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I've had this amp for almost 2 years. There's something that makes me feel like a member of the Wrecking Crew when I rehearse with it. A great Blackface/Silverface in a tiny package!

My first amplifier was a 1964 vibro champ. After years of owning it and constantly having people offering to buy it from me, I gave in and took an offer I couldn't refuse. I've been chasing that sound ever since.

I think it's entirely wrong to classify this as a practice amp as some suggest. I have one and get great pleasure playing through it, both at home and in a rehearsal studio through a Marshall 4x12 cab it's huge! That's why I own the Vibro Champ...nothing to do with practice 🙂

I’ve been a Fender tube amp junkie all my life. That definitely doesn’t disappoint!

Sounds fantastic. If you don't need gig volume, then something like this is the way to go.

Great review! I've had the same amp for a while now, and I love it. Another online reviewer called it "more like a mini Princeton". I'd say that's fair. Amazing how versatile that amp is. Congrats on the purchase! And thanks for sharing.

Owned this amp for just over a year now, and I agree with everything you said, awesome amp for clean tones but takes pedals like….well a champ 😊

This is the best Amplifier Combo you can get. I have about 30 vintage tube amplifiers and now I want to get this Amplifier. The next one is the Lacquered Tweed Princeton reverb with a 1x12 Cannabis Rex Speaker. THANK YOU-Shane

Great tones for sure. I like the dynamics and that it really highlight the differences between the different guitars.

Great playing as always, Shane, and a good review. It's super clear what the amp sounds like - and it sounds great. As great as it sounds, it all reminds me of how I just don't love the black/silver Fender sounds. Thank you for saving me from my Princeton urges! :) I have a fuzzy tweed heart...

What a fantastic purchase, Shane! Sounds so good!! 🤘😊👍

I’ve always wanted one of the Fender ‘68 Custom series amps and this Vibro Champ has changed my perspective of it. I was really looking into buying the Pro Reverb but in reality, I don’t need another 40 + watt amp. The Vibro Pro has that great ‘68 Custom series sound that I can play in my office!! I think this will be the next purchase!!!! Thanks!!!😎😎🎸🎸🎸🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾

Thanks Shane I was on the fence for this amp but I think ya pushed me to purchase. Keep up the great work!

I feel the same about my 65 Fender Princeton Reverb reissue. Its perfect in my NYC apartment with volume @ 2.5 = gorgeous "Cleans" - Good Luck with your new amp.

Wow...thx Shane. I will be running out to demo one today based on your video! Remarkable tone and as always great video buddy!

That entire line of the silver face reissue is great. I bought the deluxe reverb about 10 years ago, have cycled through a number of amps, and still come back to the silver face deluxe.

Hey Shane Good decision that amp sounds amazing. The clean tone is to die for !

Sounds Beautiful Shane , and Beautiful playing

I played one of these in a shop whilst looking for a new guitar. I was so close to just walking out with this amp and forgetting about the guitar. It sounded incredible.

Don't know what the amp sounds like in person, but the guitar player is amazing amazing amazing!!!! Big thumbs up 👍👍👍

That smile says it all really. One happy boy! Sounds wonderful, and I’d be interested to hear how it sounds with various humbuckers with the same mic set up, in your own time of course 😁

Thanks! I agree, it sounds fantastic!

My go-to amp for the daily practice. Even better than the ‘57 Custom Champ IMO. The Blues Junior IV is my second best option with the Master Volume set very low.

I bought a 77 Vibro Camp brand new for like $125, still have it, still play it. People are amazed as you,said about all the sound that comes out of it.

Sounds sweet. Beautiful built in effects, and plenty of oomph for a small studio/bedroom. May have to start saving my pennies (again)!

Another good review. You have really good insight on how to dial in amplifiers. This amp blew me away the first time I tried it at a local guitar shop. There were many amps there and the Champ was the only one anyone was using to test out their guitar after it was repaired. I’ve got amps for every occasion but I have found this little fella works really well with any big hollow body, ES-175 or similar. And yes I got one! It’s like my Vibro King had a baby.

Ethereal sounds with both reverb and tremolo. Happy New Amp Day. Cheers and enjoy.

Sounds great, and new studio is wonderful mate!

It’s a great little amp. I’ve played it in some local stores and really like it. It’s on my shortlist for my next amp purchase.

I’ve got a silver face VC and I’ve always loved it. With reverb it’s perfect.

