- Tone Master Twin Reverb Guitar Amplifier, Black, with 2-Year Warranty

I’ve always wanted a Twin, mostly because they are well-respected, but they have been so heavy and so loud (to get the best tone) that I have always shied away. I have not tried to make an A/B comparison between my new Fender and a real ’65 reissue. There are plenty of those reviews on the internet and most seem to be fairly presented. My modeler is programmed with both a Twin and a Marshall JCM 2000, in parallel. That is my holy grail. I’ve only had the Tone Master Twin for a week, but I’m close to getting the Fender part of that tone from the Tone Master; while getting just the Marshall part from my modeler. It’s not there yet, but it is close. It takes analog pedals well, and my several modelers. I play in both a rock ‘n roll church band and a 10 piece oldies band with horns. For the latter, all I need is an amp with lots of clean headroom, some overdrive and reverb. The Fender has all of that. Then, why did I even bother to buy this amp if all my needs were met with just a modeler (and an excellent powered speaker)? Just because I can, and it LOOKS COOL!! The built-in attenuator is a big plus. The great, over-driven, compressed sound of a tube Twin is only available at the high end of its volume control; and that is incredibly loud. With the attenuator, you can get that same sound at six different volumes, from two watts (tube equivalent) to eighty watts. All, from its 200 watt class D amplifier. By the way, one watt is a comfortable, but not quiet, volume in my practice room. All In all, I’m glad I bought it and you probably will be, too. It sounds good, it is light weight, and it looks very cool. It is every bit a Twin.

I always wanted a Twin Reverb, but those good old traditional tube versions are just too loud and too heavy to lug around. I have another Fender modeling amp, but seemed to spend more time messing around with all the various amp options than I did playing my guitars. Then Fender turns things upside down, and instead of modeling a bunch of different amps, they focused all their attention and digital signal processing magic on dialing into the tone and dynamics of a classic Twin Reverb. Now I just turn it on, get the sweet tone and dynamics I want, and spend more time playing my guitars than messing around with amp settings. The attenuator on the back panel solves the volume problem and the digital amp and neodymium speakers solve the weight problem. The XLR output is a nice addition for live sound or recording and adds to the flexibility of applications for this professional quality amp. And did I mention that it sounds great? I bought through Amazon because I wanted it now and Amazon delivered it quickly and in good condition.

I'm still pretty new to the guitar world. This is my second amp. The first was a little 10watt that came with the guitar. This one is absolutely awesome. It gets super loud. The sound is amazing. Im waiting on a distortion pedal to see how well that works. All reviews that I've seen say it does great with pedals, so...we will see.

