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PG's Rebecca Dirks is on location in Corona, California at the Fender Amps Factory. In this video we get to follow a Fender Eric Clapton Amp from start to finish. Watch our video demo of all three Eric Clapton signature amps here.

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In the way on 07/16/2012	What great comments on here! People whining about outsourced production and American jobs lost to Asian countries, alternating with people complaining that Fender's American made handwired amps cost too much... I'll offer you an American made handwired 100W 2x12 amp for less than $500. If you want to work 14 h/day for me. And for less than a paperboy's salary. Aaaaand if you allow me to poison your drinking water, too. Here's to ultra-capitalism and complete deregulation! Cheers!
wood on 06/29/2012	Love to have one but price is insane. Why can't I find info on how to Tweak a silverface? I have a 71 Twin with added distortion in one channel, reverb in both and channel switching added, but would like a smaller amp that also screams. The tech that Hot rodded my amp, told me of a trick to put a jumper in center RCA hole of reverb and send making the amp crazy overdriven like Hendrix, but its also too much and may not last as he warned so only tried for a few minutes. But there has to be a way to make it full time by stacking preamps. He deleted my Vibrato and think he used that pre amp.
Moises De LaTorr on 05/09/2012	I saw the tour, there is actually other testers besides the sound tester that test the electronics of the amp. All the sound tester does is see if theres any final mistakes like hum, or buzz in the units.
disappointed on 01/04/2012	No ESD protection, assemblers just tossing the amps around like they are being sold at Crap-Mart, and their "Inspector" doesn't know what he's doing, "If I have time I look for like missing stuff like labels and stuff..." I wouldn't pay $1000+ for it, I don't care who's name is on it.
Captain Bb on 11/14/2011	So, Fender's only QC is to make sure the ground is good and then quickly play some piped music through it. I like the way they always set the European models to 230 volts - this is incorrect for UK voltage, which should be 240 instead.
D. Rizzuti on 11/11/2011	You can buy an original tweed amp for a grand, so the retail price is too steep. I own a total of six original Fender Amps from the 60s and 70's. They all sound different, and they all serve a purpose. My current favorite is a Brownface Deluxe from 1960. It has that magic combination of being fairly clean yet throaty at low volume and quite menacing when pushed. The later Deluxe Reverb I own is different, with less growl in the midrange and a later breakup when pushed. Those amps are only a few years apart, but changes to the circuit design, transformers, plate voltages, etc. make them very different sounding. We must give credit to Leo Fender for designing the best sounding amps possible, most 'improvements' since his tenure ended in 1965 have been a step towards reliability and cost rather than musicality. It is great that Fender still takes the time and trouble to design and hand wire circuitry. I hope they keep up the good work! I don't know if they still use interleaved transformers, that makes a difference. I am sure they are not using original RCA blackplate tubes because those have been out of production for decades, that also makes a difference. Do the new reissues follow the exact same circuit design as Leo Fenders originals? Probably not, that also makes a difference. The new amps will have their own character which will be useful and popular only if beginning guitarists can pony up $1,000.00 for a six watt practice amp with an 8" speaker. I suspect they won't and instead get stuck with an inexpensive solid state import which will do nothing to inspire them to continue on with the instrument.
Dr. J on 10/30/2011	Cool video--I wish I could keep my workspace that tidy! Good for you, Fender, for getting in on the handwired, boutique craze. After all, you folks created the originals. As for the price? Well, that's for another discussion.
DP on 10/21/2011	We are going to see one day just exactly HOW much is mfg. overseas. One day we are going to find our cash worthless and just try to find much of anything in any store. Once other markets are built up enough, we will be dumped ,without apologies. THEN try to buy boutique anything.Let alone normal anything.
FatPig on 10/12/2011	Tone snobs. You gotta laugh. Those old amps that were the benchmark also used some suspect components for the day. I hate it when someone tries to push something on someone cause they think its better. Better is defined by the person not someone else. Just go to 100 concerts this year...bet you'll see 100 different approaches.
Coot on 10/10/2011	It wouldn't matter how good the soup was. Or even if it was free. Somebody isn't gonna like it. And others will. Then there is also the ones who never tasted it. But they somehow know that it is BAD and the soupmaker should be shot, whipped, or otherwise demoralized. This is the world today. Comments sections invite the dissent from the unknowing and the unwilling to learn. As well as the enlightened who just get fed up with the drivel from the snivelers. These amps sound good. To some they will sound better than anything else. To others they won't sound good at all. To the likers I say "Buy 'em" and to the dislikers I say "Go Away and buy something else". Baskin Robbins made 31 flavors because they knew they couldn't please everybody.

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