Fender Champion 600 amp Vs. 1973 Fender Vibro Champ

This is a demo of a Freshly rebuilt 1973 Fender Vibro Champ Vs. 2007 Fender Champion 600. For the test I used a home built strat and a reverb unit I just built with a Hoffman poinit to point board.

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• 600
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[vintage27guitar]

I agree.

[vintage27guitar]

I agree -

[vintage27guitar]

I rebuilt the amp myself. You can get most of the parts from places like Mojotone or Tube Depot. 

[bluesclaudio056]

the big amp was a tone master?????

[vintage27guitar]

@bluesclaudio056 - No - a 62 Bassman

[Mural]

You can hear the mid cut in the champion 600. It still baffles me why they didn't think it worthwhile to make that switchable.

[vintage27guitar]

I have since added a bright cap - for lowever volumes and a nice Weber Alnico speaker. Much Better.

[Lovemylovething]

They both sound good, but I prefer the slightly warmer tube tone on the Champion 600. The Vibro sounds more like a modern hybrid, still good tho.

[UKToneKing]

@slpplexi1969 the vibrochamp did not have the bass my bassman had through it's cab, I must stress that, but that is due to how much my bassman can put out, with the bigger transformer ect, but it's tone was their, and the natural tube overdrive of the vibrochamp sounds amazing through a 2*12, even through it's 8" it sounds good, thinking of boxing the original speaker up, and sticking a weber in mine, not alnico tho, I am looking for headroom, have U tried any other speaker ? results ?

[UKToneKing]

@slpplexi1969 I understand that, but the 600 is no match for the vibrochamp IMO, we hooked a 600 up to a 2*12 cab, and it still sounded avarage, we did the same with the vibrochamp and it sounded like a bassman, it was as good as my 1971 bassman 50, the circuit on the vibrochamp is far better than the 600, if U had to compair it to an amp today, the vibrochamp would stand along side a princeton amp, with no reverb, which they don't make anymore, but if they did, that is what range it would be in

[slpplexi1969]

@UKToneKing I hope you realize that it would sound much better if you were in the room with them. This wasn't recorded in a studio.

[UKToneKing]

your vibro champ sounds no were near as nice as mine, mine sounds better than both of these amps, not sure the vibro champ was set up right here, it comes across with a lot less bass than the 600, and as the 600 does not have a knob for this, U should be setting the vibro bass to 10, to make it even out, I have played the 600, and it is no were near as nice as my vibro champ, do U agree ? vibro champs are better amps, if they made them today, they would be in the £850 price bracket, 4times a 600

[jamesincharlotte]

Just bought a 73 vibro champ too. Haven't got it yet but who rebuilt yours and how much? Thanks

[YourNameHere136]

@bondman00794 i have an older one