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Roland CB-30

Bass Guitar Combo Amp from Roland belonging to the Cube Bass series

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Published on 04/08/07 at 16:33
See specs below.
A beautiful large-format image: https://www.rolandce.com/productinfo/productimages/groot/cube30bass.jpg

This will give you a preview of Cube30 controls.

UTILIZATION

The configuration is it simple?
Yes and no. Terse response ...
Yes because everything is within reach on the dashboard, above the amp. Some knobs as "synth of the 80" or Groovebox contôlent all the parameters of the small combo.
NOT because you have to get the sound with the 7 amp models based on the present and still SHAPE modifying these 7 models. It's virtually 14 sounds close at hand.

Do you get a good sound easy?
Oh yes!
The sound is there and there. No fuss it sounds. With or without the effects it has something to do. Note that this amp has a marked tendency to sound funky: autowah delay and helping a lot. Compression is a little violent and comic attack if not properly dosed. No need to climb over a quarter.

The manual is clear and sufficient?
Yeah, I read it casually during a visit to the toilet to take care.
Outside the meaning of the names of amps, it does not learn much less to memorize each time the combined action of amp Shape and function.

SOUNDS

Right for your style of music?
Ah yes ... bah otherwise I would not have bought. Must say I did something unheard before paying: I tried it! Amazing is not it?

With what (s) guitar (s) / low (s) or effect (s) do you play?
With Dean B ² 5, a Yamaha RBX374 and Signature Fretless Vantage Zekragash.
There's no wiggle in the ass: this amp sounds great, and for the price there is something down in his chair. It is a marvel.

What kind of sound you get and with what settings ("crystalline", "bold ",....)?
The clean is very dynamic, it should attack and frankly a slap of the most acidic fonky. Autowah with bonus and a background of delay (very short) is the tappe Bootsy ... Shake your Bootsy! The knob GAIN can saturate a bit (a lot) the sound and distorts quite generously. Even though we are far from the sound of BigMuff, this can help. Few turns of knobs later it is in full grasouille: it is soft and round, the marshmallow-bass! Hop a sudden chorus, reverb and a bit of saturation and it just explodes with great blows of pick.

What are the sounds you prefer, you hate?
I love all the sounds except one: the octave seems to me completely useless.
I'm trying, I do not see what you can expect.

OVERALL OPINION

I tried it a few times in stores, but that's only three days it is mine. Who do not need 100 watts and a 15 "May sbien a light weight (17kg) portable, Cube30 I like a lot. The bass is there, present and defined. And for more sauce ago line-out (which is also headphone) to send in a power amp of your choice.

It is small and sturdy and the effects can already shipped a lot of things.
Ok the delay is not super easy to adjust (no TAP) and the effects are not obvious to adjust either, but with two FS-5U pedals can enable / disable the effects and on / off the reverb / delay. Given its price, it is enough to afford a BigMuff and a volume pedal. The autowah is a pleasant surprise, it's pleasantly spicy and gives it a "Austin Powers" and retro kitsch. But it's so fun to play!

A very good combo. 30 Watts who collect and disseminate sound is good enough to indulge in small rehearsals cool ... ef tabs are not provided with, shame!