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Tubes on a budget
Bought this because I've never owned a tube amp before and wanted to try it out. Always played solid state amps due to price and low maintenance. I would describe myself as an intermediate guitarist with music as a hobby, with a background as a semi-professional a long time ago. So it's mostly used for rehearsal and the odd gig every once in a while. I run it through a Harley Benton G212 Vintage. Dialled in lots of different sounds from jazz, blues, funk, rock and 80's heavy metal with little to no effort. I can't tell how well it does modern metal sounds though. Little to no experience there.
Pros: - Clean channel. It's just awesome, there's a lot of different tones, from sparkly cleans to cool funk or clean blues, even without pedals.
- Takes pedals well. Tested all my pedals and most sound better than ever. Some I can't seem to get to sound as i want them to, but that could be my own fault. I will edit this in the future, should I resolve this issue.
- Switch between triode and pentode is just so great to have. You can decide if you want to push the power amp hard without making your ears bleed, or if you want lots of headroom. Love this feature.
- A wise man said loud is more good. It sure is loud enough for me. Highly doubt anyone would feel it's not.
- Build quality and durability. Seems sturdy and while it does have that plastic look when you are really really close, it doesn't seem to be fragile in any way. I have had no issues whatsoever so far with it. From afar it's just amazinly vintagey, if that's a word.
Cons: - You cruel people who designed this, why did you give me a mid boost button that I can't control with the included footswitch? The features is great, walking up to the amp and pressing a button isn't very good at all. I'm upset.
- Brightness. It is to my ears a very bright sounding amp so i tend to gravitate towards just using the normal input. The bright is just too bright in my opinion. This isn't a dealbreaker ofc, because there are so many ways to fix that. And it does have low end too if that's what you need. But if you are in search of a more "transparent" amp (or neutral or whatever), you might want to keep searching.
Summary: To me, this is a versatile and good sounding amp. I feel happy with my choice, even though my main reason for the purchase was the price tag. I'm considering buying the combo as backup. I have to mention that I also use it together with my Line6 Pod HD500X, with great results. Using preamp models in the Pod and going strait to the poweramp makes me feel like i have access to all the amp sounds I need. I recommend this amp, not just for someone on a budget, but for anyone.
Now to a very important matter! When I got this delivered by UPS the outer box was damaged with a fairly large hole in it. I was of course nervous that something inside would be damaged aswell, but thanks to Thomanns great packaging everything was as it should be. This has happened to me once or twice before, but never had any issues with damaged products. Big thumbs up to Thomann!
Pros: - Clean channel. It's just awesome, there's a lot of different tones, from sparkly cleans to cool funk or clean blues, even without pedals.
- Takes pedals well. Tested all my pedals and most sound better than ever. Some I can't seem to get to sound as i want them to, but that could be my own fault. I will edit this in the future, should I resolve this issue.
- Switch between triode and pentode is just so great to have. You can decide if you want to push the power amp hard without making your ears bleed, or if you want lots of headroom. Love this feature.
- A wise man said loud is more good. It sure is loud enough for me. Highly doubt anyone would feel it's not.
- Build quality and durability. Seems sturdy and while it does have that plastic look when you are really really close, it doesn't seem to be fragile in any way. I have had no issues whatsoever so far with it. From afar it's just amazinly vintagey, if that's a word.
Cons: - You cruel people who designed this, why did you give me a mid boost button that I can't control with the included footswitch? The features is great, walking up to the amp and pressing a button isn't very good at all. I'm upset.
- Brightness. It is to my ears a very bright sounding amp so i tend to gravitate towards just using the normal input. The bright is just too bright in my opinion. This isn't a dealbreaker ofc, because there are so many ways to fix that. And it does have low end too if that's what you need. But if you are in search of a more "transparent" amp (or neutral or whatever), you might want to keep searching.
Summary: To me, this is a versatile and good sounding amp. I feel happy with my choice, even though my main reason for the purchase was the price tag. I'm considering buying the combo as backup. I have to mention that I also use it together with my Line6 Pod HD500X, with great results. Using preamp models in the Pod and going strait to the poweramp makes me feel like i have access to all the amp sounds I need. I recommend this amp, not just for someone on a budget, but for anyone.
Now to a very important matter! When I got this delivered by UPS the outer box was damaged with a fairly large hole in it. I was of course nervous that something inside would be damaged aswell, but thanks to Thomanns great packaging everything was as it should be. This has happened to me once or twice before, but never had any issues with damaged products. Big thumbs up to Thomann!
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