Thoughts on the Fender Excelsior?

[Bellyheart]

I played this thing and it is amazing. Perfect in my opinion people at GC were hating on it due to the simplicity but that's what I felt made it great.

[Despot]

I had a go on one of these a few weeks ago in one of the music stores in Dublin - I was pleasantly surprised by it to be honest. Reasonably good tone and a nice bit of grit when cranked up. It's retailing here for less than the Fender Pro Juniors, which are an amp that I have never got along with - I've had two pass through my hands and both were different, but both were noisy (background noise, hum). The excelsior sounds superior to my ear and at a cheaper price than the Pro. I briefly considered buying one (they're cheap enough over here to be considered an GAS/impulse purchase) but I'm happy enough with my DRRI for practice. If I didn't have that I'd have picked one up no problem.

[streethawk]

It comes across as an amp that would fit my jazzmaster perfectly, in that it's not got that obvious fender (start/tele) tone.

If it had a vibrato/trem to match the old vibrochamp I'd buy two.

[kalipigeon]

Aren't its two controls volume and tremolo?

[tubeswell]

Yup - with a switch for 'tone'

[streethawk]

Aren't its two controls volume and tremolo?

Yeah I read that people are modding the tone switch for a rotary knob too.

The 'vibrato' doesn't sound as good as the old vibrochamp though, I'm waiting for a silverface VC to be delivered. Can't wait!
Would probably have bought this otherwise.

[Gonkulator]

Just ordered one yesterday. Should be here by Friday. I'm rather excited about it.

[Bellyheart]

You should be it's great. I'm still confused as to how anyone could have any complaints about anything about this. It's a practice amp that is a 15" speaker. It's so good. It's great.

[brianjdc]

unplug the 15 plug in a 412 and it's a gigging amp, trust me

[Roverson]

I have been looking at these since they first announced them. Seems like a great simple amp.

[micaiah]

Seems like a great simple amp.

that makes you EQ with your pedals more to get the sound your really looking for rather then adjusting the amps *treble bass mid* then pedals around it this amp does have its limits in that but after plaything with this amp for a while then going back to your 3 banded EQ'ed amp will give you a better understanding of just what the 3 band eq does with your pedals to shape it more precisely

[Gonkulator]

Mine arrived on Friday.

I must say what a great amp it is, especially for the price. The only thing I did was take off the badge on the front, I thought it detracted from the look and was cheesy.

[micaiah]

Could you put a 3 band EQ On it???

[Gonkulator]

Could you put a 3 band EQ On it???

You'd be better off buying another amp at that point.

[Mobius1]

I just bought one yesterday. What an awesome amp for the price, get one while you can!