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YanDid YanDid
Published on 01/07/08 at 23:53
All-tube amp, 50 Watts (trs trs powerful).

4 channels: Clean, Crunch, Lead and Wrap. For each of these channels, all rglages are available.

It has the particularity to be Fully programmable, this means that all rglages are recordable ... (You can store 128 rglages DIFFERENT, so what sounds to 4 DIFFERENT, prrgls for 32 pieces!)

The switches from one rglage the other is a grace pdalier noon provided. But personally, I use my Vox ToneLab, which works just as well, but gives me advantages that I dcrirai further ...

It has a loop insertion in parralle or series, enables or disables (even so, it can be programmed in the rglage!)

on the other hand, there is no direct output on this amp. Can be used out of the loop insertion. Personally, I bought a box of Red Box Pro at H & K. I plugged into an outlet not HP used (16 ohms) The recording is perfect.

CAUTION: Do not unplug the HP of the amp, CRAM ca ...

UTILIZATION

When achte this amp is from the perspective of "tweaking".

Indeed, you will be able to program the sound of each moment of your set: this passage clean lens, wrap in another of the pure death metal, another solo Floydien ...

Everything is ... but it will of course take time (and fun) set all this ...

The reverb is correct, and the delay impeccable (rglage volume, number of rptitions and hard)

on the other hand, there is no numriques dosage effects (chorus, flanger, tremolo). If you your fans what kind of effects, you should use pedals through the loop insertion. A bit lightweight, so I take that level the one point.

Personally, I put the ToneLab loop insertion, and I program my supplmentaires effects when they are needed, the ToneLab. (Example: reverse delay, pitch shifter, whawha, acoustic guitar simulation etc ...)
Thus, by changing the bank's on my ToneLab, I change at the same time the sound of the amp, since both are coupled via midi. This is the rve!

The manual is clear. No problem

SOUNDS

The sound? Well, frankly, I'm bluffing (and my friends, also in rp)

The clean channel is clear, and rglages severe acute mdium can highlight the entire registry.

The crunch is trs effective, and bizarrely Dfine so well that I often used solo (grain background, until the "boost")

The lead channel is (for now, but I beginners) the less "surprise" ... It does its job (very good job), but nothing special ...

Channel wrap is one that put me over the ground. If you have the opportunity to try this amp, test the bank's machined 3-D ... a rgal. One wonders how one can make HP an unparalleled!

In all cases, the amount of "prsence" allows the best contrast to refine the sound. A must!

January 2008 EDIT: It lacks a little bit of treble, as clean, but nothing mchant. Always perfect, if ...
I use a Vigier Excalibur Original (version Seymour Duncan), it helps, have to say ...

OVERALL OPINION

Well, it's time to conclude. A little earlier, (the day after purchase) to draw conclusions DEFINITIONS ... (I will complete the notice in the coming months)

I represented this amp in its ability to store sounds, and also because he possdait 4 caneaux complete. The icing on the cake was when I Discoveries that I could pair my ToneLab.

The test at my dealer let me sit ...

I still had a final notice and pro dsinterress get.
I got it at a major specialist in Paris. The seller said that between noon and two, when the store closed the other silent seller used this amp. Quaund seen this store, filled floor to ceiling on of the best Class A amps, we think that's a good sign ...

I pay just under 1200 euros ... Apriori, I am far from regretting ...

A video trs interresting (in a notice on the 100w Swichblade:
https://www.licklibrary.com/classifieds_hugheskettad.aspx (click on the guitar, bottom right)

THE EDIT 25/06: Well, I know him better and better. I always apprcie much (or more). Power standard (almost too) ... Importance of potentiomtre "prsence" to refine SETTING THE Tone. (The clear sound MRIT many prsence ...)

EDIT on 25/10: There are examples of records with the switchblade raliss here:
https://myspace.com/alkozaur
(Songs "Dragonfly", "Serum of life" and "Forget the Sun")
Always happy to this amp