Incredible Amp, Horribly Ugly, trip hazard Power and Footswitch Cords/Cordage. SUMMARY so you don't have to read all my blathering observations that follow below, here is a quick summary; Great amp, tons of headroom, just note that if you use a processor and pedals for classic rock, blues etc, the tone settings of this amp will make or break your experience, at first I thought this amp was a P O garbage, then I lowered the bass, upped the mid, lowered the treble and put bright setting 'on' . Went from crap to incredible. There is no speaker out jack/provision, there should be. No effects loop, which is fine by me. ####My 1 star rating (hoping that Fender will take note*) is solely do to the idiotic cord management treatment in packaging, which gives us terrible looking, trip-hazard cords that will never look nice, nor straighten out and lay flat and neatly on stage.#### Gen review; The first thing I did was plug in my strat to the amp, direct, with no processor or pedals, I played a surf tune, which sounded authentic to the style, and very good, then I just 'noodled' around a bit, the tone was pretty amazing and my strat sounded like a strat, I kept all settings at '5' , which is usually a good starting point for an amp. Then accck!!!, plugged in pedals so I could check out southern rock/blues/texas/blues, as well as different pedals for classic rock, from Van Halen to Duane Allman, Bad Co, Skynyrd, Aerosmith etc...Terrible sound of the gate for these genres, acckk... all the magic sparkle that I get with my overdrive pedals for that nice SRV, Skynard with overdrive, and then the harder edged VH, etc stuff using distortion, delay etc, was totally unacceptable and painful to my ears, flubby, scattered, and just plain painful to the ears. My thoughts were that it does not take pedals well, at all. Then, before I put it back into the shipping box, I thought I'd try different tone settings on the amp itself, and was blown away in a good way. I set treble mid and bass to approx 4,9,4 respectively, with Bright Switch on, and wow, everthing cleared up, and I got most of the magic sparkle for the south/texas stuff back, not all, but most of it. I could go on for hours about pedals I use and why, etc, but I'll spare you lol... Suffice to say, the headroom of this amp is huge, I eventually tried this amp at 7 or 8, and it is more than you would need at stadium levels, though you'd be micd' anyway, the volume levels available will shock you , not surprise you, but shock shock you, and not painful to the ears if everything you plug into it was already giving you good sounds. Some amps sound like crap once you start turning them up, I put the attenuator full on, the highest setting and controlled volume with the volume knob for the 'true' testing. The attenuator at lower settings with volume knob turned up, gives you 'breakup' but it is not pleasant nor desirable, best us pedals for any overdrive or distortion, though I'm sure that someone out there may take a liking to the onboard attenuator, I can only see one good aspect of having it; volume-safety buffer, you can put it on the lower or lowest setting and subsequently not have the amp volume knob up on high by accident, risking structural damage to your home or occupants (yes, people can be 'structurally' damaged too). ------------------------------------------------------------ The Good; I have had the amp for a day, doing tons of A/B between this (Fender Twin Reverb Tone Master) amp and my other amps. So far, I find the amp to be incredible for Classic Rock and other genres, though testing continues, the biggest heads up I can offer is that if you're using processors and pedals, which you would definitely need for Classic Rock etc, amp tones at 5 are not going to work well if you pedals/processor is set up similar to mine, I found the amp needed to have bass set down to 4 or less, mid knob up, and treble down some, and bright switch on, otherwise the sound is horribly flubby, and scattered, clarity totally gone. I wasn't sure what the issue as, I think the biggest solution was turning the bass knob down considerably, and mid knob up. I indicated settings elsewhere in this review. (((Do make note if you rig up an ext speaker, it appears that the load this amp wants is 4 ohms, you can see that they are 8 ohm speakers but wired in parallel, so the actual load design for the amp is 4 ohms, not the 8 ohm designation that you see on the speakers themselves. However most of what I read indicates that hooking up an 8 ohm load (speaker cab) to a 4 ohm amp is not a issue, or not a problem.)))) The bad; The power and footswitch cords come to us in that industry-standard figure and 'wad' that makes the cords kinked and bent permanently, there is no excuse for this kind of packaging other than industry thinks it looks professional in packaging. I included a photo comparing what a neatly coiled up cord/s look like when straightened out and what waded up fig8 cords look like permanently. None of us want to be on stage with bad looking equipment and trip hazard cords that have bends all over them, shame on Fender for going along with the rest of the pack of mindless packaging designers that could care less how a cord looks and performs, they just want them to look good in the package. Rolled up cords (in a circle, even fairly tight circles) take up NO MORE room than the idiotically waded up figure8 configuration pervasive throughout industry. *I will change my star rating, if Fender acknowledges the cord issue and addresses it accordingly.

This is a great single Amp Modeler, that accurately captures the sound of the tube model, but it seems odd that they were so focused on that sound, that they left out some features that could have been easily included, such as an effects loop. I suspect that soon, similar future models will include these features and that this model will become obsolete, undermining the investment.

Big box arrived undamaged and what was inside made me very happy. The Twin is light, good looking, as loud as I can stand (variable voltages) and has delicious tone. Do yourself a favor and buy one. Sell the dog, hock the house, just buy one.

Does everything as advertised. Replicates the old '65 tube twins as close as possible. The greater the attentuator wattage level, the more it will "break up" with volume increase. It gets loud like an old tube version. A purist/amp guru or "gear-head" can probably spot the difference, but it's a chance to have a twin on a slight budget.

I absolutely love my Fender Twin Reverb Digital Modeling amp! My strat sounds awesome, My les paul sounds awesome AND my Fender basic acoustic/elec guitar sounds phenomenal! I am anxious to see how Fender improves these amps in future builds. I also hope Fender updates their Tone3 app to include the Tonemaster models!!!