~1966 Fender Champ-Amp Black

Offered for sale;

Used c1966 Fender Champ Amp AA764 serial number A07641.

This amp is in excellent condition, fully functional and cosmetically showing some light scratching on the front panel and very minor scuffs on the Tolex. Overall presentation is clean.

Routine maintenance has been performed, the original speaker has been replaced with a Celestion Eight 15 G8C15.

This is unusual. Instead of the more common Woodward-Schumacher (mfr code 606) transformers this amp uses Better Coil & Transformer (mfr code 831) from January 1966. No complaint for the first 53 years. How ‘bout you?

The "Blackface" era Fender Champ features a modest 5-watt output into an 8” speaker. Produced from 1963 - 1967 the Champ is very desirable for recording both guitar and harmonica. A single 6V6 tube running in Class-A pushes the small speaker to its limits, producing a warm driven tone. The Blackface amps saw a couple circuit revisions before and after the CBS buyout, but in general the Champ amps of this era produce an amazing sound thanks to their brilliant, simple circuit design.

This is a great piece of Fender combo amp history, collect, play, record and enjoy!

“We test every used amp and pedal when we buy it and bring it up to our standards before we offer it for sale. Then we burn it in for an hour or so before we ship so that there are no surprises.”

AMP SPECS:

Weight lbs.: 18.2lbs

Width in.: 17

Depth in.: 6

Height in.: 14

TUBES:

Rectifier: 5Y3

Preamp: 12AX7

Power: 6V6

Speaker Codes: Non-original Celestion Eight 15 G8C15

TRANSFORMER CODES:

Power: 8316601

Output: 8316601

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