Minty Fender Prosonic Amp from the 90s in original box. 900£ shipped to your door.

tubeholic

Hi everyone,

I'm kind of a noob to the forum, hopefully it's ok to post this.

So, I'm selling this beautiful Fender Bruce Zinky original from the 90s. The amp is in excellent condition, it's been stored in it's original box for ages and had hardly any playing time, so there are no markings on the Tolex whatsoever. It carries the proper vintage style footswitch and sounds awesome. It's fitted with fresh, all new tubes: Sovtek LPS 12Ax7s all across the preamp, a JJ 12At7 reverb driver and JJ 6L6s power and GZ34 rectifier tubes. 

Anyone looking at this will probably know the specs: variable power rectifier selection:
- 60W Solid state
- 50W Tube rectifier class AB
- 30W Class A (cathode biased like an AC30)

Fender clean channel
Drive channel from Brit to Boogie

Amp is currently in Lisbon (Portugal), so I'm looking for 900£ (shipping to the UK included).

Amp is also listed on Reverb.com (https://rvrb.io/1990s-prosonic-amp-qgfk3b), in case you might want to check my feedback. Also, there's a few pics and a video I shot with the amp. 


Thanks for looking
Carlos.

Tat2dstesh

Amazing amp, I had the original custom shop in blue snakeskin. 1 amp I truly regret selling

But I don't think this a custom shop one as I'm sure these only came in red or blue. Could be wrong, but the did fix the switching pop issue in the production model. 

tubeholic

Hi Tat2dstesh, thanks for chiming in. Yeah, I did find the "Fender Amp Custom Shop" writing silkscreened on the main PCB while checking the bias. Also, I checked the existing Fender Tech Notes, and this one has all of the changes already made in production (meaning no switching loud pops), so it's a late model for sure. 

Agree, it's an amazing amp. Hopefully I won't regret selling it. 

photek

None of these were actually made in the custom shop though were they?

Lovely amps, miss both of my old ones!

FelineGuitars

the one I had was so LOUD - nearly lost my hearing

tubeholic

Well, I cannot guarantee that it was. For the sake of correctness,  I amended the text as to read "Bruce Zinky original" instead of "Custom Shop original". Even though it says so on the PCB:

tubeholic

FelineGuitars said:

the one I had was so LOUD - nearly lost my hearing

Yes, it is one loud amp.

tubeholic

Ok, figured out how to post the images so here it goes:

photek

Very nice!

tubeholic

photek said:

Very nice!

Thanks mate. Sounds great, too. Here's the youtube clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JdBhMk2w8

Davemate

Prosonics were available first from the Fender Custom Shop, and later from Fender Musical Instruments, and for each production run, combo amplifiers featuring dual Celestion 10" speakers, and head versions were available. (Zinky did make prototype combo versions with a single 12-inch speaker). The circuitry is identical and offers users the sound similar to a louder Deluxe Reverb. The combo version featured a tube-driven, Accutronics spring reverb unit. The head version omitted the reverb tank.

While the vast majority of Prosonics were shipped with the standard black tolex covering, some of the initial Custom Shop run were finished in red and seafoam green pebbled tolex, called "lizard-skin" by Fender. Approximately 300 were made in red and 500 were made in seafoam green. The look of the amplifier borrows simultaneously from several eras of vintage Fender design: black "chicken-head" pointer knobs (as used on circa 1950s "tweed" amps), and the silver grill cloth, jewel lamp, and black control plate as used during the 'black face' period (mid-1960s). (Both models came with green jewel lamps).

tubeholic

Hi everyone, price drop: 900£ shipped.