This is one of the finest guitarist in the world. Nikolay is Bulgarian and his musical vocabulary is unmatched. He particularly excels at jazz but his rock, blues and whatever chops are incomparable.
I've had this amp for years and came to this video to see if someone played the voices the way I did (gain, EQ). I didn't expect to hear the chops and styles of playing that I did however. Man, that was excellent, really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting,
Very useful and to the point with no wasted time and variety of tones, styles, distortion levels, etc. I wish you were the one doing all of the amplifier demos here! Just a great job on this. I can't demo things myself because there are no local dealers anywhere around here (closest is several hundred kilometers). So this is just tremendously helpful. Thanks again!
I've been on the fence over grabbing one of these little monsters but I do believe that your EXCEPTIONAL run-through here has made up my mind for me. Thanks for taking the time to do such an excellent demo for the rest of us; brilliant playing too.
It's a 3-mode hybrid. First, for both channels, two TL072 transistors in series, incredibly clean solid state pre-amps, boost the signal up to be sent into the analog/digital converter, then into the digital processor chip which does all the functions: gain, volume, bass, treble, effects, and amp models. The signal then goes back through the d/a converter into solid state TL072 and a 4560 pre-amps, then into the 12AX7 to be split into the push-pull 6V6 power tubes. Vintage Modified for sure.
He is true. I can verify this. its going through tl072 opa and then to dsp and then analog out to the line out buffer and after that - straight into the preamp and powertubes to the output transformer. very cost effective :-) amazing
@@markussteinbacher8807 Many people assume that channel 1 (clean) is totally analogue, but from the schematic it does indeed appear that the amp uses DSP (U6-A [U-4051B]) for the voicing of both channels. The analogue voicing appears to be summed with amplified input in Op Amp U8-A (4560). The result is nice tones.
Excellent description of the audio signal paths. Congratulations! But I would add that tube 12ax7 are two triode tubes in a single enclosure, first triode is a class A preamplifier and second triode is a 180 degree phase shifter. This way the all tube amplifier has two amplifying stages, first amplifying stage is a triode class A preamplifier and second stage is a push pull class AB final amplifier.
Awesome impeccable playing and what an amp! Got one years ago before the X2 came out. Same one here XD; blew the power amp tubes because I pushed the amp to its limits but easy to replace yourself watching RUclips vids. Mike it and you'll be amazed. Get one and you won't regret it ever. Love mine.
Totally on the same pages. Engles, Voxes, Mesas come and go, this one stillbthe hodden gem. Sadly, maybe 😕 als "nice vintage" the speaker cloth starys to have the typical Fender ware. Maybe it s a proud vintage good thing? Digital but with all the vintage vibe ... 😮😢😅😂 ❤❤❤
I use a Dynacomp pedal followed by a Sonic Stomp in front of mine. Clean tones are beautiful and I get awesome distortion on the high gain channel with the voice knob set to the #8 position at a very low volume. I also play this through a 412 cab when I need more bass and volume in a live setting. This is an awesome little amp that drives the 412's with no problem. This amp runs circles around the Fender Hot Rod and Blues Junior. It won't break the bank when it comes time for new tubes either. I was in the market for a Roland Cube and I came across this amp in a Pawn Shop. I forgot all about the Roland.
Nice demo, I've had one of these for nearly four years now, and am constantly amazed by the variety of sounds it kicks out, and combing the onboard fx with that, the options are endless. FYI whoever is curious; It is loud enough for a rehearsal or gig-in a small room-It shrank when i took it to gig in medium sized hall though. I sometimes use it with a 4x12 too, which gives a bigger spread and more bottom end speaker grunt. Lovely piece of kit, PS Had the red knob Champ 12 too -this is better!!
Thank-you for this. There are lots of demos of the clean tones with strats but this is the best one showing the higher gain voices with an LP. This convinced me to get an SCXD. You should get a commission from Fender. Or at least a free t-shirt and amp cover or something.
This video and the 4 downvotes are proof that you cannot please everyone . . . because you could not ask for a better demonstration of the featured amp's capabilities . . . very well done, and thank you for the video
so? 4 people don't like this amp, wow. please remember you're not allowed NOT to like some clip on youtube. fuckin "xy people who downwoted are idiots" people..
Thanks, that's good to know. It was highly recommended to me from a guy that uses his still. He says he can get any sound out of it. With his talent that says a lot. I am looking forward to trying it out. Thanks!
Awesome video dude, you put it through it's paces at every turn It's great to hear someone who can play clean and dirty and a bit of Wes too! Great job!
Got to noodle around with this amp today at my store and I really dug the reverb and delay on this amp. I think this amp would be a great practice amp and compliment my Archon quite nicely. Thanks for posting!
EXCELLENT demo of this fine amplifier , one of the best demos I have ever saw on youtube , the way a amp demo should be , just play ing the amp and NO talking , EXCELLENT sounding amp
I have two of these XDs, in the black tolex and CA blond tolex/limited edition. The amp models and effects give you all you need for tone, and you can turn it up and down with the two volume controls for stage or bedroom. They have a GREAT line out for FOH PA on gigs, which is the secret weapon of these amps that folks either don't know about, or rarely mention. I played it out on 27 gigs with a very loud band, and never had it over volume 4 on both channels onstage for my backline. They cranked it up as needed FOH.
