Cranked Amp Shootout! Fender Blues Junior vs. Supro Delta King 12

First

I really appreciate the info. Looking at amps for the goldfoil tele.

Hi,
I've got a fender blues Deluxe from 1990'
What are the differences with the junior ?
Is it good ?

What is the tone différence between the junior iii and iv
Betwen the Jensen speaker and the celestion ?
Thanks

This is exactly the video I've been wanting to watch. For me the Delta King blows away the Blues Jr but I'm pretty much always going to side with Supro for any comparison.

I think the Fender wins overall. The Supro has it’s moments.
Are the pickups in the Gibson wax potted?

I own a Delta King 12 and really like it - but I really don’t have a need to crank it that high. I tend to keep it cleaner and use drive pedals. I will say I liked the Strat with the Blues Junior better in this video.

Gettin' yer ya-yas out...!!!😁👍👍
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Supro gets my vote based on note separation at max vol. The fender sounds muffled. I think small bottle amps always sound better at max when the guitar volume is on 8/9 vs 10. Supro for the win here.

I know that it's not what the video is about, but I prefer both clean

Great video Jack

For Grunge the Fender, for Blues the Supro. Maybe just both 😉

Thank you Jack for all your videos !!!
For my ears, the Supro is warmer, richer, tweedier !!!! More clarity, less muddy.
The soud is personnal, i’m a Tweed lover and I prefer the Supro’s sound ❤️

I’m another who is glad to see/hear this video. I have the Blues Jr with the Jensen C-12’s, currently my only amp. My gigging days are long behind me, so I rarely crank it past 3-4, but there’s always that little voice in the back of my head saying, “Yeah, but if you got invited on a gig, could you do it with this rig?” Well, listening to this comparison has me thinking “no”. I play a 60th Anniversary Strat and a PRS LP-type, depending on the style and tune… so I want an amp that can make sweet tones with both single-coil and humbuckers at the full volume range. To my ear, the Supro is MUCH sweeter and clearer than the Blues Jr, with much greater clarity at all frequencies. I can’t say I’ve driven my amp to feed back as badly as you did in this test, Jack, but to be honest I haven’t tried… and I don’t think I want to! I am going to have to seriously look into trading my Blues Jr in for a Supro!!

Fun video. But it's clear to me these amps weren't designed to be fully cranked. Wow what a fartfest 😄 Of the fully-cranked sounds, only the LP into the Blues Jr sounded remotely decent to me. But that's all good, most of us wouldn't use them this way anyway I imagine.

from what i'm hearing the supro is a bit tinnier and the blues junior is a bit fuller sounding

I have both and while both are great I play with my Supro much more. It just feels classy to my ears . As one can see it’s a hard choice that’s why I eventually acquired both !

Thank you for showing a Les Paul!
I bought a Lumpy's Tone Bender, and it transformed my Blues Jr. into Pages Supro!
BOOM! Instant Heartbreaker tone with a stock Les Paul Standard!
When I used my Les Paul Custom with the Blues Jr. the bottom end would flub out.
My Blues Jr. broke down and I haven't fixed it in a couple of years.
I now run HX Stomp thru Monitors, and Ive never had a better sound!

Thanks for doing this! I have a blues king 12 (basically the same as dk 12) up on reverb right now!

I couldn't get a sound I liked out of my Blues Junior with any of my guitars and quickly sold it. It was harsh and unpleasant at any volume. May have been the Swamp Thang speaker. A Princeton solved that problem.

I currently have my Delta King 12 running into a seperate cab with a Jensen p10r. It pairs with my ac30hw better than the stock speaker

I'll take the Fender. The Supro sounds cheap.

When was the last time anybody cranked an amp?

All the latest Supros I've bought, I sent them back (ones built in China since 2020) because of reliability problems right out the box. The Amulet and Keeley 1970..
This wasn't the case with the ones built in the USA before 2020.
I'm not the only one who has noticed this.. So better be very careful, they're built very poorly.
I don't like saying this, but it's a fact.

I really like this new shootout video. Also there are good informations for giging musicians. Good job man.

Thanks for the great video! I have been thinking of a tube amp to supplement by SS amps and considering both of these amps. I think the Supro sounds much better both clean and driven. The Fender just has a harshness to it that the Supro doesn't. For the music I play, the Supro would be the better choice.

The fender definitely has more headroom.
It’s the clear winner.

I'm not sure If I should be the one to say it, but since it seems like I'm the only one with these things in mind I'll go ahead and say it. Either you, "Budda" or anyone really, who is willing to compare a Supro Delta King and a Fender Excelsior 🤷

does anybody know a review of this amp checking out how loud it goes with a clean sound? I want to know if i can do gigs with a clean sound , loud enough so it can cut trough stage noise if it were to go trough a mic.

Yeah rehearsal volume.... everything dimed out lol

Both amps suck when cranked!

To me, both amps sound pretty bad at high volume/gain. The Fender has bright, ambient cleans that fill the room whereas the Supro has a more dialed and tight tone when clean. I'd be curious to see the junior iv compared with the supro dk. I like the Fender but don't like the tin quality near breakup but that maybe goes away with the Cannabis Rex or Swamp Thang upgrade?

I’ve got both and like em. The reverb on the Blues Jr is better than the Supro but I wish the Fender had a gain.

Given this scenario, the FBJ sounded quite better to my ears. The Supro was good, but just a bit too bright and not enough clarity.