I've had this amp for only a couple days now and I've already fallen in deep, musy gooieness for it. Most of the negative reviews you see here are from not tweaking this amp enough or not KRANKING it enough. Indeed, you kinda have to fiddle with that sweep knob and have friendly neighbors in order to get the full potential of a Krank, but dang is it worth it. The crunch and clean are both brilliant and clear and make this head stand in its own class.

Let me start off with the positives. The sound quality on this amp is like no other. Even at extremely high volumes the tone is crystal clear on both channels with almost no noise or feedback at all. This amp is also bulit like an aircraft carrier, but it weighs nearly as much as one too. It also has one of the best clean channels I've ever heard on a high gain amp. But I was less than impressed with the lead channel. Sure, it has a heavy "brutal" sounding distortion. But its so loud that its nearly unusable in most situations. And you have to have the volume all the way up for the amp to sound even remotely good. If you are a serious musician I do not suggest this amp. It is great for playing chords if that's all you do. But if you play fast leads, use pitch harmonics, sweep picking, and all that other stuff then this amp is completely useless. The tone is very dry, the amp has little to no sensitivity, which doesn't allow any notes to ring when you play them. You can not palm mute, or it will sound like the amp is off. You can't switch your guitar from lead to rhythm or you won't hear barely anything. This amp is just not what I needed it for, not what I thought it was. No amount of effects or stomp boxes can change it either, believe me. I'm trying to sell this amp actually, I'm going to buy an ENGL Poweball instead. I will probably keep the cabinet though.

I finally got one and all I can say is wow. This amp is amazing and exceeded my expectations. The clean channel on this thing is absolutely amazing. I have never heard anything cleaner than this. You can customize that to your heart's content as well. The Krank channel is also amazing and I got about the same tone that I had with my previous amp head and distortion pedal. I am still finding that tone, but what I have it set up at now is great! If you play metal of any kind, I highly recommend that you get this amp.

This amp has proved to be absolutely phenomenal. My previous amp was a Mesa rectifier, and I honestly could not ever go back. Few amps give you butterflies when you ramp them up, this is one of them. The Krank channel is absolutely second to none in the world of high gain amps, and the sweep control adds a huge array of tonal options. The clean channel is also something to talk about. Cleans on high gain amps dont get better than this. Do yourself a favor and stop looking elsewhere, you won't find anything better....

I've been playing a long time. Had several dozen amps. This has been my best purchase. The longer I own this amp the more I've come to appreciate it. I've been able to coax so many different tones out of it. I would go to say that this amp has the best clean channel of any high gain amp on the market.Do youself a HUGE favour and Buy this amp . You won't have waisted your time and $ like I have to find this gem. BEST AMP on the market to-day.