I did it have it sitting on top of my Carvin AG100 keyboard/acoustic guitar amp and SKB 4U power rack case, which brought it up to my hearing level, so factor that in. You can't beat them hardly for light weight and portability. The covers that fit the Bose subwoofer 1-10 fit these perfectly.
Thanks a lot!!!! I am sure the clean is modeling, not tube one. But I think the 12AX7 is not just a phase inverter it also works to add gain in the audio chain (after the preamp though), so it probably adds some harmonics, compression and warmer tone! Cheers!!!
Exactly. The 12ax7 is two triode tubes in a single enclosure, first triode acts as a preamplifier and second triode as a simple phase inverter without adding extra gain. This preamplifier probably adds tube compression towards the final twin 6v6 amplifier if overdrive by excessive level come from the solid state pre driver, but normally this triode only ads the necessary extra gain to drive the final tubes properly. Phase inverting is needed for the two final 6v6 to work in push pull configuration. Channel 1 is a digital effect, same as all 16 voices at channel 2. I think that it's exactly equal to voice 4, an exact emulation of a Fender Blackface working at the clean channel. The warm tones that we hear come from the fact that the digital effects come from the adequate sampling of all tube amplifiers. They got it all in a small lack by sampling the exact tones of different amplifiers and cabinets. But they did had to stop production of the XD version because they had incurred in illegal copy of some registered non Fender sounds. That's why they replaced XD with the X2 version. The DSP, digital signal processing, takes care to sound exactly as several different all tube Fender Tweed (voices 1 mbm 2 and 3), Fender Blackface (4, 5 and 6), VOX (7, 8 and 9), Plexy and/or Marshall amplifiers with stack cabinets (10, 11, and 12), Modern Marshall (13 and 14), Fender Jazzmaster (15), and Fender Acoustonic (voice 16). Same happens with the 16 effects. That's why effects 1 and 2 sound like feal rotary speakers, be ause they had sampled the exact sound of this type very expensive speakers. This amplifier was too good to be true! As good as they needed to stop it's production and replace it by the x2 version
Beautiful playing. Lots of discussion on swapping speakers here. I will do this with this amp. I swapped out the 8" speaker in my Mustang 1 with a JBL E110-8ohm 10" Guitar Speaker. It more than doubled the volume, overall clarity and low end punch. Mostly because it is a far more sensitive speaker requiring less power. With 15 watts you would only gain 3 decibels by doubling this X2 amp to a 30 watt amp. Fortunately there is a much easier way to gain volume. Cheap stock speakers are often only around 89db at one watt/meter. Partially because of the more expensive larger magnet and voice coil the E110 is specked at 98db. This means if the stock speaker even has a 92db efficiency it will take 30 watts to compare with a 95db speaker and double that to 60 watts to compare with the 98db of the E110. It only takes 15 watts into a 98bd efficiency speaker to produce the same volume as a 89db speaker driven with 120 watts. If it sounds crazy you can check the math here: thehub.musiciansfriend.com/tech-tips/tech-tip-wattage-speaker-efficiency-amplifier-loudness The JBL almost doubled the price of my Mustang 1 but moved it from a practice amp to fully gigable. No one can believe how much clean power and punch I am getting out of it. Now I cannot wait to go to full tubes!
Yes, a 15 watt amplifier with a 98dB speaker sounds exactly as loud as a 150 watt amplifier with an 88dB speaker (10dB extra gain is equal to multiplying power by 10), or a 120 watt amplifier with an 89dB speaker.
I use this amp as my gig amp, reliable. I use two, one for guitar and the other for my guitar synth tones. The vibratone effect is worth gold. I switched out the speakers with a Ragin Cajun and a Jensen c10q and I can hear a massive difference in the low end. To each their own, but my ass kicking (and heavy) Egnater Renegade 65 sits at home (and it is a great GREAT amp).
@@LeeHoMusic Definitely worth buying (at the right price). If you can get it with the optional two mode footswitch even better (channel select and effect select). Bought mine used with the footswitch and JJ power tubes....I love this amp. Channel 1 (clean) does not go too loud, I have it on 8 at home. Channel 2 goes loud enough! I usually have the gain up high (8) and the volume at 3 or 4 at home, depending on the amp model/voice selected, so clearly capable of a higher volume. Bringing the gain down will obviously clean up the sound. The reverb and delay features are good, not keen on the tremolo (could be better). I tend to use CH1 (Clean) and CH2 Voice 3 (Overdriven Tweed), Voice 7 (Jangly Brit Comb=Vox) and Voice 9 (modern Brit Stack=Marshall). There are many more amp models to choose from. The X2 version has USB connectivity and ability to tweek the settings via Fender FUSE software - I prefer the plug and go XD version.
Great playing man, a pleasure to listen to :D I have the same rig, Les Paul (Greco) with the Super Champ. I think this amp sounds great with any guitar. Best - Jonas, Sweden
I will add just another great compliment. I have been amazed by your demo of the amp that';s also sitting in my library and you prove actually can sound great in any style. Man: how do you do that: you seem "at it" in any style. Great man!!
