Welcome, everyone, to 'Will It Chug?'
I'm Ola Englund.
And today we're trying out the Fender Champion 20.
Now, 'Will It Chug?' is a video series where I take a guitar-related piece of gear
and see how fast I can make it chug.
It could be a pedal, it could be a guitar, it could be an amplifier.
It could be whatever the f*** you want.
Today I'm trying out the Fender Champion 20.
Now...
Now, this amplifier right here is sorta like a practice amplifier.
It's around 150 euros.
And I think it's sorta competing with like...
Line 6 Spider...
In that range, at least.
But it has a classic Fender look to it, so...
With the classic Fender look, I figured like...
Let's bring out a classic-looking guitar.
So I have this T1.6 H3TS right here.
So, a 3-tone...
And I figured we would, you know...
Metal out a little bit.
I'm micing this up with a Neumann TLM-102 microphone over there
and that's a stereo microphone over there, so...
Will it chug?
Let's find out.
Let's move it a little bit.
OK.
OK, so you have gain...
OK, how much gain?
But right now we have a voicing thing...
So we're at Tweed right now, I mean...
If you wanna chug, you're not supposed to be at Tweed.
Black Panel, that's the Blackface, you know...
The classic Fender.
But then we have British...
Ah.
Shit, and then we have metal.
And here we go, man.
Oh shit, OK.
That's what happens when you have gain at 10, you know? It does feedback.
That, my friends, is a chug. Hello.
I actually didn't see that it had a metal voicing.
I just thought it would be a clean amplifier.
And I was kinda preparing to bring a distortion pedal from the other room.
But I did not.
I didn't have to, there's a metal voicing in this thing, hello.
For EQ, you have a treble, and a bass, and that's it.
Baby, baby, baby.
Actually not that bad.
I must say, I mean...
We have... what is this? Like an 8" speaker right here
in a small little f***ing amplifier box.
Whoops, OK, sorry.
There's 2 metal voicings.
And then there's 2 British voicings.
2 Black Panels, and 2 Tweeds, OK.
Alright, let's go back to British.
Hang on, there is actually 3 on British, OK.
And on metal?
I'm calling home, sorry.
The Green metal setting sounds Slayer, man.
Now, obviously I wouldn't mic up this amplifier like this
to have on an album or anything like that.
But that's not what this amp is for, this is a...
This is a kickaround type of amplifier
that you just keep in the corner somewhere
just to kick something on and just practice.
Alright, so we have some effects.
Wah, OK.
That's like the most unnatural wah I've ever heard.
Ugh OK...
So yeah, I mean...
I might not be as sophisticated an advanced
as a Line 6 Spider, but I mean...
It gets the f***ing job done.
Obviously...
Obviously what matters the most for me is that it can play metal, and that it can chug.
It's farting out a slight bit right there.
But I still think it sounds pretty good for the size of the thing
and you know, just...
The price.
So there it is.
Did it chug?
Yes, it did chug.
It has a couple of extra bells and whistles.
You can connect your auxiliary thingy right there, and phones.
You have a tap tempo delay right there, and yeah.
I mean...
Very, very barebones, nothing spectacular.
Just...
If you're into, you know, practicing McPractice Face
every now and then by your bed or something.
you just need something small, I think this is a pretty good solution right here.
So there you go.
That's 'Will It Chug?' for you right there.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope to see you very soon, OK?
Thank you so much for watching, goodbye.