You're right that sounds super nice. Great video as always Shane. Enjoy your day brother ☮️❤️

Nice video! I've had mine a few years now and just love it! I play at home so it's the only amp I need. No need to replace speaker or any of that nonsense, it great as is...

I like it Shane, it’s a great apt amp. I’m definitely looking into getting one.

A big thumbs up! I like the way you do your videos.

Great amp and I love the lunch box size. Throw a mic in front of it if you are playing with a band. Crazy that it still sounds so good with that Celestian Ten in it. I bought one of those speakers for a 90's Marshall combo amp and it worked well but never thought it could get that chimey with a Fender amp.

Killer sounding amp Shane! 🔥🔥🔥

I’d love to see a long term review of this amp.

I like a lot of the 5 watt tube amps. I have a Fender 600 champion that I really like. Only a volume control on it. Got an Epiphone Valve Junior head that sounds great. Just a single volume control on it also. It sounds great with no effects. The Bugera V5 is another one I own that's a good little amp. Guess I'll have to try out one of these Vibro Champs now. It sounds great in this video.

The Fender Vibro Champ Reverb amp sounds great without being too loud and should serve you well for doing pedal demos.

Great demo. You didn't waste any time hiding the product with a lengthy unboxing. You showed it right up front and then cleverly inserted unboxing snippets to show how easy it was to get out and what came with it. Then, you ran through all the permutations of the amp tones with brief but illustrative licks with two different guitars telling us how many pick ups and what the amp was set at. Superbly done. Puts 30 minute demos, with 5 minutes of talking and 5 minutes of unboxing and 5 minutes of showing the knobs before any tones played, to shame. Wish all demo videos were like yours.

Oh that is really great sounding!

What a beautiful, classic amp!

Great demo Shane,I’m getting one 👍🇬🇧👍

I’ve had this amp for 9 months and love it. Sounds just like you describe. I was looking into getting a speaker upgrade but it’s not as easy as I had thought. For a 5W amp it’s very loud. As it’s not too bassy it does soul licks nicely. Enjoy it ‘bra

Sounds lovely. I wanted one of these but ended up getting a pro junior instead because I couldn’t stretch to the extra money. They are pricey for a 5 watt amp but do sound fantastic. Im happy with my pro junior anyway.

Great sounds. That's the perfect bedroom amp. I always say onboard tremolo sounds better than a tremolo pedal.

I walked in to buy this amp a when it came out, but left with the Supro delta 10 for hundreds less. Not quite the same animal, but over a year later I still absolutely love it. Picked up a cheap Joyo sweet baby champ clone for next to nothing on the used market, does a surprisingly good fender clean at low volumes, a good option if the champ price is daunting. Paired it with a TC Hall of fame reverb, very happy with it.

The 68 custom series is truly awesome. The only one that I really didn't dig on was the 68 Princeton. The 68 deluxe reverb is truly unbelievable.

Man that thing just sounds amazing ! 😮😊

Sounds great but for a tiny 5W amp, it's prohibitively expensive being more than $800 at both Thomann and Sweetwater. I've been using the 1x12 15 Watt valve amplifier from Thomann (Harley Benton TUBE 15) / Monoprice (Stage Right brand). It's got a trio of 12AX7's and a pair of EL84's, a Celestion Seventy 80 speaker, and a built-in attenuator for 15W / 1W mode. It's effectively a Fender Blues Junior clone and I highly recommend it. Mine was purchased in late 2017 and so I've got a ton of practice on it. No rotary speaker effect but for less than half the price, that is not important.

Wow. That is beautiful. As u say, it sounds way bigger than it is.

Luv this amp, sounds soooo good!

I've had this amp for over a year now and it sounds really great. takes pedals well. Excellent cleans and add a overdrive pedal and it cooks! Also have a Line 6 modeler and both sound great! Get it!! Play it! Love it!!!

Morning Shane, from the United States. Have a supremely superb day!✨💎💎💎✨

That's lovely! I've had so many digital home amps over the years, always move them on. This could be a good tube option! Right now I'm running two Boss Katana 50s (ABY with Radial Big Shot) and it sounds pretty great...

delicious! Great sounding amp

Mate, Sounds great! Nice amp

I dont know how people complain about the speaker. Honestly, I've had Princetons with upgraded speakers, and i could only hear a very minimal difference. Even at 5 watts, this thing can get loud. The sparkle cleans are beautiful, and the digital reverb and tube tremolo sound aweome. The bottom line is for 1k , its definitely worth it

Those are some really amazing amps. Dynamite in a small package.

thanks a lot i dont know why your video didn't came before.thanks bro.really

Sounds brilliant, wow

Sounds great!