I had one a few years back, couldn't fault it. After a couple years I changed the speaker to an Eminence Ragin Cajun. This amp was so loud I couldn't even put it on volume 3. Great amp, and really nice playing.
Hey and thanks a lot!!!! One good and one bad news! The clean channel is good and takes pedals very well (for the price), but its digital, the preamp is digital in general and the 12AX7 tube is phase inverter Cheers!!
Great playing demo. I love this amp. I use an AMT SS20 in front and just use the clean channel. I Iearned from having old bf and sf fenders that pushing the input a bit really brings out their full character especially clean and edge of breakup. You can easily gig this amp especially if you add a 1x12 cab.
Wow, man! Fantastic demo. Excellent playing, and I'm just blown away at the variety of tones you're getting from this amp. I'm now officially interested in one of these! Cheers! Christian
Just got this amp used but basically new. Sounds amazingly good. Highly recommend it. Your not going to get the deep full low end fullness of a 12" speaker but the tones are great.
those first 3 voices on channel 2 are sweet! tube-tweed saturated goodness. great amp, greater playing. i want one of these! will be watching this demo til i get mine. :)
Consider putting a microphone on it and running it through the PA system when you're band is playing. Amps usually aren't meant to bear the weight of being louder than drums. Use it as a personal monitor and let the PA system do the heavy lifting.
DAMN BRO,,,,,,, You're Throwing those licks right out there , and they're coming right back to you, Great plan I love it, Great little amp. With 16 or 18 voices....???? sounds great. Good video keep on jamming, my brother.
Very nice demo & great playing. I thought that maybe you were just an impressive rocker, but when you hit the jazz setting, I knew you had something more up your sleeve.
I´m not sure if this is a good amp test, because the guitar player is way too good and he makes everything sound awesome! XD... To have an idea of how would it work for me; I should watch the amp being played by just a plain regular guitarist.... Just joking... Excellent video!
+M PFruit No doubts at all... and that´s also why regular musicians like I sometimes try to enhance our weak playing by good amps or guitars when we can :)
Having an amp that sounds good to the ears will make you want to play more! I've been playing guitar since I was 12 and am just realizing having a bad sounding amp is going to demotivate you from progressing.
@trillrif axegrindor Well, that´s because I somehow TRY to play; and even record and upload some material up in this channel. Thanks for asking, anyway.
because foot controller and saved patches etc. this amp is incredible. My favorite amp. If you could save patches and if there was a foot controller, I would buy a 50 watt version of this for a grand no problem. The tone is stunning.
You can't save patches? At all? I wonder what is the point of using fender fuse here then. I can't go into fender fuse, add multiple effects on the order I want, save and then take this to a gig and use it the way I set it up in fuse? That's rather disappointing.
@@ryanteacher8134 i dont think you can do that. I think you can only adjuat the amp models and save them to one of the 16 numbers on the dial. But this amp still pisses me off. Its so close to being as amazingly useful as it is incredible in tone. For me, theres no point in messing with the software rror two reasons. Foist ova deah, the clean channel and #7 on the second channel sound so killer, no need to mess with them (for me). I can get the most amazing SRV tone on that model. A tone i have never been able to achieve ever never ever. I mean I've come kinda close with fender pro reverb reissue but nothing like this lil fucker. But whats the point? Are you gonna stop mid-set and turn around and screw with a bunch of knobs to get a good high gain tone on 14 or 15? And hows about tapping in the delay speed for different songs etc. So, I'm furious with fender those fendery fuckers!!!! They could solve all my problems if they would make a few different versions (more power, bigger speaker for the combo etc) with a 5 (or more) button foot controller and saveable patches. Honestly, I've never been able to get this good a blues rock tone out of any amp ever. Better high gain tone for sure obviously. But even the high gain on this amp is sooo much better than the usual fender caca high gain attempts of the past. Admittedly i wasnt overly impressed until i started really sculpting the tone (kinda funny because there aint much to sculpt with but the tone knobs are way more dynamic and impactful than usual). But then i was able to get a pretty kickass tone with that too. Even without a mid knob. But you know, sometimes, the less you have to mess with, the more gooder it is because there's less potential for analysis paralysis and getting lost in the setting minutae you'd get with a digital effects processor. Funny because I've aleays been the type to want lots of controls for tweaking. To me, this amp sounds so good, i dont need it. But i think i could handle a knob for mids : ) Anyway, i guess this amp is good for recording and obviously for home use but a no go for me personally live. Miked up, its plenty loud for small gigs. But it wouldnt keep up with my fuckhead drummer and the rest of the stage volume from keys and bass etc. But again, it doesnt even matter because if you cant switch patches on the fly, its useless UNLESS you play one style and only need a few tones, then its great as long as stage volume is reasonable. If i were to play a strictly blues gig, I'd have preset 7 in the second channel, clean and then a pedal for clean channel. That would give you three tones but no effects control. You'd need all these other pedals with which you only have one setting live and fuck all that fucking bullshit! I'm getting pissed at fender again for the tease. Sigh......
@@coppulor6500 haha great reply. I can see you really become frustrated by the lack of essential features. These are my concerns with this amp. It sounds amazing though..
