After some guys recommended the ENGL Ironball to me I felt like I had to give this amp a chance.
I'm a fan of ENGL amps and I love my Fireball 100 and 2x12 with UK V30's. They just make solid products. The amps tend to have great clean tones and obviously great rock and metal gain tones. Crunch for days basically!
I got mine b-stock from Thomann so the price wasn't too bad. It came in the original box with the manual etc. Basically as good as new!
The clean tones on this amp are really good and I love how you can get crunchy tones from the clean channel with the gain boost. The most important thing to me are the gain tones and this amp does not disappoint in that area! The distortion is tight, huge and filthy, just as I like my ENGL's! Because of the tightness and big bass response this amp is very well suited for lower tunings. It does not need a boost at all.
The amp is also pretty darn loud! The low-end holds together super well. I haven't tried this thing with a band but I imagine it will do quite well in that setting.
It's going to be fun to compare this amp to my Fireball and other lunchbox amps such as the mini Rectifier and EVH LBX. When you hold it in your hands it does feel like it was built very well though so the quality it top notch overall. Not surprising from this well known german brand!
Anyway, of course I had to make a demo, so here we go!
Who else owns an Ironball? How do you like it? In what setting do you usually use the amp? In the studio or also live?
I'm a fan of ENGL amps and I love my Fireball 100 and 2x12 with UK V30's. They just make solid products. The amps tend to have great clean tones and obviously great rock and metal gain tones. Crunch for days basically!
I got mine b-stock from Thomann so the price wasn't too bad. It came in the original box with the manual etc. Basically as good as new!
The clean tones on this amp are really good and I love how you can get crunchy tones from the clean channel with the gain boost. The most important thing to me are the gain tones and this amp does not disappoint in that area! The distortion is tight, huge and filthy, just as I like my ENGL's! Because of the tightness and big bass response this amp is very well suited for lower tunings. It does not need a boost at all.
The amp is also pretty darn loud! The low-end holds together super well. I haven't tried this thing with a band but I imagine it will do quite well in that setting.
It's going to be fun to compare this amp to my Fireball and other lunchbox amps such as the mini Rectifier and EVH LBX. When you hold it in your hands it does feel like it was built very well though so the quality it top notch overall. Not surprising from this well known german brand!
Anyway, of course I had to make a demo, so here we go!
Who else owns an Ironball? How do you like it? In what setting do you usually use the amp? In the studio or also live?
