All user reviews for the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe

Amp 40w lamp very powerful ... (2x6L6 3x12AX7)
-Presence
-Reverb
-Master
-Middle
-Bass
-Treble
-Drive Select Switch
-More Drive
-Volume
-Bright Switch
-Standby Switch
-On / Off Switch
Two speaker outputs

USE

Configuration is very simple.
The sound is very good clean, but the distortion remains fender is aprciable.
The manual is clear.

SOUNDS

I made alternative rock and it's perfect!
I play a Les Paul in his dépote serious!
In terms of its clear, I have a sound Putôt bluesy, strong presence of medium and low distortion and a good crunch!
The crunch is a bit messy but it is corrected her with a good pedal.

NOTICE GLOBAL

I use it for an ego.
What I like the most is the clear sound, which I find very clean even the master pushed!
The value for money is spot on!
Yes I would do this choice, purchased from Cygnus, it has the particulartiré to have been built in the USA!

40 watt all-tube which dcoiffe !!!! 1hp 12 inch
2 inputs
1 entry footswtich
1 out Hp
1 effects loop.

USE

The config is very simple! it sounds live
the manual looks like a script 1000 BC. lol

SONORITS

The Alor is the big bed !! c The clear his fender. crunch are beautiful but not explosive.
it is a very good amp a phenomenal power is 40 watt all-tube but 40 Watt all-tube Fender's not kidding! I just not get the sound has more than 4 if exploz head and my little up until 12 Alor imagine full power!

NOTICE GLOBAL

Qualiter amp, compared qualiter average price.

Five good big lamps as capot..40w and basic rglages; do not search on these high-tech devices; but rather an excellent return of the beautiful vintage fender for a price abordable..le Mexican model is identical to the US model, same specifications and same components.

construction seems srieuse and robust.
Nothing to say but all the same weighs 22kg.
Sound with guitar at rest is a bit parasit ... not very quiet; it's roots ..

USE

The simplest configuration; frankly put the gold Satriani you can do everything on it.
It is very typ Fender me this is what I wanted. One could even say that lack of neutrality in that it colors the sound of many distortion pedals in faade .It was good to know ... because some will regret this can be appearance.

The knobs are effective one passes easily from some rich and fat sound a drier sound and grainy .. OV + is not great has its maximum; it has experienced more violent; Mtal lovers spend their chemin..mais dry oats ca for rock..pas of problem ..

SONORITS

it is appropriate at all and so it is a best seller; it's a bit of fender strat amp.
It is rather cute and looks like a kind of large mnager 50s device with clean lines.

Pure pleasure on the line, it's really a very good amp. Beautiful velvety for the Jazz. Wheat for rock..Reverb a little intrusive if pushed to del 4.




NOTICE GLOBAL

for 3 years with me, I do not think changing, and yet I had some good brands before; but for that price nothing to spit in the soup; it really is a fender a little "bell" in the clear, lovely .... what

In short ... His clear and mythical crunch ... but OV max a bit messy; no big deal we do not Lachte for it.

Excellent for a strat, a les paul; a guitar jazz ..
More than enough for repet group; funk for our group, we did not push the more than 4 by volume; even if the drummer beats more ..
Down regime; pageantry must play fine on the knob of very sensitive volume down a bit her lower trunk because it has seen its format.
The effects loop is very clean and dnature nothing.

Attention.Il no line out imitating the sound of a HP; it is better to prick it with a good shure sm57 facade for concerts and studio.

40w tube amp, two channels one clean a crunch / distortion and reverb fender very nice extra. A pedal to change the channel in the foot, traceable in jack. A look dad who made the legend of these amps. Manufacturing is serious.

UTILIZATION

the sound is clear on these amps but overall still good. The settings are standard: acute lower midrange presence and gain, so you do get what you want. The distortion is fine, whatever his detractors who can not adjust an amp!

SOUNDS

It can range from a beautiful clean the tough distortion through a great crunch. It is a machine that works well, there is the soft lamps, and has enough power to stand up to a deaf drummer.

OVERALL OPINION

I used 4 years, it is still weak, I tried a lot of amps, and for the price it should be a reference. I changed to a history of high mids too sharp.

Everything was already very well described ...

UTILIZATION

Very simple, except for the sensitivity of the volume potentiometer (not quite straight)

SOUNDS

With my Yamaha 812V (micro ducan), the sound is incredibly pure clean sound (this is what the fender!) Until a saturation very good for playing blues / rock, through a range to play full of styles and Solicitating the dire straits that I love ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months and frankly this is the best amp I had (marshall, vox, sunn ...) and I've tried for the style of music that I like (the clear , crunch, rock).
Paid 500 € used, the price / quality ratio is excellent.
Only small bémaol = the weight of the beast (more than 20Kg)!

If I had to do, I do it again without hesitation that choice.

See other opinions. Needless to repeat.

UTILIZATION

Easy to use. Style plug and play.

SOUNDS

Beautiful clear and deep sound: that's why we like it first. In contrast, the reverb is unbalanced: go slowly. Same for the button so unbalanced volume this amp is not made to play at home.
Side distortion must go slowly, it's Fender. Beyond the crunch it is better pedals that will put on good clear sound.

