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Tube Guitar Amp Head from Epiphone belonging to the Valve series

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«  The remainder of the wrath of god ... »

Published on 02/16/12 at 03:00
It's all lamps.
The connection is simple and well made. A jack input and three outputs HP 4ohms, 8ohms and 16 ohms, in other words we can plug any hp.
Performance data for 5 watts but actually sounds like a transistor 30w. It's just amazing what comes out of this little beast. In requisitioned it broadly covers a drummer normal limit being to keep clear sound for the past moitiee volume which leads to a high volume output, the sound can cruncher (with a magnificent sound of hot tube amp) while of course being directly related to what you put in upstream of lampli (microphone type, pedals ...). With a simple strat pickups and can push a little, while with double crunch it fast enough, if it is to the TDCA was the natural sound with no additional effect.
The trimming is you can not because we have a summary knob single volume and this is it, no EQ or trimming the gain is crude. We must therefore use the EQ pedal or a multi-effects.

UTILIZATION

As said before the config is basic, with only one knob necessarily, but this one is very specific and dose precisely the output level.
No manual and no need.
The sound is perfect for those seeking a warm sound of tube amp with lots of harmonics, it reminds me of the sound of my 100w Marshall JCM900 combo when I pushed him. The same potato and grain similar except that one is not obliged to prevent the neighboring district to get that sound.

SOUNDS

For my style of music should be quite, you can do without effects pedal and play live, it sounds vraimment. For blues or rock 70 is nickel. According to more modern sounds, we must put the pedals, attention to the choice of multi-effects, digital does not necessarily marry well, like my marshall of aillor. I even made of metal with a multi-base effect over and it sounded good anyway. Please also note choice of HP, like any amp that determines the color. For example a 4x12 it's huge.
Personally I play on one or two HP rocktron 1x12 I plug in series or in parallel if I want to emphasize the grain or the power (compared to the different impedance in both cases) and it sounds great.
I play a Strat DeSUS with us in 1977 with three active EMG SA or SE with a Yamaha 211 (a simple double) or a Fender Lead II pickups with original finish and a Vig Eruption with EMG HZ passive (excellent mics by the way). All sound great with each a different sound.
I love the sound at half volume, or slightly more, it is very sensitive to the way in which you attack the strings and it handles very well the guitar volume, we go from crunch to a clear sound without losing too powerful and is especially logistics light, no need to lug around the van full.
I do not hate any sound since there is only one.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about a year.
I have an amp and multi-effects rack and I had some amplifiers, transistors and lamps with a marshall 100w combo, whose main fault was that he had a huge sound but only at high volume and there was not tenable .
I like the feature, there are several, is the first feather weight, simplicity and ultimately the warm lamps.
The one I like least, it would be necessary to equalize as the model just above and a reverb, which does not seem rédibitoire insofar as one can choose or even a pedal for each effect .
I bought this amp used because I sought an amp requisitioned lighter than my rack, I think it is no longer sold as new and I'm really pleased.
I certainly do it again this Chois