The amp is very, very good. I bought it as a practice amp and after two weeks remain quite pleased. The effects range is impressive. It may take a while your way through to any real understanding of the voices (16) and f/x (also 16) but the range is pretty interesting. In particular, the acoustic voice is surprisingly good. I plugged in my Gibson L130 (LRBaggs pickup & pre-amp) and was greeted with a fully natural sound (tube warm, to boot!), albeit without enormous volume. I was pleasantly surprised. My electric is a new telecaster and it matched the sound of larger amps quite well in the setting of my practice space (a large living room with wood floors & high ceilings. Is has enough volume in many of the voice combinations to practice with others (if the drummer holds back). The jazz voice (#15) is also clean. I suspect some will find a few of the voices redundant or over-similar, but the range is reasonable.

No accessories (it's an amp). The voice and f/x knobs are its real feature set. I set gain, volume, treble and bass at the middle position (5) for all my test run. I found myself with enough intermediate control on the guitar. As some of the voices are "overdriven" amps, volume changes between adjacent voices can be extreme (up & down). I'm not sure that's a flaw but it seems less than ideal. On the whole the f/x are nice samples. However, if effects are your thing, I suspect you will want to use your own stomp boxes (hence the 9). I have yet to use speaker out but the line out took the sound to a PA without trouble. I am 59 and have been playing guitar for 47 of those years. For the past 35 of them, I have been entirely an acoustic bluesman. It has been fun getting back into the electric.

Like I said above, all of the combinations of voice & f/x can be daunting (256 possible). However, as a group it really amounts to about thirty five combinations, the rest are really ranges within those. You can get in the ballpark of a particular kind of sound pretty quickly. refining it is a bit of trial and error tweaking. I have not minded though as it is also a fair amount of fun. The f/x knob is somewhat hard to read (one reason for the 9), however, it has proven easy enough to find a useful range to practice with. You will probably want to copy the voice & f/x select page and have it hand for a week to get used to it. The sequence is not intuitive at first blush until you read it and twiddle the knobs to hear it (the other reason for the 9). For me and a few friends it has proven great fun in the short run.

I have no complaints as of yet. Everything works fine and the amp has no manufacturing flaws that I can find. I did a pretty thorough look over when I bought it. It was a floor model, & I can't see that even that sort of use was much detriment to anything except the temporary paper label. My experience with Fender suggests there will be few surprises here.

From my perspective this seemed and still feels like a great value. As someone who has spent equal amounts of cash on an acoustic pre-amp alone, This seems like a god value for a lot of sound options in a compact package.

I have yet to contact Fender for any reason.

I bought it after playing it for about 15 minutes. I wanted a practice amp and the tube sound was terrific. Even if I barely understood the finer workings of the voice & f/x controls, I dialed in appealing sound quickly and couldn't wait to get it home and play for two hours. I still grin every time I see it on its stand.It may be small but it does the job.

Serious amateur

blues & avant-guard experiments

A very full tube sound with a tremendous variety of sounds.

Reverb sounds great, it has a rich tone that sounds great with the Chorus or the tremolo. But whatever tube sound you like for a small combo this amp will do it.

very easy to understand and fine tune anyway you like it.

One of the top 3 or 4 small amps on the market.

An excellent buy considering it's versatility

Haven't needed any

Already have it and I'm keeping it.

Hobbyist but professional many years ago.

mostly blues, country and some rock

Great Amp!! Can't beat the price.. for a sound and versatility this good!