The SCXD has a FET input which always goes through the digital modeling section, even the clean channel. (the preamp tube is for phase inverting and end tube level adjustment only) It does sound quite nice though, as you can hear in this demo. It can lack some mids with certain cheaper guitars and when it distorts, the distortion amount is quite fixed and not so responsive to playing power. Those are the only minor flaws; it's an absolute fun amp for a good price.
@slaytallimaiden Hi, the amp has some great high gain sounds on its own (without pedals). Of course its 15 watts, so it cant keep up with loud drummer, but otherwise its really great for the price! Cheers!!
Mike it and plug it into a PA and you will be able to hang with a loud drummer. But I prefer a drummer who can play finesse and control his or her volume.
Stunning playing! And I am just getting rid of this amp because it wasn't loud enough for the band I am in, (Not a fan of 'line-outs') I got a Line 6 Bogner, Spider Valve, but nothing at all ever does the cleans like this little amp. You make me want to keep it :-) Great review, thanks.
Thanks!!! The amp is loud enough for small gigs with a drummer (not loud one :-)), without mic, I have done it several times. Of course the sound is a bit boxy, which is to be expected from a small amp with 10" speaker Cheers!!!
these are fun, excellent, versatile little amps but "small voiced", they record well but you'll miss the "3D/Real" sound you'd get with, say a Princeton or Blues Deluxe. The super champ xd is basically the best practice amp ever made...
@sasavid Hvala!!! Roland JC 50 is more powerful and therefore better suited for live playing with a drummer, but the Champ has a tube power amp, and I (personally) like its sound better. But the two amps are very different. Greetings from Plovdiv!!!
Very good demo!! Super playing in different genres to match the sounds. I'm right now the highest (and only?) bidder for one in a Swedish Pawn Shop internet auction. For the moment around 200 Euro..... It will end in two days but when listening to this demo I'm willing to pay a little more :-)
This is one of the finest guitarist in the world. Nikolay is Bulgarian and his musical vocabulary is unmatched. He particularly excels at jazz but his rock, blues and whatever chops are incomparable.
Kevin Shipman Thank you very much! Bow!
The bluesy noodling does drive me a bit crazy though. I want to hear something played.
@@Tr33People where's you're channel? Can you upload something for the rest of us to listen?... thanks in advance
One of the best guitarists I've heard in a long time, outstanding.
I've had this amp for years and came to this video to see if someone played the voices the way I did (gain, EQ). I didn't expect to hear the chops and styles of playing that I did however. Man, that was excellent, really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting,
Best demo I've seen for this amp. Great playing, brings out the real potential of this amp.
One of the best amp demos I've ever seen. Really captures the feel of each voice, great job!
Very useful and to the point with no wasted time and variety of tones, styles, distortion levels, etc. I wish you were the one doing all of the amplifier demos here! Just a great job on this. I can't demo things myself because there are no local dealers anywhere around here (closest is several hundred kilometers). So this is just tremendously helpful. Thanks again!
You welcome, glad if I can help!! Cheers!
I've been on the fence over grabbing one of these little monsters but I do believe that your EXCEPTIONAL run-through here has made up my mind for me. Thanks for taking the time to do such an excellent demo for the rest of us; brilliant playing too.
I'm very surprised at how great this amp sounds. Very impressive demo. Very usable tones on all those channels.
It's a 3-mode hybrid. First, for both channels, two TL072 transistors in series, incredibly clean solid state pre-amps, boost the signal up to be sent into the analog/digital converter, then into the digital processor chip which does all the functions: gain, volume, bass, treble, effects, and amp models. The signal then goes back through the d/a converter into solid state TL072 and a 4560 pre-amps, then into the 12AX7 to be split into the push-pull 6V6 power tubes. Vintage Modified for sure.
You have a schematic, no?
He is true. I can verify this. its going through tl072 opa and then to dsp and then analog out to the line out buffer and after that - straight into the preamp and powertubes to the output transformer. very cost effective :-) amazing
@@TheDarDar1 The Fender manuals are available on line. The Service manual contains the schematic.
@@markussteinbacher8807 Many people assume that channel 1 (clean) is totally analogue, but from the schematic it does indeed appear that the amp uses DSP (U6-A [U-4051B]) for the voicing of both channels. The analogue voicing appears to be summed with amplified input in Op Amp U8-A (4560). The result is nice tones.
Excellent description of the audio signal paths. Congratulations!
But I would add that tube 12ax7 are two triode tubes in a single enclosure, first triode is a class A preamplifier and second triode is a 180 degree phase shifter. This way the all tube amplifier has two amplifying stages, first amplifying stage is a triode class A preamplifier and second stage is a push pull class AB final amplifier.
Awesome impeccable playing and what an amp! Got one years ago before the X2 came out. Same one here XD; blew the power amp tubes because I pushed the amp to its limits but easy to replace yourself watching RUclips vids. Mike it and you'll be amazed. Get one and you won't regret it ever. Love mine.
Totally on the same pages. Engles, Voxes, Mesas come and go, this one stillbthe hodden gem.
