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Fender ’62 Princeton Chris Stapleton Edition
With a 12-watt output from two 6V6GT tubes and controls for just volume, tone, and tremolo speed and intensity, the Princeton doesn’t look like it’d be up to much other than basement jams. But with a 12" Eminence replacing the original’s 10" speaker, this brownface reissue—a handwired version of the classic 6G2 circuit—has a muscularity that belies its size and power rating, and sounds impressively punchy and complex.
