Review Demo - Fender '57 Custom Pro Amp

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I’d never really played through a 15” guitar speaker before firing up Fender’s new ’57 Custom Pro-Amp. Sure, in a pinch I’ve jacked into a big bass amp when a guitar amp wasn’t available, but it never sounded good. So while not entirely skeptical, I approached this new spin on a classic tweed with a certain curiosity.

Wow! My ears are now open! As a fan of fat, low-mid-seated guitar sounds, I didn’t know what I’d been missing. But plugging into this 26-watt, thin-cabbed combo rewarded me with a rich, wide tone spectrum and uncompressed clear bottom end. And yet the high end was exactly as I like it—bright when appropriate, but never slicing. And it was impossible to get a bad tone, even when cranking the bass all the way off and the treble to the top—a sound I could certainly hear sitting in a song mix, if not onstage. But perhaps I’m giving away too much? Read on, read on.

The ’57 Custom Pro-Amp isn’t an exact reproduction of the Pro that Fender made in the ’50s, but it is inspired by the original amp’s 5A5 circuit, which was wired into a thin-bodied cabinet. The new iteration is still slim—standing 21” tall, but just 9” from font to back. The original versions had two channels and four inputs—two marked “instrument” and two marked “microphone.” The original Pros came with Jensen speakers. By all accounts, they were unsung heroes in the early Fender combo amp line.

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