Bought myself a Roland Cube30

Great amp...No..fantastic amp!

Seriously this little 30W practice amplifier is a tone demon. I was out in the market looking for a practice amp and getting sick of the crappy sounds I was getting out of Marshall and Peavey cubes. Then I stumbled upon this Roland amp and it's by far the best practice amp I've ever bought, especially the COSM amp modelling features which recreate the sounds of a Peavey 5150 and a Mesa Boogie Rectifier among others (of course not as well as the real things but still pretty damn good!). It comes with 6 built-in footswitchable effects; delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser (useless for me) and tremolo. Of these the delay, reverb and chorus are extremely nice. Oh and did I mention that the clean channel on this is the best I have ever heard? It's modelled after the legendary Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amp and damn did they do a good job modelling it for this amp. Super-slick clean channel.

Thing cost me about Rs. 11,500 (bought in India so conversion to USD is about $250). I play an Ibanez RG370DX (stock pickups replaced with Seymour Duncan Jazz/JB combo) plugged straight into it (no effects) and the tone of this thing is just brilliant. It can do anything from jazz to metal in my opinion. If you need a guitar amp that sounds great and can't afford a tube amp, get this. It's the closest you'll get.

Some snaps:

More details about the amp:

http://www.rolandus.com/products/details.a...030&PageMode=18

#315485

nice.. can't play the guitar my self, but always wanted to learn.. so i may look at this if i have a try.

#315493

Nice purchase.

I've heard nothing but good things about this amp.

I'm personaly looking for a used JC-120 myself. Still a bit on the pricey side for a new one.

#315496

Very nice! I'm still looking for a giggable (?) compact bass amp, 100 - 200 watts. Gosh they cost some smackeroonies I can tell you!

Have fun with this.

#315499

My dad has this one Fender Stage 160 Combo

#315520

Roland has always made a great guitar amp. Through the years, the quality of their stuff has always been top-notch. Use a Roland-powered stage rig (around 300 watts) with Zoom pedals (a pair of Zoom 505-II's with the foot pedals for Wah and Swells) is all you'll ever need. Personal choice, of course, but the sound is unmatched.

#315534

I agree...Roland stuff for you six stringers is fine...what about our four string MFKS!...I'm looking Ampeg and it's great...at a price though but!

Thinking about a 'Crate' here maybe?

#315562

oh yeah I just got myself a state of the art, Panasonic Se-2010!!!

yup the RCA contacts are all rusted, and the stylus is bent, and the sound is so bad that panasonic never published its sound to noise ratio, but it rocks! (doesnt do anything for my decor though ) Now if I could only get an equally ****ty amp....who needs a bang and olufson turntable when they can own a 1970s panasonic right? *looks towards Unbeh* :confused:

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