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Published on 05/05/07 at 08:31
All-tube head amp, 4 channel, 100Watt, average unless all the south of which it is dowry. There are effects on it, but hey I bofbof prfre use hand pedals.
Prcise I notice that I put back a little note, I also prcise I do not play mtal, I use sounds mtal for electronic components or rock, but I do not pr tends in any way make a styl prpondrant in my game

UTILIZATION

It has the quality of its default ... This means it offers a clear and DGIG panel and 4 channels. Clarity is an advantage, the default is not seen the forcment rglages on which we play.
I explain: I play the clean, I put the gain 10am, I make a "store", I go in I put the gain crunch 13h and I "store". If I will return to clean the button will not turn 10 but remain 13h 13h (the sound will be heard, however much one with the knob enreigstr 10am) ... cel and the four channels with all possible parameters Eq, Gain, Volume. The knob could also not of endless knob is to say that in my case, so when I will return to clean I move the gain knob I'll move suddenly from its position recorded position tural / Physical or a sudden large rises if we had just gain the lead channel oversatur ...
But when you take the time to do its presets, we have a clear head with 4-channel rgalges compltements indpendants.
It may be an advantage as a inconvienant ... It never moves as recorded numriquement ... but we no longer see the rglages ... Gnial in RPET in fixed premises and in the studio or big scne, galre live in bars o will require four channels of sound depending on location.

SOUNDS

The clean sound is pretty dynamic, brilliant, close enough to a peavey, close enough to a JCM2000 with a little lens.
The crunch is quite modern and a little cold, cepandant versatile enough we can go up to the saturation trslgre of AC / DC, but the sound is not Marshall, it is colder, less low-mdium, more dynamic, too.
The channel distortion seems a little aseptic ... amp looks like a lamp that mimics a imation the pod or the sound of a MT-2. So beware, a light and sound can be filled with something, it's true, the good, but trs typ "nomtal". That is a distortion trs trs trs clean and compress relativment low mdium but comes out well in the mix I think, add any fawn mdium is quite pretty, in removing is quite against dplaisant. So should a roll.
The lead channel is a little heavier, powerful and darker than the troisime canal, but the distortion is of the same grain, only the stamp gnral change, and the gain, too, can go 4 beyond the 3 (but is it really useful?).
I think that is a good amp, APRS can not like what ct asceptiser a little, surfed the distortion but it will rev out all the sytle that require a very s own (everything nightwish, linkin park but minus the punk genre calif offspring, but for all mtal just shred or symphonic you really try)

OVERALL OPINION

Likes:
the 4 channels indpendant
clean and crunch sounds, a little less distortion
twelve o'clock the memory

I like least:
galre redo all of the presets by changing the bar.
the ct too ascptis the distortion (but some love a).

For 1500 the price of the head, it's really trying, and several speakers DIFFERENT to change a little the characters.