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- Original 20-Watt vintage-design guitar speaker
- Wide-range drive control for super-fat sounds with any pickup types
- Dedicated 3-band EQ and master level control
- CD input allows you to play along with your favorite music
- Powerful headphone output with speaker simulation
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I was given this amp as a birthday present. My kids have a limted budget. I plugged in my Guild GAD 40CE and I was pleased with the sweet crisp sound. This is not a gig worthy amp, but it sounded great in the confines of my living room. Nice boom to the bass and the sustain was very impressive. I must admit that perfomance wise, it is as good as amps costing much, much more. MY kids were pleased and I was amazed at some much amp for so little cost. The 8 inch speaker does a good job on reproducing the highlights of my guitar. Do not tell my guitar amp (snob) band mates. They drag amps that weight more and do less. Great amp. I continue to be very pleased and surprised by it's perfomance.
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For a 15 watt amp it has the sound of a much bigger amp. I love the various different amp settings that you can get out of it. This amp has as good a sound as a tube amp I had in the 60's. I would recommend it as a very good home practice amp.
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Like others here it's been years since I've really played my old electric guitar. Plugged it in to my old Ampeg amp and found it was dead after years of abuse then neglect. The other reviews on this really do reflect fact, so this review can't really add much this is a great-sounding little practice amp! Better than my Ampeg ever was! It does have a bit of a hum but then the noise of my strat overwhelms that need humbuckers I guess. The different distortion effects combined with the gain and three tone controls are also fun to play with. As an added bonus it gets loud enough to annoy nearby neighbors! Heh heh...
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I have had a number of guitar amps over the last 5 decades, most of which come from Carvin. I have played a number of "name brand" amps, although I have never owned one. I have had kit amps from Heathkit and PAIA Electronics. I have even had an old 1960s vintage Silvertone amp which fit into the case of my Silvertone guitar. I play mostly on smaller combo amps, as I never went the route of becoming a professional guitarist, and never had the need for a Marshall stack.
That said, I was looking for a small practice amp which was a step up from the battery powered PAIA kits, yet smaller than my Carvin SX60 (60 watts, single 12 inch speaker), yet less expensive and a bit smaller than Carvin's Vintage 16 (16 watts, tube, single 12 inch). I looked at various models from Fender, Roland, Peavey, and others for over a year, and finally decided to try this model from Behringer when it was on sale.
I have used Behringer mixers and other small gear for a number of years and know that they can produce some good gear, so I took the plunge. I have been pleased.
Now, this is not a gigging amp, at least not in my opinion (your mileage may vary). It is small, solid state, with an 8 inch speaker, and 15 watts of power (I haven't measured the exact output, so I'm taking Behringer's word on that).
It has a number of very usable features, such as 3 tone controls, separate gain and master volume, and a set of switches for amp modeling. The three switches have three positions each, which give a reasonable amount of flexibility for clean and distorted sounds, and you will have some fun playing with the various settings along with the gain, volume, tone, as well as the settings on your guitar. The only feature missing for my needs is reverb, which would have raised the cost of the amp considerably. It also has a headphone out (1/4 inch) and a CD (or other source) input (1/4 inch).
I have been happy with the sound of the amp. It is an inexpensive practice amp, so I don't expect the same kind of quality I would from a more serious combo amp. The 8 inch speaker is obviously not going to give the kind of sound quality as a good 12 inch, no matter what. The question is, does this amp provide the sonic quality and flexibility needed to allow serious practice work, composition, or just moderate entertainment value? For me, that answer has been "yes."
While it is designed with a solid body electric in mind, the clean tones with my Carvin acoustic are quite nice, and it is fun to get a bit of growl on it with the distortion as well.
I have been able to dial in some great distortion, from moderate bluesy grit to some pretty serious metal, all without resorting to a pedal. The clean sounds are also quite good more than adequate for practice or beginning playing. The mix of possibilities for the modeling choices is good enough for my needs, but then I don't do full on death metal or that sort of thing.
I find that the distortion works well more for rhythm playing, as the higher pitched notes tend to get reedy and thin, even with the high tone control turned down. The lower strings sound great, but the higher one goes, the more the tone flags out, which means this is not the amp for exploring those singing, sustained types of distortion playing (Satriani, for example). The distortion does not compensate for this variation, and the lack of a reverb to help out a bit with the high end does cause this amp to have some limitations in that regard.
However, this is an inexpensive practice amp, and if you approach it with that attitude, I think you will find it a nice little amp. Don't plan on using it for your next tour with Peter Gabriel, U2, or Rush.
I also have it's brother, the AT 108, and I will review that soon.
I got this amp for Christmas to dust off my electric after years of playing almost exclusively acoustic. This is much better than the little practice amps available when I first started playing guitar.
The sound is decent, though as a metal fan, it could be a little crunchier for my taste. The bluesy side of me is well-pleased when doing pentatonic runs and playing 12-bar blues on the neck-position pickup.
I've only had it since Christmas (about a week) so I cannot speak for its durability. It seems to be a fairly sturdy chassis however. I imagine when taken care of it will last for quite a while. I certainly won't be giving it the abuse I gave my equipment when I was young and stupid!
Overall I am very happy with the amp. Rock on!
