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Originally Posted by NateSmith
It's starting to seem like the Prosonic is the way to go for what we're looking for. We are definitely not looking for any scratchy, metal-harsh sounding distortion as stated w/ the jcm900. It looks like the Prosonic is no longer made so is there anything he should be looking for in a Prosonic (Qualities, models, price-range)??
The Prosonic is a strange beast of an amp- extremely varied.
Designed in the custom shop but mass produced as part of the Pro Tube range.
They came in 2 versions- a head and a combo (which I have)
Combo has 2 x 10 inch speakers, which are great- nice and tight sounding.
The Prosonic has a cascading gain stage on the drive channel.
using both gain stages it is heavily distorted and compressed- very modern sound for a Fender- loads of lovely feedback- warm, full, edgy.
The clean channel is not very clean- running above 3 and it is quite gainy itself, and loud as hell.
The rectifier is class A, AB or SS - switchable at the rear.
A note of warning if you want to footswitch live- there is a loud 'thunk' when you switch.
It was a design flaw, but you can get the amp modded to fix it- although I haven't.
Oh yeah- they are either black, red or a sickly lizard green colour.
Fender released a new amp this year called a 'Supersonic' that is very similar to the Prosonic and might be worth checking out.
I think they are around $1100, similar spec but have a bassman or vibrolux (switchable) clean sound plus the cascading gain stage from the prosonic.
I saw one at Musikmesse but didn't try it out.
Hope this helps.