Good choice! I tried one of these out for the first time yesterday. Was passing time and figured why not. It definitely seems to not have that weird mid sound that the 5153 has, which is a good thing for my personal tastes. I too found myself liking the green channel w/ the overdrive engaged, gain between 2-3 o’clock.
If you wanted that same sound, but just slightly goosed up a little, then channel 2 without the burn engaged and gain around 50% was a good balance between the two channels to go from “nice”, to “oh, that’s cool” without things being too much.
I honestly thought it did the high crunch sounds better than the typical 5150 high gain thing. When I tried to do the brutal stuff with the gain being up and burn switch engaged, I thought it was lacking a little. But with some more time I probably could have gotten it to where I would expect it.
The foot switch was still packed up so I didn’t feel like taking it out of the plastic just to test the boost function. So I’m still not really sure what it boosts. Is it gain? Mids? Volume?
And I hear a lot of disappointment around the sound of the clean channel, but I thought it sounded just fine. Nothing wrong with it and perfectly useful and doesn’t get gainy unless you wanted it to.
But I do like it more than what I hear in a 5150, 5153 or 6505.
