ENGL E322 Thunder 50 Drive Combo

I will launch the first review to the version without reverb of this amp,
The characteristics:
A volume spar for crunch and lead (what does not Reverb)
50 watts
v30 speaker
rglages single standard eq for the three channels, a volume crunch lead a master and a gain which is also the volume for clean.
18kg
Three ECC83 in lamps and Pramper ec83 5881 with two in power.
Aspect robust amp small enough and convenient.
Footswitch not included.
It is very beautiful too ^ ^

UTILIZATION

Then use is the only began to become intressant,
The facade looks a bit dpouille but the advantage is that it is a childlike simplicity to use it just turns the knobs was his sound and after it is gone for good Enjoy: p
The manual is really very small and there 's just absolutely useless to know the cautions to be taken with a tube amp (keep warm, not hot displaces etc. ..)
So it's really a very easy amp and very simple step such as large gasworks that can be found sometimes. The only small BMOL is that the gain used to clean volume so when you want to spend a large distortion of pork has a nice clean bin is damn you end up with a big crunch is not beautiful.

SOUNDS

This is the most important one comes to the sound, making the choice.
First a quick tour of the canals before Retailer, clean, crunch and lead.

Clean: The clean is very nice very pleasing, it is very crystalline respects the guitar, you feel the hot lights it is living, has fun: p, you go up a bit the gain to go tickle the crunch is the the disappointment, the crunch is very very grainy and not bleed so it's not pleasant and that goes for the rhythmic sounds a acdc The dirty little blues we forget, it will remain clean to do this. The reverb does not really lack for me.

Crunch: This channel is not a crunch despite call'd it like that, it starts well to send, it's still pretty MODR is fun to do stuff in the style satriani or van haen or more old school stuff like Black Sabbath or the first osbourne (with my Jackson has done really)

Lead: We're getting there, here is the main intrt the amp while outside the crunch it is very comprehensive and versatile. It rises when the volume it really starts to speak, it really sends very large, when the volume has lead to three quarters and the master third one feels heavy palm mutes tr s impressive in light of the small size of the amp, it's also justified the choice of drive Plutt as reverb, when you have a spring reverb and it goes really sound it can happen that vibrates when the receiver was really because of the volume of the spring reverb makes a sound bad enough when the palm mutes arrive (this is the case for example with the Randall RG50), so the one with no problem . Regarding the grain of the distortion is really cool, it was a grain with lots of character and it was really a big sound, it's clean edge, but a little buzz ca c ' is reasonable.

OVERALL OPINION

I find this amp really good, cheap, with a big sound, versatile class Lger, easy to use, I'm using it for about a year before buying it I tried the Randall RG50 but it had really rained much less what I like most is his character and the fact that sounds of low volume, against the big gain in the amount of pork just really sound it out harmonics well, I really would do this choice, hesitating a bit with the orange rocker 30 that looks really good too, j'espre can you do review a few times: P.
Good guitar to all!