I played a Fender Super Sonic for the first time Saturday...

[glip22]

Does seem cool. FWIW I read in one of the discussions that they are not built well at all at least the 60. I read the 22 has bad hum and channel pop. For what its worth as I have no experience myself. Maybe he got a bad one.

I'm an electrical engineer and opened my SS 60. The construction was crap. Wires barely soldered onto the circuit board and many cold solder joints. I stand by my comments on the 60. If yours is working for you, then great, but I think the construction and reliability of that model is garbage..

Not sure who you were directing this towards. I am not an engineer or a tech. I never had it opened up. I don't even know how old my 22 watt amp is. I did want to mention in case others were interested there is no hum or channel pop in mine. In fact I never had any issue with it.

Not toward you. I read the quote and some others in another discussion.

No worries, I just wanted to point out mine worked fine. So if there was any issues maybe they resolved them. Maybe I got lucky with mine. It's not my main amp but for what I use it for I don't have any complaints in function or tone.

What I read was from a couple of years ago. How is the noise floor in higher gain. Any hum on clean channel or is it a quiet amp. I like the way it sounds.

 

[TrueTone500]

Great sounding amp, and very well made.

 

[TX6Strings]

I've played a couple that sounded like crap on the gain channel, but recently tried one that sounded great on both and was rather impressed. Neat little amp!

 

[strungup]

Does seem cool. FWIW I read in one of the discussions that they are not built well at all at least the 60. I read the 22 has bad hum and channel pop. For what its worth as I have no experience myself. Maybe he got a bad one.

I'm an electrical engineer and opened my SS 60. The construction was crap. Wires barely soldered onto the circuit board and many cold solder joints. I stand by my comments on the 60. If yours is working for you, then great, but I think the construction and reliability of that model is garbage..

Not sure who you were directing this towards. I am not an engineer or a tech. I never had it opened up. I don't even know how old my 22 watt amp is. I did want to mention in case others were interested there is no hum or channel pop in mine. In fact I never had any issue with it.

Not toward you. I read the quote and some others in another discussion.

No worries, I just wanted to point out mine worked fine. So if there was any issues maybe they resolved them. Maybe I got lucky with mine. It's not my main amp but for what I use it for I don't have any complaints in function or tone.

What I read was from a couple of years ago. How is the noise floor in higher gain. Any hum on clean channel or is it a quiet amp. I like the way it sounds.

I am more of a rock player so I don't really have it past 1 o'clock when I play but from what remember it wasn't noisy at all even cranked. I have higher gain amps that have more noise on the gain channel for sure. No hum on the clean channel in either setting. No pops switching channels/ modes/ effects/ or reverb. For what ever its worth I played the original super sonics when they first came out and it didn't do much for me. I was looking for a light combo for when I am lazy and came across the one I have used. I liked the way it looked with black and gold theme so i decided to try it out and thought it sounded pretty good and wasn't hard to dial in a good tone. Since then it's gotten a lot of use and I never had one issue.

 

[rlord1974]

I've always wanted to try out the new Supersonic Twin. Anybody tried one of those?

 

[Mudder]

I think Greg Koch uses either the 60 or twin. Of course he can make anything sound pretty good. What I recall about the initial run was they were biased cold. Once you got them heated up they sounded way better.

 

[blackba]

I really like the SS. If the head came with a reverb tank it would be perfect.

The SS22 and SS100 heads do come with reverb. However, the SS60 head does not have reverb.

 

[Norton666]

is the 22 watt version loud enough to gig with?

EASILY loud enough to gig with. Im normally not a low wattage amp type of guy , but I have no desire to even try the higher wattage versions with as good as this one sounded. I cant imagine myself ever needing more volume than the 22 watter for my uses

 

[SFW]

I really like the SS. If the head came with a reverb tank it would be perfect.

The SS22 and SS100 heads do come with reverb. However, the SS60 head does not have reverb.

Gotcha. I haven't seen any of the newer heads. I remember really liking the 60 and thinking that they should have left the reverb tank in the head. I've always thought these were great sounding amps.

 

[Phrygian]

I owned the 60 watt head for a day and couldn't return it quick enough. It had a horrible buzz, and didn't have much mojo. I much preferred the Prosonic. Maybe a bad one out of the batch, but I was turned off. Glad you're digging the one you got!

 

[PBGas]

I owned the 60 watt head for a day and couldn't return it quick enough. It had a horrible buzz, and didn't have much mojo. I much preferred the Prosonic. Maybe a bad one out of the batch, but I was turned off. Glad you're digging the one you got!

Sadly, I had the same problem when I tried one. So wanted to like it. I see that they have updated the eq setup on the 100w head. That should work nicely.

 

['63-Strat]

An old guitar player in one of my bands had a 60 watt head and 2X12 cab. I thought it was pretty good, didn't blow me away but could easily be how he set it up too. It's a pretty good OD channel for a fender amp, much better than the evil twin etc. but at the same time wasn't as good as say the tonemaster etc.

 

[racerevlon]

If I was in a blues/rock cover band I'd seriously look at the 20 (22?) watter...

 

[gibson08]

I really like the SSs, played the 100s quite a bit now at this point, the guys at GC are probably waiting on me to actually buy one , but I think they have lots of capabilities. I have not played the 22 very much though, but it seems pretty cool as well. Funny I posted a thread about them a month ago, but got about 4 replies, guess I am not in the "clique" after all