I bought a Fender Hot Rod Deville about a year ago...The amp is absolutely amazing. Great sparkly clean tone. The overdrive channel is passable, but I prefer to use a pedal for better overdrive. But the thing is un-Godly loud. When you crank this thing, you can feel your guts vibrate....and I'm not exagerating on that...it literally makes you feel nauseous. I purchased an attenuator off of ebay that allows me to control the volume on it a little better and it works great.

I love my deville, haven't had it above 5.5 yet, and that was an outside gig. Most gigs I do I don't have it above 3, and the footswitch is very handy too. The amp, my pedal board, and great playing tele is all I use now. It gives me all I need for whatever we're playing, and it's 50 lbs lighter than my other rig.

I have my amp now and it's true that i may need a volume box of sorts. It is fine and gives me the sound I love and considerbly lighter than what I had. I really can't see why so many slam this amp. Maybe I just got a good one? I plugged in my Tele and tuned the amp to how the included instruction sheet said for country twang. I then hit a couple old Haggard licks and it did just what it was supposed to do, sent a shiver right up the ole spine.

From what I could find out about your amp, it's pretty much the same as the deville, but only has 1x12. I appreciate what you said about the Haggard licks, and believe me I can relate. I picked up a lot of tricks from Merle, and of course James Burton, and Roy Nichols. Try to get an Ernie Ball volume pedal, they are durable, and work really well too. This is what most steel guitar players use, and it goes from nothing to full volume very evenly. It will also stay where you put it, meaning if you press it down, and pick your foot up, your volume will stay the same.

Then all you need is a compressor, put a little reverb on your amp, and do some country shredding, lol. I'm glad you like your new amp, and I hope all of you have a great Memorial Day weekend.