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devilwince devilwince
Published on 10/06/08 at 05:33
All-tube amp with two modes of amplification:

- A pure power tube producing 5 watts Class A (nice to be home)
or
- 2 power tubes in Class A / B producing 50 Watts

Passage snapshot of one another with a single click.

2 channels with 4 modes completely indpendants total of Channel 1 = Clean or Crunch, Channel 2 = Blues or Burn. Rverb and contour indpendant and switchable on each channel.

CONTRL Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Reverb, Master and Contour CONTRL indpendants channel

FX Loop lamp 3 button footswitch (channel 1 or 2, 1 or 2 contour, rverb on / off)

Dust cover embedded tissue

UTILIZATION

Trs easy to use, the manual is clear and offers the same rglages done everything ...
like any amp you have to make test before finding his own sound ...

SOUNDS

Channel 1 = Clean or Crunch:

clean, clear sound versatile trs, trs good is obtained on a gibson or ESP through a strat archtop jazz and even a ...

Crunch, low distortion of his clear, versatile, can be obtained crunch sound trs variable thanks for all the channels indpendant CONTRL

Channel 2 = Blues or Burn

Blues, distortion for blues and rock sounds, warm and well rounded. Approaches the crunch but with a big sound and more suntain

Burn, heavy distortion for rock, hard rock and a little more violent but not at all limited to the mtal and more ... Rglage background can make the most hardcore, the sound is standard and well rounded, you can have dirty or disto disto clear and we understand all the notes but with much gain ...

Personally, I am a hardcore band, I play a ESP viper, I use the crunch channel 1 in the channel bottom and nearly burn to 3 / 4. In group allows me to have two disto Different. The plus is the contour indpendant on each channel, giving a boost to his standard, the channel group burn it allows me to make solo without using a volume or pdalle qualiseur ... a real rgale, I will liken him to a chorus pedals style embellished Whereas the sound. In the clean and crunch like this, lets get rev good sound, all with added reverb indpendante foot on each channel are obtained trs ... good sound.

I also use it in further training with a more jazzy archtop Hagstrom H800. I use the CH1 and CH2 clean blues, allows for a super clear sound with reverb and a boost to the contour + a little distortion for a more rockabilly with boost and reverb too ...

OVERALL OPINION

has been a year since I use it in RPET and concert, a particular feature is its versatility.
I tried many other models in the same price, marshall, peavey, ENGL, H & Kettner ... but his level and I use my c'tait prfr.
Systm 5Watt 50Watt & Son is very practical because to have sound with the lamp you have to play hard and it's hard 50Watt home ...
Report irrprochable quality price, in the United States is handmade of quality good looks, it's solid! I do it again the same choice without hsiter ...