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MGR/Billy « Crate DX - 212 Digital Guitar Amplifier »
Published on 01/14/11 at 15:00This was an idea Crate came out with probably around the year 2000. They basically wanted to offer your 16 amp settings with effects into one amp with 100 savable patches.
The Amp sims are: Top Mount, High Power, Studio Tweed, Blackface, Large Tweed, 60s Era UK, 70s Era UK, Fuzz Box, Tube Rectifier, Cali Mod, Ampeg VL, Flexwave, Vintage Club, Blue Voodoo, Acoustic and Clean. whhhew!
The Effects are: Touch Wah, Compressor, Tremelo, Vibrato, Chorus, Flanger, Delay, Echo, Rotary Speaker and then a variety of combined effects.
The Knobs are: Master, Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble and Channel level. Then the Effects knobs are Effect Adjust, Reverb Level and Reverb Depth.
A friend in High School had one and I bought it off of him. I played it about a year and then sold it to my local guitar shop for $100. My guess is new the 1x12 combo was around $500.
This was the first digital amp I used. I liked the limited number of patches. They are seemed usable for something. I hate those amps that have 999 patches and maybe 30 of them are mildly usable.
The tap tempo feature was nice and revolutionary to me back 11 years ago when I was a newer player.
This amp was greatly under powered. I don't think it could have powered a gig without PA support. It claims it was rated at 60 watts, but it equated to a 20 watt practice amp.
It is a bit bulky, but it was manageable to move around. The amp worked great as long as I owned it. I imagine once it breaks it will end up in a landfill somewhere as repairing this is probably about as intense as a Jaguar or the Millennium Falcon!
Crate paved the way for some of the crazy digital amps that are out there today with this model. Would make a cool studio amp or practice amp to offer you plenty of sounds at your fingertips, but it just isn't powerful enough to gig with.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
The Amp sims are: Top Mount, High Power, Studio Tweed, Blackface, Large Tweed, 60s Era UK, 70s Era UK, Fuzz Box, Tube Rectifier, Cali Mod, Ampeg VL, Flexwave, Vintage Club, Blue Voodoo, Acoustic and Clean. whhhew!
The Effects are: Touch Wah, Compressor, Tremelo, Vibrato, Chorus, Flanger, Delay, Echo, Rotary Speaker and then a variety of combined effects.
The Knobs are: Master, Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble and Channel level. Then the Effects knobs are Effect Adjust, Reverb Level and Reverb Depth.
A friend in High School had one and I bought it off of him. I played it about a year and then sold it to my local guitar shop for $100. My guess is new the 1x12 combo was around $500.
This was the first digital amp I used. I liked the limited number of patches. They are seemed usable for something. I hate those amps that have 999 patches and maybe 30 of them are mildly usable.
The tap tempo feature was nice and revolutionary to me back 11 years ago when I was a newer player.
This amp was greatly under powered. I don't think it could have powered a gig without PA support. It claims it was rated at 60 watts, but it equated to a 20 watt practice amp.
It is a bit bulky, but it was manageable to move around. The amp worked great as long as I owned it. I imagine once it breaks it will end up in a landfill somewhere as repairing this is probably about as intense as a Jaguar or the Millennium Falcon!
Crate paved the way for some of the crazy digital amps that are out there today with this model. Would make a cool studio amp or practice amp to offer you plenty of sounds at your fingertips, but it just isn't powerful enough to gig with.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com