I have this amp in the head/cab version and I've seen a bunch of demo videos. You're making the same mistake I made when I first got it - not pushing it hard. In order to truly appreciate the various amp models, you've got to crank it up to at least 5. Then they start to shine. At 6-7 you've got some great sims of the best Fender amps and a couple of others that are almost as good. Enjoy!
I bought a second hand one, 6 years old as a second amp to my blues junior, In the short time I've been playing this amp it gives me that bridge between valve and mod presents as a really great amp, loads of amp styles and colour to paint your guitar scape. If your budget is within the 150 to 250 gbp this is a good investment. I've owned a mustang which was also a good amp for the house but the tones of the X2 are not compromised when you crank the volume up. Smashin amp Fender got this one right
It's phenomenal the tone and versatility for the $$. But when I swapped in an Eminence Ragin' Cajun speaker, it took the amp to a whole new level - significantly more volume and a full monstrous tone.
Best review I have seen on an amp as I believe you ran your guitar cable directly to the amp and not through stomp boxes as everyone does and one does not know if the sound is being produced by the amp or from the stomp boxes.
I have a SCX2. IMO best little amp for the price. Channel one really nice clean tone. $19.00 foot switch nice option for switching tones/effects. I play blues and blues/rock. Better than my Blues Junior; again IMO.
If you are considering buying this model, do yourself a HUGE favor and buy the head and cabinet, NOT THE COMBO. The difference is day and night. You get a 12" speaker instead of a "10, and it is housed in a much bigger closed back cab, that really adds punch to the bottom. It's almost a completely different amp.
Thank you so much for your comment, I have been trying to find out which version I should purchase, and this has really helped. I managed to find the cab and head for £410 in a pawn brokers, brand new!! Hopefully I won't be disappointed as I plan to use the amp to practice and gig, and I haven't had a chance to test it out yet with my pedals.
The combo is decent but needs a new speaker, mids tweaking... Well, a good amount of tweaks so I guess you're right. It is possible to get the combo sounding great though, I've done it
It's just as easy to plug the combo amp into a bigger cabinet as it is the head version.. You can use the combo's speaker around the house and it sounds fine. You can use it as a head to plug into bigger cabs when you want more volume for jams and gigs. Why limit yourself to the crappy 70/80 speaker that comes in the Champ 1x12 extension cab? You can plug the head or combo amp into any 8ohm 2x12 or 4x12 you want to use. Or just a 1x12 cab with better speaker if you prefer.
This is a good demo of the features, but the sound is way off. I own the combo, and the head/cab versions, and both sound much fuller and richer than this. As for effects, you can stack up to four effects at once: stompbox (OD, distortion, fuzz, fixed wah, etc), reverb (many kinds), delay (tape, mono, etc), MOD (chorus, vibro, trem, etc). Three of these can even go "behind" the preamp (simulating an effects loop), and one (the stompbox) can go before the preamp. So you have a TON of options. This is all done in the FUSE software by hooking the amp to the computer. You also get access to the MIDS knob in FUSE, and to bias, different cab sims, bright switches, and presence. The brilliance is that you can save your presets right to the knobs on the physical amp, and now your amp is custom voiced, and never need be hooked to a computer again. I have saved custom voices I have created, and am really pleased with it. I've recorded directly into the computer on this amp. You do need to be hooked up to a speaker when you record, as this is a tube amp, but I achieve silent recording by using an attenuator.
I understand Fender no longer supports the Fuse software. Any idea why? I'd like to use it but I'm concerned about losing the awesome factory effects. One can get a great Gilmour sound!