I actually gigged with that amp a number of times and it performed great

Dang if that Kiesel plugged into that amp isn’t the *best* on-the-edge-of-clean tone I’ve ever heard you get Shane! I might have to start saving my money….

I have actually taken my vintage silverface champ to rehearsals. It sounds good!

This was my first amp ever. In the mid 60's it was made black faced and had a larger cabinet. It was stolen in the seventies along with a Guild semi-hollow and a vox hollow body.

Oh, man, how I love that amp. I have a straight up 74 Champ, in the collection, which is just amazing and a studio go to.

Wow - $900 for a practice amp! Wish I had the disposable income to buy this, but I'd guess that this price is a non-starter for most of us who are looking for a "practice" amp. Sounds awesome, though!

Sound is great. Really cool Amp. 🙂

Oh, that sounds so sweet Shane! No wonder your buddies were urging you to break the bank and just buy it. An amp to keep you company during your long, cold Australian winter nights, eh? LOL from Canada! 😏🎸😎

Hello my friend this little clean sounding amplifier seems like I'm gonna need to buy one also my lab l3 sounds great being how good of a transistor amplifier but this little one I may need one also thank for the review

I'm really liking the fender bassbreaker tweed 7 watt tube amp I got in 2020, I use pedals for effects

Ive bought an engl fireball 25 with a cab for maybe a 200 more and this thing is a beast! Don't look at the metal background of engl - this thing does fantastic cleans, has an attenuator, a very broad eq and a line out with a power soak.

Awesome sound

Great Tone!!

Hi Shane. This video is surprised me. I have too Vibro Champ. The Beatles used in their late time Silverface Twin Reverb. I wish buy a silverface Twin Reverb but I am amateur guitarist, just playing free time. I bought Vibro Champ for this reason. But I can say that has super clean tones. I'm using with Fender Player Strat, Marshall Bluesbreaker Od and Stomp XL. I have many overdrive pedal but unfortunately they are don't with me. I didn't have time for crunch or overdriven tones, but usually I am tried some chorus, univibe, rotary effect by Stomp XL. It gives good reaction. I will try with my other guitars when I back to my home. I am waiting your review video, with your Tokai and jam track. Stay well.

On my shopping list too!!

Makes you want to sit around all day playing Hendrix tunes. (That clean tone on the edge of breakup is perfect for the Wind Cries Mary)

I use the Pro Jr. IV amp in tweed for a practice amp. It can gig if called upon to do so.

What a beauty looks like you have one of those new Plex Marshall amps

I watched this all the way through and you did a great job of demoing it. I have watched a lot of other KZfaqrs demoing this amplifier and for some reason it just doesn't gel with me. I do like the sound of the Black Star 10 6l6 and I think that will be my next purchase.

Wow, xcellent clean tone...

Sounds sweet as!!❤

What a fantastic amp. I’m intrigued now as I still haven’t traded in my tube Princeton yet . It’s unfortunately just too loud BUT even using an external attenuator is a bit of a pain just more wires n cords to hassle with. Fender Princeton TM still looking likely

@intheblues, Hi Shane after watching your review and a few others I went to try out a 68 custom vibro champ too with a strat and sg standard as well as compared it to a blues junior tweed Ltd. The blues junior sounded a bit fizzy and too loud for home or bedroom to be played quietly but man that 68 vibro champ had a nice clean and an even better grind especially with a few overdrive pedals in front. Sounds so good with my Gibson Sg Standard 61 as well as my Strat. I've got an EHX reverb pedal and compared that to the vibro champ and all I can say Fender did a very nice job with their digital reverb which sounds way better than my Ehx. Also love that the cabinet is made from Birch plywood unlike the blues juniors chipboard. I can't belive how good this thing sounds turned up 😊 Ps: Also tried the 68 custom Princton reverb which sounded very bassy and too loud turned up for home, however that little 68 vibro champ had that magic mojo ingredients in my opinion, even the guy in the shop said the same thing

Oh man that does sound sweet.

Love your channel! Wondering how the Super Reverb Tone Master compares?

Nice. I have the Bugera V5. Hmmmm I may have to take a look at this Fender since this does sound way better than the V5.

