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| | | Pedal Steel Guitar | Home » » Fender Frontman 212R Electric Guitar Amplifier | | | | | | | Description: | | Our great-sounding, top-selling 100-watt combo gets a makeover! Fender Frontman amps deliver quality tone at a great price, with the unmistakable Fender Blackface look.The 100-watt Frontman 212R features two 12" Special Design speakers, classic styling, simple controls, drive and more drive distortion and channel switching, and reverb. Oh yeah—and it’s really loud! One of the best "bang-for-the-buck” amps you'll find! | | | Features: | |
• 100 Watts into 4 ohms
• 2-12" Special Design 8 ohm, 50 watt Speakers
• Three Selectable Channels (Normal, Drive and More Drive)
• Controls: Normal Channel: Volume, Treble, Bass. Drive Channel: Drive, Volume, Channel Select Switch, Treble, Mid, Mid Contour Switch, Bass, Reverb.
• Additional Features: Dedicated Volume and Tone Controls in Both Channels, Effects Loop, Footswitch Jack (For Remote Drive Select with Optional Footswitch), IEC Grounding Type Power Supply Cord
• Additional Features: Dedicated Volume and Tone Controls in Both Channels, Effects Loop
• IEC Grounding Type Power Supply Cord
• Controls: Normal Channel: Volume, Treble, Bass. Drive Channel: Drive, Volume,
• Additional Features: Dedicated Volume and Tone Controls in Both Channels, Effects Loop,
• Channel Select Switch, Treble, Mid, Mid Contour Switch, Bass, Reverb.
• It supports 100 watts into 4 ohms.
• It has three selectable channels as normal,drive and More drive.
• Footswitch Jack (For Remote Drive Select with Optional Footswitch) IEC Grounding Type Power Supply Cord
• Footswitch Jack (For Remote Drive Select with Optional Footswitch), IEC Grounding Type Power Supply Cord
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 28.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 12.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 22.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 48.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 29.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 22.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 12.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 49.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Great ampAug 24, 2010
By A. Taylor
"Kaleidyscope"
I've had my Fender FM212R for about a year now. Before this, I had a Roland Cube-15 practice amp, but after joining a band and becoming the lead guitarist, I realised I needed something more powerful for gigging and jamming with the rest of the band. I looked at Marshall, Vox or even getting a larger Roland, but then my prayers were answered with the Fender FM212R.
I got mine for about $550AU, which is cheaper than most going retail around here. It's 100watts, affordable and has a lot of firepower.
The Good:
Being 100watts, it has huge volume. I've gigged at clubs and pubs never needing to put the volume knob over 2.
The clean channel sounds great!
It has a reverb control on it that gives some great sound too.
It's affordable for the careful-spending musician
It's a Fender
The Bad:
The Footswitch on mine broke a couple months after purchase, which was annoying, although I normally use effect pedals anyway
You might find yourself fidgetting with the distortion channel for long amounts of time, trying to find a halfway decent setting
I would definitely recommend this amp if you're looking for something that packs a punch with volume but you don't want to spend thousands of dollars. It's great both for practice and for gigging.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Fender Rocks!Aug 13, 2010
By William G. Taylor
I purchased this amp after going through over 70 reviews on various sites. It is everything they say it is and more. Very clean and LOUD. I found the two effects channels to be quite adequate, although I don't do a lot of heavy metal. The "More Drive" channel can seem a little tinny, so turn the treble down a touch if you are going to use it.
The construction is bullet-proof, just like the older tube amps Fender made in the sixties and seventies. It even sounds remarkedly like a twin reverb. The difference? It doesn't weigh enough to pull your arm out of the socket and doesn't cost a fortune!
Probably one of the best values on the market!
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
THE definitive clean Fender sound for under $300Sep 28, 2010
By Paul
"Tennessee"
First I bought a FM212DSP on the recommendation of a sales guy in a store. That was my mistake. I was looking for that "Clean Fender Sound" without paying the big bucks.
Well, here it is friends, in all it's glory. Tons of headroom, so clean it can squeak if you want. Tele players should fall all over this thing as a practice amp. Young players who are not heavy metal will absolutely love this for the price. It's LOUD, it's clean, and there is a fair amount of distortion in it, although you have to coax the distortion out of it. Add a Danelectro Distortion pedal of some sort off Amazon for distortion and you're home. I own nine amps, including Fender, Crate, and Peavey tube models, and this is cleaner. If you play C&W, look no further. If you fingerpick, this is your amp. Electrified banjo, mandolin or violin? This is the amp!
But, if you follow the darker side, keep looking...
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Pure clean powerMay 11, 2011
By Mark Lester
This is a great amp for the money and the weight. Sure you would love to have
a vintage all tube Fender Twin from the 60's, and no this Frontman will not sound
like that.
But for clean rhythm playing it sounds very good to my ear. And with 100
watts and 2x12's, I can't imagine anyone ever needing more power if playing
blues, jazz,or classic rock in a club. This thing is plenty loud.
Now as far as overdrive, this amp is perfect if you have a pedal board you really like or know how to achieve a sound you want with pedals. There are overdrive sounds built in, but I haven't messed with that much. Never care for internal distorion on amps. I have a line 6 pedal board I currently use.
Now understand, I appreciate the sound of vintage Fenders. I used to have
a blackface bassman from the 60's. At 50 watts it could get a nice overdrive
early. You could play play nice warm solos with no pedals. This will not do
that.
But again, I do think it achieves a nice clean Fender tone.....and it's light.
I mean light for 2x10's and 100 watts. I'm in my 40's now, and I don't want
to lug around 100 lb amps or worry about tubes going out. So again, if you
are a purist earning your living as a guitar player.....get you a heavy 60's
Fender and it will kick ass better than this.
But for myself, one who loves Fender amps, but needs something lighter and cheaper...I'm telling
you this is well worth $300. For the money it has to
be the best deal out there.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A lot of amp for the bucksApr 17, 2012
By Mike Tarrani
"Jazz Drummer"
I had two of these and wound up selling one because I never used it. The one I kept is currently serving as a keyboard amp for two keyboards (simultaneously): a Roland RD-300NX Digital Stage Piano and a Roland V-combo 76 Key Stage Keyboard. I was able to do this because there are two inputs on the front of the amp. Input 1 is designed for normal sensitivity and Input 2 is designed for guitars with active pickups. Thus far I have had no problems with both boards connected at the same time, and it does not seem to matter which board is connected to which input.
The sound is impressive. Exceptionally clean, and the amp provides controls to allow you to contour your sound, which helps significantly when running keyboards through it. Moreover, the amp is loud if you choose to make it so, and even at high-gain settings it has ample headroom.
If you want distortion, this is probably not the amp for you. You can switch it from clean to drive to more drive, but it is essentially still a clean sounding amp. I find this to be a plus, but I have met my share of guitarists who think otherwise.
Another great feature is you can daisychain these amps using the Pre-Out on the master to the Pwr-In on the aux amp(s). You can also use these two jacks to run an effects loop. I personally have no use for those features, but I can see how they could be useful.
Overall, I love the amp and wish Fender made a single 12" model because it is pretty heavy and bulky. Those are hardly significant complaints since I sometimes regret selling my second one because if something happens to the one I still have I would replace it immediately.
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