All user reviews of 4/5 for the Laney LC15R

I have played since I was 12 or 13 and I am 42 now in march 2007. I like classic rock music likes of neil young, love, the who, new wave late 70's early 80's the likes of television the teardrop explodes echo and the bunnymen and everything between john martyn, nick drake, the doors, nirvana you get the picture. I also like the old school hip hop like bambata and the old tommyboy stuff, and house music, and modern stuff white stripes, blur, killers, arcade fire, tapes'n'tapes, artic monkeys, oasis, ETc, ETC, ETC.

I bought the amp from ebay for £135, the amp was £199 @ the time, these amp do keep their price. I bought it because I wanted a small valve amp with reverb. I have had the amp for approx 2 years.

The LC15R is pretty well equiped for the price @ the time there wasn't many valve amps around in the cheaper bracket, there seems to be more and more cheaper small amps around now like the ones from ibanez and epiphone. The amp has 2 inputs one brighter than the other, it has bass, treble, middle, gain, volume, and reverb. It also has an effects loop, direct out, ext speaker, and a reverb on/off footswitch, which work with any latching switch. It has quite a lot of gain so you can get the full range of sound and volumes from it. The amp is pretty well featured and the tone is pretty good for an amp of the price.

What I have noticed about these and other equpment reviews is that people arn't too objective about their equipment, I mean whos gonna say well I went and bought a piece of crap, or perhaps people just wouldn't go and be bothered writing about something the don't like. But anyway this amp comes with a crap speaker ( I believe that it now comes with a celestion tube 10). I replcaed the original one with a nice webber signature 10, I also junked the sovtek valves and put in a set of JJ's, the amp really sound nice with these alterations. I also rigged the speaker up so it plugged into the ext socket because when you plug into the ext in the original config it didn't short out the internal speaker so I wasn't too sure about the ipedence. The other thing with the amp is that the pots are really small with tiny chicked heads and some are getting a bit scratchy but it is a cheap amp.

The build quality is a bit harder to say the cab looks like it's made from MDF, the finish is a bit rough around the back but hey. The tolex looks perfect so far and the amp is made in the UK, which I am not sure about the newer ones, I noticed in a review of one of the larger Laney amps that it was made in the far east. More and more British amp companies seem to be doing this IE Vox, Celestion, Marshall (their cheaper amps anyhoo), Orange, and Laney. To me this seems wrong especially for the like of Vox and Celestion, people pay for a product that is associated with Britain and they are made in China vox and celestion arn't cheap either, if Marsahll can manage to make all their more upper class stuff in the UK I don't see why they can't. The other nice feature about this and all of Laney's stuff is the chrome front panel very classy.

The bottom line is that this amp is a good buy @ the price, when you compare it to say the fender blues junior @£325, with no reverb, the laney @ about £200 or less, and with reverb is a good deal, and with the non reverb version @ about £160 they are well priced. Check it out yourself try ebay or as I said they are pretty cheap new and if you don't like it you will get rid of it on ebay and you won't loose much.

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I paid about £200 (UK) for the unit, brand new from my local music shop.

Its valve, 15 watts and sounds absolutely amazing value for money. It covers clean and dirt sounds nicely and it is very loud (I have gigged this amp and it will quite happily break through the noise of the bass and drums. It responds really well to the volume of the guitar. (It has to, it is a single channel amp) Put your strat on 6-7 on the vol and the unit remains clean, up above 7 and then you get crunch, dirt then rock/solo. Excellent!

The Invader speaker in it isn't much cop - stick a Jenson in and you will improve the amp further. Similarly, stick some decent valves in it (it comes with mediocre Chinese valves in it). Ok, this adds more to the price of the amp and makes it non original but you will still do better buying this than trying to buy an off the shelf package for the same price. The valves sit directly on the pcb -this may not be a problem but the heating effects may cause some problems down the line...?

Good solid unit. It survived falling down a flight of stairs (thanks to my flatmate) and still works perfectly. (Amazingly there was no cosmetic damage either!) I think that speaks for itself. The valves seem a little exposed - be careful not to knock them or anything! At the end of the day, it is built fairly well bearing in mind it is a budget amp! You can't expect the earth...

A excellent practice amp that is rugged enough to gig at small venues. Its tone is very British and superb at that. Stick a mic in front of it and you got a very useable amp for any venue.

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The Laney LC-15R is one of the smallest variants of the LC series line, which is noted for its more vintage styling and tone. This particular model is a single channel amplifier, putting out 15 watts of power that is run on EL84 tubes. It has a single 10" speaker for great portability. The single channel has a gain control, a bright switch (acts sort of like a brightness control on a Fender, or a Top Boost channel on a VOX) and the typical EQ stack of bass, middle, treble. There's also the standard volume control, and a nice spring reverb as well. The back houses the speaker jacks as well as an effects loop, great and useful features.

UTILIZATION

Getting a good tone out of this amplifier is pretty easy. There's not a lot of controls to get your head around and the layout is pretty typical. Its closest competitor is the Fender Blues Junior for features and general layout. The amp is single channel so my best approach to setting it up was to either set the amp up with a more mid gain sound and use a boost pedal like a Super Overdrive to kick it into high gear or setting it up for its highest gain tone (think early Van Halen sounding) and then use my guitar volume to clean it up. The EQ reacts pretty typically for an amp of this type, though understandably there isn't a ton of low end considering it only has the one 10" in it.

