Ok first off this is no tube amp so don't expect to get the sound of a tube amp out of this... Now this is one amazing Solid State Head though. It gets extremely loud and powerful!! I havent cranked past 3 for non gigging play. i have pushed it to 7 for gigs though and it is super loud!!! I didnt like the distortion so i bought a DigiTech Distortion Factory... The amp has the distortion of very old Job for a Cowboy... I play with an Ibanez S470DX with EMG 81TW EMG S and EMG 89R and an Epiphone Les Paul i custom painted with a Seymore Duncan invader and stock neck pickup... The amp sounds good and I run it through a Crate Blue Voodoo Cabinet. BUY IT if your looking for something cheap but good!

i use to play a fender princeton choures but after i played thogh a b52 i loved it so much i bought this head and i have had for about 2 and a half years and it still is amazing but the coating comes of easy but nothin that duck tape can fix

I have had the pleasure of owning a b-52 stealth series amp on 3 different occasions over a 4 year period. As I'm not one who cares for anything "tubed", I opted for the Stealth Series Lg100a head and cabinet pair or the lg10012s combo, and they've never failed to deliver ball-out sound that no tube amp can deliver, in my opinion. I never fail to have someone come up to me asking about my sound while at a gig. Killer price, well-built, and a great sound right out of the box...

This solid state amp is great for the price. I purchased one and tried it out and have had it for a little of a year now. I must say the clean channel is tube like except for the fact it distorts when turned up. It gets really loud before it distorts if you use the master control first. The two distortion modes are pretty decent. The first one has a classic rock kind of tone. The second one has a more hard rock tone and you can get it to sound like OLD Job For a Cowboy. Its good for the price but if you can afford a tube amp buy one!!!!

There are a few downers to the amp, but nothing too major. First the clean channel does get gain the higher you turn the volume knob, but that is easily fixed by turning the master knob up first and then following with the channel knob. The clean channel also sounds very tube like and warm. Very nice sound. Secondly, the reverb does thin this the tone so I don't use it at all. Finaly the overdrive channels. Aside from the hissing that both channels make, (which I use a MXR noise gate to fix) this is what I have to say about them. The overdrive 1 is very nice for classic rock sounds and have good tone versatility with the contour knob. The overdrive 2 is pretty good other than it's hard to bring the tone out without a booster petal, but if you can bring out the full tone it's very nice sounding. I generally always use my Guyatone Metal Monster which I will soon replace with a Metal Muff. overall this is a great value for a decent head.