it just screams!

It doesn't have a Standby button, what may be a problem for an all tube amp, but sounds amazing and incredibly loud for 15 W. I love mine and don't have intention of buying another amp, even for concerts

It is what it is, right? I bought this for two reasons; it's 15 lbs lighter than my Laney, and the reverb. It's plenty loud at 15 watts Class A/B, and a nice compliment sound-wise, to my Class A Laney. The reverb ain't Super, Twin or Deluxe, but it goes in that direction. The stock Jensen is a jack-of-all-trades, and has mastered none of them. I will be switching to either an Eminence GA-SC64 or a WGS driver. At loud volumes the Jensen just pharts out and loses character. And since it starts out with little character, that's not good! By custom voiced, they mean versatile. I say pick a speaker that works great for this amp, and not to cover many styles of playing, which, IMO, they did, resulting in a drab sounding speaker. I switched the stock tubes to 2 Mullard 12AX7 in V1/V2, and a Sovtek 12AX7 into V3, and swapped the 2 GT EL84's for 2 matched JJ EL84's. Right now, I like what I am hearing. That may change with the speaker swap. I am also considering swapping both the PA transformer and the Output transformer. Cheap and easy plug and play swap, and supposedly makes a ton of difference tine-wise. It is a great looking little amp, and capable of adding an extension cab. Looking the landscape over, I think this amp is better priced at $499 and not $599.

Amazing amp, the Jensen speaker gives it a lot more warmth than the regular Blues Jr. It only loses a star for not having the choice of a reverb switch.

This is my sit around the house amp...

This is the all-in-all best package amp I have played. It might not have the boutique tonality of some of the highest priced amps, but for a working musician, this package doesn't get much better. On the low side, the Reverb tank wired sometimes come loose and are noisy. In a perfect world, this would have tube Reverb and onboard Trem, but at this point who is counting?

1st series green board modded by Bill M.

Great little amp. Craftmanship lacking a little for a traveling box, but it's light considering it's a tube amp.

Picked up a second hand Blues Junior having gigged with it last weekend on a whim. I'm not a fan of its bigger brothers, but wow am I happy with this little monster. For the time being, I don't see a need for any other amp.

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