SOUNDS

This amp, despite its simplicity, actually sounds pretty fantastic for the price and features. It's got to be set up for each, but you CAN get a great clean and some rippin' drive out of this amp as well. The clean tones are jangly and clear, with a teasing hint of Fender-y sparkle and chime, perfect for single coil players or perhaps P90s/lower output humbuckers. Easing up the gain brings the amp into great bluesy tones that work very well for gritty blues and early rock n' roll styles. Switching into the highest gain setting gives it a certain British fire that's reminiscent of that great tone used by many rock gods of the '70s and '80s. Sure it may not have the POWER of your vintage Marshall JMP put on 10, but it's got that sort of tone if you want it.

OVERALL OPINION

All in all I think the Laney LC-15R is a great little tube amp for the player who wants a classic look, easy to use layout, simple yet useful features and a great variety of tones in a single channel design. It sounds particularly cool and it definitely is a way to get that British tone in a cheaper and portable box. At about $500 new these amps were fairly priced when new and you can find them for $300 or so if you look now. Definitely a great little gem in this world of amps. Go check one out!

My copy is an LC15, more basic than the LC15R (rverbe, effects loop and exit HP +).
15 watt lamps (Groove Tube & 2xEL34 3x12AX7), HP 10 ".
1 channel, 3 tone, gain and volume: it is simple
Hi Lo 2 inputs, 1 line out
Switch bright (great for clean sounds "Beatles")
The little extra's LC15R lack a bit but nothing essential.

UTILIZATION

In line with the Fender Champ and other small lamp amps, it's gross.
One branch is the volume up and go.
A small volume, we have seen better, the lights do not bring much. I used as a few months before taking her campaign to heat lamps: it day and night.
The rglage tones is sweet but changes the color of her properly. A bit of background noise by pushing the gain but nothing mchant.

Note: 15W, it's not a bedroom amp (my amp is a 30W transistor chamber). It is very hard to home. The grain obtained by the saturation of EL84 when the volume is mounted trs rock, more Vox / Marshall as Fender.

SOUNDS

For Trash, go your way. For the Stones, Beatles, the crunch and sharp rhythms, has made "serious". The bright light of its normal volume sounds trs Vox. A high volume, it is possible, too much treble.
The gain has not won be pushed back to keep the DEFINITIONS.
Depending on the microphone, the sound remains clear longer or shorter, but overall the crunch quickly if you go up the volume. But you dj rveill whole neighborhood now l.

We can try to customize the bte but the change of lamps have little effect on your exact. It seems that with a better type HP Jensen C10Q a rounder sound but the best provision is an external firm: IMMEDIATE dcollage.
Rating: 8 / 10: it is not an AC15 or a Deluxe Reverb but it's not the same price

OVERALL OPINION

Used for 2 years, bought used (model 96). A whistle appeared to beginners, c'tait lamp microphone. More APRS change problem. It has small mood swings from time to time but it's probably time to change the power tubes.
I wanted a small lamp for the apartment but c'tait error: should push for it to give everything. And apart, impossible to mount the volume above 2.
I've heard of problem on some models because of the lights mounted directly on the circuit (a heater), but making sure all is well.
I keep it to play back home but for a good transistor amp (Behringer GM110) sounds better.

Correctly cited by other.

UTILIZATION

Provided we know the principle of an amp lamps, the amp is easy without a scab. Nothing is superfluous and everything is its place.

SOUNDS

It reconnat immediately clean the grain Laney, trs slamming (especially with the bright) and crystalline. The HP HH correctly reproduces the sound but lacks lgrement low, it would apprci a 12 "may be ... can be measured prcisment the gain until a dense distortion trs effective.
The amp is powerful and you can use it without any problem in training blues rock, jazz, rock or even calm. Also, thanks its 10 ", the sound it emits is trs Submitted dmarque and compared to other instruments.

OVERALL OPINION

A REFERENCE in small lamps all. A good value qualitprix trs.
Too bad he has a channel, quickly arduit possibility of uses.
This is a high quality amp that you can easily dplacer!

See previous ones opinion

UTILIZATION

See previous ones opinion

SOUNDS

See previous ones opinion

OVERALL OPINION

I am an Owner 'LC15 and a LC15R.

Concerning technical data, I rfres prcdants notices.

Sound: basic rock stonien, zeppelinien, is done with, actually a small
lack of body size Li HP, but 'must know what you want, from the small
handy or heavy artillery ...

Problem: I purchased these based amps to play pub, making them a spit
max, without bedding in the PA. I may be seen a little big (four
sets the mood smokes and heat ...) have the two amps slap
same as the LC15 of the other guitarist. So it seems,
transformers would be somewhat under-dimentionns (COTS requires rduction).

So, be careful pushing them too and too long.

See data sheet

UTILIZATION

Config simple, good sound immediate manual (English) very convenient.

SOUNDS

Vintage clean sounds clear and clean, pleasant.
Fender strato US more for vintage 60th and other various rocks. Great with a pedal effect on the loop.
Did not find the right sound in Jazz with a Epiphone Joe Pass (lacks a bit of bass).

OVERALL OPINION

Bought new in November 2006, I wanted an amp lamps as light as possible, separating me from a big 212-100W a bit heavy on the stairs (37 kg).
Well I was amazed by the sound of this little amp for lamps rock-blues-60th-70th, especially with my old Digitech effects pedals RP1 who finds a new life plugged into the effects loop.
Her clear, powerful enough for everyday use: no breath, respect for the guitar, simple, and ... 11.5 kg!.

June 2007: testing for 6 months, connected to an external speaker VOX 2X12 '(16-ohm): enormous power class A / B is a factor of 4!), Its excellent vintage with a stratovolcano.
A quality / price ratio as for a European manufacturing (GB) that I even ended up letting me go to think, in terms of price, it was the Chinese! (As is the case for the speaker VOX 2x12 ")