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Tube Guitar Amp Head from Epiphone belonging to the Valve series

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«  Hard to beat! »

Published on 04/08/12 at 12:44
All Tube amp (2!) Typed british, 5 watts class A, a volume knob, three entries for the different speakers (4ohm, 8ohm, 16ohm)

UTILIZATION

The sound is what it is it is difficult to change.

SOUNDS

I use it only at home on a 2x12 V30 cabinet (this is my only speaker that I use on my bandmaster and the valve junior) I play blues, surf, rockabilly, garage with a jazzmaster and a Danelectro.
I tried it with my kid who was good but the battery is really limited. No chance to use it in plain in groups ...
I note though that for those looking for an amp to play in the room while the kids are asleep and your nénette watching TV is shredded because its 5 watt are Home Team ...
To use this I get an attenuator Weber and it's done ...

Early in the race we come to have a clear sound not too dégeu. it is on is not good fender but have to compare what is comparable. At the half it was already a good nice crunch. Beyond that saturates quite fast enough but it gets rough. The pedals go well above ...
I play the harmonica as above and it is not bad at all ...

The advantage with this amp is that you can easily change it. I change the lamp by EH preamp 12AX7 and Sovtek kept the original (power tube) and more than surprising result. The clean sound is oddly enhanced and saturation as well. I find it useless to try to describe it to the sound with words but I can assure you that you can easily improve. I planned to change the transformer to improve the overall sound. To see ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it every day for 6 months. It suits me perfectly. I was looking for a cheap and good amp and I found! He serves as a guinea pig for different experiences that I do not want to test on my old Fender ...
Only thing missing would be a bit of a knob tone history can vary guitars.
For those who want to get into the mod amp is a good basis for your future experiences (better than the VOX AC 30 that you get the father, for example lucky)
In summary, for the price you can go with your eyes closed. But beware, this amp did I think that for domestic use or for solo project.

If it can be snapped I'll take anything but I saw a very good experience that I will not regret in any way.