Fender Pawn Shop Series Vaporizer

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Crate is just as bad these days. After LOUD Tech bought out SLM it went down hill fast. I had a kid bring me a Crate Combo a few years back. It was a 50 watt combo and had this truely tiny PT in it. The Power Supply used very high speed diodes and they kept burning out and you couldn't source them because the company that made them stopped making them. The amp was not even a year old and crate stopped servicing them and sent buyers a replacement amp cause they couldn't fix them. Plus Fender has a great deal more debt service than most of their competitors these days so they need to cut more corners to stay in the race.

I had a friend that used to gig with two Vintage 50 heads and two 4x10 Crate cabs. They were good amps but today.....you couldn't give me a new Crate for free

Totally agree on the last V series crate, they looked cheap and sounded cheap, I modded one for a local muso with the soldano mods, didn't make it into a soldano but a distinct improvement, do crate even do valve amps now?

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Because I'm old when I first saw the title I too thought of Vicks.

But because I'm not that old I then thought of this. I bet Fender thought of it too: