Fender Hot Rod Deluxe- should I??? - Page 2

RCGuitar · #16 12-30-2018, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by The Kid!

I forgot to mention that. The drive channel is terrible imo.

Very true.

I have one from 2003. The input jack used to be plastic. The new ones are metal. The drive channel has been modified along with reverb circuit in new ones. Volume pot has been modified in new ones to act like a volume adjust on home stero. The heat sink resistors were modified to be off the board a bit on new ones. Mine burned the circuit board from heat.

Great price. They are not hard to work on. I added a metal switch craft jack on mine. I recapped it, modified the drive channel and reverb and it is much better. I took mine apart and desoldered about 50 to 60 pieces and swapped them for other parts. I fixed the heat sinks too. Then I added JJ Eurotubes. Sounds great now. My first time modding something that large. Buy it. Clean channel is awesome. Takes pedals great.

KY000 · #17 01-02-2019, 05:46 AM

That's an unbelievable price for a HRD IV. They've only been out about a year. I paid $800 for mine.
The issues people complain about have been fixed in the IV. I used to own a III and understand the concerns.
The IV has a pine cabinet, Celestion A Type speaker, and an improved drive channel.

roylor4 · #18 01-02-2019, 09:40 AM

Depends on how you may use it. I had one when they first came out. LOUD. Nice cleans. IMO, crummy distortion channel. If it plays nice with your pedals then it may be a good deal. If not, I'd skip it or flip it. Good gigging amp, but a lot of juice for around the house. Fairly heavy if I recall.

Dwight · #19 01-02-2019, 10:46 AM

I had one of the early models and sold it. It has a bluesy sound and I like the the clean glassy sound of the blackface models.

ahorsewithnonam · #20 01-12-2019, 11:35 AM

One of the top selling amps of all time. There is a reason.....wonderful thick glassy clean channel. Takes pedals better than most any amp around. Used as a back line amp all over the country. The drive channel sucks, stock speaker sucks unless a special.

I have the HRDLX Silver Bullet. V30 speaker. Sounds wonderful. Loves my Bogner pedals.

ahorsewithnonam · #21 01-12-2019, 11:39 AM

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Some of my pedals

Jaden · #22 01-12-2019, 12:24 PM

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Some of my pedals

Looks good!

Roseland67 · #23 01-23-2019, 01:02 PM

If it is in good working order absolutely buy it.
It’s a good amp but needs foot switchable channels.

I had one, sold it 17 years ago and bought a
Mesa Boogie F 30, which I still gig with.