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This is a great amplifier.For me, it has several attractive features: it's lightweight, weighing only 9 kg, small and easy to transport, it has a fantastic clean tone, a great reverb to my taste (I don't usually use very pronounced reverbs with a lot of spatiality, so for me it's a great reverb and less noisy than the spring reverbs of other amplifiers I have), the tremolo is tube-driven and perfect for my musical taste, it has a great volume for practicing at home, it accepts pedals wonderfully well, and I can even play with it in a rock band. Anyone who thinks its 5 watts is low is mistaken. I usually use a clean boost pedal to increase the volume and I can reach 112 dB, which for me is a high and sufficient volume to rehearse with my rock band. For use in my room, I usually use a Bugera PS1 power attenuator and keep the volume between 5 and 7.5 with the attenuator at 40%, and I get the perfect tone to my liking. It's great for guitars with single-coil or humbucker pickups; the knobs are easy to adjust to get the best tone, and I consider it a much quieter amplifier than other tube amplifiers I own (Marshall DSL40CR, Fender Deluxe Reverb 65 reissue, and Fender Pro Junior III). For all these reasons, this amplifier has become my favorite amplifier out of all the ones I own and have played, for my style of classic 80s and 90s rock that I enjoy.

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Well it’s an expensive little sucker. I currently have a Vox ac15. Different kind of clean. A chime versus Fender sparkle. The problem is even though it has a boost channel it still has to be cranked a bit to get those tubes to flutter. Not a problem if you’re a gigging musician which I no longer am. It’s also quite a beast to lug around. It’s a classic so I will keep it. I was searching for a low watt tube amp that breaks up at a reasonable volume and the Vibro Champ fits the bill. The tube tremolo is excellent and the hall reverb is different perhaps a bit drier then spring but I want to say more spacious.Just a bass and treble eq but that works fine. Control your over drive with the volume on amp and guitar and you can tweak it any way you want. I run a Strat HSS, a Tele, and an Epiphone Sheraton through it. I will say the humbuckers seem a little muddy to me but I’m sure they will clean up when I get the amp dialed in. Single coils well there isn’t to my knowledge a better combo then Fender singles and this amp. You really have to hear it. Several vids on You Tube some comps with a vintage 57 ? Vibro Champ. I couldn’t tell a difference. This is a loud 5watts if you want it to be but it’s a coffee house, studio, basement thing. A drummer would mash it. Maybe get by with bongos. I guess you could mike it but why? It’s exactly what it’s supposed to be and it does it as good as anything I have heard. CONS: expensive, no foot switch but it does come with a cover