OVERALL OPINION

Reliable and popular that has proven for decades in all the scenes of the world amp.

The +

The Fender clean sound
So simple practice on stage
Reliable

The -

Reverb volume and unbalanced

40 w

UTILIZATION

that sounds serious!

SOUNDS

I play with a strat and a 56 gibson custom and in both cases I am completely satisfied

OVERALL OPINION

I own two Hot rot, and I must say that I have not found better than this little 40w sending wood. C then true that it has some defects, the volume knob that already has power 1 gives the impression of being thoroughly. Hence the problematic adjustment of the volume not obvious. Then there is the master, saturated sound that I don t like at all of the sudden I do not use and much prefer my TS10.La reverb yeah it's not bad but should not go beyond 2 power if everything is drowned. Aside from these few default, and we must find n I have nothing to add this amp is a joy when you know its handle!

two processing stages the sound of this amp is equipped with lights, everything else (reverb, effect loop, rectifier) ​​is driven by transistor
2 inputs (hi and low gain) knob to promote acute, clean and overdrive channel (or "more drive"), setting standard tone (bass, middle, shakes and presence) and common to the two "channels"
spring reverb and master (only drive / more drive channel)
effects loop and foot controller (for the selection of channels, not the reverb)
three lamps pre amp (ECC83) and two power tubes (6L6)
Eminence (Fender) 8 ohm
power: 40w

UTILIZATION

the major concern of this amp is the bad habit of placing a linear Fender knob for controlling the gains and volume, the result is that you still looking for the right level at the beginning of the race of your setting is very "touchy" too sensitive you are always too hard or not enough, but never at the right level ...
the (big) detail aside, do not rely too much on the effectiveness of tone controls, they are good to adapt the sound reproduction to the room in which you play but it is not used to "cut" a sound, you I have big pumps or low or medium "vowels" or sparkling treble, despite that and except for the metalheads I think it is a good EQ section (sorry, tone)
reverb is "poorly calibrated" and tends to drown out the sound, eat too much, use sparingly ...
And yet ... if you know how to use a tube amp (*), you get a very fast (very) good sound
(*) Active microphone? pedals? -> Low gain input, single coil pickups? -> No "bright", hambucker? -> Possibility of bright

SOUNDS

I play mostly with a Squier telecater custom, I have lots of other guitars but this one allows me to cover a wide range of sound without changing the stroke, I play music composed of loops and that's why I ' I need a guitar that gives me such a fan, I can easily play bass lines that sound "low", adding skins of clear agreements and then some intelligible good "solo"
I place a great effect section before amp (cry baby, EH micro Q-tron, MXR dime distortion, Line6 DL4 ...) and ME50 in the effects loop (EH + 2880)
So much for the context ...
this amp is well suited to what I do, it can be super clean with a dynamic and scale to fall on your ass while your sound pass, low round, deep, warm, well singing midrange and treble well neat, the drive / drive is a bit more difficult to control but once the mastery it's all good, the reverb ... uh ... how to say? ... buy a reverb pedal!
for the rest, if you have some experience you know that the sound is in the fingers, do not wait for your beloved guitar or amp to do for you ...

OVERALL OPINION

I bought this amp by chance there for four years, to help a friend who was in need of money, and sometimes really chance would have it
I have many other amps (see my gear section) and it is one where I play all the time, all those who come to play with me are in love, he saw to spend Fender (CBS, Japan , and Southwestern U.S.), of Gibson, Parker ... and every time he surprised at their owners what they heard from their stroke always seduced ...

The universal and perfect amp does not exist, if you check the forums you can read the complaints of many owners of this amp, but you also read all the possible solutions (changing lamps, change the HP, or modify such resistance this condo) for my part, I would change the component priority are HP (some screaming when you are in the axis) and the p * $% tin linear knob for gain, if this amp is a charm. ..
ah yes, I forgot, another drawback to this amp is that with such a gain entry, if you have a first lamp (the pre-EQ) that is a little microphonic, you will have want to cry, so be very careful as you place the lamp at this point, try several, to the wise ...

40W all-tube amp Fender.
1 speaker of the same brand, three 12AX7 preamp tubes and two 6L6.
3 channels: Normal, Drive and More Drive plus a bright button to make the sound more brilliant and typed "lamp".
Level knobs and others were left to right:
- 2 input jacks
- Volume (clean), Drive (drive channel gain and more), Treble, Bass, Middle, Master (which is incredibly misnomer since it is the drive channel volume), Reverb and Presence (setting the brightness of the sound).
- Input and output effects loop and finally the footswitch! (Phew ...)

Finally, an output for external speaker well hidden inside the box.
Provided a sign that despite the unorthodox arrangement regarding adjusting the knobs crunch but we made it.

UTILIZATION

It's pretty easy to take in hand, one branch is heated lamps we disable standby and made his settings!
Not really need the manual if you have ever been faced with an amp, especially a tube amp.
The sound generated is quite large and brilliant, as one might expect from a Fender.
However, the knobs go to 12, including two volumes which is totally useless because it gets too dirty and loud even clean above 7-8. Despite this, there was a clear and quite usable without the need to replant with a sound below this threshold.
In short, easy operation and ample power as we do not play at the Parc des Princes.