Sadly, maybe 😕 als "nice vintage" the speaker cloth starys to have the typical Fender ware. Maybe it s a proud vintage good thing? Digital but with all the vintage vibe ... 😮😢😅😂
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I use a Dynacomp pedal followed by a Sonic Stomp in front of mine. Clean tones are beautiful and I get awesome distortion on the high gain channel with the voice knob set to the #8 position at a very low volume. I also play this through a 412 cab when I need more bass and volume in a live setting. This is an awesome little amp that drives the 412's with no problem. This amp runs circles around the Fender Hot Rod and Blues Junior. It won't break the bank when it comes time for new tubes either. I was in the market for a Roland Cube and I came across this amp in a Pawn Shop. I forgot all about the Roland.
a guitarist that is as versatile as the amp. u great player particularly the jazzier stuff.
Nice demo, I've had one of these for nearly four years now, and am constantly amazed by the variety of sounds it kicks out, and combing the onboard fx with that, the options are endless. FYI whoever is curious; It is loud enough for a rehearsal or gig-in a small room-It shrank when i took it to gig in medium sized hall though. I sometimes use it with a 4x12 too, which gives a bigger spread and more bottom end speaker grunt. Lovely piece of kit, PS Had the red knob Champ 12 too -this is better!!
Definitely the best demo there is about this amp. Super recording and superb playing skills.
This convinced me to buy this amp!
I just bought a used one for $30 dls. I think I got the sweetest deal in years.
Really !?!?!?!?
Sure did if that is true , I just would like to k ow who ? And why !!!!!
@@ampcruz2540 yes
@@ampcruz2540 Some guy at offer up who didn't know what he had. He didn't even know what tubes were when I asked him.
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Thank-you for this. There are lots of demos of the clean tones with strats but this is the best one showing the higher gain voices with an LP. This convinced me to get an SCXD. You should get a commission from Fender. Or at least a free t-shirt and amp cover or something.
I started to play on this amp years ago, and I simply loved it. Really great amp for its price.
This video and the 4 downvotes are proof that you cannot please everyone . . . because you could not ask for a better demonstration of the featured amp's capabilities . . . very well done, and thank you for the video
so? 4 people don't like this amp, wow. please remember you're not allowed NOT to like some clip on youtube. fuckin "xy people who downwoted are idiots" people..
Thanks, that's good to know. It was highly recommended to me from a guy that uses his still. He says he can get any sound out of it. With his talent that says a lot. I am looking forward to trying it out. Thanks!
Dude, this sounds absolutely INCREDIBLE. What an incredible amp! Also, excellent chops! I am most impressed ---- I am not an easy person to impress :)
Thanks a lot!!!! Cheers!
Awesome video dude, you put it through it's paces at every turn It's great to hear someone who can play clean and dirty and a bit of Wes too! Great job!
By far the best demo I've heard for this amp. And very good playing. Thanks Nikolay. If I was working for Fender, i'd send you a free amp :)
Got to noodle around with this amp today at my store and I really dug the reverb and delay on this amp. I think this amp would be a great practice amp and compliment my Archon quite nicely. Thanks for posting!
OMG! I come here to listen to a review of a littleFender amp and then get treated to some of the BEST guitar playing! Awesome!
Finally, an intelligent amp demo and, on top of that, you made it even more enjoyable with your excellent and tasty playing !
EXCELLENT demo of this fine amplifier , one of the best demos I have ever saw on youtube , the way a amp demo should be , just play ing the amp and NO talking , EXCELLENT sounding amp
Thank You!!!
Could you or have you done a video on how the foot switching works ?
Hallo, there is no need I guess, it just a channel switch (clean and presets). Cheers
How many presets if I may ask ? Thanks
@@3FlyingFarts Channel 2 has 16 voicings (presets).
I have two of these XDs, in the black tolex and CA blond tolex/limited edition. The amp models and effects give you all you need for tone, and you can turn it up and down with the two volume controls for stage or bedroom. They have a GREAT line out for FOH PA on gigs, which is the secret weapon of these amps that folks either don't know about, or rarely mention. I played it out on 27 gigs with a very loud band, and never had it over volume 4 on both channels onstage for my backline. They cranked it up as needed FOH.
I did it have it sitting on top of my Carvin AG100 keyboard/acoustic guitar amp and SKB 4U power rack case, which brought it up to my hearing level, so factor that in. You can't beat them hardly for light weight and portability. The covers that fit the Bose subwoofer 1-10 fit these perfectly.
I also have two of them. ideal for stereo, 30w with two speakers, and for using two effects at the same time.
Amazing playing. I'm stunned! So diverse and incredible ability and fluidity
Smokin' great playing, man! Came for the amp, stayed for the musician!!
This really helped me get my head around some of the voices on this amp. Thank you very much.
Great demo of a very versatile amp. Great playing - this guy can play several times faster than I can think about playing 😂
Thanks a lot!!!! I am sure the clean is modeling, not tube one. But I think the 12AX7 is not just a phase inverter it also works to add gain in the audio chain (after the preamp though), so it probably adds some harmonics, compression and warmer tone!
Cheers!!!
Exactly. The 12ax7 is two triode tubes in a single enclosure, first triode acts as a preamplifier and second triode as a simple phase inverter without adding extra gain. This preamplifier probably adds tube compression towards the final twin 6v6 amplifier if overdrive by excessive level come from the solid state pre driver, but normally this triode only ads the necessary extra gain to drive the final tubes properly. Phase inverting is needed for the two final 6v6 to work in push pull configuration.
