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I've had about two weeks with this amp, and I'm VERY impressed with it. It arrived perfectly packed...to the point that unboxing it was quite a chore. It had a nifty little cheat sheet card on the top that gives some sample settings to start with, but I elected to ignore those and instead just set all the knobs to noon and plug straight in to the front of the amp. On to the important bits:Clean channel - This is definitely the best sounding clean channel I've played through. I'm not sure how to describe it other than being a very nice full sounding clean sound that doesn't break up easily. It's definitely very high headroom. It's super easy to dial in a GREAT tone. Hell, even with all of the knobs (except for the master) at noon, I got a really useable clean sound. Adding the bright switch definitely gives a more chimey tone, but it's not ice picky at all. It's a noticeable, but not over the top boost to the top end. The dirty tones - There is A LOT of gain on tap in this amp. Yes, it does the tight fast tracking metal tones, but if you play around with the volume and EQ, you can get anything from a cranked Plexi tone all the way to over the top super saturated modern metal. Again, I started with all the controls at noon here and just made minor changes to get to a tone that fits my needs...and it didn't take much knob twisting. I bumped my treble to just past 1 o'clock, the mids are just short of noon and the bass is just short of one o'clock, the bright switch is on and I get a great saturated drive tone with the gain ever so slightly past noon. I haven't found a need for a boost pedal, but I'm certain that this amp would take to my TS808 very well. Since getting this amp, I've played it with all of my guitars which include a Strat, a number of PRS guitars, an Ibanez and a Gibson Explorer. All sound fantastic through the guitar, but I will note that there is a noticeable drop in volume when going from any of my humbucker equipped guitars to my Strat with three single coils. Easy enough to compensate for with the master volume controls, however. This amp sounds great with humbuckers, single coils, with standard tuned guitars, and it seems to really shine with down-tuned guitars. I've really been enjoying the tones I get with my CE-22 in C# standard, my Custom 24 in D standard, and my Ibanez in drop B. There's no loss of top end with the lowered tunings, and the bottom end doesn't get overly flabby or unpleasant. The presence and depth controls are nice for fine tuning the high and low frequencies respectively, but, for my purposes they haven't been moved much past noon...this amp does very well with my current guitars and needs with the controls set pretty neutral.I have not gigged this amp yet, but I'm fully confident that it would easily keep up in a band mix in a small to medium venue. I've also not used the effects loop to this point, so I can't comment on that aspect of the amp yet. Negatives - I would have liked to have built in foot switchable reverb like what the Sonzera has, but I can easily add reverb in the effects loop with my Helix HX Stomp if I really want to. An obvious negative that applies to almost every high gain amp ever is that it can be noisy on the dirty channel. This is why folks like ISP, MXR, and Boss make noise gates. Toss one into the signal chain between you guitar and the input, in the effects loop, or both, and it's a non issue. All in all, if you want a more modern voiced amp that has a great clean and dirty channel, this is definitely worth a look. The clean channel has super high headroom and is a great pedal platform, the dirty channel can cover anything you need from the dad-rock AC/DC type tone all the way to super tight high gain modern metal core and anything in between. The stock Celestion V-Type speaker sounds great, and dialing in a fantastic clean and dirty tone is super easy, so you'll spend WAY more time playing, enjoying the amp, and making music than you will twisting knobs to try and dial in a tone.

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Great amp. Clean channel is amazing with great tone shaping. Lead channel is able to dial in from wide open over drive to laid back classic rock . Great amp!

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Well, I've had the this amp since September and I still love the tone. I must say, however, I'm a bit disappointed with the longevity of the amp. I play through it daily in my home music room, but yesterday, it just died. I have a ticket in to PRS to see what's going on with it, hopefully just a bad fuse, but we shall see.

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