Fender Frontman 10G

The build quality, while not on par with that of its big brother, the Champion 20, is surprisingly good. I have owned an older iteration of this model, back when it was made in Indonesia, and the quality was worse. The unit is lightweight, but, despite having very thin fingers, I am only able to fit three of them under its handle, which makes it uncomfortable to carry the amplifier. It seems that the handle was made narrower in order to preserve the esthetic proportions of the historic design.
The extraneous noise heard upon turning the amplifier on was barely perceptible, which is a pretty rare thing in this price range. After fiddling with the controls for a couple of minutes, I was able to dial in a decent “clean” tone, but no matter what I did, I was unable to completely eliminate the “thinness” of the sound, which could probably be blamed on the small speaker. If my memory serves me right, the Vox Pathfinder 10, which I owned a decade or so ago, sounded a bit “fuller”. But now, back to the Fender. I always play “clean”, so “dirty” tones are not my specialty, but when I tried the built-in overdrive, it sounded to my ears like a jar full of wasps — shrill and irritating. Here, again, the aforementioned Pathfinder 10 excels, but for those who play “clean” or get their “dirty” sounds from a pedal, the Frontman 10G should do just fine.
One of the main selling points for me was the auxiliary input. I think, every practice amplifier should have this underappreciated feature because it enables to practise with a backing track and use the amplifier as a speaker for listening to music.
I have deducted one star from the features category because of the lack of reverb, but I understand that the inclusion of either an analog spring unit or a digital chip would have increased the price of the amplifier, thus putting it out of the reach of some players. But if money is not a problem, I would highly recommend saving up and going for the Champion 20 instead because it really does sound a lot better (I know because I own both, the Frontman 10G and the Champion 20).
To sum up, the Frontman 10G offers a surprisingly good build quality, an excellent portability, and a good, although a little “thin”, “clean” tone. You can also plug in an external device and play music or backing tracks from it. It is worth trying out, but I think that it is better to save up for the Champion 20.

I bought this amp for my sister who at the time started played guitar.
The amp is very good for the money, it has nice clean tones and you can put a little crunch in there too with no problems.

Tthe only problem is if you try to get a hard rock -metal tone because the overdrive can't produce that kind of sound plus the speaker is small and the distorted tones sound funny, but if you want to play metal I guess you don't buy this amp.

Overall, the amp is very well built it is super simple to use , the sound quality (considering the price, and the speaker size) is very pleasing.
Great practise or beginner amp!!!

This is a neat little amp with a lot of useful features. You can plug your MP3/CD player into it, whack on some headphones and jam along to whatever you like.

As with most of these low wattage amps, it can be a little "thin" sounding when you hit the distortion setting, but its OK - it would make a great starter amp and it's really nicely put together. And it says "Fender" on the grille, so that makes it cool, right? Just be warned...for a little amp, it's pretty loud, so don't get carried away!

Like a lot of Thomann stuff, you'll need an adaptor as it comes with a two pin euro plug -other than that, this is a neat little practice amp.