Fender Metal Head 550W amp???

feylya · 14-01-2005 2:14am #1

http://www.bananas.com/productdetail.asp/pid_8218/productname_Fender-METALHEAD-MH-500-Head

Anyone ever hear of this thing? Fender making an amp for metal??? Unheard of. By me at least.

SirLemonhead · 14-01-2005 2:50am

Yeah, heard of that. It'll never beat the 600 watt tube Crate head for most wattage amp though

feylya · 14-01-2005 2:52am

Where'd ya hear of it? Apparently that site is the only one with any reference to it.

It's not the wattage I was wondering about. It's FENDER making an amp with that amount of wattage and a name like Metalhead

SirLemonhead · 14-01-2005 4:39am

feylya wrote:

Where'd ya hear of it? Apparently that site is the only one with any reference to it.

It's not the wattage I was wondering about. It's FENDER making an amp with that amount of wattage and a name like Metalhead

Megadeth forums I think..

Yeah I know, Fender making a Metal amp is a bit bizzare, but I guess the trend lately has been for those kind of amps, what with the marshall mark 4 (can't remember the name, that might be wrong) being released after the recent huge success of the mesa boogie amps.

feylya · 14-01-2005 4:40am

Mode 4

And Mesa's success hasn't been recent. They've been going since the 80s.

SirLemonhead · 14-01-2005 4:41am

I know that. But they are THE amps to have I guess for all these modern 'metal' bands. They're associated with a modern metal sound.

feylya · 14-01-2005 4:42am

There's a surprising number of bands using Line 6 these days. But yeah, Mesa are the hi gain amp. Or at least, the most well known...

SirLemonhead · 14-01-2005 4:43am

Hehe yeah, the ENGLs and the like are gradually getting more recognition lately though.

feylya · 14-01-2005 4:44am

I was thinking more along the lines of Diezel...

But that's off topic. I'm trying to find out about this Fender

SirLemonhead · 14-01-2005 4:48am

Meh yeah those too, I don't feel like rattling off a list of all the amp manufacturers right now

There's a couple of makes lately that are becoming quite popular for heavy thicker tone.

Don't think there's a whole lot of information about it yet, as you know. Someone suggested that it might have a preamp tube because he saw a glow from the back of the amp in a promo picture, but who knows.

feylya · 14-01-2005 4:50am

The thing that worries me is the in built effects. Normally when they do that, they skimp on other bits...

SirLemonhead · 14-01-2005 4:52am

Ah yeah, I didn't realise it had 16 effects...those are going to sound wonderful I imagine

feylya · 14-01-2005 4:53am

Some of the Fender amps have nice enough effects on them tbh. I just don't like amps with digital effects unless they're modelling amps like Line 6.

Fender Metal Head 550W amp???

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