Fender Super-Sonic 22

[Duffy]

SuperSonic

I was definitely going to buy a SuperSonic 60 watt for 800, brand new; until I read about and looked into the Egnater Tweaker 15.

I wanted something that would give me heavy smooth overdrive, like the SuperSonic on "Burn". The reports indicated that the Tweaker was an awesome head. A dude I know that is a major local blues guitar player in a popular band and also works at a high class music store, told me about an awesome little amp he played that a mfg rep brought in to the store: the Tweaker. I told him I heard about it.

I ordered a Tweaker sight unseen and it turned out to be an awesome head. I had been moving away from the SuperSonic 60 to a Marshall DSL 100, an even nicer amp than the SuperSonic, but way more money.

The Tweaker provided me with the sound I wanted plus left me with a lot of money that I used to buy a nice Agile LP copy that I have always wanted; plus I still had considerable money left over.

In my opinion the Supersonic is way overpriced. A decent amp, but only touches in sound on other amps that produce that real nice overdriven sound that the "Burn" setting trys to give. Plus these other amps have a lot more versitility than the SuperSonic. I think my special edition tweed Hot Rod Deluxe sounds just as good as the SuperSonic, and they cost way less. I would imagine that SuperSonic sales are relatively low in the Fender lineup, considering the alternatives, as previously mentioned.

But I also agree that it's a subjective decision and you should do what you want, get what you want, and play through a lot of the alternatives that are within your price zone.

 

[MAXIFUNK]

Ok, so after having this amp on loan to me for the last month. I can truly say this a great amp and for the price it is truly a steal.
There is not a better amp combo out there for its price point or even higher for a low wattage amp. If you want to call 22 fender watts low. :socool

I have had this thing cranked and it gets plenty loud perfect for damn near any gig and miked its good for any gig. Build quality is spotless not a single flaw period, solid as a cinder block.

Ok, now on to the details of this amp the clean channel 1st.

It is very basic volume, bass, treble, & FAT switch classic fender clean tone but with 2 versions with and without the fat switch. Without the fat switch engaged it sounds like my Deville with the bright switch engaged. With the Fat switch engaged you get a more mid & bass tone with lots more bite to it. I love this setting wish it was on my Deville. You could use it as a clean boost lets say. As always sounds fantastic with pedals.

Now onto the Burn Channel-
Yes you can use it for metal maybe not the growl crazy metal but add a distortion pedal and it done without issue. I bought a ZZ TOP tab book last and never got around to learning the songs until recently you can get killer Texas blues, crunch tones all the way to Disturbed tones out of this amp at any volume levels. It does not have that over the top distortion my buddy's Marshall JVM205C has but for every tone you can get out of the Supersonic 22 it sounds just as good if not better with many tones and can do it at much lower volume levels which the Marshall JVM205C can not do very well. As my buddy said the older supersonic does compare to this amp all, everything I hated about the older version they fixed with this one.

Pros-
Light weight all tube American made amp.
Above average tones for any style of music except massive distortion tones.
Loud enough for any size gig.
Can be easily be hooked up to a larger cab 2-XX or 4-XX

Cons-
People's perception or misconception that fender is not cable of producing a good distorted tone.