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Hello all. I'm Michael from St. Paul, Minnesota. I bought a Rebel 30 combo a few weeks ago gigged with it for the first time last night. For the last ten years I have been using a Hot Rod Deluxe. I love the Fender clean sound, but I've never been happy with the 'Drive/More Drive' option of the HRD. I worked around it with pedals, but I prefer the sound of an overdriven amp to any pedal distortion I've encountered.
I knew I wanted a 2-channel tube amp, and if possible, I wanted to get even smaller and lighter than the HRD. I looked into modeling amps. Even though these are getting much better, I wasn't ready to take that step. I had heard good things about Egnater amps. The more I researched, I thought they seemed too good to be true! I'm pleased to say I was proven wrong.
The reaction I've got from others is amazement: "All that sound is coming out of that little cube?" "That sounds like two completely different amps!" The clean channel is great--it's not Fender, but that's OK. The digital reverb sounds great--I'm still dialing it in. On stage, I turned it up much higher than in the practice space, because it wasn't as noticeable in a bigger room. Sounded lush and full, no 'sewer-pipe' effect. I find the Rebel 30 to be very intuitive--you can find a great sound easily, with a minimum of <ahem>...tweaking! Of course, if you love to tweak, you can do that to your heart's content! The tube mix function is one I've had fun with. Currently, I have it dialed a little to the EL84 side. I like the spike in the midrange that provides.
The lead channel...all I can say is, I'm in love! I'm finally getting the tones I always heard in my head, and I am having a great time playing through the Rebel 30. I'm using a 2008 Les Paul Studio (490R/498T pickups) and the Rebel really brings out all of the great sounds available in this guitar. I still have the much-maligned Gibson PC board in the control cavity, but the Rebel responds excellently to variations in the tone and volume knobs. I will be putting in CTS pots and Orange Drop caps, and I can only assume that it's going to sound even more amazing.
I'm playing with a couple of classic rock cover bands, and I need to have a variety of effects (chorus, different delays, harmonizer, wah). I am running a Digitech RP355 through the effects loop, along with a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster for clean boost. If there wasn't a need for different effects, I would just plug straight into the amp. I can get all the sounds I really want by varying the volume and tone knobs on the guitars and varying my pick/fingers attack. The effects loop works really great--in the past, I have noticed that the SD Pickup Booster doesn't seem to work in an effects loop. The boost is significantly decreased. That doesn't happen with the Rebel 30.
I could go on for much longer, as you can probably tell! This is a terrific amp. I'm really happy to own it, and I'm glad to have found this forum.
I knew I wanted a 2-channel tube amp, and if possible, I wanted to get even smaller and lighter than the HRD. I looked into modeling amps. Even though these are getting much better, I wasn't ready to take that step. I had heard good things about Egnater amps. The more I researched, I thought they seemed too good to be true! I'm pleased to say I was proven wrong.
The reaction I've got from others is amazement: "All that sound is coming out of that little cube?" "That sounds like two completely different amps!" The clean channel is great--it's not Fender, but that's OK. The digital reverb sounds great--I'm still dialing it in. On stage, I turned it up much higher than in the practice space, because it wasn't as noticeable in a bigger room. Sounded lush and full, no 'sewer-pipe' effect. I find the Rebel 30 to be very intuitive--you can find a great sound easily, with a minimum of <ahem>...tweaking! Of course, if you love to tweak, you can do that to your heart's content! The tube mix function is one I've had fun with. Currently, I have it dialed a little to the EL84 side. I like the spike in the midrange that provides.
The lead channel...all I can say is, I'm in love! I'm finally getting the tones I always heard in my head, and I am having a great time playing through the Rebel 30. I'm using a 2008 Les Paul Studio (490R/498T pickups) and the Rebel really brings out all of the great sounds available in this guitar. I still have the much-maligned Gibson PC board in the control cavity, but the Rebel responds excellently to variations in the tone and volume knobs. I will be putting in CTS pots and Orange Drop caps, and I can only assume that it's going to sound even more amazing.
I'm playing with a couple of classic rock cover bands, and I need to have a variety of effects (chorus, different delays, harmonizer, wah). I am running a Digitech RP355 through the effects loop, along with a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster for clean boost. If there wasn't a need for different effects, I would just plug straight into the amp. I can get all the sounds I really want by varying the volume and tone knobs on the guitars and varying my pick/fingers attack. The effects loop works really great--in the past, I have noticed that the SD Pickup Booster doesn't seem to work in an effects loop. The boost is significantly decreased. That doesn't happen with the Rebel 30.
I could go on for much longer, as you can probably tell! This is a terrific amp. I'm really happy to own it, and I'm glad to have found this forum.