Channel 1 is a digital effect, same as all 16 voices at channel 2. I think that it's exactly equal to voice 4, an exact emulation of a Fender Blackface working at the clean channel.
The warm tones that we hear come from the fact that the digital effects come from the adequate sampling of all tube amplifiers.
They got it all in a small lack by sampling the exact tones of different amplifiers and cabinets. But they did had to stop production of the XD version because they had incurred in illegal copy of some registered non Fender sounds. That's why they replaced XD with the X2 version.
The DSP, digital signal processing, takes care to sound exactly as several different all tube Fender Tweed (voices 1 mbm 2 and 3), Fender Blackface (4, 5 and 6), VOX (7, 8 and 9), Plexy and/or Marshall amplifiers with stack cabinets (10, 11, and 12), Modern Marshall (13 and 14), Fender Jazzmaster (15), and Fender Acoustonic (voice 16).
Same happens with the 16 effects. That's why effects 1 and 2 sound like feal rotary speakers, be ause they had sampled the exact sound of this type very expensive speakers.
This amplifier was too good to be true!
As good as they needed to stop it's production and replace it by the x2 version
Beautiful playing.
Lots of discussion on swapping speakers here. I will do this with this amp. I swapped out the 8" speaker in my Mustang 1 with a JBL E110-8ohm 10" Guitar Speaker. It more than doubled the volume, overall clarity and low end punch. Mostly because it is a far more sensitive speaker requiring less power.
With 15 watts you would only gain 3 decibels by doubling this X2 amp to a 30 watt amp. Fortunately there is a much easier way to gain volume. Cheap stock speakers are often only around 89db at one watt/meter. Partially because of the more expensive larger magnet and voice coil the E110 is specked at 98db. This means if the stock speaker even has a 92db efficiency it will take 30 watts to compare with a 95db speaker and double that to 60 watts to compare with the 98db of the E110. It only takes 15 watts into a 98bd efficiency speaker to produce the same volume as a 89db speaker driven with 120 watts.
If it sounds crazy you can check the math here:
thehub.musiciansfriend.com/tech-tips/tech-tip-wattage-speaker-efficiency-amplifier-loudness
The JBL almost doubled the price of my Mustang 1 but moved it from a practice amp to fully gigable. No one can believe how much clean power and punch I am getting out of it.
Now I cannot wait to go to full tubes!
Awesome info and great explanation! Thank you! I was wondering how to increase the power, thank you thank you thank you!
Just did a search and it seems hard to find this speaker. Any suggestions for something similar? I want tight loud low end as well.
Yes, a 15 watt amplifier with a 98dB speaker sounds exactly as loud as a 150 watt amplifier with an 88dB speaker (10dB extra gain is equal to multiplying power by 10), or a 120 watt amplifier with an 89dB speaker.
Great playing, super versatile little amp. Own one. Must explore. The clean tube channel takes pedals well too.
The best demo of the Super Champ I have seen!
I bought one pretty cheap off eBay. I'm excited to get it. Nice video and playing. Killer tone!!!
Nice playing and a great sounding little amp.Thx for sharing.
John Spina You Welcome, glad you like it! Cheers!
Enjoyable demo, great playing and you make me want this amp...
I use this amp as my gig amp, reliable. I use two, one for guitar and the other for my guitar synth tones. The vibratone effect is worth gold. I switched out the speakers with a Ragin Cajun and a Jensen c10q and I can hear a massive difference in the low end. To each their own, but my ass kicking (and heavy) Egnater Renegade 65 sits at home (and it is a great GREAT amp).
So which speaker did you like the best?
Thanks for your comment. I was always unsure if champ xd is worth buying
@@LeeHoMusic Definitely worth buying (at the right price). If you can get it with the optional two mode footswitch even better (channel select and effect select). Bought mine used with the footswitch and JJ power tubes....I love this amp. Channel 1 (clean) does not go too loud, I have it on 8 at home. Channel 2 goes loud enough! I usually have the gain up high (8) and the volume at 3 or 4 at home, depending on the amp model/voice selected, so clearly capable of a higher volume. Bringing the gain down will obviously clean up the sound. The reverb and delay features are good, not keen on the tremolo (could be better). I tend to use CH1 (Clean) and CH2 Voice 3 (Overdriven Tweed), Voice 7 (Jangly Brit Comb=Vox) and Voice 9 (modern Brit Stack=Marshall). There are many more amp models to choose from. The X2 version has USB connectivity and ability to tweek the settings via Fender FUSE software - I prefer the plug and go XD version.
I've got two units also. Perfect collection of the most famous sounds in history.
Outstanding - terrific playing over a wide range of styles, and you really show all the parts of the amp. Helpful and dazzling.
弘法筆を選ばず、とは、この事ですね。素晴らしい演奏でアンプの魅力を余す事無く出し切っていて、とても良い動画でした。アップロード感謝します。
Dude, you are the BOMB! Beautiful playing. I really enjoyed it!