SOUNDS

Here we talk about the subject that is debatable.
I thought it would correspond to my style and this was the case until I turn the drive channel ... we will return.
The clean channel is really good, it can modulate many ways, with the 3-band EQ, presence of the knob, the knob reverb and bright. However, be careful not to shine too if you use a guitar with single coil pickups (strat or tele) because the sound is too fast and slamming it is truly unbearable.
I had heard great things about the reverb and I was extremely disappointed even bottom, it is an accessory to make the sound a bit further (and I stress the hair!). Reverb frankly overrated and useless even if the sound quality is undeniable came out.
Drive channel is the BIG black point of this amp. Drive by activating it disillusioned. A cold and messy to drive possible, even if you want the sound slightly cruncher you lose quality. Unusable!
I prefer not to talk about the More Drive is at the "famous" Marshall MG.
You'll understand that this is the level amp transistors!
One might think that just put the pedal to compensate for this loss, but no. The distos too hard are literally screaming amp and you soon realize his mistake.

To close the chapter of his HRD, do not bother to change the channel or hope to play a style of music too Hard it will not work. However you can always put a Tube Screamer overdrive kind of effects loop channel always clear: the result should be excellent.

But ... OCCAZ € 600 for something that I did not approximate point would have more seriously and I hope they raised the quality of the new version because € 800 nine "it" ... in short ...

OVERALL OPINION

To conclude, a well designed amp but way overpriced for the alleged qualities it offers. Clear sound to fall but the effect pedals that will sooner or later be added to the Fender Hot Rod will increase the overall price and ultimately fall back on as another model.

A sacred disappointment given the reputation of the brand and when I exchanged against a Vox AC15 better!

Fender has been the golden standard for guitar amplification for over 50 years. From the earliest RCA-inspired circuits to modern models like the Supersonic, Fender has been a prime player in the game every step of the way.

The Hot Rod Deluxe was introduced in 1995 as part of the Hot Rod series, which also included the Hot Rod Deville 4x10.

The Hot Rod Deluxe is a 1x12, 40 watt combo amplifier, powered by two 6L6GC's and voiced by three 12AX7A preamp valves. with a single channel and 3 switchable levels of gain.It has a preamp line out jack, as well as a power amp line out jack that allows it to use an extension speaker cabinet. There's also a footswitch jack for an included 2 button, 3 function footswitch.

UTILIZATION

The Hot Rod Deluxe is a master volume amp, allowing you to dial as much warmth into your clean tone or as much distortion into your overdrive as you want. A 3-band EQ helps further shape your tone, while a Presence control adds clean treble and a Reverb level controls the built-in spring reverb.

A rather interesting feature of the Hotrod Deluxe is its 3 stages of overdrive. Rather than having 3 separate channels crammed into one small combo chassis, Fender went the economical way and added an extra preamp tube to stack extra gain stages into the mix, essentially just adding more and more distortion to the bass tone. And this is where they strike out.

When demoing the Hot Rod Deluxe, one thing becomes quickly evident. The overdrive is pretty nasty. It's rattly, unfocused, and harsh, and I suspect the Jensen Special Design speaker that comes with the amp doesn't help matters.

The Clean tone is decent, however, and takes pedals rather well. And for this purpose the amp makes a solid grab-n-go or even a backline amp. But, I mean really, it's a Fender. They couldn't get away with having an amp with a bad clean tone. It's just sacrilege.

SOUNDS

The Clean Tone, depending on gain setting, can go from sparkly, spanky clean to slightly overdriven, tweedy goodness. The use of humbuckers drives the amp even farther, whereas single coils still allow the amp to breathe a bit by comparison.

Unfortunately, the clean tone, for most players, is the only usable tone in this amp. The Drive mode isn't terrible, but it isn't great either. It's a bit of a rattly omen of what's to come with the More Drive mode. More Drive pushes the amp into all out trainwreck (and not in the Ken Fischer sense) territory. The tones in this mode are harsh, muddy, piercing... it's just bad. It does a fine job of making your guitar sound like a $75 beater fresh out of the dumpster. Which is fine, if you're into that sort of thing. Not so much, if you're not.

EQ settings are decently responsive, though not so much in the overdrive modes. The amp has an underlying harshness no matter how its set, and I suspect the speaker choice has a large influence on that. Reverb is economical and mediocre in depth and texture.

OVERALL OPINION

The Hot Rod Deluxe serves best as one of those amps you buy for $300 on Craigslist, take home, do some mods to it, upgrade the speaker, and use it for a small gig amp where most of your non-clean tones will be coming from pedals. I don't consider it an intrinsically versatile amplifier.

The Hot Rod Deluxe III is said to have made considerable improvements on the overdrive modes, and I've yet to hear or play one, but I can only hope this is true. Still, the Hot Rod Deluxe has its uses, and it's not the worst amp out there, but I can think of several other models of Fender combo I would request as backline long before this one.