“A rare and often overlooked chapter in amplifier history”: IK Multimedia makes 9 elusive lost era Fender amps available as a TONEX plugin

IK Multimedia Brown Panel Signature Collection.

IK Multimedia’s latest amp sim plugin dusts off nine rare-breed Fender amps for 80 new Tone Models based on elusive and oft-overlooked brown-panel amps.

The amps in question, built between 1959 and 1963, sit slap bang in the middle of Fender’s Tweed and black-panel eras, and tonally melded the warmth of the former with the latter's cleanliness and clarity.