Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
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Rich_S
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Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
The otherwise-useless little music store near work is a Kustom dealer - I think I need to go try one of those. I've been needing a litle practice amp for home, so I can leave my combo at church. (It's only 13 watts, but it's a bulky, heavy mofo. I blame the designer.)
In some else's thread recently, I had asked how the Roland Cubes take pedals - thinking I could use one at home with my board. But the Kustom is to cool-looking to pass up. Reminds me of when I was starting out, and tuck & roll Kustom were everywhere.
The otherwise-useless little music store near work is a Kustom dealer - I think I need to go try one of those. I've been needing a litle practice amp for home, so I can leave my combo at church. (It's only 13 watts, but it's a bulky, heavy mofo. I blame the designer.)
In some else's thread recently, I had asked how the Roland Cubes take pedals - thinking I could use one at home with my board. But the Kustom is to cool-looking to pass up. Reminds me of when I was starting out, and tuck & roll Kustom were everywhere.
jerryjg
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Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
Y4a, i would love to have that pink amp!
Thought these looked cool when I saw them in store
Y4a, i would love to have that pink amp!
Karmadog777
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Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
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gnoj_LL
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Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
MF sold these as a buy one take one promo. you can have two amps for 100 usd.
here is the link
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Kustom-Dart-66-Combo-Amp-2Pack?sku=481476
these are good if you have stereo pedals...
MF sold these as a buy one take one promo. you can have two amps for 100 usd.
here is the link
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Kustom-Dart-66-Combo-Amp-2Pack?sku=481476
these are good if you have stereo pedals...
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Rich_S
HomeGrownToneBrewologist
Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
Oh, krap! A friend of my wife's just bought her kid a guitar, and I think he still needs an amp. I gotta track her down, and talker into splitting one of these two-fer-one deals with me. I wonder what color the kid wants? Mine will be red.
Oh, krap! A friend of my wife's just bought her kid a guitar, and I think he still needs an amp. I gotta track her down, and talker into splitting one of these two-fer-one deals with me. I wonder what color the kid wants? Mine will be red.
gnoj_LL
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Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
wow! nice men, two amps in one! not bad for practice amps. hope you can give some user review next time
wow! nice men, two amps in one! not bad for practice amps. hope you can give some user review next time
Rich_S
HomeGrownToneBrewologist
Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
I spent five minutes playing a Tele clone through a '66 Dart (red) at a little store near work during lunch today. They sell the "regular" version (the K10FX or something like that) for $90, and the '66 Dart for $120.
The Dart upgrade gets you a lot besides the sparkle tuck and roll covering. The regular model has a open-back cabinet. The '66 Dart is closed-back, which has got to help the low end response though I didn't A/B them. The regular amp has the chassis installed with the knobs pointing up, which means the back-panel connectors are pointing down and hard to see/reach. The Dart has the chassis mounted facing forward, so the rear-panel jacks are facing backwards, and easy to access.
The rear panel may not seem important, but is surprisingly full-featured. It has an extension speaker output, headphone output, a CD/Line Input. It even has an IEC connector and detachable power cord - a really worthwhile feature if you ask me.
OK, about the sound: I started with the tone knobs all pointing straight up on the clean channel. It gave a decent clean sound; full, even tone, nice clarity. Switching to the "Lead" channel I was greeted with the expected extra-crispy "cheap distortion box through a clean amp" sound. The lead channel has way too much gain for my taste; I expected to get "crunch" at about 3 on the gain dial, but had to turn it down to about 1 to suit me. Obviously, the gain level was designed to satisfy modern metal kiddies. The EQ needed major tweaking too - bass up to 7 or 8, mids dimed, treble about 3. However, after tweaking, I got an OK sorta sound - certainly good enough to practice with. The shared EQ is going to make channel switching tough - I think a good EQ setting clean is going to be shrill and gutless dirty.
It has a single knob plus a pushbutton for echo/reverb. The echo seems to be set to about 250 msec and ~3 repeats - typical guitar solo setting. I think the pot controls the echo level. The reverb sounds more like some rapid delay repeats. I don't really care about the effects, since I can bring my pedalboard home to practice.
If I had one of these, I could happily leave my tube combo at church. The '66 Dart would be great for practice, and also a great amp to have in garage for testing pedalboard mods and pickup wiring. I think I'm going to grab a pair and split them with my wife's friend.
I spent five minutes playing a Tele clone through a '66 Dart (red) at a little store near work during lunch today. They sell the "regular" version (the K10FX or something like that) for $90, and the '66 Dart for $120.
The Dart upgrade gets you a lot besides the sparkle tuck and roll covering. The regular model has a open-back cabinet. The '66 Dart is closed-back, which has got to help the low end response though I didn't A/B them. The regular amp has the chassis installed with the knobs pointing up, which means the back-panel connectors are pointing down and hard to see/reach. The Dart has the chassis mounted facing forward, so the rear-panel jacks are facing backwards, and easy to access.
The rear panel may not seem important, but is surprisingly full-featured. It has an extension speaker output, headphone output, a CD/Line Input. It even has an IEC connector and detachable power cord - a really worthwhile feature if you ask me.
OK, about the sound: I started with the tone knobs all pointing straight up on the clean channel. It gave a decent clean sound; full, even tone, nice clarity. Switching to the "Lead" channel I was greeted with the expected extra-crispy "cheap distortion box through a clean amp" sound. The lead channel has way too much gain for my taste; I expected to get "crunch" at about 3 on the gain dial, but had to turn it down to about 1 to suit me. Obviously, the gain level was designed to satisfy modern metal kiddies. The EQ needed major tweaking too - bass up to 7 or 8, mids dimed, treble about 3. However, after tweaking, I got an OK sorta sound - certainly good enough to practice with. The shared EQ is going to make channel switching tough - I think a good EQ setting clean is going to be shrill and gutless dirty.
It has a single knob plus a pushbutton for echo/reverb. The echo seems to be set to about 250 msec and ~3 repeats - typical guitar solo setting. I think the pot controls the echo level. The reverb sounds more like some rapid delay repeats. I don't really care about the effects, since I can bring my pedalboard home to practice.
If I had one of these, I could happily leave my tube combo at church. The '66 Dart would be great for practice, and also a great amp to have in garage for testing pedalboard mods and pickup wiring. I think I'm going to grab a pair and split them with my wife's friend.
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lakomaisipeh_sori
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Re: Cool little solid state practice amps 99.00
that was quick rich! nice review. i guess these amps would compliment with pedals, using the clean channel all the time.
i think these amps are gonna sell. specially this christmas. if you have two nephews, maybe brothers or friends. these are good cristmas presents haha. you can buy one combo, and automatically, two people are already marked out of you xmas presents list. the colors are also appealling as xmas presents.
advanced merry christmas to you all! haha too early huh?
that was quick rich! nice review. i guess these amps would compliment with pedals, using the clean channel all the time.
i think these amps are gonna sell. specially this christmas. if you have two nephews, maybe brothers or friends. these are good cristmas presents haha. you can buy one combo, and automatically, two people are already marked out of you xmas presents list. the colors are also appealling as xmas presents.
advanced merry christmas to you all! haha too early huh?
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