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Mon January 30, 2006
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4.0
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BB
Registered: May 2003
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 3046
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Review Date: Mon January 30, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
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Pros:
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Great tone and flexablity
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Cons:
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it's digital!
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While I have not spent a lot of time with digital modeling amps, I do own a Behringer V-Amp ll and have tried many of the ones out there ( Line 6, Johnson, Crate, Rocktron and other DMA's )since they were first introduced years ago.
I had been looking for a versitile, small, effects laden amp that would do the clean and cruch thing well. I found this one when the opportunity arose to make a trade with a fellow TDPRI member.
This amp features 8 pre amps. 2 clean, 2 crunch, 2 drive and 2 lead. Yamaha does not label the tones ala "California Clean" or "British Crunch", but a quick peruse of the settings and you will know what they emulate. In addition, the amp features compressor, chorus, flange, phase, rotory speaker, delays, reverbs, tuner and various speaker sims. It came with a four button footswitch and an expression pedal and has a Celestion speaker. The construction seems to be top notch. This one is in pristine condition. The cab is solid and has no rattles.
There are quite a few pre-programmed pre-sets. Most seemed to be aimed to impress the kiddies at GC with other world space tones and mega delayed distortions. There are a few very useable clean and overdrive patches, ( including a killer Big Muff Pi tone ) but the real strength of this amp ( for me anyway ) lies in the manual mode. The pre-amps all sound good and the cruch settings clean up very well with the guitars volume knob. The effects are very useable and all have pristine tone qualites. Yamaha really did it right as far as digital amps. Why they did not follow up and market them better is beyond me. This amp has the most "tube like" feel out of all the DMA's I have tried.
So far, I'm using this amp in manual mode on one of the crunch settings. With the gain down, ( ala Alan Holdsworths clean tone suggestion ) and a bit of spring reverb, it gets a wonderful, rich/fat clean tone that is very responsive to picking dynamics. It take to pedals very well also.
I've yet to delve into the programming ( and they are many! ) features of this amp, but so far, I'm very impressed with the feel and tone of this little monster.
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