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Tube Guitar Amp Head from Laney belonging to the Lionheart series

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«  a great amp that sounds very sober! »

Published on 04/29/10 at 01:21
then we have a guitar amp head with tube, the meter, 20 watts of power.
for the connection, it was on top, 2 Inputs LO and HI (for low and high), 1 button "clean volume", switch 2 position "bright", 1 button "drive" button and a "drive volume" , 1 switch "drive" a button "bass", 1 button "middle" one button "treble", 1 button reverb, 1 button "tone" and finally a switch to start run-standby "with, above, a red LED to show he is running.
behind, was on the left, a 2-button "power" with 2 digits, 1 and 0 (1 walk and 0 for off), the right of this button, there is a cache-fuse, and the right side panel, it has 3 outputs for 3 types of speakers, 4 ohms, 8 ohms and 16 ohms, after the section was added for effect named "effects loop" return with 1 input and 1 output "send" and then, finally, the entry for the footswitch.
Note that there is no built-in effects.

UTILIZATION

For me, there's no simpler, 1 volume knob clean general, a switch for a more banging and 1 other to the overdrive channel, reverb and controls a low, mid and treble.
for the manual is pretty clear and there is even a section dedicated to specific settings (clear sounds, jazz, metal ..) and there was even a blank to write your own settings.
readily obtained a good sound, because the dashboard is simple and the amp is good to see very good!

SOUNDS

should be very well that he asked to play, from clean to distorted sound!
for settings, you can play everything as long as you know how to set an amp! (Actually, I do not want m'éttendre on the subject and there are too many to say!)
I play it with an Ibanez RG style guitar and I still have not tried my pedals over saturation! is to say ...
can play jazz, funk snapping well, and rock to hard rock!


OVERALL OPINION

It's been two weeks that I have and I play with regularly.
I have tried many combos and stack (head + cabinet) before you buy; Bogner Alchemist, mesa-boogie single correct (too expensive and too metal for my taste!), Soldano Hot Road (great, but too expensive and frankly, where is the value of having such a machine at home?), Laney LC-100 (an amp with incredible dynamics crazy, but too many watts under the hood!), marshall haze ( its pretty clear, but not great popping sound!), Marshall JVM (really good, but I'm not a fan of the marshall!) and of course, that face!
the quality / price is, for me, very good, I bought it at € 511 woodbrass and, frankly, you're getting your money!
with experience, I am very happy with my laney head and I'm very surprised at the same time the rate at which it is sold Sanchez has not been manufactured in China but in England and it delivers a saturated really good contrary to what I tested in store and what I heard ...

on 03/10/2010: well, after 5 months spent at home, I'm still happy though, recently I wanted to sell to buy something more modern.
meantime, I bought a parker fly deluxe (see Testbed my profile), I discovered that, on the "tone", starting from 0 to 10, we add more acute when I tend to always put at 8; well, after 8, we have them, these acute and I was looking for a more defined!
I rediscovered an amp that I liked a lot already and there, I hope I would keep still for a long time!

on 20.01.2011, in fact, which is a shame; was not saturated with metal frankly, is why I think it add a tube preamp Rocktron gaignac style, JMP1 marshall mesa-boogie or TriAxis .

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