How Versitile Is The Fender Blues Jr And A Fender Champ?

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Fender Blues jr: For recording. I know it gets that fenderish clean sound, but with some pedals (Which ones?) can I get it dirty?

Silver Face Champ (70's): same as above

looking for that clean, semi dirty clean, and dirty tone! can these amps achieve that?..which is more versitile?

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The Blues Jr will get very dirty and mean even without a pedal. But with a good pedal it will do what you want.
 
Bobalou said:
Fender Blues jr: For recording. I know it gets that fenderish clean sound, but with some pedals (Which ones?) can I get it dirty?

A good overdrive pedal. Barber Direct Drive, Boss SD-1 SuperOverdrive, Ibanez TS-9, Marshall Guv'ner, Fulltone FullDrive 2, ....and dozens of others.
 
A guitar equipped with decent humbuckers can squeeze some pretty good distortion out of a Blues jr.I have one,but I've never really ran anything rather than a compressor on the front end.
 
acidrock said:
A guitar equipped with decent humbuckers can squeeze some pretty good distortion out of a Blues jr.I have one,but I've never really ran anything rather than a compressor on the front end.


Thats about all I ever use 90% of the time when uising a pedal. MXR SuperComp with the setting almost maxed gives a very nice shimmering drive effect.
 
Those Fenders ARE versatile... I have gotten great recorded sounds out of both of them.

It won't get you a REAL Marshall or Boogie tone, but kinda close with the right settings and mic placement. It's own sound is really good theough..... "Squirrely..." :D
 
I've been reading on the web, that most folks seem to like the Fender Pro Jr. over the Blues Jr. any thoughts as too why?

I know they both are 15 watts of tube power and share the same components, but the Pro Jr. has a 10" speaker, a single tone control knob, and a smaller cabinet, whereas the Blues jr has the 12" speaker, reverb, high/mid/low knobs, bigger cab, and that "fat" switch?

could these differences make the smaller amp the better tone?
 
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