The Marketing Blurb

The TripleDrive Supreme (TDS) offers plenty of beautiful, warm headroom for undistorted country, jazz, or chiming pop. If you play large venues, the Triple Drive Supreme will give you all the clean headroom you could ever need and a wide range of sonic choices. If you seek a vehicle for your American-rock tone excursions, this might just be your Rolls-Royce.

Based on the highly successful Overdrive Supreme SLX, (favorably reviewed in the February Guitar Player Magazine), the Triple Drive Supreme features three foot switchable channels of clean, mean and scream. Available in 50,100 and 150 watt versions, the TDS features a dedicated chime filled “California Clean Channel” with brite, deep, and rock/jazz switches, as well as mid and gain boosts. Its second and third channels are based on our successful Overdrive Supreme clean and mean channels. The amp is controlled by a 6-way footswitch (included), which provides channel switching, as well as independent control of mid and gain boosts for both channels. An extra (separate) footswitch jack for the reverb is also available, as is the artist footswitch option.

The amp features 4, 8 and 16 ohm outputs, a full-time all-tube buffered effects loop with series or parallel operation.

Like the Overdrive Supreme, the loop features separate send and return level controls, a series/parallel switch and a trim control to permit line or pedal level device interface. The loop inputs and outputs are “live” whether the loop is terminated or not. This means the send output may be used as a line out, and the return input may be used as a spare line level input for a keyboard, drum machine, or other signal input, at any time. The reverb features a spacious Accutronics long decay 6-spring reverb driven by a push-pull current drive amp and an ultra low noise return amp using bi-fet op-amp technology. Fully adjustable input and output levels. Like the ODS, the Tripledrive features fan cooling, an aircraft grade T-6 aluminum chassis, individual tube bias adjusts and regulated B+ and DC preamp tube filaments for lowest noise and consistent performance despite line noise or variations.

The chassis (like all Fuchs products) is aircraft grade aluminum; our internal construction is mixed PC board and hard wired. A detachable power cord is standard. By using single point grounding, a regulated and buffered high voltage preamp power supply, the amp is dead quiet and free of hum at all operating levels.

TDS Head Front Panel

Channel One: brite, deep, rock/jazz, high, mid, low, (with pull mid and gain boosts), Low control pulls for manual channel switch.

Channel Two: brite, deep, rock/jazz, high, mid, low, (with pull mid, and gain boosts), Channel Three: Overdrive input control (sets amount and sensitivity of distortion), Overdrive Out (sets level when overdrive is activated). OD out control pulls for manual overdrive activation.

Master output section: Master volume (controls channels 2 and 3 only), accent, and reverb master.

My opinion

To be honest, I'm not qualified to have an opinion on this amp since I've never played a Fuchs, let alone the Triple Supreme. So I'll keep this section short (and hopefully edit it later after I've had chance to play one).

Out of all the amplifiers on this site, the Fuchs is top of my list to try next. Being more realistic, it's more likely that I'll be playing a lot more amplifiers before I get hold of one of these.

In short, I hear a lot of good stuff about Fuchs. Many class them as the Dumble-clones to aim for but a lot cheaper than Dumbles and also easier to obtain.