The Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb Guitar Amplifier truly is a game-changer! Here we go, time for a shoot out and we all know the stakes. It's solid-state modeling technology against the time tested, vacuum tube original! Is this imitation as good as the original? LET'S FIND OUT!
A shop favorite feature of this amp is the stellar DI out on the back of the amp. From mixers to DAWs's, this amp can plug in to ANYTHING and automatically make things easier. No mics, no placement, no mess of cables, no distance necessary. Pure Fender awesomeness via the DI, the 1x12 speaker, or, mute the speaker and use it as a headphone amp with an external mixer. This thing fits in EVERYWHERE and is ultra-light compared to the tube versions.
In a bold Fender first, the Tone Master Deluxe Reverb amplifier uses massive digital processing power to achieve a single remarkable sonic feat: faithfully modeling the circuitry and 22-watt power output of an original Deluxe tube amp. Using a high-performance 100-watt digital power amp to achieve the headroom and dynamic range of a real vintage Deluxe tube amp, paired with the pronounced sparkle and clarity of a single Jensen® N-12K neodymium speaker and a resonant pine cabinet, the result is tubeless Deluxe Reverb tone, volume, and dynamics virtually indistinguishable from the all-tube original. And with all these features, the Tone Master Deluxe Reverb is in fact about only half the weight of an all-tube Deluxe.
Front panel features give guitarists a playing experience identical to the tube version, including Fender’s world-standard reverb and tremolo effects. Additional rear-panel features deliver modern convenience and flexibility—including an output power selector for full power and five attenuated settings, balanced XLR line output with impulse response (IR) cabinet simulations, mute switch for silent stage or recording use, USB port for firmware upgrades, and more.
We are in love with this series. We have A/B'd them many times in our back room with the tube versions and for some applications, the Tone Master version is superior, especially when it comes to overdrive or if recording is your thing.
