Fuchs Blackjack 21 Head

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Fuchs BlackJack 21 MkII Head and 2 x 1 12' Cabs in Red, one open back, one closed back. Eminance Wizard Speakers, JJ Power Tubes. 1750.00 Location: PORT CHARLOTTE. At 21 watts, the Blackjack 21 MKII is the lowest powered offering in Fuchs’ more affordable Casino Series. Available in head and combo formats, this is a two-channel, all-valve design. Useful features include a buffered effects loop, onboard digital reverb based on Fuchs’ Verbrator pedal, and a footswitch for channel hopping and boost.

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edited March 2015 in Amps £
I bought this head late summer 2014 and I've been blown away by the tone and touch sensitivity of Andy Fuch's amps… to the extent that I've since bought 2 more of his amps - the Train 45 and ODS.
I can honestly say that this 18' head gets very, very close to covering both of them off - it has tone and touch to die for and is 'clean to mean' with your guitar volume, but I can't really justify keeping it now I have the other two!http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah232/BazParker/Fuchs Blackjack/BJ21 front_zpskrs66ity.jpg
It's perfectly usable at home and I'd suggest a perfect gigging amp. Its very attenuator friendly
It's absolutely mint and I still have all the original packaging stored, so consider it as new
Spec
  • 22w, Fixed bias with SS rectification
  • Foot switchable 2 channels with trimable footswitch boost (tone stack stays in circuit on boost)
  • 3x ECC83 (or recommended with an ECC81 in the PI)
  • 2x 6v6
  • Shared T,M,B tone stack
  • Clean channel non-MV
  • Lead channel with gain and volume controls
  • Tone control that shifts the tone stack operating range to get you from JTM to Trainwreck Express via ODS
  • Digital reverb with depth and decay controls
  • 4,8 & 16 Ohm taps
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Fuchs Blackjack 21 Mkii Head

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I’ve never really had a good high gain amplifier, until now. Metal guys might not consider this high gain, but the drive channel on this thing has way more gain than anything I’ve ever owned before. Most importantly it sounds great. Fuchs amps have a great, crisp clean tone. It just sounds really “solid”. Hard to describe. The gain channel sounds good at every level, and even at maximum gain the sound is smooth and rich. The footswitch has a switch for toggling between clean and overdrive channels, plus a boost that can be used on either channel. The result is an amp that could realistically be used without any pedals at all, providing great tone at 4 different (switchable) gain levels:

  1. Clean
  2. Clean (with boost)
  3. Dirty
  4. Dirty (with boost)

This amp hits a nice sweet spot between tone and affordability. Many boutique amps are over $2,000, but the Blackjack head can be had for around $1500, but is still built in the USA.

Fuchs Blackjack 21 Head

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  • Great solid clean tones
  • Rich, thick gain channel
  • Separate tone knob for overdrive channel
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This amp is a great choice for people who want both great clean tones and overdriven tones from the same amp, especially if you want to have the option to use a lot of gain.