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Grattouille33
Published on 03/01/10 at 07:32
This amp is a big combo lamps! Class with its black finish (photo above).
5O watts RMS, 2 speakers crate, 4 12AX7 preamp and 4 EL84 in amplifier in
An input jack, an effects loop weird in (cable jack to predict Y)
A nice spring reverb with a level for each channel
2 channels: one for clean sounds with 2-band EQ and volume, one for saturation, three band EQ, gain and volume
No master volume!
So minus 1 for the master, if not everything is perfect, it's not complicated, no need to take the lead three hours to make his adjustments.
UTILIZATION
As I said before, this configuration is very simple and super effective.
The manual ... It's wasted paper ^ ^
The sound is coming right away, but beware, these 50 watts is not the gnognotte! So should go easy, sutout there is no master (it's simple, repeating, I never exceeded 1.5 by volume). For the effects loop, and I use no effects bin, except for a wah-wah, so that way it's done.
9 for the Masters.
SOUNDS
My style of music: I play a bit of everything, but mostly jazz-rock, rock and hard rock.
The amp perfectly follows these styles.
The clean sound is beautiful, it almost does not crunch, in short, we have a real clear sound, both jazzy, crystalline, warm and silky.
In saturation, we can have everything, pretty much crunch reactive attack distos up to modern rock. Attention, it is not recommended for metal, it has not enough bass and low mids for that.
Moreover, the second channel, when more than 6 in gain, we have a really sharp fuzz and not very pleasant if we do not drop the treble on the amp (I always keep 3). So be careful there!
With my ibanez rg 3120, seymour duncan sh2 rise and SH5, the soli saturation are sublime: very good attack, grain a bit messy at the marshall, sustain large, the total, actually.
There, that's good for me: 10/10, Bravo Crate.
OVERALL OPINION
This makes now a year since I use it. I bought 500 euros secondhand, and I have no regrets, even after having tested the amp as 15-25 express mesa boogie or marshall of modern vintage. Only regret: it is a bit heavy ...
Value for money at the top, although for me it is only quality that counts.
Crate thank you! But why do most of these amps?!
5O watts RMS, 2 speakers crate, 4 12AX7 preamp and 4 EL84 in amplifier in
An input jack, an effects loop weird in (cable jack to predict Y)
A nice spring reverb with a level for each channel
2 channels: one for clean sounds with 2-band EQ and volume, one for saturation, three band EQ, gain and volume
No master volume!
So minus 1 for the master, if not everything is perfect, it's not complicated, no need to take the lead three hours to make his adjustments.
UTILIZATION
As I said before, this configuration is very simple and super effective.
The manual ... It's wasted paper ^ ^
The sound is coming right away, but beware, these 50 watts is not the gnognotte! So should go easy, sutout there is no master (it's simple, repeating, I never exceeded 1.5 by volume). For the effects loop, and I use no effects bin, except for a wah-wah, so that way it's done.
9 for the Masters.
SOUNDS
My style of music: I play a bit of everything, but mostly jazz-rock, rock and hard rock.
The amp perfectly follows these styles.
The clean sound is beautiful, it almost does not crunch, in short, we have a real clear sound, both jazzy, crystalline, warm and silky.
In saturation, we can have everything, pretty much crunch reactive attack distos up to modern rock. Attention, it is not recommended for metal, it has not enough bass and low mids for that.
Moreover, the second channel, when more than 6 in gain, we have a really sharp fuzz and not very pleasant if we do not drop the treble on the amp (I always keep 3). So be careful there!
With my ibanez rg 3120, seymour duncan sh2 rise and SH5, the soli saturation are sublime: very good attack, grain a bit messy at the marshall, sustain large, the total, actually.
There, that's good for me: 10/10, Bravo Crate.
OVERALL OPINION
This makes now a year since I use it. I bought 500 euros secondhand, and I have no regrets, even after having tested the amp as 15-25 express mesa boogie or marshall of modern vintage. Only regret: it is a bit heavy ...
Value for money at the top, although for me it is only quality that counts.
Crate thank you! But why do most of these amps?!