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Brad Kinder · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 62 Location: Richmond, VA

I was in one of the big box stores last week and was finally able to give one of these a quick try. I was really impressed with the tone and build quality of the head. The clean was very warm, tubey and Burrell-like which is always a good thing. It has about all the gigging/recording features I'd want and is very small and lightweight (7 lbs). The matching 1-12 cab is only 17lbs.

So what's the scoop....anyone gigging one of these? So far all the reviews have been very positive. I've got one on the way to evaluate and should have it by the weekend. If anyones interested I'll let you know how it works out.

later!
Brad

woland99 · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 155 Location: Austin, TX

Gorecki · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

I'm definitely curious. But from the sounds of it, if the cab is only 17 lbs strongly suggest either the 12" is not so hot or the cab itself is fairly light duty. Most 12" drivers alone are about 10-14 lbs. Not leaving much weight for wood. Confused

But, the driver could always be swapped out. Wink

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Brad Kinder · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 62 Location: Richmond, VA

Brad Kinder · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 62 Location: Richmond, VA

Well, so far I'm real pleased with this amp. Great clean sound, very tube like, nice choice of effects and even the overdrive channel is quite good. The clean channel has 2 voicings. One reminds me of an Ampeg clean(dark and warm) and the other is more Twin-like. Both sound very good!

The OD channel is voiced more for blues so you'll need something else if you're into the head bang, mosh pit thing Laughing

It does do a smokey, slightly dirty, blues tone pretty well. The OD does get noisy if you turn it up much past 12 o'clock. This is really a non-issue with me since I never play with that much OD but on R&B/funk type gigs sometimes I like a little hair on it.

I've got no-issue with the build quality of the head or cab. The cab sounds good and has no annoying rattles or vibrations. It is very light weight and I think that turns some people off who are used to lugging heavy amps/cabs around but to my ears it sounds good and does the job well (and saves my back!).

We're still on the honeymoon here so we'll see how it holds up to daily use. As soon as I get a few spare minutes I'll get some sound clips posted.

Gorecki · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: