Curt
New member
Are my ears just being unusually ****ty?
Ok, so heres the deal, I have just been running my bedroom jam setup like this
my strat > Dunlop ZW 45 Crybaby > microcube.
and I go to the r-fier setting(and mind I stopped using the batteries, I started using an adapter so i'm not getting differing tonal quality from the batteries draining anymore)
my settings are tone = maxed, no effects, no reverb volume running at 1/2 maxed gain at about 7 and I start playing some metallica from the black album, Sad but true, Enter Sandman, Wherever I may roam, Through the never, all that stuff, and given I used some effects when needed, but for the majority of it i didn't have the effects engaged, and I was getting a very convincing tone, sounded really nice and the amount of saturation nearly matched the level of saturation of a tube amp.
then I turned the gain down to 6 and started playing some older metallica stuff, ride the lightning, seek and destroy, motorbreath, creeping death, master of puppets(for this I switched the gain back to 7) and I kept getting a very convincing sound, i'd almost swear the ****ed thing had tubes if I didn't know any better.
so I switch to the classic stack put the gain on 8 and I start playing some iron maiden, gets really convincing marshall like sound, very "tubey" sounding, as saturated as you'd expect from a real deal marshall.
so if you read any of this, at least read this, if it is that the microcube is just this good, how did roland manage it? and yes, I've played the actual high end counterparts to the amps these settings are modeling so I know how they sound comapared to the settings here. how can one company pack such versatility and actually make it actually sound good and not just passable, yet lackluster in more than one aspect such as say, the line6 spider III?
Ok, so heres the deal, I have just been running my bedroom jam setup like this
my strat > Dunlop ZW 45 Crybaby > microcube.
and I go to the r-fier setting(and mind I stopped using the batteries, I started using an adapter so i'm not getting differing tonal quality from the batteries draining anymore)
my settings are tone = maxed, no effects, no reverb volume running at 1/2 maxed gain at about 7 and I start playing some metallica from the black album, Sad but true, Enter Sandman, Wherever I may roam, Through the never, all that stuff, and given I used some effects when needed, but for the majority of it i didn't have the effects engaged, and I was getting a very convincing tone, sounded really nice and the amount of saturation nearly matched the level of saturation of a tube amp.
then I turned the gain down to 6 and started playing some older metallica stuff, ride the lightning, seek and destroy, motorbreath, creeping death, master of puppets(for this I switched the gain back to 7) and I kept getting a very convincing sound, i'd almost swear the ****ed thing had tubes if I didn't know any better.
so I switch to the classic stack put the gain on 8 and I start playing some iron maiden, gets really convincing marshall like sound, very "tubey" sounding, as saturated as you'd expect from a real deal marshall.
so if you read any of this, at least read this, if it is that the microcube is just this good, how did roland manage it? and yes, I've played the actual high end counterparts to the amps these settings are modeling so I know how they sound comapared to the settings here. how can one company pack such versatility and actually make it actually sound good and not just passable, yet lackluster in more than one aspect such as say, the line6 spider III?
