Reviews for Fender Showman 1x15 200 Watt Combo Amp
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Fender is known for designing tone stacks that don't work the way the knobs are named. Meaning one has to understand how they designed the tone knobs to work rather than assume treble, middle and bass is all those knobs do. What more this feature laden model which may in fact exist ACTIVE EQ? Mad scientists at Fender got control of the budget and Paul Rivera was way out there in pattern stretching the envelope in blueprint back in the day trying to compete with Mesa Boogie.
But in the right easily it could audio fine.
The Master knob has a button/pull feature for an even brighter tone adding to more "flexibility" that borders on also many options for the novice.
To get a clean audio plough the Master all the way up and the Gain to like i or ii if you need louder at church, use the gain equally your basic volume knob. Leave the vivid switch on the Master off for now.
The Volume knob start off at one. The Gain knob is the preamp of the circuit so you'll need to remainder the Volume and Gain to see how your guitar reacts and figure out where distortion sets in by moving these two knobs.
Leave the graphic EQ off equally well until y'all get the hang of the treble, 2 mids and bass knobs.
On aqueduct 2, the 1st mid controls frequencies at 600hz cutting/boost and the second mid controls the 300hz frequency again cut/heave.
You can select on the input which channel you play through.
Basically you want to utilize volume earlier you go for tone shaping.
I'one thousand guessing that flat setting on the mids is 5 if the mids are a cutting/boost. So set up the mid knobs flat @ 5. Set up treble and bass knob to 0 to start and if y'all have the loop select on the bass knob "on" make sure information technology'south "off" to proceed things simple.
Play your guitar at the venue, start turning upward the book knob on the amp (assuming y'all already set the Main to x and the Gain to one or 2) and then equally y'all get the volume you desire, first to shape the tone. Motion the two mid knobs and see if you get a thicker/thinner tone and then add the treble so the bass. Do these moves sparingly at showtime. The mid knobs are cutting AND boost. Sometimes it'south improve to cutting than to heave.
Keep in listen that air density changes at a venue as the air heats up from a packed church and then the setting you get at the start of the music may change as people flock in which means you would have to adapt your amp throughout the set up.
Try and become a tone you can piece of work with first and and so just try increasing the volume, taking note if certain frequencies increase or become lost and so adjust to taste.
Again in the instance of the mids since those are also a cutting (attenuation) characteristic, you can take some of the lower mids 600hz and 300hz out so either add treble/bass and/or more volume. But do i mid knob at a fourth dimension. For some reason the 600/300hz frequency was chosen so how that circuit sounds in that amp with a fifteen inch speaker is only known by hands-on little.
Since y'all complained well-nigh the chords not sounding skillful, endeavour setting your amp to your chord playing instead of single notes.
It's a balancing human action. You lot will have to multi-task remembering your settings, what you hear of your guitar and then figuring which knob to touch the fly in a hurry at the gig.
If you get confused you might want to source a mod modeling amp that could evidence an easier punch-in for you rather than the older amp you lot are using now.
Or get to a bones Fender tube with the three knob tone stack, or perhaps a Peavey made for steel since you are used to solid state.
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If so, this is a rare amp as it was only made for a year or then.
The solid country Showman was Fender's answer to Mesa Boogie. Their, Fender'due south, top of the line solid state back then.
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