Almost every internet forum discussion of classic late-’60s and ’70s-era recordings where an artist vaguely cites using a “Fender Champ” will result in some belligerent blowhard insisting ...

Meanwhile, in California, a small (but for us guitar players equally significant) change happened when CL Fender modified the circuit of ... a little history of its own - the famous 'Narrow Panel' ...

It was dubbed the Champion 800, a name that was soon after shortened to Champ. Some version of the diminutive combo has remained in Fender’s catalog ever since, although the narrow-panel tweed ...

From 1955 to 1957, Fender ... on the Champ and an Eminence-built Fender Special Design 12-inch on the Deluxe - and re-worked tapers on the volume controls for improved controllability, which is ...