The only Fender amp models that I had ever bcught NEW like a 1977 Princeton Amp with 2 10" speakers and two Super Champ XD's with one 10" speaker they all suffered from the crapy quality stock speakers that sucked if you cranked up the amp. The amps are good, but the speakers truly sucked. If you want your amp to sound like 10 times better then check this out : The X2 is about the same amp as the Super Champ XD, but with the added USB option so you can actually downloand and store other voicings of one's choice off the web from Fender. One problem withe XD and the X2 is that the stock speakers only sound decent at low volumes to to being very cheap wimpy speakers. I finally found out that better quality 10" speakers can indeed make this amp actually sound SUPER at not only high volume, but all across the sound spectrum. Now at a nominal cost my 2 Fender Super Champ XD's sound like $1000 amps. I have 2 Super Champ XD amps. Great amps except for the wimpy 10" speaker that they come with so that Fender can cut costs, but at the expense of not producing a truly quality product. I also had picked up a used Fender Bassman 25 amp for $60 some time back. So the speaker in that Fender Bassman 25 amp had great lows and highs. So I removed it and replaced the Fender Super Champ XD speaker with the Fender Bassman 25 amps speaker which has a much larger magnet. It made a world of difference and now the amp is truly SUPER even when dimed. Next I will replace my other Super Champ XD with a Hartke Aluminum Cone 10" speaker from a Hartke 210 cab I have. Will move the other 10" in the cab to the Fender Bassman 25 Amp. The Hartke speakers turned out to be 16 ohm each. I had read that using a 16 ohm speaker instead of the 8 ohm ones would make the amp run cooler, but that the speaker would have less volume by about 3db. WRONG !!!. It acutally produces more volume than the identcal amp with the 8 ohm speaker installed. If you want a great amp upgrade your Super Champs speaker. You won't regret it.
Actually after having it for awhile it really is a lot of fun. But right now I am upgrading my strat so that is where the money goes but I do intend to upgrade the speaker Thanks
oink ooink yeah I just bought it and even with pedals it has really low quality sound so I’m probs going to sell it back to guitar center for a quarter of what I paid for it a month ago and buy a better amp
oink ooink idk it just sounds like a great beginner bedroom player but the quality is bad for me both times I’ve bought it Idk why but the sound that comes out of it sounds like a sick guitar sound that’s distorted, the effect setting are nice but the quality out of the amp isn’t the best Idk why it would for me but I have some pedals running through it also and they help but not much, maybe it’s the guitar I have but my guitar is a $500 guitar it should have good quality even with the pedals
oink ooink I use the clean channel mostly because it sounds better but the quality is kinda muffly and I’m using an OCD, donner distortion,Ibanez overdrive, donner noise gate, donner compression, carbon fiber delay, and a reverb
oink ooink lol no I’m not using them all at once I’m just saying which pedals I have in general but if I use the compressor, ocd, and noise gate at the same time it still sounds distorted and muffled
Hmmm. Sorry boys your demo does not do this great little amp justice. Your guy did an ok job covering most of the features. It is a serious value for a great quality hybrid amp (tube and solid state). I upgraded mine with a Celestion Gold speaker. It made a massive difference. The amp modeling and effects are really good as are the effects. Loud enough for small gigs. Do yourself a favor and give this little bad boy try like Nick G suggested.
Ciao, first of all thanks for the post. helpful for sure. I am also on the market for the super champ X2 but not sure about 2 things.: 1) head plus separate box or combo? 2)heard about the campion 40 that seams sounds great even though is a solid state amp
miorafeuni, thanks for checking out our demo! to answer your questions: 1) If I were you i would start with the combo. It is cheaper and can get pretty loud for its small size. I own both the combo and the head/cab version and use the combo for home practice and the head/cab version for gigging. 2) You may be disappointed in the the sound you get out of a solid state amp after owning one for awhile. As many guitarists will tell you, Once you go tube, you never go back. The difference in tone is not noticeable to many but the longer you play the more you will want that warm tube tone.
I'd much rather have a super champ but I'm saving up for a champ 20. I can't even afford to pay attention. Where am I and why did I come here again? This isn't my garage?
I have this amp in the head/cab version and I've seen a bunch of demo videos. You're making the same mistake I made when I first got it - not pushing it hard. In order to truly appreciate the various amp models, you've got to crank it up to at least 5. Then they start to shine. At 6-7 you've got some great sims of the best Fender amps and a couple of others that are almost as good. Enjoy!
is there a effect loop
@@MxRyder19 loop effect? Don't you mean an "effects loop"? No.
The sound is exactly the same at low or high volume
I bought a second hand one, 6 years old as a second amp to my blues junior,
In the short time I've been playing this amp it gives me that bridge between valve and mod presents as a really great amp, loads of amp styles and colour to paint your guitar scape. If your budget is within the 150 to 250 gbp this is a good investment. I've owned a mustang which was also a good amp for the house but the tones of the X2 are not compromised when you crank the volume up.
Smashin amp Fender got this one right
wht do u prefer for the house? a good mustang or this? whats fuller richer?? thanks!
I love my Superchamp x2. I run a Zoom G3XN into the clean channel and i have never had such great tones from any amp i've owned.
