Fender Prosonic

[droptrd]

Im looking at one on CL. Good price. Everything ive read about them really has my GAS going. Though all the clips ive found are TGP style blues/jazz clips. Ive read this is fenders version of a dual rectifier. Any truth to this? Anyone have any experiance with the Prosonic?

 

[marvcus]

I've had 2 of them - heads. Both great. The clean channel is fantastic, starts to breakup about 3 (but it's also LOUD at that volume). Gain channel is also really good. Bruce Zinky designed it, so I took the next logical step and got a Zinky MoFo for a while. Gain channel in the Mofo sounds very SLO-ish and the clean is MUCH better in the Prosonic. I would definitely own another Prosonic. For the $$$ they are one of the best deals out there, IMO.

Prosonic has 2 gain controls - 1 for the gain and one for compression, so you can dial to taste. Mine played well with a Mesa 2x12 w/ V30s.

 

[King Crimson]

Friend of mine who works at guitar center has one. He used to have a Diezel Einstein and sold it, too much for him so he says.

He swears by it.

 

[droptrd]

Is there a difference between the custom shop versions and the non-custom shop versions?

 

[datriani]

I've owned a few Prosonics in the past and they are killer amps for the money. Reminds me of the Yamaha T50 or T100 that Soldano designed years ago which is based off the SLO. I know, someone out there is gonna disagree with me but ask Mike himself, very close if not the same design just different parts. But both amps had tremendous clean channels and a over the top lead channel.

 

[glpg80]

I've owned a few Prosonics in the past and they are killer amps for the money. Reminds me of the Yamaha T50 or T100 that Soldano designed years ago which is based off the SLO. I know, someone out there is gonna disagree with me but ask Mike himself, very close if not the same design just different parts. But both amps had tremendous clean channels and a over the top lead channel.

the yamaha is indeed a throwoff of the SLO, but just because the prosonic reminds you of it does not mean the prosonic is also a throwoff - two completely different beasts in their own right.

 

[datriani]

I think you misread my statement, I wasn't saying the Prosonic was based on the SLO, just that gain raunchiness "reminds" me of the SLO/T100 gain. You can disagree with me all you want if that's the case but tone and musicality is completely subjective.

 

[marvcus]

Is there a difference between the custom shop versions and the non-custom shop versions?

As far as I can remember (without searching), Prosonics were made in two places. If the serial number starts with LO vs. not tells you where it was made. The earlier ones had a footswitch "pop" when you went from clean to the dirty channel, but Fender issued a tech note on how to fix it. I don't think any one sounds better than the other. My 2 were pretty consistent.

They came in head version and 2x10. I hated the 2x10 because the sharp treble gave me a headache. The heads definitely sounded better, unless you disengaged the combo speakers and ran it through a better cabinet w/ better speakers.

If I was going to buy an amp under $1000, this would be the one.