Roland Cube 30

[Donovan Burroghs]

Hi,

I am a bass player with some strumming power chord moments. My little Marshall Amp shows sign of wear and does not sound that good (as used to ).

So i am interested in a small portable and reasonable priced little combo. My main purpose are practicing, jam with friends at low volume (we have a drum machine) and maybe some home recording.

I have seen the Roland Cube 30 which seems a good combo for my purpose with a good price.

What do you think?
can you suggest other amps?

Thanks

 

[stratocrusher]

Re: Roland Cube 30

The Cube 30 is perfect for what you are asking for and is one of the best small practice amps on the market, IMO. I've had mine for over a year and I don't miss playing on my larger amps so much as I used to when playing in my apartment. It's got a useable range of different tones (thanks to the modeling) that will give you some different sounds to experiment with. It's also nice that you are able to turn on delay or reverb as well as one of the modulation effects (chorus, phaser, etc.). Also, it's one of the only little practice amps that I know of that is closed back, which really makes it sound large for its little size.

 

[Forbes]

Re: Roland Cube 30

I'm confused? You need this amp to play bass through? Surely you would be much better off going for a bass amp, rather than a guitar amp, unless they do a Cube30 for bass that i'm unaware of.

Sorry if ive got the wrong end of the stick but tahts what i seemed to get from your post.

 

[skyydogg01]

Re: Roland Cube 30

they do make a cube 30 for bass but i think he just wants to do some guitar jamming with it.

 

[Simon_F]

Re: Roland Cube 30

I have a Cube 30 and I love it. I mainly use it for practising at home (speaker or headphones), but I have also taken it along to drumless rehearsals. It goes pretty loud for a SS 30 watt amp but I've yet to put it up against a drum kit! As stratocrusher said it does have a big sound for such a small amp, and a great variety of usable tones. The JC clean, Blackface and Brit Combo (AC30) models are all very good. I was finding the Classic Stack (Marshall) model a little harsh, then I found I could get a warmer classic rock tone using the Metal Stack (5150) model with the gain a little lower. The delay and reverb are both great, don't like the chorus but the phaser is a lot of fun! It's not programmable but you can get Roland footswitches for channel changing (clean/lead) and FX on/off. Great value for money.

 

[Kac]

Re: Roland Cube 30

Cube 30 is a great practice amp
Rock On :13:

 

[Donovan Burroghs]

Re: Roland Cube 30

sorry but due to my poor english i was not so clear.

I play the bass as main instrument but sometimes a jam with a couple of friends and i play th electric guitar.

so i was speaking about the cube 30 for electric guitar.


thanks to all.