Fender Frontman 15G Electric Guitar Amplifier

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• 15 watts into 8 ohms
• 1-8" Fender® Special Design Speaker
• Two Selectable Channels (Normal and Drive)
• Controls: Normal Volume, Gain, Drive Select Switch, Drive Volume, Treble, Mid, Bass
• Other Features 3-Band EQ, Headphone Jack, Auxilliary Input for CD, Tape or Drum Machine, Closed Back, Blackface Styling with Silver Grille Cloth

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This amp is a good amp, depending on who you are. If you are a professional or a great player, ignore this amp. Buy a tube amp or something.

If you are a casual player, it will certainly 'work' but you will probably be desiring more. I have had it for 2 years and I have grown out of it.

As a beginner, this amp is perfect. It has enough tone controls for you to experiment, and a headphone jack can make sure you dont distrub your neighbors. The drive button is a little pointless once you start to figure things out, but its fun to play with as a beginner.

So if you are a beginner and this fits your price range, I would recommend it. Its a very good at-home amp, but it isn't quite loud enough for playing with friends. You can play loud enough to hear your guitar well at 'home practice' levels.

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For the price, this amp is great. You get a drive switch, so if you want you can dial in some crunch, you can. On the other hand, there are no onboard effects to speak of, so if you want an amp with flanger and chorus, etc. then don't get this one. Plus, the amp doesn't have delay, so the sound is rather flat. Still, by messing around with the Treble, Middle and Bass knobs and setting the gain to 4, I got a good hard rock tone going. Something to be careful of: The drive and clean settings are controlled by separate volume knobs. You could have a loud clean tone, but then the drive is quiet. Nothing some experimentation can't fix.

So, the pros and cons are:

PRO'S:

-Gets loud at "3" on volume knob

-Has cd/mp3 input (but you need an RCA cable. There's probably one that you can pirate from another audio device in your house.)

-Has headphone jack

-Has "drive" and gain

-Nice size and weight

-Excellent price for what you get

CON'S:

-No onboard effects

-No onboard tuner (who really cares?)

-Not footswitchable (this doesn't matter unless you want to go from clean to drive while playing)

-No USB or MIDI outputs

-Very prone to be affected by ground loops (This makes the amp buzz. I don't know if other amp models are less affected, as this is the only amp I have at the moment. If you wait 5-10 minutes, the buzz usually goes away.)

So all in all, this is a nice little amp to start out with and for practice. You probably couldn't annoy your neighbors with it if you wanted to. And if you do start with this model, you're probably going to want another one soon, or at least a pedal to spice it up. If you're looking for a heavy duty amp with everything imaginable squeezed into it, or one for recording, don't bother looking at this one anymore. There are many other models out there.

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Here's the deal, if you want built in effects, tuners, and other bells and whistles, steer clear and get a Line 6 or something. But for a basic amp that gets a decent sound this definitely fits the bill. I bought mine used for 40 bucks. My first impression of it was that it was a bit too bright . However, for it's size the low end sounded pretty fat due to it's closed back design. After rolling the treble way back (to about 3), cranking the mids, and bringing the gain down to about 4, I had a nice punchy blues tone with my Strat. Rolling the volume back on the guitar revealed a nice rhythm sound that was chimey with some grit. This was all in the drive setting. The Clean Channel is nice with lots of headroom at lower volume, but it doesn't keep up with the Drive Channel in loudness. Better off just turning down on your guitar in the Drive to clean up. I did some slide guitar at a recording session with this amp, and it sounded huge. If you gig with this amp put a mic in front of it and the sound man will love you. For a solid state cheapie, this amp can sound surprisingly good if you're willing to spend some time tweaking.

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I just bought this amp 2 days ago at GC. It worked for the first night and then died the second night. I was playing along to YT backing tracks with my lap tops line out to amps aux in and the amp just died. Ive read several message boards with posters that describe this same problem. Google: frontman15g input problems.

This Amp is good for a beginner. Bought it for my son, he likes it.

If you want to use the AUX IN to connect an ipod or mp3 player must connect using a volume dimmer (available at Radioshack for $8)