Couldn't agree more Steven!
does it have a headphone out? i heard Kiss had marshalls for looks but were actually playing out of champ amps
@@gbvoul no headphone jack - at least the head/cab version doesn't have one. But it does have a Line Out.
It's phenomenal the tone and versatility for the $$. But when I swapped in an Eminence Ragin' Cajun speaker, it took the amp to a whole new level - significantly more volume and a full monstrous tone.
Best review I have seen on an amp as I believe you ran your guitar cable directly to the amp and not through stomp boxes as everyone does and one does not know if the sound is being produced by the amp or from the stomp boxes.
exactly ! I have the same amp and we have the same name dude ;)
great job, appreciate the no bs review as well. watched this before reading owners manual ;)
I have a SCX2. IMO best little amp for the price. Channel one really nice clean tone. $19.00 foot switch nice option for switching tones/effects. I play blues and blues/rock. Better than my Blues Junior; again IMO.
May I ask, what footswitch did you get?
Thank you for the demo. I am new to this amp and your ideas were helpful.
If you are considering buying this model, do yourself a HUGE favor and buy the head and cabinet, NOT THE COMBO. The difference is day and night. You get a 12" speaker instead of a "10, and it is housed in a much bigger closed back cab, that really adds punch to the bottom. It's almost a completely different amp.
Thank you so much for your comment, I have been trying to find out which version I should purchase, and this has really helped. I managed to find the cab and head for £410 in a pawn brokers, brand new!! Hopefully I won't be disappointed as I plan to use the amp to practice and gig, and I haven't had a chance to test it out yet with my pedals.
The combo is decent but needs a new speaker, mids tweaking... Well, a good amount of tweaks so I guess you're right.
It is possible to get the combo sounding great though, I've done it
@@alexmurphy5289 whats the best speaker for it.....to get more fender sound...bigger deeper? thanks
That answers my quest...if Fender would put a 12" in the combo, they prob sell alot more..
It's just as easy to plug the combo amp into a bigger cabinet as it is the head version.. You can use the combo's speaker around the house and it sounds fine. You can use it as a head to plug into bigger cabs when you want more volume for jams and gigs. Why limit yourself to the crappy 70/80 speaker that comes in the Champ 1x12 extension cab? You can plug the head or combo amp into any 8ohm 2x12 or 4x12 you want to use. Or just a 1x12 cab with better speaker if you prefer.
This is a good demo of the features, but the sound is way off. I own the combo, and the head/cab versions, and both sound much fuller and richer than this. As for effects, you can stack up to four effects at once: stompbox (OD, distortion, fuzz, fixed wah, etc), reverb (many kinds), delay (tape, mono, etc), MOD (chorus, vibro, trem, etc). Three of these can even go "behind" the preamp (simulating an effects loop), and one (the stompbox) can go before the preamp. So you have a TON of options. This is all done in the FUSE software by hooking the amp to the computer. You also get access to the MIDS knob in FUSE, and to bias, different cab sims, bright switches, and presence. The brilliance is that you can save your presets right to the knobs on the physical amp, and now your amp is custom voiced, and never need be hooked to a computer again. I have saved custom voices I have created, and am really pleased with it. I've recorded directly into the computer on this amp. You do need to be hooked up to a speaker when you record, as this is a tube amp, but I achieve silent recording by using an attenuator.
I understand Fender no longer supports the Fuse software. Any idea why? I'd like to use it but I'm concerned about losing the awesome factory effects. One can get a great Gilmour sound!
The only Fender amp models that I had ever bcught NEW like a 1977 Princeton Amp with 2 10" speakers and two Super Champ XD's with one 10" speaker they all suffered from the crapy quality stock speakers that sucked if you cranked up the amp. The amps are good, but the speakers truly sucked. If you want your amp to sound like 10 times better then check this out : The X2 is about the same amp as the Super Champ XD, but with the added USB option so you can actually downloand and store other voicings of one's choice off the web from Fender. One problem withe XD and the X2 is that the stock speakers only sound decent at low volumes to to being very cheap wimpy speakers. I finally found out that better quality 10" speakers can indeed make this amp actually sound SUPER at not only high volume, but all across the sound spectrum. Now at a nominal cost my 2 Fender Super Champ XD's sound like $1000 amps. I have 2 Super Champ XD amps. Great amps except for the wimpy 10" speaker that they come with so that Fender can cut costs, but at the expense of not producing a truly quality product. I also had picked up a used Fender Bassman 25 amp for $60 some time back. So the speaker in that Fender Bassman 25 amp had great lows and highs. So I removed it and replaced the Fender Super Champ XD speaker with the Fender Bassman 25 amps speaker which has a much larger magnet. It made a world of difference and now the amp is truly SUPER even when dimed. Next I will replace my other Super Champ XD with a Hartke Aluminum Cone 10" speaker from a Hartke 210 cab I have. Will move the other 10" in the cab to the Fender Bassman 25 Amp. The Hartke speakers turned out to be 16 ohm each. I had read that using a 16 ohm speaker instead of the 8 ohm ones would make the amp run cooler, but that the speaker would have less volume by about 3db. WRONG !!!. It acutally produces more volume than the identcal amp with the 8 ohm speaker installed. If you want a great amp upgrade your Super Champs speaker. You won't regret it.
