cobrahead1030
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This is a bit overdue. Life has been a bit crazy the past couple of months. I bought this for rehearsing with a cover band I was jamming with; that pretty much fell apart on me, but I like the amp enough to hang onto it for a while. I found this locally on marketplace for a fair price.
It has a very pretty fender 'esque clean channel, as advertised. Overall the amp is a little brighter than I'd like at lower volumes, it actually seems to mellow out a bit when turned up. I find that especially true on the clean channel, but the EQ allows that to be tamed easily enough. It does take pedals quite nicely, if that's your thing. I'm running through the stock open back speaker, which isn't really broken it at all. I need to try it through a closed back cab.
The gain channel sort of reminds me of the old F series, for lack of a better comparison. It has a little bit of the mark series smooth thing going on, but more raw & open, it doesn't sound quite as aggressive. It gets well into hard rock territory gain wise, and lets the sound of the guitar come through quite nicely. I can grab a few different guitars with similar PAF type pickups and hear a distinct difference between them all. It responds to picking dynamics really well, cleanup with the volume knob rolled off is OK, but nothing to rave about.
Here's a clip of me noodling on the highest gain setting, with it cranked pretty good (you can see settings in the photos) I included a few seconds of 'in the room' sound at the end, since I usually run thru to the speaker when doing IR recordings.
It has a very pretty fender 'esque clean channel, as advertised. Overall the amp is a little brighter than I'd like at lower volumes, it actually seems to mellow out a bit when turned up. I find that especially true on the clean channel, but the EQ allows that to be tamed easily enough. It does take pedals quite nicely, if that's your thing. I'm running through the stock open back speaker, which isn't really broken it at all. I need to try it through a closed back cab.
The gain channel sort of reminds me of the old F series, for lack of a better comparison. It has a little bit of the mark series smooth thing going on, but more raw & open, it doesn't sound quite as aggressive. It gets well into hard rock territory gain wise, and lets the sound of the guitar come through quite nicely. I can grab a few different guitars with similar PAF type pickups and hear a distinct difference between them all. It responds to picking dynamics really well, cleanup with the volume knob rolled off is OK, but nothing to rave about.
Here's a clip of me noodling on the highest gain setting, with it cranked pretty good (you can see settings in the photos) I included a few seconds of 'in the room' sound at the end, since I usually run thru to the speaker when doing IR recordings.
