I hate to admit it, but I need a Roland Micro Cube

[That90'sGuy]

Re: I hate to admit it, but I need a Roland Micro Cube

a white one would be pimp...my daughter is finally getting half-way serious about really learning the guitar so she's asked for an amp for Christmas...i think this would be perfect and have the features on it to keep her interest level up!?

let us know what you think when you really spend time with it!?

You need to get one Hoss. I've jammed with one long enough to get a feel for the different tones and I really liked atleast 4 of them. You really can't beat it for the cash. It's got something for everyone in there and the tones are good, they're good enough to enjoy at low volumes and not wish you were playing through a louder amp.

Some days I get home really late from work and when I'm winding down, I don't want to listen to loud noises. However, I do still want to jam out and that's why the Micro Cube is so appealing. At 2w SS it's not going to bother anyone, I get good tone and I can relax and write tunes which is what music is all about. I've got my nice Class A Crate and my Bogner for band rehearsal/gigging and I like the amp enough to actually add it to my collection (I certainly wouldn't pay $125 for it if I didn't feel it was worth it). I like how small, lightweight and versatile it is too. The only thing I could see as an improvement is if Roland kept all of the specs essentially the same, but added a footswitch to toggle between two of the amp settings. But that is a minor thing and I've found you can get cleans and overdrive from the Brit Combo channel through pick attack and volume adjustments (so I'm covered there anyhow).

 

[Rich_S]

Re: I hate to admit it, but I need a Roland Micro Cube

How do the Cubes take pedals? I'd love to have a little practice amp at home so I could leave my combo at church, but I'd most likely carry my pedalboard back and forth, rather than use the built-in effects.

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: I hate to admit it, but I need a Roland Micro Cube

How do the Cubes take pedals? I'd love to have a little practice amp at home so I could leave my combo at church, but I'd most likely carry my pedalboard back and forth, rather than use the built-in effects.

That's actually a very good question. I'm not really much of an FX person and only used the ones that are on board. I'll spend some time with it and get back to you on that.

 

[thucydides]

Re: I hate to admit it, but I need a Roland Micro Cube

I dig the micro cube. Cute, cheap, sounds pretty good too!

Moi aussi.

 

[Diego]

Re: I hate to admit it, but I need a Roland Micro Cube

How do the Cubes take pedals? I'd love to have a little practice amp at home so I could leave my combo at church, but I'd most likely carry my pedalboard back and forth, rather than use the built-in effects.

Mine loves my GE7 as a gain and high-mids boost, and it loved an Ibanez Delay pedal a friend brought once. It was a very plain delay, so combined with the onboard delay it just got better. I had Pink Floydish cleans in no time.

I think it takes them pretty well, as long as you don't go wild on the gain.

EDIT: I'd like to add just for the sake of it that the onboard delay and reverb are decent...ish, while the phaser-flanger-chorus are absolutely useless. The tremolo is kinda usable.

 

[Hoss]

Re: I hate to admit it, but I need a Roland Micro Cube

You need to get one Hoss. I've jammed with one long enough to get a feel for the different tones and I really liked atleast 4 of them. You really can't beat it for the cash. It's got something for everyone in there and the tones are good, they're good enough to enjoy at low volumes and not wish you were playing through a louder amp.

Some days I get home really late from work and when I'm winding down, I don't want to listen to loud noises. However, I do still want to jam out and that's why the Micro Cube is so appealing. At 2w SS it's not going to bother anyone, I get good tone and I can relax and write tunes which is what music is all about. I've got my nice Class A Crate and my Bogner for band rehearsal/gigging and I like the amp enough to actually add it to my collection (I certainly wouldn't pay $125 for it if I didn't feel it was worth it). I like how small, lightweight and versatile it is too. The only thing I could see as an improvement is if Roland kept all of the specs essentially the same, but added a footswitch to toggle between two of the amp settings. But that is a minor thing and I've found you can get cleans and overdrive from the Brit Combo channel through pick attack and volume adjustments (so I'm covered there anyhow).

sweet...this sounds like the ticket for sure...off course part of me would like to get her the blackheart stack ()...but i know she would like the features of the Micro-cube much, much more and it would take up less space in her room!