Fender bronco amp manual

Also for: 93 bronco, Bronco amp. Anyone can sell on Reverb. The Fender BRONCO amplifier is a unique combination of radical new distortion sounds and time tested Classic Fender sounds, packaged together in a solid-state configuration which is both easy to use and inherently reliable..

The Fender Bronco amplifier was an American-built 6 Watt, 3 tube combo guitar amplifier with a single 8 inch speaker cone. It was included in Fender literature through much of , but was not available until December of that year. It was sold as a set with the Bronco guitar at least until List your Fender Bronco 40 1x10 Bass Combo Amp today to get it in front of thousands of eyes, quickly and easily. Learn more on the Seller Hub. Sell Yours Now. Just thought I would add a couple of things, especially after the most recent commentary.

I'm not comparing the Bronco to a Blues Junior. I'm saying that you should save the money you'd spend on the Bronco and add a little to it and you could get something much better There are a ton of great sounding small amps out there.

The last guy Paolo just wrote a nice review Okay, so when I love an amp I don't usually have this many caveats. Having said all of this, I have to admit that there sure seems to be a backlash against my opinion here I still think you could do better and get out cheaper with a Fender Sidekick Switcher or Reverb. All right I'm going to stop defending my unpopular position on this one.

Bronco Amps Are 40w With A 10 in. I haven't heard this amp yet, but I'm always amused by people who can't take criticism of something they own. If you can't be objective about a cheap amp simply because you possess one, please don't bother posting! Recently someone said that I must be on crack for saying you could find a Blues Jr. It can be done. You have to be persistent in watching for this stuff. Hi, I have a bronco at home with my couch, I love this amp, fender tweed tone and touch in 3 seconds, no spending tubes, I have a Pro Junior and is very good, but you have to hit it with tubes you put, not all tubes sound the same, and suffer with the punches, and the valves become old and you have to buy new, I have a blues junior I use small gigs in clubs, sounds good, is lightweight and does the job, has reverb I recently bought a guitar on Kijiji and the seller threw in a blonde tolex Fender Bronco to sweeten the deal.

I tried it at the point of sale just to verify the guitar actually worked and it seemed OK. I played through it at home and noticed a few of its weaknesses. The most offensive was the blonde tolex. It just looked cheap I did some research and decided to give it a face lift.

I carefully removed all of the blonde tolex and bought a some tweed fabric locally for about 4 Canadian dollars. I traced the pattern of the tolex pieces that I removed onto the tweed and cut it out. I prepped the bare wood cabinet and used spray adhesive to apply it to the cabinet.

I cut the back panel in half to give it a open back look. I covered the back panel in a rich dark brown leatherette vinyl. I really like that contrast of the vinyl and the tweed, its classy. Now my little Fender Bronco has looks and sounds awesome. I'm a big fan of small amps, ones with 8" speakers to be precise. I like good solid state amps because they usually are much less noisy than tube amps, can take transport abuse well, and in most live settings they are sonically indistinguishable.

Juicy sounding clean, plenty loud. Takes pedals very well. He is right. Tube amps hold their resell value. People will not pay much for used guitar trans amps. I think Fender and Marshall quit trying to make top quality guitar transistor amps. The amps are good they just put them in particle board cases to bring the price down. Most are particle board but not all. This trans tweed 15watt bronco is well thought of by a lot of guitar players.

It gets some good reviews considering it's a trans amp. Maybe you're not a tweed person. Maybe you're a blackface player. It's actually a decent sounding amp, goes well with a telecaster It does not have indeed the reactivity or warmth of a tube amp but overall a good cheap amp which is fun to play I bought my tweed bronco new in early nineties, it's my main practice amp, also have a B Jr.

And hot rod deluxe, but my little tweed gets most my time as I don't gig anymore, anyhow, I like to mod things,and this little SS needed something,, so I replaced back panel with an open back I made, and shoehorned a no name 10" in it,, whoa, what a difference almost hast too much bass, and is louder than you'd think, my wife hates it : , she thought because it was small, it would be quiet,,hahaha, jokes on her.

All said, I really enjoy this little powerhouse, it rocks hard! I have one of these little guys. I have kept it all these years because it just won't quit. Will likely be kicking it after I'm gone. While I agree that alone it is no tone monster but one night when my blues Jr.

Left me hanging I had to show to a gig with only this. Fortunately, the venue was small. I plugged the output into an open back Avatar can with a Celestine vintage 30 in it a damn if the voice didn't transform this little amp into something impressive! With a couple of choice pedals Tibe Screamer and a good delay, I was hanging with the band and never missed my Blues Jr. It truly is not as badass as the Jr but it was nothing to be ashamed of.

Been playing since and I have had many a fine amplifier. Just saying, don't look down on this amp. For the price it delivers. Not my 60s twin or Marshall but I appreciate what it has to give.

Hi Jaimie, Thanks for your story about the Fender Bronco. I don't normally comment on things, but I have my own experience with the Fender Bronco. My comment is, in no way meant to debate your opinion. Everyone's preferences are different and that's why there are so many different amps out there. I will say that I think the Fender Bronco is, as straight ahead two channel practice amps go, quite a versatile amplifier.

Here's why: 1. It's the only practice amp I've ever seen that comes with a speaker out jack different from the headphone jack that it also comes with. You can run any external cabinet up to a 4X12 cab without damaging the amp. I have run a 4X12 Marshall cab with it and it sounds very good! Fender must have put a really good transformer in these amps because that was one of the selling features demo'd to me at the music store. I have used the amp at gigs not all the time with a 1X12 cab with nice results.

It has a really good amount of good quality gain. Of course, that depends on what you consider to be nice gain.

Note: I like my Bronco so much that had an amp tech install a relay and turn the headphone jack into a channel switch instead. Much more useful for me. All in all I feel it's really difficult to compare a tube combo amp Blues Junior to a solid state combo amp Bronco. They're very different types of amps. I do understand, however, that you Jaimie would recommend the Blues Junior over the Bronco when the price difference isn't that much.

For anyone looking for a good clean amp that takes pedals well, I completely agree Blues Junior all the way. I just thought I'd mention all this, about the Bronco, since it has things to offer that the Blues Junior doesn't. I'm not saying that the Bronco is better, just that it has its own merits. Derek Jensen. I really miss both of those. As I got older and gigged in high school I managed to save up enough flipping burgers to "upgrade" to a brand new Super Reverb and Gibson It wasn't pretty but the sounds were so sweet.

Of course I grew up, went to college, got married, and raised a family which meant all those toys were dispersed early on. Years later I had the itch to get an amp since I still kept the stored under the bed. The closest amp that I could find to replicate that sound was a Blues Deluxe 1st generation which was based on the 59 Bassman.

It was close, but not perfect. It still does its job. While recovering from surgery I was nostalgic for the Gibson Skylark so, while under the influence of pain killer, I came across a Bronco MIM on eBay at a very very low price. If it didn't work out it was ok. After my recovery I was finally able to try out my purchase. I plugged in my and played around with the settings. I'm not much of a fan of the master switch since that didn't exist when I gigged back in the 60s.

I adjusted the master just a hair and my mind was blown.