tunghaichuan
November 12th, 2008, 12:21 PM
...at Guitar Center.
It's a nice looking little head, 20 watts and has two sets of power tubes, two EL84s and two 6V6s. There is a control on the front that pans between the two sets, called Tube Mix.
There is also a wattage control that goes from 1 watt to 20 watts. It has a master, a gain, and a three band EQ. On the back there are three speaker outs, 4, 8, and 16 ohm and an FX loop.
In clean mode, the amp has a nice sparkly clean sound. Very spanky and lots of tube warmth. To me the amp sounded much better with a single coil equipped guitar than one with humbuckers.
The OD sound was very good as well. With the gain all the way up and the master at about 2-3, the amp sounded fat and squawky even with single coils. The amp did sound much better with humbuckers in the OD mode than with single coils.
Alson on the front panel were two small switches labled Bright and Tight, which seemed to do nothing either in clean or OD when used with a humbucker equiped guitar. When using a single coil equiped guitar, the Bright switch did make the amp a little brighter, but not shrill or piercing.
I did have some reservations about the amp though. The master control is kind of touchy. I goes from no sound to way too much volume and it was kind of scratchy. The Watt control was kind of scratchy as well. Not acceptable in a brand new amp. In fact, this amp is about a week old. I was at GC last week at this time and it was not there.
It may just be me, but $600 +tax seems to be a lot to ask for a Chinese-made amp. I think that the Egnater badge on the front contributes to the cost.
Still, it is very versatile and sounds very good. And it is packed with features.
tung
It's a nice looking little head, 20 watts and has two sets of power tubes, two EL84s and two 6V6s. There is a control on the front that pans between the two sets, called Tube Mix.
There is also a wattage control that goes from 1 watt to 20 watts. It has a master, a gain, and a three band EQ. On the back there are three speaker outs, 4, 8, and 16 ohm and an FX loop.
In clean mode, the amp has a nice sparkly clean sound. Very spanky and lots of tube warmth. To me the amp sounded much better with a single coil equipped guitar than one with humbuckers.
The OD sound was very good as well. With the gain all the way up and the master at about 2-3, the amp sounded fat and squawky even with single coils. The amp did sound much better with humbuckers in the OD mode than with single coils.
Alson on the front panel were two small switches labled Bright and Tight, which seemed to do nothing either in clean or OD when used with a humbucker equiped guitar. When using a single coil equiped guitar, the Bright switch did make the amp a little brighter, but not shrill or piercing.
I did have some reservations about the amp though. The master control is kind of touchy. I goes from no sound to way too much volume and it was kind of scratchy. The Watt control was kind of scratchy as well. Not acceptable in a brand new amp. In fact, this amp is about a week old. I was at GC last week at this time and it was not there.
It may just be me, but $600 +tax seems to be a lot to ask for a Chinese-made amp. I think that the Egnater badge on the front contributes to the cost.
Still, it is very versatile and sounds very good. And it is packed with features.
tung