{"id":8972,"date":"2010-05-10T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2010-05-10T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:38:52","slug":"sizing-down-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8972","title":{"rendered":"Sizing Down A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did something this weekend that I should've done years ago; I traded my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe<\/a> for a tiny little practice amp: Fender Vibro-Champ XD<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Hot Rod put out 40 watts and weighed 45 pounds. It had a gorgeous<\/i> clean tone, but the overdriven sound never did anything for me - at least at volumes I could use in our house. I could put various pedals in front of it to get a better crunchy sound, but I hate fussing with pedals. And since I never joined a band, or played it anywhere but the bedroom\/study in the 14 years I had it, I never turned either of its volume knobs above \"1\". But after starting married life, I bought it to be<\/i> a bedroom \/ practice amp, having traded my giant Fender Super Amp<\/a> (which also sounded amazing) for it. I figured 40 watts would be just right for a bedroom - much more practical than the Super's 60 watts. <\/p>\n

In retrospect, that's like thinking the best car for someone with a 2 mile daily commute is a new 400hp Corvette - hey, it's not as fast as the 660hp Corvette Z1, right ?!<\/p>\n

It was totally wasted. <\/p>\n

This little Vibro-champ, though, is only 5 watts, so I can turn it up and let the tubes work a little bit (though even 5 watts can put out more than enough volume for my needs). Instead of a big-ass Corvette, this is like a little Triumph Spitfire - it's fun to drive around the block, and sure it'll only go 90mph, but that 90 feels like<\/em> 160! And, even better, this little thing has built-in amp modeling, so it can sound like 16 different amps - including one or two that sound a lot like the Hot Rod's clean channel, and a few that sound like crunchy chewy awesomeness. So, I can still get my rawk on, but I don't have to shake the drywall loose to do it.<\/p>\n

Check out this demo:
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(no, that's not me)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did something this weekend that I should've done years ago; I traded my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe for a tiny little practice amp: Fender Vibro-Champ XD. The Hot Rod put out 40 watts and weighed 45 pounds. It had a gorgeous clean tone, but the overdriven sound never did anything for me - at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}