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Published on 05/18/02 at 15:00I bought this amp at Guitar Center in Westminster, Co. in March for around $1200.
Sounded great, tons of tones and effects. The idea of an amp [morphing] its internal circuitry to "become" other amps was intruiging to say the least.
But, problems became evident as one afternoon I sat down, and noticed that the noise gate was doing the opposite of it was supposed to do. Instead of turning the noise down after you stop playing, you could hear the noise actually swelling up in volume. This didn't change regardless of settings or cable/guitar changes.
I thought to myself, lets give it a few more days, cause I really love what this amp does.
The next couple of weeks found me marveling in the tonal versatility of this amp, until one evening I turned on the amps power switch and nothing happened!!
The first thing I thought was it must of somehow come unplugged from my Furman power conditioner. Well' it hadn't, so I turned the switch off, then turned it back on again and it powered up. (Now I'm having serious doubts) After that, it was all down hill. The tone mojo leapt outta' that amp cause' every amp model sounded generic and un-inspiring. To top it off, the display was just a buncha un-intelligble crap. It was time to call Guitar Center.
The salesmen were very gracious and said bring it back and we'll swap it out. That was pretty cool of them, even though it was well past thirty days. So I did some research and found out some of these amps have defective chips. So rather chancing another bad amp, I spent the extra dough and picked up a JCM 2000 TSL 100 half stack and I've gotta say... this amp rules! Tone...tone...tone!!
Don't buy the Fender Cyber-Twin. These probs always seem to happen when you try to cram this much into something. Stick to the basics, find a good clean, crunch, and lead tone and go from there. Happy tone hunting!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Sounded great, tons of tones and effects. The idea of an amp [morphing] its internal circuitry to "become" other amps was intruiging to say the least.
But, problems became evident as one afternoon I sat down, and noticed that the noise gate was doing the opposite of it was supposed to do. Instead of turning the noise down after you stop playing, you could hear the noise actually swelling up in volume. This didn't change regardless of settings or cable/guitar changes.
I thought to myself, lets give it a few more days, cause I really love what this amp does.
The next couple of weeks found me marveling in the tonal versatility of this amp, until one evening I turned on the amps power switch and nothing happened!!
The first thing I thought was it must of somehow come unplugged from my Furman power conditioner. Well' it hadn't, so I turned the switch off, then turned it back on again and it powered up. (Now I'm having serious doubts) After that, it was all down hill. The tone mojo leapt outta' that amp cause' every amp model sounded generic and un-inspiring. To top it off, the display was just a buncha un-intelligble crap. It was time to call Guitar Center.
The salesmen were very gracious and said bring it back and we'll swap it out. That was pretty cool of them, even though it was well past thirty days. So I did some research and found out some of these amps have defective chips. So rather chancing another bad amp, I spent the extra dough and picked up a JCM 2000 TSL 100 half stack and I've gotta say... this amp rules! Tone...tone...tone!!
Don't buy the Fender Cyber-Twin. These probs always seem to happen when you try to cram this much into something. Stick to the basics, find a good clean, crunch, and lead tone and go from there. Happy tone hunting!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com