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Pros: Great price-point for a simple yet useful little tube amp. Great sounding Celestion Super 8 speaker. Perfect for adding it in your guitar rig setup as a second amp for stereo effects. It appears well made and very attractive in the cream Tolex covering. It's a straight up simple amp with no bells and whistles but should take external pedals well. Light and very portable! Cons: It does have a chemical odor but I think that will dissipate shortly after airing out. It would be an awesome amp for at home practice if it came with a headphone jack in front.
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I picked this amp up with intention to possibly modify. Out of the box, you will notice it stinks...bad! Some kind of chemical smell that drives my allergies insane. It is unbearable. The amp itself sounds ok, but very bright. I need to try it thru a cabinet. I swapped tubes, which improved tone, but still very bright. I had to buy new tolex, and plan to re-cover it because the smell is THAT bad.
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I bought this amp because of the super Looow price and was amazed. Amazed that they could produce a Champ clone at this price. It's a copy of the original Champ circuit with a Tone knob, which makes it a Princeton circuit. With this basic time-proven circuit, there is no way you can go wrong. At first look, I was impressed with the white tolex, leather handle and chrome face plate. The build quality is solid and tight. So tight it is tough to remove the back panel and chassis, but that's not an issue. I like the white tolex, a different look from all the black amps I own. It's a quality covering, not thin like contact paper. The handle is a thick leather that should last the life of the amp. As far as the electronics go, it is mostly SMD (Surface Mount). The tubes are made in China and can be upgraded. I left the Chinese tubes in the amp as they are not that bad. When they go, I will upgrade them. The speaker is an 8" Celestion, 8-ohm. I'm not a big fan of Celestion speakers, but like it in this amp. It also has an external jack to plug in a different 8-ohm speaker cabinet. Plugging in the external speaker disconnects the internal speaker. The 1W-5W switch is a misnomer, it does not change the wattage of the amp, it makes the Jack a Low-High input. Instead of having two jacks on the faceplate, it is one jack with a switch to change it from Low to High. If you have the jack switch on 1W and use a pedal, you can crank the amp to 5-watts. I wanted to modify the amp, but decided to leave it alone. The main reason is that it is mostly SMD (surface mount devices) and not mod friendly. I also couldn't find any schematics and didn't want to draw one up. This amp has the sounds they were using back then, when they were creating Classic Rock. It doesn't need a Bass, Mid and Treble knob. It needs to be cranked up and played. It does it all, Rock, Jazz, Country, etc. and is great for using pedals. It has all the Classic Rock sounds and more. Read full review
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Sweet sound, definitely gets better with some playing time, certainly benefits from a compressor/sustainer. In keeping with the budget ethos, a Behringer compressor is terrific. Easy speaker swap, but all the videos I've seen haven't convinced me the Celestion is lacking in any way. That's what your guitar's tone control is for. I've mostly played clean, it's plenty strong at 1 watt, so I can't say much about crunch. I will say a decade ago I owned both the small Vox and Fender 1W/5W amps that were out at the time, and I think this sounds much nicer at a great price. Tube amps with no effects are a different beast from solid state, and beginning guitarists might be put off by what seems like a boring, plain sound. Check out a few vids on how to wrangle tones from a tube amp, get a couple cheap fun pedals, and I guarantee you'll never look back.Read full review
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I bought this little amp for home practice. With such a low price I really wasn't expecting much so when I received it I was quite surprised. The fit and finish far surpassed my expectations and the sound is pretty darn good. It really screams when cranked and has great distortion. It lacks bottom end and that is the biggest disappointment for me but the mids and highs are awesome. I plan on upgrading the tubes and speaker one day but for now it's great for bedroom noodling.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
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