Buy Fender Hot Rod DeVille(TM) 410 III, BlackFender Hot Rod DeVille(TM) 410 III, Black Product Description:
- 60 watts of legendary Fender tone.
- Fantastic clean and overdriven tones plus lusciously Fender spring reverb.
- 4X10 format with four 10" Special Design Eminence 30 Watt/8-ohm speakers offers enhanced midrange that fills the stage and projects through the densest mix.
- All tube preamp and 60-watt power section3-band EQPresence control4 -
Product Description
The world's most popular tube amps just got better! Fender Hot Rod series amplifiers are found on every stage in the world, large and small, and are used by guitarists from all walks of life. Hot Rod amps deliver unmistakable Fender tone and are the perfect platform for musicians to craft their own signature sound. These no-frills amps are affordable, reliable and loud, and they pair extremely well with stomp boxes. The Hot Rod DeVille 410 III is a 60-watt combo with a classic 4x10" speaker configuration borrowed from the legendary Super Reverb and '59 Bassman amps, the low-end headroom characteristic of 6L6 tubes, a versatile all-12AX7 tube preamp, an effects loop and more. It produces amazing clean and overdriven tones and luscious Fender spring reverb, and an 8-ohm extension speaker output even lets you add a cabinet for additional stage coverage. Additional Hot Rod DeVille 410 III upgrades include an easier-to-read black control panel with front-reading text, new badge, streamlined footswitch, and graduated volume and treble pot tapers.
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By teejay
I've been playing a Fender Deville 410 since 2004 and there aren't enough good things to say about this line of amp. These amps are rock solid and can take some abuse. They're highly mod-able if that's your thing, and of course sound awesome. I've only come to owning a Mark III because my old warhorse 04 Deville finally gave out on me after years of serious gigging and abuse, and frankly, it was probably fixable, but I just didn't want to deal with it.The Deville is not your typical fender amp - it has a great clean sound as can be imagined, but has more in common with the tweed era of Fender amps which means it has a much dirtier sound than what would be considered 'classic' fender tone. The deville has 2 channels, and the overdriven channel has two distortion modes, so with the included footswitch you can go from "clean" to "dirty" to "on fire". This is a fender open-back cabinet, so while the distortion can be pretty intense, it's probably not the best amp if your thing is full-blown metal: the amp can handle it but the open back cabinet means it gets a little muddy in the lows.This amp is LOUD. and HEAVY. Did I mention it was LOUD? It's a relatively compact amp, but with four 10" speakers and a 60 watt amp, this thing moves an enormous amount of air and can easily compete with any half-stack. The downside is this thing is ridiculously heavy - the shipping weight is 70lbs, and there's practically nothing in the box EXCEPT the amp, so this amp is close to that in weight. This is even more surprising when you see it - it's not dramatically bigger than a typical 1x12The Mark III improves upon the original model of the Deville by replacing the master volume & treble pots with audio-taper pots. This means the fine tuning is much more responsive. For those used to the original models, whereas you got to 90% volume by 3-4 on the knob (and there being a HUGE jump between 2-3), the volume curve is much smoother - you'll reach a comparable volume level at around 6 on the knob with a much smother control of the change up to that point. This doesn't mean the output of the amp is any different overall - 10 is still 10 - but the knob responds more smoothly. Likewise, treble response is more noticeable overall for the same reason - the knob is audio-taper. This was one of the major flaws of the original design and frankly you find this in a lot of low-to-mid market amps because amps with linear volume pots get louder lower on the dial, which translates to generally being louder at the store. Fortunately for us Fender realized that this amp doesn't need to sell itself with cheap tricks, and have given us what real musicians have been asking for for years.Other minor improvements include a black faced switchboard, which makes it much easier to read in a dim bar at night, the preamp tubes are now in a cage, and some minor cosmetic changes.Overall this amp sounds exactly like it's older brethren. It's just as sturdy as ever, and if my previous amp is any indication, will last for years through serious abuse, up to an including ingesting an entire glass of beer and surviving (don't try this however - I probably just got lucky).5 Stars - a real home run, unless you're trying to play heavily palm-muted metal. In that case, you really should be looking at a Marshall, or if you're looking for that "classic" fender clean tone, in which case you should be looking at a Super Reverb.
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By David Wilson
If you want that '50s sound, you need a tube amp. When I bought a Gretsch guitar a little over a year ago to see if there was a Rockabilly stylist inside me that wanted to come out, I bought a Fender Princeton amp to go with it. The amp wasn't cheap (I could have saved a few bucks if I had bought it through Amazon, but I was in the music store and in a hurry as well); nevertheless it was the amp that the guitar (a Chet Atkins Country Gentleman) required. Since then I have picked up a Fender Bass and a basic version of a high-end Yamaha piano, both of which begged for attachment to a punchier amp. I decided to get the Hot Rod DeVille 410, basically a big brother to the Princeton tube amp: Four 10 inch speakers instead of one, more watts, more controls, but still compact enough that one could carry it around if need be.This is a wonderful amp. For in-house practice I can't even turn the volume more than halfway up without making my ears hurt. The dials allow some very fine sculpting of generated sounds, but if you don't want to let the inner sound engineer spend too much time on the dashboard, just zero the effects and play it straight with limited volume and basic equalization. The default sound is great. As always, a more powerful amp loafing gives you better output than a smaller amp screaming. That's not a complaint about the limits of my first amp, which I suspect I will always use with a single guitar attached. But it recognizes the no-stress output from this fine four-speaker cabinet.A minor point, but the amp has a clever standby switch that will reduce power to the tubes and keep them slightly warm if you need to power down for a while. Standby protects your tubes from the damage potential inherent in the crash-and-resurrection profile of a complete off-and-on cycle. And when you do turn it off, it is a softer landing from standby than from glowing hot.
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