EL84 Blonde Fender

[tomjackson]

I thought I'd imagined this but it seems Fender did have an EL84 amp in the early 60's, the Blonde Tremolux in the early 60's.  The later models were 6L6 but the first incarnation the "6G9" circuit had 2 x 6BQ5's

http://www.ampwares.com/amp.asp?id=108

Schematic

http://www.kbapps.com/audio/schematics/tubeamps/fender/tremolux6g9.html

I wonder how the history of amp evolution would have changed if Fender had adopted the EL84?

I actually thought the Blues Junior and the Pro Junior were the first EL84 Fenders.  Well I never :)

[dave_mc]

interesting, i did not know that.

[PhilKing]

I had an all blonde Tremolux with a matching 2x12 cab in the late 70's.  With my 61 SG junior it was a brilliant sound, but mine was the 6L6 version and it was very loud.  When I used my Strat with it the headroom was amazing.  I never knew there was a 6BQ5 version.  It would be really interesting to hear one.

[HTH AMPS]

Thats news to me - interesting stuff.  I bet they didn't make many of those amps either.

Note that Fender didn't change the transformers either - same one for EL84s and 6L6s.