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This is a really nice practice amp for the price (around $100-125). It runs on AC with an adapter or 6 AA Batteries for when a plug isn't available. It's only 2 Watts, but if you're playing somewhere small enough for this amp, that's plenty loud.
There are plenty of controls to get the sound you're looking for. There are several "Modes" for deciding on the overall shape and structure of your Tone. There's an Acoustic Clean, JC Clean (Like the old JC Amps), Black Panel Overdrive, Brit Combo Distortion, Classic Stack (Think Rush \ Marshall), R-Fier (Very Hot Distortion) & a Mic setting for using it as a PA.
Once you pick what base sound you want to work with, you can fine tune the sound using the Volume, Tone and a Gain controls. There's a Tuning Fork on board that's Touch Sensitive and includes not only the standard "A" tuning, but also 2 chromatic steps down so you can tune to E, Eb & D respectfully.
There are 2 Effects available at one time via 2 separate controls. You have your EFX control with a choice of Chorus
, Flanger
, Phaser
& Tremolo
. The Depth of each is adjusted by how much you apply where the further the right you turn it, the "Wetter" the sound. The Delay
\Reverb
Control works exactly the same as the EFX control and has a nice assortment to choose from.The back panel has a few goodies as well:
There's a 1/4 Recording out \ head phone
output and an Auxiliary in for adding a sound source to practice to like an MP3
player or an iPod
. Overall, this little amp is the best thing since sliced bread IMO. I can take it to BBQ's for jams with my friends, stick a mic in front of it for larger venues and still get a huge sound and practice at a volume that doesn't make my neighbors want to kill me. I highly recommend this unit, or one of the other newer versions like the Micro Cube RX
, if you want the Feeling of playing loud without the Volume & Hostility associated with it.Read my full Blog Here
2 comments:
In regard to the volume generated by the Micro Cube (I have one of these little marvels too!) it gets loud enough to jam with several other guitarist on "acoustic night" and getting some seriously heavy effects and a volume reasonable for the social jam.
Also, the ease of popping out harmonics and getting other feedback-like sounds, at such low levels is AMAZING!
I would love to know a little bit more about the internal gain structure and frequency analysis on their presets. There's overtone harmonics generated in the X-Fier setting that you do not normally in a tube head without cranking it up very loud.
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