Fender's new Cyber Twin amp

[dabluesman]

This new amp looks sweet for us home recorders. If you havent checked it out yet then go and see what all the fuss is about!

SPECIFICATIONS
205 Amplifier Design Presets:
85 Custom Shop (including FX; permanent)
35 Your Amp Collection (permanent)
85 Player's Lounge (rewritable)
* 2 Vacuum Groove Tubes
* 130 Watts of Stereo Output, (65 watts per channel)
* 2 Celestion Speakers
* Onboard Guitar Tuner

EFFECTS:
* 28 individual effects selections to choose from (each
with 4 or 5 adjustable parameters)
* 11 Reverb types (each with 4 adjustable parameters)
* 4 Tone Stacks (each with 2 Location parameters,
before or after the Distortion Circuitry)
* 3 Noise Gate level settings (with 1 adjustable depth
parameter)
* 4 Timbre types (for room acoustics or tone boosts)
* 4 Line/Speaker Polarity selections (all possible
combinations)
* 8 Bypass Reverb/Effects selections (all possible
combinations)
* 4 Quick Access Keys provide assignment and recall of
favorite Amp Design Presets
* 4 Button Footswitch
* 1 Expression Pedal Jack

MIDI EQUIPMENT (sequencer/computer)
* 1 Assignable Continuous Controller for remote control
of a dynamic parameter
* 4 System Exclusive functions for transferring Amp
Design Presets and system updates

OUTPUT INTERFACES:
* 1 Stereo Digital Line Output, RCA SPDIF jack for
connection to digital sound equipment
* 2 Stereo XLR Line Output, impedance balanced jacks,
with 2 mono/stereo settings
* 3 Effects Loop jacks, mono out, mono or stereo in, with
2 switchable pre-amp levels

and more @...

http://www.fender.com/cyber/

Harmony-Central NAMM Review of the Cyber Twin
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM01/Content/Fender/PR/Cyber-Twin.html

 

[Hard2Hear]

Fender is proclaiming it as the "Holy Grail" of guitar amlpifiers.
I love Fender amps but..................this reminds me of FT.

H2H

 

[dabluesman]

Ok, can we please keep this a "Fender" thread without dragging FT into it!?! Come on, if this amp can really do what Fender says it can then it is the "Holy (freaking) Grail" of guitar amplifiers! The Stereo Digital Line Output is gonna be really sweet for direct recording. Greg Koch seems to really like it and he know's his amps! Though I wonder how much blood and/or old gear I'll have to sell before I can afford one!?! (Damn)

 

[Tweedville]

I am a die hard real tube kinda guy,and I play through old Fender tweed amps..............so I approached the Cyber-Twin with the same scepticism as I did all these "modeling" amps.This thing is different! Two of my coworkers went to the NAMM show in California,and videoed Greg Koch playing through it at the Fender booth.Of course,it helps to have a smoker like Greg demoing this amp,but the tones were luscious!It won't be the same as cranking an authentic AC30 or 4-10 Bassman,but you would hard pressed to find anything closer....plus,you can use an ordinary volume pedal and assign it to be a wah,or an expression pedal for the many effects built in.

 

[Hard2Hear]

So how much are they asking for this thing? I'll bet it's more than the other modelers, maybe even than the custom shop amps. And I bet even the Fender guys will tell you that it's not a Dual Pro. I have a friend who actually has one of those monsters, and THAT is the holy grail of all amplifiers.

H2H

 

[dabluesman]

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musiciansfriend has it for $1189.99 available 02-15-2001. Which happens to be the same price as the new Fender® '65 Super Reverb Vintage Reissue Combo (due 02-19-2001)