john hogg

If you want clean, blues, classic rock and a bit beyond then this amp is one of best kept secrets. A tone machine of the highest order. 4x ecc83 4x el84, two channel (independant master) independent reverb control. Did I mention tone?

TBH unless you go axefx and spend a lot of time with it then GSP1101 is still amount best available. C63 firmware is a must and gives lots of fixes and improvements + IR files. Brilliant direct to PA or 4 cabled to amp.

Clean through to early hotrodded fender sounds and a wee bit beyond then this is one of best preamps avail. Clean is like a black face twin with some extra magic. Mean can cover tweed OD to a Marshall crouch and Scream does the early hottrodded fender sound. Mine even has midi board so my gsp1101 switches the channel for me :)

Limited range of sounds but stunning at the ones it does make. Makes a good blues harp amp too.

What's more to say... Comfy, nice wright and tone is good. Not sure i think the ageing process does anything at for its purpose but doesn't bother be as performs function well

Solid Maple front back and sides and belive mahogany neck & tone block. The stock pickups,hardware etc are functional but massive improvements from upgrading. The stock wiring actually had 500k pots and 57 style layout though not old braided wire. A wee bit less resonant than real 335 but very good sound none the less (the SAS620 was solid walnut front back and sides is a bit more resonant like a real 335). But hey they weren't too expensive new and your getting a superb looking 335 copy with no laminate in site and toneblock fills shape of arch unlike a lot of cheaper options that just space out a rectangle block with little chocks. Highly recommended as a platform for pickups/hardware of your choice.

Again maison has used real woods and made an excellent LP copy. The white and black lpc-190 solid alder body with maple cap, the lpc-180 is mahogany with maple cap. Again standard hardware is useable but with an upgrade its a serious piece of kit.

Like my other Maison reviews it comes down to same. They made an amazing copy in most cases using prety high quality woods. However, the hardware is basic Korean hardware and at age as well as not best its likely to have worn a bit too. That said because of the quality of guitar beneath the hardware I rate it 4 start. Why? We'll replace the hardware ad I reckon you would be very hard pressed to find a better quality and sounding copy anywhere. Worth picking up if seen cheap and sorting them out

Superb, tour quality, floorboard for GSP1101 What more can I ask... Built like a tank, clear screen, nice stomp buttons. Doesn't get upset at first sign of moisture. GSP will even pass on midi codes and allows you to program custom midi codes to a stomp button in preset so can easily control offboard equipment too (like a rack reverb). I use this feature to switch channels on my GT trio preamp.

It's a cable. In UK price recently hasn't been silly, they have been reliable and look good. Can't ask for much more

Have used Samson CO05 for vocals and also sound reinforcement and for money you can purchase them for there isn't anything I'd pick over them. For vocals i prefer them to usual SM choices as if person moves away from mic a bit there isn't the usual funny eq peak you get with SM mics. That's some going for a mic I bought new at what I'd call entry level pricing. Had zero issues when i pushed them into service to mic up a full backline either and all the bands at the rock/metal night said they thought sound was incredible compared to some venues.

I tried to use freeport with my guitar. Now bare in mind i use underwound paf pickups so nothing particularly hot for output. No matter what i did I couldn't get freeport to produce the same signal level into amp as just using a guitar cable. Every time i tried i got clipping light on base station quite a bit before required volume. This makes this wireless useless for me because it means any presets in my GSP aren't right cos the lower volume cleans up the dirt in the over drive :( Sound quality and distance are good so it's a shame output seems so limited. If it wasn't for this it would be top marks. Maybe its better suited to wireless mic use.

I have an astatic, in my case with sure green bullet element (crystals are too fragile for me) but the astatic case is lighter and a nicer shape in hand. Great harp mic esspecially with potentiometer retro fitted and also good for those low-fi harp mic vocal bits too.

Gibson did a smaller version of the lab but at top of tree (below the head) they did 3 versions of same amplifier. L5 was 2x12, L7 was 4x10 and L9 was 1x15. They are all the same amp with diff speaker config. All had two channels, a basic clean one and the 2nd channel with o/d (although it goes from clean to dirty). 100w true RMS means headroom is epic, and it can go silly loud staying clean. In fact played clean there isn't a lot to seperate the Lab Series from an early fender valve amp in terms of sound at all. Only difference is Lab Series has even more headroom and will go a lot louder staying clean (if needed). They take pedals well and are built strong enough they would survive a tumble down stairs. They have a adjustable freq mid point on od channel and a filter control (which can be useful to get a kinda low fi effect). There is also a very high quality optical limiter which works superbly. Eg I can get a cranked Freddie King fender like tone on lead but a small reduction of picking weight and slight palm mute and produce a vintage clean with a little twang to it for Shuffle bit in between a quick tweak on compressor and you can set the cleaner Shuffle sound so its just the right volume to match band mix level. There are other amps that will clean up with reduced volume but not played one as responsive to it i don't need to ride the volume control and the compressor keeps it in mix rather than being too quiet. Impressive. The very heavy OD (beyond Freddie king cranked fender point) can sometimes sound a bit fuzzier than I'd like but spending a bit of time with controls can pay dividends as all the controls work and have quite big latitudes in available adjustment so learning how to use controls and get sounds you want really makes a difference here. So what we got? An amp that stacks up if not betters clean JC120 or fender black face and has a very dynamic touch sensative and useable O/D tone. Not for metal freeks maybe (though be interesting to see how it works with pedal for that). And s/h they simply sell for peanuts more often than not. For clean, jazz, blues where you really want that easy access to varying the texture so easily then, no question, these are worth a look.

Brilliant isn't a word I'd use lots but this is closest to cable I have heard. Even allows you to set 10,20 or 30ft cable to replicate sound of your normal rig without tone being brighter if you wish. Normal latency is 8ms but can do less in good signal environments but not an issue in live environments and I'd say sound quality is so good a tiny bit more latency than most expensive is more than acceptable. With 120db useable headroom it doesn't seem to have any problems with even most dynamic signals (i have had two decent wireless units clip far too early due to size of dynamics in underwound paf i use so could never get volume same as with cable). Battery indicator on reciver is very very handy and the 2x AAA last ages (seems close to advertised 14hr) What's not to like. Easy to use, good price, as close to cable as you'll ever find, good hardware, can add extra transmitters if swap guitars a lot. Only slight down point for me it fits almost every guitar perfectly however I'd like to see a 335 version of transmitter that sits more flush with top of guitar as its not quite as nice a fit on front mounted semi as others. Oh and ffs go and make a similar module I can plug into a mic that has phantom option as it would be simply incredible to bring this quality and dynamics to any cabled mic i choose. If your in market for wireless I wouldn't be looking any further!!