jac wrote:
What the hell's a "Prosonic", lol
I guess I'll go look since it's being spoken highly of.
Later
Cheers
The Prosonic was Fender's "attempt" at a response to the Mesa Dual Rectifier. It was designed by Bruce Zinky who was the head of the Fender Custom Shop in the early 90's - he also worked on Vibro King, Tone Master, Pro Jr, Dual Professional, Custom Vibrolux, etc for Fender. He now has his own boutique amp company that's pretty cool...
http://www.zinky.com/
Anyway, the Prosonic was available as a head or 2x10 combo (???). Anyway, it's a real departure for Fender as it's all about it's high gain capabilities, although it does have some nice cleans as well. The two 10's turned out to be a pretty cool thing after all, and it has switchable Class A/tube recto... Class AB/tube recto... Class AB/SS recto... pretty cool, as each setting has a very distinctive voice. It has some quirks - the EQ controls are active so if they're right down, the amp is "off" - takes some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it it's cool... the initial run of these amps were custom shop - later on they became production amps... they have a real cult following and if it weren't for the Prosonic, the current Supersonic wouldn't exist...
Mine is one of the Custom Shop ones...
I use mine in Class A most of the time and it kind of sounds like an AC30-meets-Dual Rectifier if you can imagine that!!!
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