Corbic
New member
Well, yesterday after I got home from school (around 5 o clock), I asked my parents if UPS had came and dropped off my amp. They told me they came through but didn't drop off anything, so I was expecting it the next day or sometime this week.
An hour later I hear a truck outside and a knock on the door, and in a heartbeat I had flown down the steps and opened the door. I signed for it, and ran the thing up to my room and started unpacking it. I hooked in the footswitch and plugged it in, started it up on standby and waited about three minutes for it to warm up.
The clean channel has the warmest, chimiest, and fullest clean sound I've ever heard. The reverb is really good too, I can get a great surfy 60s sound from it, perfect for songs like Misirlou and Wipeout. The amp really shows the differences in the different pickups on my Strat, more then my other amp, and in a better way. There is no mud at all, even on the neck pickup. I was jamming away to Hey Joe on the neck pickup for a quite awhile last night.
The overdrive channel is equally amazing, perhaps even more so. I had to play it with the volume low, so I was only able to get preamp distortion. Though this kind isn't buzzy sounding at all. With the gain at about 2 o' clock I was able to get an amazing classic Strat sound, a la Rory Gallagher, Jeff Beck, and David Gilmour (all these tones and more are easily producable by using the volume knob). Even for being its in own distortion channel with a lot of preamp gain, I can get it to clean up quite well with my volume knob. By taking the gain knob all the way around it's spectrum (and using the different pickups), I can go from light blues grit, to a Texas blues tone a la SRV (though no where near dead on), to a really great rock tone a la Rory, Jeff Beck, and Ritchie Blackmore. Its a very thick tone when I need it to be. And when I get the gain all the way up, I find its similar sounding to some of Izzy Stradlin's heavier rhythm sounds with his Tele live (though not as twangy). I can't imagine the great tones I'd be able to get out of a humbucker guitar as well.
All in all, its an amazing amp, loud as anything, and has some of the best tone I've heard in awhile. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me choose this amp, they really picked me a winner with this one! Pics will be up as soon as I can get them!
An hour later I hear a truck outside and a knock on the door, and in a heartbeat I had flown down the steps and opened the door. I signed for it, and ran the thing up to my room and started unpacking it. I hooked in the footswitch and plugged it in, started it up on standby and waited about three minutes for it to warm up.
The clean channel has the warmest, chimiest, and fullest clean sound I've ever heard. The reverb is really good too, I can get a great surfy 60s sound from it, perfect for songs like Misirlou and Wipeout. The amp really shows the differences in the different pickups on my Strat, more then my other amp, and in a better way. There is no mud at all, even on the neck pickup. I was jamming away to Hey Joe on the neck pickup for a quite awhile last night.
The overdrive channel is equally amazing, perhaps even more so. I had to play it with the volume low, so I was only able to get preamp distortion. Though this kind isn't buzzy sounding at all. With the gain at about 2 o' clock I was able to get an amazing classic Strat sound, a la Rory Gallagher, Jeff Beck, and David Gilmour (all these tones and more are easily producable by using the volume knob). Even for being its in own distortion channel with a lot of preamp gain, I can get it to clean up quite well with my volume knob. By taking the gain knob all the way around it's spectrum (and using the different pickups), I can go from light blues grit, to a Texas blues tone a la SRV (though no where near dead on), to a really great rock tone a la Rory, Jeff Beck, and Ritchie Blackmore. Its a very thick tone when I need it to be. And when I get the gain all the way up, I find its similar sounding to some of Izzy Stradlin's heavier rhythm sounds with his Tele live (though not as twangy). I can't imagine the great tones I'd be able to get out of a humbucker guitar as well.
All in all, its an amazing amp, loud as anything, and has some of the best tone I've heard in awhile. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me choose this amp, they really picked me a winner with this one! Pics will be up as soon as I can get them!
