Fender Tone Master Pro Leaked

chrisj1602

Musicman20

Is that real?! If it's powered that would be very interesting. 

chrisj1602

Musicman20 said:

Is that real?! If it's powered that would be very interesting. 

Yes, it’s real. I saw it on a Helix group then searched myself. A couple of shops listed then took it down but the images show in search results.

chrisj1602

Someone on the Helix group said it is €1800!

Musicman20

chrisj1602 said:

Someone on the Helix group said it is €1800!

It must have a power amp in there....surely?! For that price. 

StefB

Musicman20 said:

chrisj1602 said:

Someone on the Helix group said it is €1800!

It must have a power amp in there....surely?! For that price. 

Doesn't look like it has.

John Cordy has a video up showing the blurb and various elevations before the naughty Italian site that leaked it took it down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhVBcbelabQ&ab_channel=JohnNathanCordy

stickyfiddle

That’s a hell of a lot of jacks if it doesn’t have speaker outs as well as signal/line level 

Nerine

Interesting

bermudianbrit

touchscreen, so no good for me. No bloody shock there.

guitarmangler

Agreed. That is a lot of jacks. Must have a couple of loops to run pedals, too. How old is the helix now, 10 years ? All line 6 have to do now is build the helix 2 and price it lower and there sorted.

chrisj1602

guitarmangler said:

Agreed. That is a lot of jacks. Must have a couple of loops to run pedals, too. How old is the helix now, 10 years ? All line 6 have to do now is build the helix 2 and price it lower and there sorted.

I guess it will come but the current Helix (and HX Stomp & Effects) hardware is still good I think, and the updates make them worth keeping.

dindude

They just being doing a Boss - remember when the Waza Craft amp first came out, it was like £3k, then suddenly it disappeared and the Kantana came out for £2.50. 

monquixote

I was really hoping it would be a Tone Master head with an FX loop / preamp defeat.

Musicman20

I don't see what this offers over a Helix, which is regularly updated with excellent new amps/cabs/effects. 

Touch screen maybe. If they had this with a 100W power amp built in, I think it would do well. Without it, well....why?

Musicman20

Powered cabs?!

https://www.essemusic.it/fender-tone-master-fr-12/?fbclid=IwAR3UVOUEq7KgpOJx-1xpPMX2sUhq9WMSe6s5BkvqaJadfohlFOGanOqX6oo_aem_ATpDuQ2E5_YHQgEVUB3BvZ1R8VuXcJiORx9olgeTpNfyqKt0thRkx73ChnxLf76ujfY

yocky

Musicman20 said:

I don't see what this offers over a Helix, which is regularly updated with excellent new amps/cabs/effects. 

Classic market segmentation. It's much more expensive and much uglier, if that's your thing.

roberty

stickyfiddle said:

That’s a hell of a lot of jacks if it doesn’t have speaker outs as well as signal/line level 

dindude

I just don’t get it, all that I/O points towards loads of flexibility, but wasn’t the USP of the Tonemaster amps that all the DSP went towards a singular purpose and amp like ease of use.

chrisj1602

Musicman20 said:

Powered cabs?!

https://www.essemusic.it/fender-tone-master-fr-12/?fbclid=IwAR3UVOUEq7KgpOJx-1xpPMX2sUhq9WMSe6s5BkvqaJadfohlFOGanOqX6oo_aem_ATpDuQ2E5_YHQgEVUB3BvZ1R8VuXcJiORx9olgeTpNfyqKt0thRkx73ChnxLf76ujfY

They look nice.

hollywoodrox

$1800 when there’s stuff like Helix, Quad Cortex & Fractal FM plus used Axe FX  it’s going to have to be shit hot . If they can get someone famous to use it  it might sell a few

guitarmangler

Small point, but I really like the red amp inspired red light.