Great playing man, a pleasure to listen to :D I have the same rig, Les Paul (Greco) with the Super Champ. I think this amp sounds great with any guitar. Best - Jonas, Sweden
This demo made me buy this amp. Great playing great tone!!
I will add just another great compliment. I have been amazed by your demo of the amp that';s also sitting in my library and you prove actually can sound great in any style.
Man: how do you do that: you seem "at it" in any style. Great man!!
Excellent playing. Excellent demo. Thanks.
I keep coming back to this video. dude, you are a badass player. seriously badass
Cool. I've wanted one of these amps since they came out. Perhaps some day.
Excellent playing, by the way. Very versatile. 👍
That amp sounds incredible.
I had one a few years back, couldn't fault it. After a couple years I changed the speaker to an Eminence Ragin Cajun. This amp was so loud I couldn't even put it on volume 3. Great amp, and really nice playing.
Hey and thanks a lot!!!!
One good and one bad news! The clean channel is good and takes pedals very well (for the price), but its digital, the preamp is digital in general and the 12AX7 tube is phase inverter
Cheers!!
12ax7 is two tubes in one. A preamplifier plus a phase inverter, not only an inverter.
Great playing demo. I love this amp. I use an AMT SS20 in front and just use the clean channel. I Iearned from having old bf and sf fenders that pushing the input a bit really brings out their full character especially clean and edge of breakup. You can easily gig this amp especially if you add a 1x12 cab.
Wow, man! Fantastic demo. Excellent playing, and I'm just blown away at the variety of tones you're getting from this amp. I'm now officially interested in one of these!
Cheers!
Christian
Great freaking sound. This vid helped me make my mind up on getting one. Awesome run through!
Just got this amp used but basically new. Sounds amazingly good. Highly recommend it. Your not going to get the deep full low end fullness of a 12" speaker but the tones are great.
those first 3 voices on channel 2 are sweet! tube-tweed saturated goodness. great amp, greater playing. i want one of these! will be watching this demo til i get mine. :)
THE best demo of this great little fender, you're a pro.... Thx, and Hppy new year from France
Just about to buy one. Hope I can make it sound as good as you can man. Very nice demo. Cheers.
Damn! Awesome playing. You convinced me to buy this amp (I was already thinking about it). Now, more practice, to get that good : ) Thanks
Consider putting a microphone on it and running it through the PA system when you're band is playing. Amps usually aren't meant to bear the weight of being louder than drums. Use it as a personal monitor and let the PA system do the heavy lifting.
Your playing is amazing. Wow.
Just pick one of these up man this amp is fire. I love this amp.
amazing playing
DAMN BRO,,,,,,, You're Throwing those licks right out there , and they're coming right back to you, Great plan I love it, Great little amp. With 16 or 18 voices....???? sounds great. Good video keep on jamming, my brother.
I ‘ve owned one of these amps since they came out in I think it was 2007 or 08? But this guy playing through it makes it sound amazing.
Great demo!, sounds like you are using a humbucker guitar. I've played my amp with a Strat, now learning to use it for my Les Paul Studio.
the best demo of this very good amp!👌
Excellent playing and great demo! The SM57 caught the tone perfectly.
Great playing, great sounds. Thank you man!
that was a very good demo...
Both the amp and your playing sound great. Nice work mate. cheers
Way better quality than the gearwire demo. It would have deserved more comments on the video.
Nice tone. Nice playin'. I wish I had that much time to get that good.
Thanks!!!!!
No problem. You totally rock.!
Excellent demo. I love the amp
Very nice demo & great playing. I thought that maybe you were just an impressive rocker, but when you hit the jazz setting, I knew you had something more up your sleeve.
I´m not sure if this is a good amp test, because the guitar player is way too good and he makes everything sound awesome! XD... To have an idea of how would it work for me; I should watch the amp being played by just a plain regular guitarist....
Just joking... Excellent video!
+Gabriel Nardin Music And this is why any good musician can make the difference with any amp or guitar !
+M PFruit No doubts at all... and that´s also why regular musicians like I sometimes try to enhance our weak playing by good amps or guitars when we can :)
Having an amp that sounds good to the ears will make you want to play more! I've been playing guitar since I was 12 and am just realizing having a bad sounding amp is going to demotivate you from progressing.
if you arent a high quality guitar player,why do you have "gabriel nardin MUSIC"
as your name?this would imply that your an actual MUSICIAN
@trillrif axegrindor Well, that´s because I somehow TRY to play; and even record and upload some material up in this channel. Thanks for asking, anyway.
Astonishing... It's hard to believe that something so small and cute can sound so angry.
Why in the hell would anyone want a Mustang after hearing this? Great job
because foot controller and saved patches etc. this amp is incredible. My favorite amp. If you could save patches and if there was a foot controller, I would buy a 50 watt version of this for a grand no problem. The tone is stunning.
You can't save patches? At all? I wonder what is the point of using fender fuse here then. I can't go into fender fuse, add multiple effects on the order I want, save and then take this to a gig and use it the way I set it up in fuse? That's rather disappointing.
