Donovan Banks wrote:
yes Sebber thats the one I was thinking of.
how does it sound? Now give us an honest opinion cos I know you want to sell it but I'm curious about them. they do look cool.
I wonder if one can strip out the solid stateness and make it a small valve?
I asked an amp tech about stripping out the head and fitting a small class A 5W tube amp in there and he pretty much said it would be cheaper to buy a small class A 5W tube amp head...
Objectively, as far as the sounds are concerned (and note I'm most certainly talking the solid state MG15-MSII heat and not the tube-driven Haze 15W) it's got two channels, clean and crunch/distortion. The clean channel is a generic solid state clean, think PA-vanilla with no EQ. It's pretty bland to be honest, but given that it's such a generic clean it takes amp modeling pedals/multi-fx rather nicely. I used a Boss Fender Bassman FBM-1 pedal with the clean channel to pretty good effect.
The crunch/distortion channel is more interesting, bucket loads of gain on tap, although again we're talking pure solid state so it doesn't have the dynamics or sensitivity a decent driven tube amp will have. It does have a switch that applies some kind of damping effect to both channels (switch is labelled FPP, although I can't remember what that stands for) that makes it somewhat more touch and guitar volume sensitive. The range of gain on tap is quite impressive: low levels of gain do a fair job of a clean-on-the-verge-of-crunch, while maxing the gain out will give you that super-saturated solid state metal tone. EQ controls on the crunch/distortion channel are fair enough, as is the built in reverb which works for both channels. Comes with two 1x10 cabs, one of them with the slanted front.
It's a fair enough little amp, ideal for home practice since, being solid state, you don't really sacrifice tone at lower volumes. Best feature is it looks fabulous.
