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VicReaper VicReaper
Published on 09/27/07 at 12:15
CHARACTERISTICS of the gainiac have t give dja; prampli with a 12AX7, a clean channel, a channel connection saturated minimum, unnecessary s'tendre on the subject ..

UTILIZATION

Child's play, the simple connectivity, but despite the apparent simplicity of rglage, finding his sound may take a little time ...
the gainiac seemed fragile in the sense that its operating temprature sometimes reaches critical levels (but a c'tait srement of my models)

SOUNDS

Half dception, having read his name left no doubt when his field, the gain!
I had the impression that half the gain that I could find available on other pramplis rocktron or peavey (pirhana, RockMaster ...).
spend on its clean, it was not a pre amp mtalleux!
in spite of the lamp, the lack of heat and aggessivit for mtal, it feels especially dan treble, bass, emerging with a pretty tight grain ..
I have always used with its original lamp, the change to a tung ground or equivalent EI allow him to dvoiler probably a little more potential ... tested.
if this is the case, I back his note 8.

OVERALL OPINION

I sold to buy gainiac a piranha, and I found a Difference enjoyable trs (2 lamps, it helps).
gainiac the Marquesa is a small prampli to rock a little nerv in its original config, but n'sprer not find the distortion by plugging it into a combo.
saw its price in time, it allows all of the same test to be sold quickly and at worst the same price ...

edit 07 2011:
I dterre my post to say that my gainiac made lme there are at least three years, one of the capacitors with DCID melting spontanment .. I possd almost all pramps the Rocktron and I've never seen anything like this before! But as I said, my Gainiac warming horribly, and I should have mfier ...
Note that I may be giving raises because testing various power amps, the gainiac gives a level of saturated enough to play mtal unlike what I had heard of the combo transistor ....
verdict for a major distortion typemtal modern, go your way, it is better to take a simple pedals (Uber mtal example) plutt this fragile and bulky rack for improvement ...
Its advantage is its versatility of sound of 70's hard to type AC / DC or type of heavy 80's, it does its job properly ^ ^