Fender Champion II Digital Combo Trio
The Champion series combos are among Fender's long-standing bestsellers, catering especially to beginner guitarists. The manufacturer decided to innovate the series and the result is the Champion II collection, comprising the Champion II 25 1x8, Champion II 50 1x12 and Champion II 100 2x12 versions, with each model now offering a two-channel concept, multiple voicing modes, an effects section with push-button tap tempo, a mini-jack Aux In, a headphone output and a USB-C port for firmware updates.
Thanks to the aforementioned voicings, controllable via a rotary switch, the player has at his disposal traditional Fender clean or crunch sounds, as well as British-type distortion or more aggressive high-gain registers. In addition to a preamp unit with a range from jazz to country, blues to metal, there is a quickly adjustable tremolo, chorus, vibratone, reverb and delay/echo.
The Fender Champion II 25 – the smallest member of this series has a 25W power amp plugged into an eight-inch speaker, the single-channel preamp with Classic, Modern, British and Hi-gain mods features, volume, gain, bass, treble potentiometers and FX Level / FX Select effect parameters. Dimensions: 350 x 324 x 190 mm, weight: 5.4 kg.
Fender Champion II 50 – the 50W variant with a 12-inch speaker adds a second channel with the typical clean Fender-style sound, as well as a footswitch output. Dimensions: 438 x 438 x 229 mm, weight: 8.6 kg.
Fender Champion II 100 – with the flagship offering 100W of power and two 12-inch drivers, the first channel features a separate effects unit in addition to volume, bass and treble, which can also be found on the second channel with voicings, gain, volume and three-band corrections. In addition, the "100" also features an effects loop send/return. Dimensions: 483 x 660 x 260 mm, weight: 18.2 kg.
All combos are equipped with custom-made Fender Special Design speakers, the official prices are as follows: Fender Champion II 25 approx. EUR 140, Fender Champion II 50 approx. EUR 220, Fender Champion II 100 approx. EUR 350.
Whether you're looking for your first practice instrument or an affordable and relatively powerful stage gear for playing in a band, the Champion II edition can offer straightforward control and versatile enough options for any genre of music.
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