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Can't beat it for themoney
Yes, it costs less than a round for you and a couple of mates in your local Wetherspoons, so you're obviously not going to get the same quality as the industry standard it looks so similar to, but I've had mine for a few years now and it's served me very nicely. Ideal for guitar amps and if you're playing your local pub or youth club, then it's an ideal start. Mine has lasted well and still works fine, but to be fair, if it breaks, replacing it won't break the bank, will it?
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Working a treat so far
As a complete newbie to home studio recording, I was advised to invest in some decent monitors and after much consultation with more experienced pals and some of those helpful chaps at PMT, I plumped for these babies. Must admit they are solid and superbly put together with bombproof build quality. Opted for the white because I just thought they looked better. The good thing is that to my ears they faithfully put out what you put in. I guess the bad thing about this is that the only thing I have put in thus far are my pitiful attempts at home recording.
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Unbeatable bang for your buck
Comes in a number finishes, red, sea foam green, and greenburst. I got the greenburst a few months ago and am massively impressed. Considering this cost well under £300, the build quality is superb. Comes with humbuckers, but has a coil tap which is engaged by pulling the tone knob.They don't sound as muscular as you'd find on, say, a Les Paul, and there's not a particularly seismic difference when in single coil mode, but they sound fine to me and if you use pedals, then it's not really a problem. Bridge is an adjust-o-matic type and is very stable. There's a Varitone knob with six positions, going from a nice clean to a slightly overdriven sound, so the tonal possibilities should be sufficient to suit most and it sounds great to my, albeit very amateur, ears. Neck feels reassuringly chunky with a varnished fretboard. To be honest I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better built, better sounding or better looking guitar for the money.
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Just awesome
Massively versatile with the 5 different types of fuzz which vary from expected heavy overdrive/distortion to mental square wave insanity. All aided by the sweepable frequency knob, which, I guess can be seen as an enhanced tone control. This can go from an aid to beefing up your signal to making you sound like God putting his collection of anvils in the tumble drier!! I absolutely love it.
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Superb for the money
Bought this about four years ago when I didn't have the budget for a fender and I love it. I haven't changed it too much, apart from getting a custom pickguard cut, having the neck angle increased and fitting a mustang bridge. The switching is faithful to the original, although it doesn't have a trem lock. It cost me £250-ish when I got it and for that kind of money it's brilliant. The tonal variation you can get from the two different circuits and pickup combinations is great and the Duncan Designed pickups sound pretty good to my ears - I've since acquired a CiJ Jaguar and the ones in the Squier sound a bit darker - but as Zachary pointed out in his review, the lack of wax potting and generally patchy shielding can lead to a bit of 60 cycle hum which can be annoying. If you use the trem arm you'll also be happy to know it stays in place wherever you move it. The finish is lovely on mine and I shall be very happy with it for years to come - btw mine is in my profile pic.
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Good value
I think this is a Biyang pedal, polished up and re-badged by Akai. That said, it's basically a Big Muff type fuzz which, for the price, gives me plenty of range with the tone knob and versatility with the muffy/warm/boost switch. It's got enough oomph to provide the requisite amount of face-melting fuzz/distortion for me, but then again, I'm not that good a guitar player and am still only beginning to venture onto that road to hell that is the mythical search for "tone", but for the price, I think it's a good place to start,
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ah the mythical search for tone, its actually nt a road to hell nor is it that complicated if you have decent resources.
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But it is a road with many side tracks and the subject of much debate. When I called it a road to hell I just meant that it's a place you can easily get lost.
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Great first tube amp.
Basically a clone of a Matchless dc30. Clearly, at a tenth of the price of the amp which inspired it, you're not going to get the same quality, but as my first entry into the world of tube amps and with a horribly limited budget, I am overjoyed with my purchase. It's loud enough to gig with and seems pretty solid. It has 2 channels, with an fx loop for each, which is handy, although the lack of a footswitch may put some off. The clean channel sounds great and with the master volume fairly low and channel volume up, you can start to push the tubes into gently breaking up, which is quite nice. The overdrive channel has not got eq in the traditional sense, but instead uses a 6 position tone control, from mild to ballsy overdrive. This is not a high gain amp, but the clean channel takes pedals really well and you can pretty much get as much distortion as you like if that's the way you want to go and with the master volume up, this thing is loud enough to wake the dead. All in all you get a lot of bang for your buck and as a first tube amp you could do a lot worse.
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yeah, 30 watts is more power than you think... if you want the most british sound possible, put the tone selector in the brightest position. I think Bugera went with all 12ax7s over the proper ef86 in the 'click' channel, so you aren't going to get the bandwidth and compression the single ef86pentode gives, but for straight up rockin' turning that channel to about 10:00 with the 'click' control set for its brightest and then jumper into the top boost channel with the bass off and the treble between noon and 3:00 then blend the top boost in to taste? You will find you get a pretty classic vox-meets-marshall that way even with the master turned down and the power set to 1/2.
you aren't really meant to switch channels on this type of amp. You can try it with an A/B box, but you will find that the volume jump between clean and dirty is extreme since the master volume is a global post-phase-inverter type.
The Matchless C30 design is REALLY about playing full tilt for overdrive though. 30 watts is perfect for a 300 seat venue with a hard hitting rock drummer. Turn your guitar volume down for a rock 'n roll clean and go to 10 for solos. Its a very old school design in the vox AC30 vein. Its also finicky with effect pedals out front. The FX loop will also be finicky if its like the stock matchless Hi-Z loop. Putting stuff in the loop will tend to cloud up the circuit's tone. It sucks, but this is not a JCM900 or Mesa. Its just not designed to get modern. She sits firmly in the AC30/Plexi camp. You gotta play the amp to get her to do do the business.
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What's not to love
Absolutely love my jmjm. The satin finish neck feels smooth yet tactile. The T.O.M. bridge works really nicely to eliminate the age old problem of the old style bridge and I love how the trem arm stays exactly where you leave it when moving it around. Pickups sound lovely and warm and the twin circuit works nicely if you want two ready-to-go sounds. It works as well as its much more expensive fender big brother and is a no-brainer if you want a jm but have a limited budget. And to top it off. ......well, just look at it <3