@@ryanteacher8134 i dont think you can do that. I think you can only adjuat the amp models and save them to one of the 16 numbers on the dial. But this amp still pisses me off. Its so close to being as amazingly useful as it is incredible in tone. For me, theres no point in messing with the software rror two reasons. Foist ova deah, the clean channel and #7 on the second channel sound so killer, no need to mess with them (for me). I can get the most amazing SRV tone on that model. A tone i have never been able to achieve ever never ever. I mean I've come kinda close with fender pro reverb reissue but nothing like this lil fucker. But whats the point? Are you gonna stop mid-set and turn around and screw with a bunch of knobs to get a good high gain tone on 14 or 15? And hows about tapping in the delay speed for different songs etc. So, I'm furious with fender those fendery fuckers!!!! They could solve all my problems if they would make a few different versions (more power, bigger speaker for the combo etc) with a 5 (or more) button foot controller and saveable patches. Honestly, I've never been able to get this good a blues rock tone out of any amp ever. Better high gain tone for sure obviously. But even the high gain on this amp is sooo much better than the usual fender caca high gain attempts of the past. Admittedly i wasnt overly impressed until i started really sculpting the tone (kinda funny because there aint much to sculpt with but the tone knobs are way more dynamic and impactful than usual). But then i was able to get a pretty kickass tone with that too. Even without a mid knob. But you know, sometimes, the less you have to mess with, the more gooder it is because there's less potential for analysis paralysis and getting lost in the setting minutae you'd get with a digital effects processor. Funny because I've aleays been the type to want lots of controls for tweaking. To me, this amp sounds so good, i dont need it. But i think i could handle a knob for mids : )
Anyway, i guess this amp is good for recording and obviously for home use but a no go for me personally live. Miked up, its plenty loud for small gigs. But it wouldnt keep up with my fuckhead drummer and the rest of the stage volume from keys and bass etc. But again, it doesnt even matter because if you cant switch patches on the fly, its useless UNLESS you play one style and only need a few tones, then its great as long as stage volume is reasonable. If i were to play a strictly blues gig, I'd have preset 7 in the second channel, clean and then a pedal for clean channel. That would give you three tones but no effects control. You'd need all these other pedals with which you only have one setting live and fuck all that fucking bullshit! I'm getting pissed at fender again for the tease. Sigh......
@@coppulor6500 haha great reply. I can see you really become frustrated by the lack of essential features. These are my concerns with this amp. It sounds amazing though..
@707 on the first channel it's 100% valve but on the modelling channel it's a hybrid.
great demo, amazing playing
Sounds pretty close to an all tube amp - well done Fender if its solid state.
oh my this amp sounds amazingly good.
@koliok This is 15 watts, the Vibro Champ is 5 watts.
The SCXD has a FET input which always goes through the digital modeling section, even the clean channel. (the preamp tube is for phase inverting and end tube level adjustment only)
It does sound quite nice though, as you can hear in this demo. It can lack some mids with certain cheaper guitars and when it distorts, the distortion amount is quite fixed and not so responsive to playing power. Those are the only minor flaws; it's an absolute fun amp for a good price.
not only for phase inverter. it's a dual tube, first one is an amplifier and second one does de 180 degrees inversion.
@slaytallimaiden
Hi, the amp has some great high gain sounds on its own (without pedals). Of course its 15 watts, so it cant keep up with loud drummer, but otherwise its really great for the price!
Cheers!!
Mike it and plug it into a PA and you will be able to hang with a loud drummer. But I prefer a drummer who can play finesse and control his or her volume.
Awesome guitar style!
Stunning playing! And I am just getting rid of this amp because it wasn't loud enough for the band I am in, (Not a fan of 'line-outs') I got a Line 6 Bogner, Spider Valve, but nothing at all ever does the cleans like this little amp. You make me want to keep it :-) Great review, thanks.
Nice demo. Just got one to use with my strat and jag with humbuckers. Now i can throw the Line 6 solid state in the dumpster.
Nice amp demo and even nicer playing !
Great demo
My buddy has had one of these since they came out. Itll do just about anything. Like a amplifier Rich Little.
Thanks!!! The amp is loud enough for small gigs with a drummer (not loud one :-)), without mic, I have done it several times. Of course the sound is a bit boxy, which is to be expected from a small amp with 10" speaker
Cheers!!!
Thanks!! No, its Eminence Patriot Ragin' Cajun 10! Cheers!!
these are fun, excellent, versatile little amps but "small voiced", they record well but you'll miss the "3D/Real" sound you'd get with, say a Princeton or Blues Deluxe.
The super champ xd is basically the best practice amp ever made...
@koliok Thanks, actually I'm thinking of trying the Celestion G10 Greenback in it, or the Vintage G10
@sasavid
Hvala!!!
Roland JC 50 is more powerful and therefore better suited for live playing with a drummer, but the Champ has a tube power amp, and I (personally) like its sound better. But the two amps are very different.
Greetings from Plovdiv!!!
Awesome playing, the amp sounds great
Excellent sound and playing!
Very good demo!! Super playing in different genres to match the sounds. I'm right now the highest (and only?) bidder for one in a Swedish Pawn Shop internet auction. For the moment around 200 Euro..... It will end in two days but when listening to this demo I'm willing to pay a little more :-)
Wow this is nice! Sweet bluesy/jazzy sounds from a les paul :) thanks for the video! I'm definitely gonna buy a super champ xd