Champion 40 : Great amp for the price range

5 years ago

Using for practice home and with folk.

This amp has great clean sound, and very decent overdrive, vib and reverb effects.

Includes an aux-in so one can easily plug into a phone/pc and play with a backing track.

Clean channel is crisp enough, and clear - includes a treble and bass control, so there's flexibility in altering the tone to one's contempt. Can range from crisp clear, to fat and bluesy without much effort.

Works amazing when paired with something like BluesBreaker pedal.

Gets loud enough to cover a band in practice/small venue.

Definitely recommend if searching for great cleans and/or blues sound.

Pros:

- Amazing clean channel

- Good reverb, vibrato and overdrive(particularly metal and brit rock voice)

- 40W output - gets loud enough to cover practice band or small venue

- Aux in for backing track play - simple and just works

- Light enough to not bee too much of a burden

- Great range of tones

Cons:

- Outside of the effects mentioned in ^^, the rest are meh

- Aux-in volume control MUST be done from the playback device - amp has no control over that - BE WARNED - if you blast your phone full volume through aux, its deafening - lower volume first before plugging in. Amp vol knob will have NO effect on aux in.

- No possibility of connecting to PC and adding new effects

Image Fender Champion 40

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Fender
  • Released in 2013
  • Average price : $243
  • Weight : 8.6kg
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