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Fender experimented on this one
A weird amp, not quite comparable to anything I've ever played. Amazing dirty sounds which don't quite sound like other Fenders. Sounds the best on single coils since active and humbucking pickups drive it into breakup very fast even on 30w "clean" channel. For this reason I put an EQ pedal with volume rolled down in front of it when I use my actives. Really one of a kind amp that you either hate or love. Takes pedals alright, you have to mess with the EQ a bit since it's very bright (the low end will also rattle your dental filling out). I give it 4 stars because it's missing an FX loop and the lack of master volume knob makes it a little finicky to dial in. Extremely loud, wouldn't recommend for home use without an attenuator. I use it as a slightly crunchy pedal platform for vintage type metal tones like Baroness or Mastodon.
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One of the best amps I've gotten to use
It does literally everything well. Cleans are nice and bright with no tweaking necessary, dirty channels are nice and tight and take gain pedals exceptionally well. Loads of range in all EQ knobs. This amp can adapt to basically every genre and do it well. Very impressed.
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Impressive
Got it for 13 euro used, sounds like a proper TS808 even offering different diode clipping modes and IC chip change. No noise as well. Pleasantly surprised.
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Need a therapist after this one
I rented a practice room for my band and this was the guitar amp I was cursed with. Sounds absolutely horrible on every gain setting - with pedals and without them. EQ controls barely do anything and it always sounds midscooped. The character of dirty channels can only be described as headache inducing hiss with clean tone in the background. I would rather use a 10w Fender Frontman because at least it has some charm to it unlike this blasphemy. The only "good" thing about it is that it can get louder then drums (so does a well timed fart). I have never been so frustrated by a piece of gear... Im hurt, confused, conflicted and traumatised
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"The" Flanger
Truly covers all your flanger needs. I find that it sounds the best when you set it up as a flanging chorus, it makes the guitar bloom in a very musical way which is even better in stereo. The "ultra" mode is great paired with distortion when soloing as well.
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Ok
It takes some time to figure out the controls but it's a very decent sounding auto wah. I personally find it to be too harsh going into a clean amp, but once you add overdrive/distortion it becomes very usable.
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Best in the price range
The most inputs you can get at this price range other then the Behringer which is way worse in audio and build quality, you get 2 quality cables (USB-USBc, USBc-USBc), nice quiet preamps, very easy to set up drivers and relatively low latency. The only complaint I have is that the gain stage on the input potentiometers is weird, it slowly rises gain from 0-8 then suddenly jumps to clipping very fast from 8-10 (not a problem if you have a higher output microphone or a preamp). Some people have said that the headphone outputs are quiet and while I find it quieter then other interfaces, it is loud enough for studio use. Great buy. 👍
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It's alright, worth the money
A simple transparent "always on" type compressor. The difference using medium settings is barely audible at room volume, but you can really feel the difference and low end stability at loud volumes. Yes, I've had to adjust the trim pot inside because the factory sound is too quiet and you just end up raising the noise floor if you crank the volume. A slight trim pot adjustment and it works well and stays quiet.
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It's just fine
It's not amazing, but good enough at what it's made to do especially at the price point of a single bass compressor pedal. Build quality is ok, knobs don't feel very sturdy but the enclosure is good. FX loop is at the wrong spot, It should've been placed after the octave part because it can't track if you put a distortion of any kind before it. Tuner is accurate enough. This pedal will be great if you plan on using it live, but be careful if you have active pickups since you might overdrive it with too much input (It doesn't have a high/low input switch to compensate) A quick rundown of my thoughts on individual effects: Compressor/Boost - Compressor is very intense, squished a lot even at lowest setting (way too much for guitar but ok for bass) Dirty Q - Honestly my least favorite part of this pedal. Very top heavy, you can't control the speed of the filter and sounds cheap overall. They should've just left it out honestly. Bass Amp - Surprisingly awesome. Eq works great, it's not noisy, just enough gain (you can add even more if you use the booster) Octave - Not sure why they chose to put a 2 octave down on a bass pedal. 1 octave down tracks to low E (gets little wobbly at D), 2 octaves is way too low for bass and sounds like noise. Sounds good on guitar though, good tracking speed. Chorus - Only one control but it somehow works. The speed is perfect and it has enough low end while being lush. Really good
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Sounds great, terrible footswitch
Very good sounding pedal, a 6 stage phaser with great controls. Circuit itself is truly awesome but as everyone said, the footswitch quality is terrible. Mine broke within the first 2 months of occasional use (as phasers are most commonly used). I changed it for a 2 dollar switch from china and it has worked perfectly for years so I can only imagine how cheap are the ones they originally use.
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Awesome amp for home/studio use
Beautiful clean and a decent dirty channel. I personally use the clean channel more as it's a great pedal platform. It can get very loud but it makes weird farting noises on max volume if you have a lot of low end set (in a home setting you won't need past 1/4 volume though). Eq is kind of odd. It lacks some high end so I keep it at max level while I keep middle and bass (which it has too much off) down. You can still make it sound really good though it's just odd. Built in effects are whatever, I don't use them. There are some decent sounds like reverb in them but you only get a "effect amount" knob so you can't really change anything about them. Overall very good sounding amp that got refined with a new Crush 35RT model.
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Disgusting
It's absolutely nasty, earpiercing and loud - exactly how you want it to be. I wish it generated less noise on standby though because it sounds like a microwave when you're not playing.
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It's a Big Muff
It does the thing you expect a muff to do. It's quite noisy when you crank it and the footswitch will inevitably break like all EHX pedals but that's a 2 dollar fix. I love a muff.
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Cheap, but if you put a little work an awesome guitar
It is cheap. No denying that. Sharp frets, bad jacks, wobbly 3 way switch that sometimes refuses to work and tuners that don't keep tunings very well. I personally had to change the input jack because it wasn't holding cables very well and I had to sand the frets. All of these things are either simple fixes or you can live with them. The guitar itself is setup decently well. The action is low and the neck is the absolute best thing about this guitar. It's thin (about 19m) with a D profile and it's well suited for both fast playing as well as chords. Pickups are pretty good too, not very hot but still decent for a passive humbucker. The guitar itself is extremely light which I prefer. Overall awesome playing experience with this guitar, but you gotta put some work in.
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Everything I need from a guitar
Very light guitar with a very thin neck (19mm) exactly how I like it. Pickups are pretty loud and they give you options for different sounds with push/pull pots which I think is better than simple coil split because they are noiseless. Mine came with a bad neck setup which is very strange for a Schecter but i relieved it by 1/4 turn and it's genuinely perfect. Plays wonderfully, stays in tune and looks badass.