Fender Prosonic?

vulture · Hodad Joined: Jan 14, 2007 Posts: 68 Location: australia

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Lemurstrat · Newbie Joined: Apr 11, 2009 Posts: 10

I have a Prosonic 2x10 combo and I really like it. 30-60w switchable power with 3 rectifier settings, lots of power. Not a traditional clean fender tone but still very good. Zinky designed. The tank is big but the built in reverb does not cut it at all when it comes to surf. I'm using my Pod x3's lux spring reverb with much better result (blasphemy here) but I'm saving up for a reverb tank. A Gomez tank would be nice, if they come with 230 volt.

I started a thread at fenderforum and provided 2 soundclips of me playing the Prosonic with its reverb on 10.
Here it is:
http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html?db=&topic_number=707627&offset=20

Woodsurfer · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject:

Looks interesting. Tried to listen to the sound clips linked to on FDP but was unable to with either Mac or Windows with several browsers (???). Do you have them available elsewhere?

Other questions:
* Do you really own four 'burst Jazzmasters?
* Is that a Firebird V in your profile pic? Does it surf?

-- Woody
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Lemurstrat · Newbie Joined: Apr 11, 2009 Posts: 10

The mp3 clips should work.
To download the song you must click the "Click here to start download" link to the left in the pop up screen.
Ok here is a copy from the fdp thread:

"Here are 2 unmixed live recordings with my lonestar strat and prosonic (reverb on 10) sm57 mic. Some years ago and the first time we rehearsed. Two friends and I. Not even close to my ideal surf sound reverb."

Song1: Surf lyre
http://www.mediafire.com/?azhjzylfyox

Song2: El Rey
http://www.mediafire.com/?9djxzh5i2uf

estreet · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:38 am Post subject:

I think one of the important qualities of reverb is how much it 'sticks' to the sound - or to put it another way how much of the character of the original note is present in the reverb tail. On your recording, the reverb isn't bad as such but is a bit like a constant sound in the background that's not part of the guitar sound.

The reason that the tank is so successful for the Surf sound is that it has a penetrating sound that cuts through the mix and hangs on to the guitar sound. This has quite a lot to do with the fact that it goes before the preamp and thus receives the same tonal boosts and colourations as the original signal.

It's not a particularly long reverb that the tank gives either - which is good because Surf music is often quite busy. I used to have an AC30CC which had this really long reverb (it was a spring) which seemed to have almost nothing to do with the original sound - it was almost completely useless in practice. I kept that amp about a week.
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Woodsurfer · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:58 pm Post subject:

Lemurstrat: Thanks! Something about my wiring causes me to miss the BIG SIGNS and home in on the little stuff.

estreet: That's the most coherent explanation of the reverb effect I've yet encountered -- thank you! I can better understand the seeming lock-step adherence to the use of tanks vs. built-ins found in these fora. Still gonna be a while before I can afford the 'real thing'.

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