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Up on Ebay they actually have a Super Showman. I've only heard about
these from the Fender Amp books:
These things apparently went over like you know what in a punch bowl
and didn't last long.
Look at all those speakers!
BN
Ike Turner used Super Showmans. How could you go wrong?
-dave
Brian Neal <> wrote:
Up on Ebay they actually have a Super Showman. I've only heard about
these from the Fender Amp books:
These things apparently went over like you know what in a punch bowl
and didn't last long.
Look at all those speakers!
BN
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Ike Turner...<snicker>...
Okay, I cracked open "Fender Amps: The First Fifty Years" by Teagle
& Sprung (great book!!).
Here are some interesting tidbits about the Super Showman:
* Solid state, 280 Watts, it replaced the solid-state Dual Showman
in 1969
* The XFL-1000 was the head plus a 4x12" *powered* speaker cabinet
* The XFL-2000 (see the auction) was the head plus 2 (yes 2) 8x10"
*powered* speaker cabinets. The unit up for auction must have lost a
cabinet along the way.
* The idea was you would simply buy more powered cabinets as you
needed them (this was back in the day when PA systems were for
vocals only) and chain them together
* The head had a built in E-tuner; a novelty for the time
* The head had 3 channels that ran in parallel, all controlled by a
master volume
* Channel 1: vol, bass, mid, treble, fuzz
* Channel 2: vol, bass, mid, treble, Dimension IV (one of those
funky (and carcinogenic) rotating oil-can vibrato/reverb units - Zak
from the Treblemakers has a web-page on these things!!!)
* Channel 3: vol, bass, midd, treble, reverb, tremolo
* The channels could be run together with patch cables as they were
completely independent of each other (there is a picture of this in
the book)
* Switches on the back of the head controlled the effects intensities
* Each powered speaker cabinet had its own volume control on the
back in case you wanted to run different cabinets at different
volumes
* The speaker cabinets had a switch: "Solid State" or "Vacuum Tube".
(you can see the tube covers in the cabinet in the Ebay auction)
* The speaker cabinets were connected to the head by a special
stereo cable, nothing else would work.
* This incredibly over-engineered amplifier was designed by
Gibson "P.A.F." humbucker guru Seth Lover!!
* It was discontinued with all of Fender's solid state amps in 1971.
According to the book, the XFL-2000 with the 2 8x10" cabinets would
cost you $1695, unless you wanted JBL's. Then each cabinet was $1000
a pop! This was 1969 money, mind you. I can't imagine the thing
getting more than $600 now on Ebay.
Oh the humanity... What an over-the-top monster!
BN
> Ike Turner used Super Showmans. How could you go wrong?
> -dave
>
> Brian Neal <bneal@i...> wrote:
> Up on Ebay they actually have a Super Showman. I've only heard
about
> these from the Fender Amp books:
>
>
>
> These things apparently went over like you know what in a punch
bowl
> and didn't last long.
>
> Look at all those speakers!
>
> BN
If you look closely you can see some previous owner wrote 'edge' on
the top's front panel..... seems to me Fender went way over the edge
with this one... or would it be U2- memorabilia (sp.?)?
--- In , "Brian Neal" <bneal@i...> wrote:
> Up on Ebay they actually have a Super Showman. I've only heard
about
> these from the Fender Amp books:
>
>
>
> These things apparently went over like you know what in a punch
bowl
> and didn't last long.
>
> Look at all those speakers!
>
> BN
