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Vintage Fender Super Champ Tube Guitar Amplifier

Estimated price for orientation: 825 $

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Brand: Fender Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Amplifier Type: Tube


Here's my vintage Rivera era Super Champ. It's a tube amp and works great and rips. It has normal wear and tear for it's age. I think the tubes are still original. The reverb cuts out sometimes so that tube may be starting to go, but I'll have a NOS tube for you if you desire to replace it. I decided to leave it alone. The plug doesn't have a ground prong and I think back in the day people would pull them off since the many outlets didn't have the 3rd hole yet. It has the original Fender speaker. No foot switch. Other than that these are pocket rockets for sure, made in the USA, and will blow away the new stuff. Scroll down for pics. From Wikipedia Super ChampIn 1982, in order to combat its decreasing amp sales, which at that time was around 10,000 units per year, Fender hired Paul Rivera (of Rivera Amplifiers) and asked him to help design amplifiers with a modern sound. Even though he did not personally create the new designs his direction of the engineering team, headed by Mark Wentling, resulted in some legendary amps. The result included the Super Champ, featuring a 10" speaker and new circuitry, including spring reverb, master volume, a switchable extra gain stage for a 'lead' effect, and a mid boost switch.[13] In order to increase gain and cut costs, the Super Champ utilized 1× 12AX7 for the first and second stage preamp, a 1× 12AT7 for spring reverb driver tube, while a triple-triode 6C10 compactron is used for three functions; one as a third stage preamp for even more gain, one as the phase inverter (instead of two for most class-AB circuits), and one as recovery for the spring reverb. When the volume knob is pulled, some signal from the 12AT7 reverb driver is re-routed, resulting in higher gain. An optional two-button footswitch allowed for gain switching and reverb on/off. Two 6V6 power tubes provide it with 18 RMS watts. The cabinet was finished in black Tolex, with a black control panel and silver grille cloth. A more expensive version was available, factory-fitted with a Fender-branded EV Force 10 speaker instead of the usual Fender Blue Label. The Super Champ was sold until 1986. SpecificationsAvailable as a 10" combo, features an internal 8 ohm speaker; some with output jack, some hardwired18 watt RMSControls: volume (pull for lead), treble (pull for mid boost), bass, reverb, lead level, master.1-input, 2-channel1× 7025, 1× 12AT7, 1× 6C10 Triple triode and 2× 6V6Solid-state diode rectifiedAccutronics 3-spring reverbClass AB, push–pull