Patrick Sweany and Laur Joamets Demo the Fender '57 Custom Pro-Amp | Fender

Nashville-based guitarists Laur Joamets and Patrick Sweany got the chance to demo the new Fender '57 Custom Pro-Amp, a sonically flexible amplifier built around a vintage all-tube circuit with rich, sparkling clarity and creamy overdrive when turned up.

"The Pro, I think, is the quintessential Fender tweed amplifier. It is what the name says - it's the professional amplifier," said Sweany. "It's very versatile. It's very smooth, can get jazz tones for a jazz player, but it is a rock-and-roll machine."

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Patrick Sweany and Laur Joamets Demo the Fender '57 Custom Pro-Amp | Fender

[titobattaglia]

Just got one. Quintessential swing amp, and great blues and rock tones as well. A beast to carry around!

[natetheannihilnater]

15 inch speakers have an iconic clean tone and overdrive sound. If i want something distorted ill go for a 2 or 4 x 12, but its hard to beat the clean tone of 15 inch speakers. gets an almost cocked wah sound, but not as harsh in the treble.

[rselp]

Great demo guys...thanks for clarifying my next amp purchase! Classic Fender tones abound!

[MrAnders]

Nice to see that they are using better coupling caps and that they all have the right orientation.

[diangara]

Got one recently. Had already just bought a couple of amps so definitely took a while to convince myself to pay the hefty price for it. Finally succumb to my GAS and bought it without being able to play it first. Hard to find vids that do it justice but I had a good feeling about it. Really glad I got it. So big and clear. But still more usable at low volume than my 5e3. Which was a nice surprise. I've found a great sound running it in stereo with a 62 Princeton reissue which makes an edge of break-up dream. The pro sorts out the lows/highs/clean headroom/ full body thing and the Princeton has the more aggressive low mids/vibrato/breakup. It's a great combination. Pro around 4 vol, Princeton 5/6. Best of both worlds. Highly recommended both amps. Especially together. Get them while you can. Both out of production now.

[Casey_J]

Those little chromatic runs that laur guy played sounded sweet! Great sounding amp.

[mattbortz]

I love these amps, I think the 15" sounds great, I would probably prefer the twin though for what I need. I had a chance to buy one used a week or two ago and I let it slip by..now I'm pretty sad.great work on these amps. People will always have something bad to say about something. If I ever have the chance to buy one. I'd like to think it'd be the last amp I buy lol

[arissp]

If you crank it the bass gets flubby and muddy like in a jtm ?

[markuslinnanen]

How does it take pedals? Is there harshness typical for tweed Fenders? Or tight compression?

[mikeymikeg]

Does anyone else here feel like the noiseless pickups are lifeless? Lacking that articulation that the strat is famous for?

[zz-npsr]

get your stratocaster and play the blues-plink plink plink

[todd.goslin]

For fear of pissing Rick amp sound wonderful. as do all things Fender.

[funkyjones]

The 57 Twin Reissue kicks this thing's ass. Much more punchy and focused.

[krisruston]

Wait a second - are those Illinois Capacitors in there!?! For the price of this amp, there is no excuse for such shit components. Fender can get away with that garbage in their standard PCB amps, but I'd expect more for $2500 USD.