I agree. It sounds (almost) phenomenal, but the price for such a small unit is nuts. I can get hand made very good copy of real Fender Black Panel (all tube-7 tubes in total, point to point, high quality parts) for as much as USD 700. I will place an order next month. Fender's pricing policy is, if you ask me. overkill... At least for some of us... And this video convinced me to order genuine circuit.

Yeah, that amp has a sparkling clean sound. I really wanted that amp, only $400 more than my little Delta King 8 1wtt amp. I got it on a massive deal. I still wish I could have got that one though.

Sounds great! Congratulations on the new house!

Whatever you paid for it, it's well worth it. I have one myself, and it's amazing. It's just so versatile, and easy to get your perfect tone. I see you mentioning that it might not be gig-worthy, I would like to challenge that notion, as I have gigged with mine with no issues. Granted if you have a drummer who doesn't understand when to play loud and when to play softer ( e.g. a lousy drummer) then yes it might be difficult, but even then just bring 2 of them, either in stereo or wet-dry, and you are golden, or pair it with a different cab live, like a 4x12, 2x12 or even a large 1x12 cab. Or if you have an alright drummer, just mic it up, have it close to you, angle the amp upwards, and gigging with it is absolutely possible. I would say as a lead-vocalist and lead-guitarist, gigging with this amp ticks so many boxes, from good guitar tone and still being able to hear myself sing, and to not have crappy sound-guy issues, that I don't care if I might need to mic it up at a gig, because I would do that anyway with any other amp. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it is gig-worthy no matter what the circumstances are, but I will claim that in a lot of settings it is well able to hold its own. In any good 3-piece band, it shouldn't be a problem, unless your drummer sucks. And even in bands where you will have drums, bass, guitar, keys and vocals, you should be fine too. But beyond that is the moment you might start to struggle, however as I said, just bring another 5 watt amp with you, and you will have no problem keeping up with a busy band mix. Or get the Princeton instead, which is basically just a bigger and slightly louder version of this amp. Me, I will stick to my champ for now, although knowing my GAS issues I will likely get the Princeton as well at some point. Although the Princeton also suffers from these unwarranted claims of being difficult to gig with. Granted my claim is a generalization, but so is the claim that you would struggle gigging with it. The way I use my Vibro Champ is together with another 5 watt amp (a Laney Lionheart 5) in a wet-dry configuration. The Vibro Champ is the "dry" amp (damp actually, that tremolo is to die for), and the Laney is the wet amp. Both run at roughly the same volume, however the Laney is slightly louder and fuller sounding, with its larger cabinet and slightly higher headroom, which is why it is the wet amp, and the Vibro Champ being the dry amp runs just a little hotter. Running these 2 amps together is a glorious sound, and a sound that is absolutely loud enough both clean and distorted, for any band mix. Should I ever need to be louder than this, I can easily slave to other amps after them for wet effects mostly, but would honestly be overkill to do so. Or maybe just pair it with another cab live, like a 4x12 or even a 1x12 which will make it much louder. So please try to use the amp live before dismissing it altogether for live purposes. I guarantee you will be surprised at how well it can handle being used on stage. Of course be realistic, if you are in a death-metal band, and the other guitarist is using some glorious cranked 100 watt tube amp, any amp might struggle next to this. But if this is the case, this amp is not for you anyway, and what are you doing here?

I plugged into this amp a while ago while trying a guitar. It sounded amazing, the tremolo and reverb were unreal. But unfortunately i vowed to not buy a tube amp for a long time. I hope they will release a Tone Master of this amp some day 😀

I reckon i should bought one of these. Psionic Audio has put me off alot of amps though haha. The guy knows his stuff

Sounds really great! Do you advice it also for humbuckers? And do you know if it’s well built and easy to repair? I ask this because I own a 45 watt bassbreaker that sounds very good to me but I know it’s difficult to repair in case of problems…

Hey Shane, John bacon here. Long time no see! The amp sounds great, I've always enjoyed that clean bluesy funky sound of yours! I do have a unrelated question though - your wall art, is that all from displate? Looks awesome!

I've had this amp since it first came out in the UK. It's a wonderful amp. That said I'm reluctantly thinking of selling mine, I'm itching to try one of the new Marshall JTM Studios and the boss has a very strict 'one in, one out' policy for amps 😔

Love the clean tones, classic Fender all the way. I do not care for the natural overdrive on this amp, maybe with the right pedal?

Just a great amp to play at home or even to record wow