What a sweet little amp!
My Marshall has a very Fender like clean channel, but more in the vein of a Twin. This little beast is something else entirely. I just spent the last 45 minutes with it, and fell in love. A pair of EL84's and 3 12AX7's power this honey for those of you not famalier with it. I turned all the knobs to the now infamous Fender "Magic 6", or whatever you want to call it. All of the knobs on 6 except for the reverb. This thing just sings for the blues. I always thought having one channel would be too limiting, and I think it may be for rock, but for blues this is perfect. Even with the volume way up, if you roll back the guitar volume the clean is still nice and sweet, but when you hit the strings hard this little devil will bark. The really nice thing is you can crank this thing up to get the power tubes cooking, and not bust eardrums or make the neighbors too angry.
The stock tubes sound decent enough (Sovtek 12AX7WXT's), but I popped a spare JJ that I had laying around into V1 and it really gave the amp a whole new character. Nice warm smokey sound...smoother. I have a spare V30 that I'm thinking of throwing in this little sweetheart also, and probably some JJ EL84's as well.
This amp, combined with listening to Eric Clapton and SRV with Lou this afternoon has me inspired all over again to work on my blues licks. I thought I was going to let my daughter use it to learn guitar, but I think I'm keepin' this baby for Daddy!
My Marshall has a very Fender like clean channel, but more in the vein of a Twin. This little beast is something else entirely. I just spent the last 45 minutes with it, and fell in love. A pair of EL84's and 3 12AX7's power this honey for those of you not famalier with it. I turned all the knobs to the now infamous Fender "Magic 6", or whatever you want to call it. All of the knobs on 6 except for the reverb. This thing just sings for the blues. I always thought having one channel would be too limiting, and I think it may be for rock, but for blues this is perfect. Even with the volume way up, if you roll back the guitar volume the clean is still nice and sweet, but when you hit the strings hard this little devil will bark. The really nice thing is you can crank this thing up to get the power tubes cooking, and not bust eardrums or make the neighbors too angry.
The stock tubes sound decent enough (Sovtek 12AX7WXT's), but I popped a spare JJ that I had laying around into V1 and it really gave the amp a whole new character. Nice warm smokey sound...smoother. I have a spare V30 that I'm thinking of throwing in this little sweetheart also, and probably some JJ EL84's as well.
This amp, combined with listening to Eric Clapton and SRV with Lou this afternoon has me inspired all over again to work on my blues licks. I thought I was going to let my daughter use it to learn guitar, but I think I'm keepin' this baby for Daddy!
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