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Simple and great
Posted by figment from Laval, quebec, canada on Dec 31, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: active musician
Reviewer's Play Style: rock, country, blues
I bought this amp a month ago and it is great. I use it with my Gretsch 5120 and the sound is perfect. There is only one volume but the is really good. You get two imputs but i only use the high imput.
When you bring your volume past the mid point, the amp start a nice distortion.
To conclude it is a very good amp for the price and very easy to carry to gigs.
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sounds good
Posted by metalhed22 from in a house on Jul 12, 2009
Experience w/product: I have heard about it
Reviewer's Background: active musician
Reviewer's Play Style: jazz, blues, metal
Well, I got this amp to play just jazz stuff on because my 75 watt line6 wasn't the best for that sort of thing. It sounds great for jazz, very warm and thick, but if you set your guitar up right it can be dark and mellow too. But I was surprised by the versatility--if turn the volume up, you can get a pretty sweet blues tone, but that's the problem! I can't play jazz at a loud volume because it comes out distorted! But the 2 input jacks even it out though. The extra one is a cool little bonus if you want to jam with friends but you've only got one amp. This amp is very portable and the great thing for me is the simplicity! I'm telling you I can't get over it 1 knob! I'm used to messing around with solid states for up to 30 minutes before I get the tone I want. But this takes no screwing around. Overall it's a great buy--portable, has great tone, and simple.
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not good stock, but with a few upgrades a good amp
Posted by musicfreak80 from Athens, GA on Jun 26, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: active musician
Reviewer's Play Style: rock/blues
same as fender champ 600, has a crappy 6v6 made in china, russian 12ax7, crappy speaker, replaced speaker with a weber 7oz AlNiCo speaker, put a old RCA 6v6GT and a telefunken 12ax7 in and wow a good amp. you can get by with just changing the speaker and the 6v6, all current made 6v6's are crap, get a NOS or a used tested tube. but for about $85 dollars more you can make it a good little amp with great tones for recording
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Great for the Price
Posted by Green Goblin from NY on May 14, 2009
Experience w/product: I have heard about it
Reviewer's Background: Play in a band
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, blues, country. Stones type of stuff
As people have already stated the Gretch is a great amp for the price. It has essentially the same circuit as the fender champ 600, and now is cheaper after fender raised the prices. My only complaint is that the amp gets muddy when you crank up the volume. This is remedied by swapping out the stock speaker for an after market one by Ted Weber. This speaker makes the highs sparkle, and really cleans up the low end. Perfect amp for apartment/shared house settings. I'd pick this amp over the similarly priced solid states because im of the opine that its better to get one great sound out of an amp, instead of many mediocre ones.
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Great neighbour-friendly tube amp
Posted by Elvis2 from Iceland on Apr 9, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Semi-pro
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock / Blues
I wanted a tube amp suitable for practicing with at home, I was initially going to buy a Fender Champion 600 but they werent available at the time, I bought this one instead and dont regret doing so, this is a really great amplifier.
Ok, heres the deal, if you arent a good guitar player and you use a guitar that doesnt sound very good this amplifier will do nothing to hide those shortcomings, Line6 or Roland make amplifiers for those guitar players, this one is a tube amp with a really simple signal path, there is no onboard eq or reverb and it doesnt do high gain crunch unless you put some kind of distortion pedal in front of it.
But what it does do is sound really great, using my Les Paul and no pedals and cranking the amp to the point where its just starting to break up I get a beautiful tone with just a hint of compression from the tubes, also the range of different sounds I get from this amplifier by merely switching between pickups and using the volume/tone knobs on the guitar is amazing.
Im not too keen on the way this amplifier distorts at full volume but if I need distortion I will just use an overdrive pedal anyway, I havent gotten around to replacing the tubes yet but im sure it will sound even better with some new/old tubes.
Until I bought this amp I had been using a Roland Microcube at home and while I like that amp for certain things there is no comparison between that amp and this one, the Microcube is just a toy, this is the real deal!
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