Fender Princeton Ampero Preset (Weekly preset 4)

 There is a lot of noise about the new model of the Fender Princeton in the latest Helix Firmware, the Us princess.

I watched some video on youtube about it and tried to recreate what i heard.

Useful information: most fender clean amps are based on the same design, but with some change: the power stage, the tone stack, some have bright cap, some not, some have a bright switch, different cabs and speaker so different voices. Main difference will be the power stage. More power means more headroom, more clean and more push to get a dirty sound, like in the twin. Less power mean the opposite: less headroom but easier overdrive, like a deluxe. If yoy want cleans you go for more power like in the twin, if you want easy to verdrive or a good platform for your pedals you go for something like a twin. After that the speaker make a lay of difference, indeed many people swap it. The princeton was basically a small power amp with a 10 inch speaker tuned for good bass performance (to compensate the sze and the power) that makes its voice sort unique. (I ruled out the bassman from this, will get into it another time!)

Well, in the ampero we have the 2 basic fender flavors: the twin and the deluxe (plus the bassman that i dont count here) and about 10 fender cabs to work with.

Here my guess on why is this:

1) modeling a cab is easier and make a lot of difference

2) modeling an amp is a lot harder and make less difference

3) since is a digital model power stage does not metter that much, you can crank the twin model without damaging your ears

So we have our Tweed Prince 1x10 as a starting point.

The Rib 121 was selected by ear.

What amp? the Princeton is on the "easy to overdrive" side obviously , is well regarded for is breakup tone and that is what i want ot replicate.

You may have guess that my amp choice was the Tweed Luc. I think that Tone at 100 is like having al knobs at 12' in a classic fender tone stack. Volume is at 38 beacuse is the point of breakup with singes coils, may vary for you. Just find the spot where you have a slight overdrive when you hit hard the strings.

If you need tuning the eq you can either use the eq block or the FET boost at unity gain. Experiment with the eq block in front of the amp or betweeb amp and cab. Before will change the way the amp overdrives, after will change the way you the tone sits in the mix (near or less!!!).

Add some reverb, spring obviously:

You will find that this preset take very well the green drive and the purple plexi.

As usual you can dowload the preset from the user group!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/HotoneAmperoUsers/