Dover DA-20 Review

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I had a DA 50 which I traded last week for a Diezel Hagen. On the whole I was pretty dissapointed with the Dover. I bought it based on the fact it seemed very popular with guys like Wes Hauch and also because, based on their own advertising it would do a multitude of tones just not all at once.

What I got was an amp that does one thing. Yeah it was good for high gain rhythm playing but I didn't find it great for leads and it did not like pedals at all. There were no usable cleans at all and while I didnt buy it for cleans I was pretty dissapointed that on the gain control I felt it ranged from terrible sounding till you got to about 11 o'clock where it started being a legit high gain channel.

On top of that it hates being attenuated, it did operate well when just flipped down to 20 watts but when I ran it through my two notes set up it sounded like a different amp, really mushy and lacking the immediacy it had through a cab.

If I was playing it loud through a cab all the time it would have been fine but it was not a good choice unless you can do that.

Looks like they arent selling well anymore either based on reverb numbers available sothey may not be around long
 
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