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I am a long time classical guitar player, but have always wanted to try an electric guitar.

First, I bought a new Fender Hot Rodded American Double Fat Strat (white blonde over swamp ash) with a '59 Humbucker in the neck position and a Pearly Gates in the bridge position.

Now, I've just purchased this Fender Stage 1000 solid state amplifier at Guitar Center (ugh) for a great price...only $200.00 new because nobody wanted it...evidently, everyone wants tubes. I was seduced by the low price and all the following specs:
• Handcrafted Fender DSP effects
• FX Select, FX Level, Time/Rate knobs
• Seven timbre filters
• 100 watts as is, 160 watts with 8 Ohm extension speaker
• One Celestion G12T-100 speaker
• Digital chromatic tuner

Anyway, to my uneducated ear, my guitar sounds very good through this amplifier except for a high level of hum no matter what channel or what adjustments I make. This is something I never expected from a solid state amplifier.

Guitar Center says this is normal, but I find it disturbing.

Would you consider this normal from a new Fender solid state amplifier or should I contact Fender to get it fixed under the five year warranty?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Regards,
John Golden