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Published on 12/30/01 at 15:00I swapped this amp with a band colleague for my Fender Princeton Chorus which was good but I wanted some valves and he wanted some chorus!! That was about a year ago, it had been around in the band for a couple of years before that but has only been gigged sinced I have had it.
Very acceptable and easy to find clean valve tones, especially with my US Telecaster. I also play a Gordon Smith (twin humbuckers)and the sound is nice and rich though it needs a bit of tone control adjustment. The overdriven sound is fantastic with a very convincing range of blues crunch and solo tones to out of control mayhem (little explored or used by me but always fun). It is a very loud amp for its 30watt rating, I can't ever imagine needing more volume for the lowly bar and wedding gigs that I play, it rarely gets turned up beyond 3 or 4. I use mine with a Laney 12 inch extension enclosure to add a bit more bottom end. I also use an acoustic guitar a fair bit and using an acoustic amp emulator (in a Korg AX1000G stomper) it sound very nice indeed, big and tonally very rich.
Could possibly do with a bit more bottom end, though as it is played more at decent volumes the speaker seems to be freeing up a bit and the extension cabinet (for which I paid not much over 100 pounds UK) made a lot of difference. For a 1x12, it seems heavy....very minor gripes really as it is a great amp.
Construction seems as good as any I have seen, there have been no problems with it in the 3 or 4 years of its existence. It has been bashed and dropped and bears very little in the way of scars as a result.
An extremely good all round amplifier, consider one as an alternative to the far higher priced US alternatives if you are looking around. Great value for money. The louder it is the better it sounds....still that's true of most amps and would we have it any other way?
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Very acceptable and easy to find clean valve tones, especially with my US Telecaster. I also play a Gordon Smith (twin humbuckers)and the sound is nice and rich though it needs a bit of tone control adjustment. The overdriven sound is fantastic with a very convincing range of blues crunch and solo tones to out of control mayhem (little explored or used by me but always fun). It is a very loud amp for its 30watt rating, I can't ever imagine needing more volume for the lowly bar and wedding gigs that I play, it rarely gets turned up beyond 3 or 4. I use mine with a Laney 12 inch extension enclosure to add a bit more bottom end. I also use an acoustic guitar a fair bit and using an acoustic amp emulator (in a Korg AX1000G stomper) it sound very nice indeed, big and tonally very rich.
Could possibly do with a bit more bottom end, though as it is played more at decent volumes the speaker seems to be freeing up a bit and the extension cabinet (for which I paid not much over 100 pounds UK) made a lot of difference. For a 1x12, it seems heavy....very minor gripes really as it is a great amp.
Construction seems as good as any I have seen, there have been no problems with it in the 3 or 4 years of its existence. It has been bashed and dropped and bears very little in the way of scars as a result.
An extremely good all round amplifier, consider one as an alternative to the far higher priced US alternatives if you are looking around. Great value for money. The louder it is the better it sounds....still that's true of most amps and would we have it any other way?
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com