infrared72
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I had a chance to try one of these today - granted it was only for a short period of time before someone came over and told me to turn it down. Never mind the fact of two other teeny boppers wanking away, and wanking pretty loud on two guitars.
Anyways, on to the quick review. I grabbed an HSS Fender highway one strat to test. This little Egnater 30 is pretty nice - both channels have the tight/bright switches and reverb. Channel switching + reverb on/off from the two button footswitch. With the volume at GC, it's difficult to hear in detail what the tight switch was doing. Definitely the bright adds a top boost though, and it seems to be configured/calibrated nicely for the clean or dirty channel. The clean is pretty nice, though the clean channel is only a 2 band treble/bass eq setup. The dirty channel cleans up nice when you drop the volume on the guitar, with nice variance of light to mid to fully distorted in between. The reverb was nice too - I know it's digital, but it sounded good to me and it won't EXPLODE if you bump into your amp. They put the Tube Mix on the Rebel 30 as well, which in a loud retail environment is probably difficult to hear the difference. I think this Tube Mix is a pretty cool feature, and I haven't seen anyone else incorporate that into an amp.
I think Rebel 30 I tried had a loose tube socket or some issue with the speaker. There was some buzz or rattle that I could hear, so I wonder if something just wasn't tied down properly. Maybe somebody damaged the speaker from cranking this up with the gain maxxed out?
It's been confirmed that Egnater *IS* making the Rebel 30 in a head, and from what I read this evening will be available in October. I think it might be cool to hear this amp with different cab/speaker combinations. If the price is right when that head comes out, that's probably the direction I'm heading.
-PT
Anyways, on to the quick review. I grabbed an HSS Fender highway one strat to test. This little Egnater 30 is pretty nice - both channels have the tight/bright switches and reverb. Channel switching + reverb on/off from the two button footswitch. With the volume at GC, it's difficult to hear in detail what the tight switch was doing. Definitely the bright adds a top boost though, and it seems to be configured/calibrated nicely for the clean or dirty channel. The clean is pretty nice, though the clean channel is only a 2 band treble/bass eq setup. The dirty channel cleans up nice when you drop the volume on the guitar, with nice variance of light to mid to fully distorted in between. The reverb was nice too - I know it's digital, but it sounded good to me and it won't EXPLODE if you bump into your amp. They put the Tube Mix on the Rebel 30 as well, which in a loud retail environment is probably difficult to hear the difference. I think this Tube Mix is a pretty cool feature, and I haven't seen anyone else incorporate that into an amp.
I think Rebel 30 I tried had a loose tube socket or some issue with the speaker. There was some buzz or rattle that I could hear, so I wonder if something just wasn't tied down properly. Maybe somebody damaged the speaker from cranking this up with the gain maxxed out?
It's been confirmed that Egnater *IS* making the Rebel 30 in a head, and from what I read this evening will be available in October. I think it might be cool to hear this amp with different cab/speaker combinations. If the price is right when that head comes out, that's probably the direction I'm heading.
-PT
