It was, for example, the first Fender amp with separate bass and treble controls rather than a single roll-off tone control a development that the company called “the latest in electronic advances." Further, it had two volume knobs (bright and normal). Third, it was more powerful (25 watts) and it had more sophisticated tone controls than any of its predecessors.
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The “Hi Fidelity” amp was only the second dual-speaker Fender model, after the 2×10-inch Dual Professional (later Super) of 1947, but the combined 24-inche cone diameter of its two heavy-duty 12-inch Jensen speakers made it the largest Fender offered. Second, in terms of speaker area, it was bigger than any previous model. Thus, the new “Hi Fidelity” amp was the first “wide-panel” Fender amp a design that would soon be adopted for all previous TV panel models. Fender was phasing out the “TV panel” design introduced in summer 1948 in favor of a more streamlined design in which the grille, no longer recessed, ran from side to side to the inside edges of the cabinet, with wide panels running across the top and bottom of the face. Although it was introduced at the 1952 NAMM show only as Fender’s new “Hi Fidelity” guitar amp, it was, as author Tom Wheeler notes in The Soul of Tone: Celebrating 60 Years of Fender Amps, “a milestone."įirst, although still tweed-covered, it looked different from any previous Fender amp.
Like the Bassman, which preceded it by mere months, the Twin was unveiled before it had even been named, and its design included some significant firsts. It has been universally hailed as one of the all-time great guitar amps ever since it was introduced in summer 1952 prized across genres for its loud, clean tone. Along with the Bassman, there is perhaps no other Fender guitar amp as enduring and revered as the venerable Twin.
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