Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
I strolled through Guitar Center tonight, and spotted a used Albion TCT50H on it's 212 cab. I'm always curious to hear amps I've never heard of, so I checked it out with one of the new Custom Classic LP's....sweet guitar!
Apparently, the owner Steve Grindrod had some affiliation with both Marshall and Vox, and this amp really gives up the British goods. It's two channel with a lot of bells and whistles I wasn't sure should have been added to the circuit, but they're there.
The amp has great control over every shade of clean, midgain, and super chunk Marshall/Mesa Rec tones. Pretty impressive. Plus, one of the bells and whistles is reverb, which sounds nice dialed really low. Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention one of it's greatest features....the ability to mix the two channels together! You can great a humongous sound with that option.
It's a little drier sounding than my Bogner XTC, but covers much of the same ground.
One thing I found interesting was that it had master volume, volume, gain, and drive. So, you can really dial in shades of gain. This is something that's a step beyond your typical Marshall like a DSL. And the look of the amp is cool. I love the glossy front panel. I give these amps a thumbs up.
A really good amp for a surprisingly reasonable price.
http://www.zzounds.com/item--ALBTCT50H
Apparently, the owner Steve Grindrod had some affiliation with both Marshall and Vox, and this amp really gives up the British goods. It's two channel with a lot of bells and whistles I wasn't sure should have been added to the circuit, but they're there.
The amp has great control over every shade of clean, midgain, and super chunk Marshall/Mesa Rec tones. Pretty impressive. Plus, one of the bells and whistles is reverb, which sounds nice dialed really low. Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention one of it's greatest features....the ability to mix the two channels together! You can great a humongous sound with that option.
It's a little drier sounding than my Bogner XTC, but covers much of the same ground.
One thing I found interesting was that it had master volume, volume, gain, and drive. So, you can really dial in shades of gain. This is something that's a step beyond your typical Marshall like a DSL. And the look of the amp is cool. I love the glossy front panel. I give these amps a thumbs up.
A really good amp for a surprisingly reasonable price.
http://www.zzounds.com/item--ALBTCT50H
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