Thanks for the great demo.
Good video.
Hooking it to a computer is where the fun is. Ignore my first post. It really was too soon to have opinion.
That opening shot!
I bought one. Can't say I am thrilled. It is Ok though.
Actually after having it for awhile it really is a lot of fun. But right now I am upgrading my strat so that is where the money goes but I do intend to upgrade the speaker
Thanks
oink ooink yeah I just bought it and even with pedals it has really low quality sound so I’m probs going to sell it back to guitar center for a quarter of what I paid for it a month ago and buy a better amp
oink ooink idk it just sounds like a great beginner bedroom player but the quality is bad for me both times I’ve bought it Idk why but the sound that comes out of it sounds like a sick guitar sound that’s distorted, the effect setting are nice but the quality out of the amp isn’t the best Idk why it would for me but I have some pedals running through it also and they help but not much, maybe it’s the guitar I have but my guitar is a $500 guitar it should have good quality even with the pedals
oink ooink I use the clean channel mostly because it sounds better but the quality is kinda muffly and I’m using an OCD, donner distortion,Ibanez overdrive, donner noise gate, donner compression, carbon fiber delay, and a reverb
oink ooink lol no I’m not using them all at once I’m just saying which pedals I have in general but if I use the compressor, ocd, and noise gate at the same time it still sounds distorted and muffled
Hmmm. Sorry boys your demo does not do this great little amp justice. Your guy did an ok job covering most of the features. It is a serious value for a great quality hybrid amp (tube and solid state). I upgraded mine with a Celestion Gold speaker. It made a massive difference. The amp modeling and effects are really good as are the effects. Loud enough for small gigs. Do yourself a favor and give this little bad boy try like Nick G suggested.
Can multiple effects be selected or are they available only in isolation?
Ciao, first of all thanks for the post. helpful for sure. I am also on the market for the super champ X2 but not sure about 2 things.: 1) head plus separate box or combo? 2)heard about the campion 40 that seams sounds great even though is a solid state amp
miorafeuni, thanks for checking out our demo! to answer your questions: 1) If I were you i would start with the combo. It is cheaper and can get pretty loud for its small size. I own both the combo and the head/cab version and use the combo for home practice and the head/cab version for gigging. 2) You may be disappointed in the the sound you get out of a solid state amp after owning one for awhile. As many guitarists will tell you, Once you go tube, you never go back. The difference in tone is not noticeable to many but the longer you play the more you will want that warm tube tone.
I would go straight to the head/cab version. Better speaker.
What's the difference between super champ X2 and XD?
fuck off
@@notwaving-qk8ld what
Fender Super Champ X2 Amplifier Voicings Descriptions
1 Tweed Champ®
2 Tweed Deluxe™ clean
3 Tweed Deluxe™ dirty/compressed
4 Tweed Bassman®
5 65 Princeton® clean
6 65 Princeton® dirty/compressed
7 65 Deluxe™
8 65 Twin Amp™
9 60s British clean
10 60s British dirty/compressed
11 70s British
12 80s British13Super-Sonic™
14 90s Metal
15 2000 Metal
16 Jazzmaster™ (fl at, solid-state clean
Something is wrong with this recording, i have this amp and it has alot more bass and sounds much more full..
LucasZembrzuski its a RUclips video..
Try listening on real loudspeakers and not those tiny phone speakers.
@@richardbrucemusic i listen it on Sennheiser HD600's, i don't have this amp anymore but it sounded bigger "in the room" if You know what i mean.
I'd much rather have a super champ but I'm saving up for a champ 20. I can't even afford to pay attention.
Where am I and why did I come here again? This isn't my garage?
Hahaha sound like my situation.