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Published on 02/18/09 at 16:43
Made in Vietnam
30w can get a 0.2W, reactor valve system
Output phones, no CD in, no effects loop
22 amp models, 66 preset (not a change), 8 slots users
11 effects, sometimes combined (eg Compression + Chorus, absurd, right?)
quality reverb and separate master separate button too.
Effects disconnectable (phew, read below)
HP 4 ohms (so difficult to change: Jensen often 8 or 16 ohms), honest, no more, but mine has not yet been run.

UTILIZATION

It's quite complicated to manage, with buttons to hold down during the setting dial, LED so the colors are similar (orange-red), but it did.

The sounds of the amps are pretty good, even very very good, especially when it mounts the Master (for the effect class A valve reactor). Thanks to the knob at the back of wattage you can get a big sound at low volume, it is very significant especially when HP becomes rough on large bass or on the big win. The gain knob has a tendency to really spoil the other HP and must be lightweight with.

It is easy to clean sounds good, or good hard crunch and warm for all types of guitar (bobi single, double or assets). With simple bobi ca buzz like a real tube amp. Amazing for the transistor is not it? Metal sounds have little to do with the models simulated, but still usable.
Basically I prefer the "manual" mode with no effect.

Where it is not the best, it is with the effects (especially at the beginning when we do not yet know well managed) is the cata! No one to catch the other. Topping the list, flanger, rotary and octave that are really grass roots. I mean by as much as you can appreciate the side of analog amplifiers in natural, as the effects break the dream! Line6 in the area is 10 times better. Here is the first Casio Played at Club prices. This means we can rule out altogether the 22 presets "Effected" and a lot of sounds produced by 22 artists. Fortunately there is a bypass button on the effects, I recommend sticking to the super glue.

Spountz manual. It's not cost much to put a doc in English or French!

SOUNDS

Best sound: Black 2x12, AC15, AC30, Numetal, US90 (ex-UK70), UK Modern, and ExpressTrain CaliMetal. The two biggest stars are AC30BM (Brian May, with the gain is beautiful) and AC50CP2 (it looks like a well saturated the Gilmour). The Tweed 4x10 is beautifully creamy (a bit worse than the AD30) and the Black 2x12 is clean even with a desire of gain. At first I thought the AC30 TB zero, curiously much much too dark. But with patience, by reducing the master, pushing the treble and gain a background, it becomes great. In general all the sounds are excellent and will require hours and hours to find out all the virtues.

I put a great note, although the effects are blah-blah, and concluding nevertheless that nothing beats the real amps it takes to connect back to reality.

OVERALL OPINION

Barely a week of use (without stopping). Extraordinary value for money: 9 for excellent sound and with the wattage of a button the rear is a sacred matter, except the HP has a bit messy.
The AD30VT has declined, it is also superbly positioned in prices, despite a few less features: reverb separate 11 amps instead of 22, only two patches.
See also the home of Peavey VYPYR 30 (AC seems to be the bomb for less).

Long live competition, It's great that Line6, Peavey, Vox, Fender are doing the simulation wad!

EDIT: after a month of use, I confirm that transplanting (sm57 or to sound recorder) ca tore a block!. And I always found her a nice guitar for any style and in no time, 8 patches used to save a sound during the recording. And the effects ... what effects??