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A fun and affordable tribute to a rare and historic Fender amp. The new Champion 600 is a 5-watt tube amp with a 6 in. speaker and 1950 “two-tone†looks. Fender added a higher-gain preamp circuit to let the overdriven tone exceed that of the original, and they also added a choice of high- or low-gain inputs. Internal speaker jack enables use of a larger speaker cabinet.

Fender Champion 600 Guitar Combo Amplifier (5 Watts, 1×6 in.) Features…

Model Name: Champion 600

Model Number: 2330100000 120V USA

Series: Vintage Modified

Type: Tube Amplifier

Output: 5 watts

Ohms: 4 ohms

Speakers: One 6 in., 4-ohm Special Design driver with ceramic magnet (0073904000)

Channels: 2 (Instrument and Microphone)

Controls: Volume

Covering: Brown and blonde vinyl covering; vintage-correct 1950 “two-tone” cosmetics.

Weight: 15 lbs. (7 kg)

Dimensions:

Height: 11 in. (28 cm)

Width: 12 in. (31 cm)

Depth: 7.5 in. (19 cm)

Tube Complement:

1-12AX7A

1-6V6

(diode rectifier)

Accessories: None

Introduced: 1/2007

Buy Fender Champion 600 Guitar Combo Amplifier (5 Watts, 1×6 in.)

"Shop before you buy.. there are other way better amps in this price range! Look at the much maligned Crates"

Has one sound… Bad! I expected so much more! This is one Fender that let me down!

Better amps for less out there

Built nice…Looks great… Just let me down

a customer from gmail.com (1/1/2008)

Pretty Tone in Small Package

I've had it for 3 months so far and I love it. I play it at home and I like how I can get overdrive tones w/out playing too loud and make the neighbors mad. The amp has natural overdrive around 10. You only have a volume knob but that one sound you get is pretty sweet. I run a few pedals with it and it sounds great – Keely Java Boost / Tube Screamer / Boss BD2 and they all sound great through it. You can really overdrive it and it gets quite loud.
The only complaint is that the power tube it comes with is crap – it blew out once I started running pedals through it. I had to replace it.

Mr Mr from Houston (Feb 21, 2009)

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Featuring 24 amp channel models — both the clean and distorted channels of 12 popular amps for the first time anywhere — plus 11 editable preamp “stomp box” effects and 11 editable post-amp “rack” effects with dual-parameter control. Players can use up to five effects simultaneously. When used with the optional Peavey Sanpera foot controller, the possibilities further expand from 12 in-amp presets to 400 programmable presets, with an on-board looper and more. The Vypyr also acts as its own computer audio interface, with a built-in studio-quality USB 2.0 output on most models that is recognized by computers as an audio device. The entire six-model Vypyr Series features the easy-to-use Peavey WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface.

Vypyr Series

Peavey proudly introduces its new Vypyr Series modeling guitar amplifiers, the most technologically advanced and affordable guitar modeling amplifiers available.

With double the processing power, models and effects of competitive modeling amplifiers, the Vypyr Series dramatically redefines the power and scope of modern guitar amplification. Vypyr amplifiers are based on a combination of powerful 32-bit, floating-point SHARC processors and patented TransTube analog circuitry.

Featuring 24 amp channel models–both the clean and distorted channels of 12 popular amps for the first time anywhere–plus 11 editable preamp “stomp box” effects and 11 editable post-amp “rack” effects with dual-parameter control. Players can use up to five effects simultaneously. When used with the optional Peavey Sanpera(TM) II foot controller, the possibilities further expand from 12 in-amp presets to 400 programmable presets, with an on-board looper and more.

The Vypyr also acts as its own computer audio interface, with a built-in studio-quality USB 2.0 output on most models that is recognized by computers as an audio device. The entire six-model Vypyr Series features the easy-to-use Peavey WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface.

Peavey Vypyr Tube 60 Guitar Combo Amplifier (60 Watts, 1×12 in.) Features…

60 watts (rms)

One 12 in. custom voiced modeling speakers

One 12AX7 and four 6L6GC tubes

Four channels

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) technology

True analog distortion

24 Amp channel models

11 Editable pre-amplifier “Stompbox” effects

11 Editable “Rack” effects

12 On-board programmable presets

Up to 400 presets with optional Sanpera(TM) II footswitch

Dual parameter FX control

Up to five FX simultaneously

32 bit floating point Sharc processor

On-board Looper with optional Sanpera(TM) footswitch

Chromatic tuner

MIDI In/Out

Studio quality USB interface

MP3/CD/Aux input

Buy Peavey Vypyr Tube 60 Guitar Combo Amplifier (60 Watts, 1×12 in.)

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Don't waste your money

Crappy sounding amp with crappy digital effects that don't work half the time. Mine fades out when it heats up, then dies. I was warned before I bought it but was stupid enough to buy it. Don't expect a warm Fender-like clean tone. It has a brittle, thin, harsh tone. The distorion is computer-generated suitable for a kid who wants to make a lot of noise. Saving the presets is also a problem. Change one parameter, you have to change them all. Knobs and dials are hard to read. Cheap speaker, lousy tubes, lousy cabinet.

Rockman1969 from Somewhere in Florida (Jan 28, 2009)

For guitar… no. For bass… maybe. For vocals… definitely. It only has one channel with knobs for Post/Punch, Mid, High, Low, and Presence. It's got a nice 15 inch speaker (I think that's the size) and suits the job it's playing right now just fine.

At first, I had my guitar running through this thing and it sounded horrible. But later on I got a halfstack and let my bass player borrow it. But weeks later, he got a Crate bass halfstack and now we're using it for our vocalist with a Peavey Studio 148 hooked up to it. It hardly gets any feedback and I personally think it's better as a "budget PA system". So I see this as a really nice 60 watt "vocal amp".

It's a trusty amp, but that sucker is just too damn heavy! My halfstack is lighter than it and it's nearly 4x the size. If it just came with some good quality casters (instead of going out and buying a cheap pair that fall off a week later) it would rule.

I doubt I would buy it again. The only reason I got it is because of the price which was practically a steal. So I said what the hey and got it. But since everyone in the band is poorer that sink scum, it's doing a perfect job for vocals.

Jay Graf (09/16/1997)