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Published on 06/20/02 at 15:00I paid £130 (UK) for this amp form MCM in Glasgow. Up till then, i had a 10w Marshall practise amp and a huge bass amp to play through so i felt i deserved a new amp.
Everything. The range of sounds is wicked, you can get everything from a clean bright tone to a heavey metal sound (if you really want). the effects are really cool (reverb, delay, flange and chorus), i use reverb the whole time and delay is quite cool, but chorus and flange i havent really worked out what theyre for yet... Its also quite loud for just a 30w amp. i was going to get the 50w model but £100 for 20watts didnt seem worth it. I havent ventured near about half of a turn of the volume nob in our practise room yet Its really sturdy too, you could drop it, its made of real thick wood. It also has this botton you press and its supposed to emulate the sound of a valve amp which is pretty cool, i just leave that switched on the whole time.
But i mostly like just the look of all those nobs and buttons to fiddle with (and that marshall logo)
Its advertised as having two footswitchable channels, so i was expecting a footswitch, but you have to buy those separatly i understand, which sucks a bit, theyre quite cheap though i think.
Also you can only use one digital effect at once (so i just leave it on reverb), they had to cut costs somehow i guess, and also no master volume, only one for each channel. These are minor niggles though.
As i said above it seems well made and ive had no problems with it yet. its made of thick wood, and has caps on the corners. All the nobs feel good quality, you can tell if they are cheap and plasticy but these ones arent.
Its a great amp. I got it out of the box when it came in the mail like a kid at Christmas I love playing through it and havent stopped practising for a long time now... there are one or two small things but they are no big deal.
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Everything. The range of sounds is wicked, you can get everything from a clean bright tone to a heavey metal sound (if you really want). the effects are really cool (reverb, delay, flange and chorus), i use reverb the whole time and delay is quite cool, but chorus and flange i havent really worked out what theyre for yet... Its also quite loud for just a 30w amp. i was going to get the 50w model but £100 for 20watts didnt seem worth it. I havent ventured near about half of a turn of the volume nob in our practise room yet Its really sturdy too, you could drop it, its made of real thick wood. It also has this botton you press and its supposed to emulate the sound of a valve amp which is pretty cool, i just leave that switched on the whole time.
But i mostly like just the look of all those nobs and buttons to fiddle with (and that marshall logo)
Its advertised as having two footswitchable channels, so i was expecting a footswitch, but you have to buy those separatly i understand, which sucks a bit, theyre quite cheap though i think.
Also you can only use one digital effect at once (so i just leave it on reverb), they had to cut costs somehow i guess, and also no master volume, only one for each channel. These are minor niggles though.
As i said above it seems well made and ive had no problems with it yet. its made of thick wood, and has caps on the corners. All the nobs feel good quality, you can tell if they are cheap and plasticy but these ones arent.
Its a great amp. I got it out of the box when it came in the mail like a kid at Christmas I love playing through it and havent stopped practising for a long time now... there are one or two small things but they are no big deal.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com