Larry Shelby Posted September 21, 2019 Author Share Posted September 21, 2019 6 hours ago, TheSteven said: Received my amp today, played with it for awhile. First impressions at bedroom volumes & slightly louder in a crowded small room sitting almost on top of the amp using a BCRich Warlock (humbuckers) and Telecaster clone. Amp is bigger / heavier than I expected - neither a plus or minus. 1st 4 amp settings are very usable - Clean 1, Clean 2, Crunch 1, Crunch 2 Can get nice clean tones but can also get a lot dirtier than I expected. You can set the amp so that with just your guitar's volume knob you can go from very clean/chimy to mean & nasty. The Bass & Treble boost switch are subtle but can be helpful. Overdrive 1, Overdrive 2, High Gain 1, High Gain 2 might be usable but in general are too noisy (hissy) for my tastes. Will need to to play more with these and setting combinations to see if I can find the right amount of scream vs 'rumble' . Plugged in a couple of bass guitars using mainly Clean 1 & 2 - not bad at all. Only briefly messed with the built in FX to see if any of my foot switches would work - and they didn't really; need latching switches not momentaries. But it does look with the right switch you could control channel switching & at least global FX on/off separately. Really just scratched the surface - haven't tried the FX loop, using other guitars, pedals, or playing in a more open room. While my initial impression is less than the 10 that the reviewer gave it (mainly due to noisy high gain settings) - I think the amp is a good deal for the price. It'll probably be a real versatile amp once I find the sweet spots. After having played a bit more it's grown on me. I can get some real nice sounds on the "heavy settings" with the effects. Yes, it is a bit "too real" in the "noise" department, just as a tube amp is, so if you are going to use those settings I highly recommend a noise gate. And, as Steven said, for the money, it is far more "tubey" than a normal solid state amp, and good value for the money. I even used my acoustic on the clean settings and it was very nice, and THAT is good thing IMO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zo Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 9 hours ago, Original Goofball said: The "pedal" is a BossTU-12 Chromatic Tuner. LOL Ahah cool , we tend to forget that synths used to be a pain to keep tuned during anwhole session lol ... i clearly hear amp synth so i guess the Fender is in use maybe ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, Zo said: Ahah cool , we tend to forget that synths used to be a pain to keep tuned during anwhole session lol ... i clearly hear amp synth so i guess the Fender is in use maybe ... being totally pedantic - it's a TU-12H I've still got my TU-12 that I bought in 1984, hundreds (thousands ?) of gigs later still works great and gets lots of use. Edited September 22, 2019 by simon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zo Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 2 hours ago, simon said: being totally pedantic - it's a TU-12H I've still got my TU-12 that I bought in 1984, hundreds (thousands ?) of gigs later still works great and gets lots of use. Old boss / roland gear are terminators ... you ll die before they do lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grem Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 59 minutes ago, Zo said: Old boss / roland gear are terminators ... you ll die before they do lol Yep. I got an old Blue MIJ Chorus pedal that's just won't give it up!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted September 22, 2019 Author Share Posted September 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Zo said: Old boss / roland gear are terminators ... you ll die before they do lol And they are "cash cows". If you sell one, they fetch PREMIUM dollars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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