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Ibanez TBX150R Tone Blaster X Guitar Combo Amplifier (150 Watts, 2x12 in.)

2 discreet channels. 2 separate 3-band active EQs.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          8 out of 10
 
 

"It's an incredible amp for the price"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from insightbb.com
Submitted: 7/12/2007
Style of Music: Rock, Metal
Musical Experience: Active Musician, begining to record
Location: Illinois, USA

 

 
Feature:
This amp has the clean channel, overdrive you can switch on for the clean channel, the hot channel, and the "X Mode" on the hot channel, which switches to a different preamp. The only other things you might need or want are a wah pedal and a delay pedal. Each channel has its own set of dials.

Quality:
This is extremely well made, all 71 lbs of it. It doesn't have metal corners, but very thick plastic ones instead. Cosmetically, I think that's a good thing, and they work just as well as metal ones do for protecting the amp. It's been knocked around quite a bit, and theres one mark, and no change in performance.

Value:
This amp should sell for much more than it's priced at. I wasn't as impressed with a $600 Fender tube amp as I was with this.

Desirability:
It looks great, which is an added bonus to the incredible sound of it.

Sound:
I have an Ibanez RG320QS, and play mostly rock and metal, and this amp can do both perfectly. On the clean channel, it sounds very good, almost acoustic-sounding sometimes. With the overdrive, it does hard rock very well. On the hot channel, theres an a button to switch to the "X Mode", which tightens up the lower sounds. I seriously doubt you'd ever need a distortion pedal for this thing. The hot channel alone has some great distortion, but I was really impressed when kicked in the "X Mode". My friends bass sounds perfect through it as well.

Ease of Use:
This is extremely easy to use, three buttons, a power switch and 2 sets of dials for each channel.

Support:
I haven't had to deal with this, but it's Ibanez, so I imagine I wouldn't have any problems.

Overall:
I would by this amp again if stolen, after killing the guy who stole it. I probably won't even think about buying another amp for a few years, or till Ibanez makes a new line of amps.

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"The Metal Gods Are Smiling"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 2/22/2009
Style of Music: Anything and everything
Musical Experience: Hobbyist
Location: Columbus, Ohio

 

 
Feature:
2 footswitch jacks on the back let you turn on/off the overdrive, reverb, x, and the channels. Midrange sweep, overdrive, x, and hue, along with active independent eq's allow you to sound any way your like it. Even the clean channel has a drive knob.

Quality:
Seems like a high quality unit. Looks good just sitting there. No worries on my end.

Value:
For $350 bucks and 150 watts. Its a metal guitarists dream.

Desirability:
I've been trading gear off and on for over 2 years and I'm keeping this one for a long while.

Sound:
You can play the blues but this amp prefers you play the metal. The hot channel has excellent distortion and enough ways to tweek the sound, that you can get any metal sound you want. I love mine.

Ease of Use:
Small learning curve. But its easy to figure out even before reading the owners manual. i can get clean, overdrive, 80's distortion, 90's distortion, and even make it muddy like a mesa.

Support:
No support needed

Overall:
Overall. I love it, and if my tastes change, I own a POD.

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"Honestly you Harem Scarems!"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          7 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          9 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 4/14/2009
Style of Music: Melodic Rock/Metal
Musical Experience: Active Musician
Location: Walkerton, Ontario, Canada

 

 
Feature:
Very simply laid out which is good. However, since its not loaded with effects, its very easy to make the layout simple. Seperate reverbs are nice though. Thing seemes frigin tough.

Quality:
Its a TANK. done.

Value:
Rediculous price. If your looking around on the market like you need something that can do the job without breaking your wallet, this would be a good idea.

Desirability:
Silver and Black always looks like its gunna kick your ass.

Sound:
It's definatly loud enough. I bought it as a practise amp so I wouldn't have to use my JSX. Works for practise, I can't see me using it live by itself. I think what I'm gunna do is buy a channel selector dealio and use the Ibanez for cleans, and dirty cleans, keep the JSX in Crunch and Ultra.

Ease of Use:
Your aren't gunna get confused using this like I said before. I'm not a big fan of the mid sweep control. Never have been. I realize it serves a purpose, but perhaps instead of a sweep, there could be scoop and no scoop as a button. Graphic EQ would also be nice, be it a gratuity.

Support:
No idea what service is like. Tanks don't break to much.

Overall:
Best part was the price and the clean channel. The only down side is that its a transistor amp, but what cha gunna do.

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"This is a great amp!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          5 out of 10
User: a customer from verizon.net
Submitted: 7/14/2007
Style of Music: Classic Rock
Musical Experience: Active Musician
Location: Jeffersonville, VT

 

 
Feature:
It didn't come with anything, but a footswitch pedal would've bee nice, but that's ok. It's easy to use, and it looks great.

Quality:
It's pretty sturdy, and I can depend it.

Value:
I think this is worth more than they are selling it for. It's that good!

Desirability:
Super Sexy! :) It looks way better than it does in the pictures.

Sound:
It sounds great and is plenty loud. I used in a concert the other night, and everyone said I was heard fine. The clean channel is great, and the hot channel has amazing distortion.

Ease of Use:
It's very easy to use.

Support:
I'm not sure, I haven't had to call the company because I haven't had any problems so far.

Overall:
This is a great amp and I expext it to last for awhile.

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"This is the best clean, distorted sounding amp i have ever heard !!!!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 6/18/2008

 

 
Feature:
this is a great amp the only thing that i didn't like was that i had to tune it up and it took a lil' bit but it was awesome when i was playing !!

Quality:
this prodect is a amazingly built amp and it is the most reliable amp ever ! this amp is a perfect road amp and awesome practice heck !! it is good amp in any witch way !!!!!!

Value:
i half to say for this price it seems like you are stealing it !!

Desirability:
the min. i saw this i was like that is what i want then wen i played on it i was like holy crap i want it now !!

Sound:
this guitar amp is amazing i played with me Gibson SG and i like to play rock and boy did it sound nice not just with the destortion it had one of the best clean sounding sounds ever (my opinion)

Ease of Use:
It was superrr easy tuning the amp up i mean it was great there wasn't all these nombs like a marshall but it was super easy tuning and it was so nice wen i did get it tuned up

Support:
The 1st time i needed help with this amp well wait i never need help with this idom !!!

Overall:
i love everything about this amp ! it is a loud, it is clear sounding, and it is my fav. amp ever. if i lost or somwone stole this amp i would buy another one this is a awesome amp i love it.

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"better then others in it's class"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          8 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          8 out of 10
Support:
          5 out of 10
User: a customer from peoplepc.com
Submitted: 2/11/2007
Style of Music: if I like it I play it
Musical Experience: hobbyist
Location: denver,co

 

 
Feature:
requires two pedals to control everything on amp only comes with one,but if you're looking for straight minimal hassle this is a great amp

Quality:
seems durable enough,but then again you don't want to drop any amp out of a truck

Value:
for the price it rocks,good solid state

Desirability:
hell i bought it

Sound:
tight distortion,bluesy crunch,clean clean,ton of tone adjustment

Ease of Use:
a little tweak here and there dial it in

Support:
don't know

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