Thursday, 27 October 2011

Fender Frontman 25r amp modding



This amp is the bullocks !
And perfect if you wanna play psychobilly.

It's pretty basic. You'll get 2 footswitchable channels, 3 band eq, headphone jack, aux in and spring reverb.

It has a very nice crisp clean sound.
Drive channel might be a bit on a heavy side for some but not bad if you like a classic hard-rock distortion.
If you'll plug in your favorite overdrive or distortion pedal into the clean channel, it'll be guaranteed not to offend your ears.
This amp doesn't mind pedals.

I really like the reverb in this little baby.
Under the hood there's a real spring reverb tank and it's quite sensitive which means you can get that really spooky 50's horror movie graveyard sound.

Description says that its for home practicing but
with minor modding you'll get a small but vicious amp that doesn't let you down at the band practice and/or when gigging.

So lets get down to it.

Essential thing that you want to do, is change the speaker.
I chose Eminence Ragin' Cajun' (10" 75w)

First of all it'll really brings out that nice Fender clean sound
And second, it'll let you crank up the amp without any speaker distortion or farting.

To remove the old speaker, first undo the speaker connectors at the back of the amp. Then undo two black screws on the sides of the amp. These are holding the grill so be careful not to let the grill fall out when you do that.
When removing the old speaker from the grill, first caution you must take is to remove as much of the green sticky stuff around the bolts.
That's there to prevent the nuts from unscrewing themselves due to vibration. If you don't do that you'll risk to destroy the counter thread which holds the bolt in place
and the result is loosely turning bolt with stuck nut on it i.e. very bad and nearly hopeless. (If that happens, you'll need a junior hack saw)

After you've removed the old speaker, its time to drop in the new one. Note the speaker connector position, anywhere between 9 and 12 o'clock is fine.
Attach the grill back to amp and connect the cables (black is - and white is +)

And you're ready to rock !

1 comment:

  1. Best mod you can do to this amp, turns it into a monster.

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