The Laney LC15 is a highly regarded tube practice amplifier, garnering an 8.9 out of 10 average rating for Sound Quality at Harmony Central. It is rated at 15 watts with an EL84 tube, out to a 10″ Laney-designed driver. It may only have 1 channel, but what it lacks in features, it makes up [...]
The Peavey 6505 head has five 12AX7 preamp tubes and four 6L6GC power amp tubes. It has controls for presence and resonance and a three-band equalizer. The 6505 series was created to celebrate Peavey’s 40 years in the amplification business. It has 120 watts of raw power, fed into either 16, 8 or 4 ohms. [...]
The DigiTech Bad Monkey is a tube overdrive pedal that was made to compete with pedal legends such as the Ibanez TS 9/TS 808 Tube Screamers. The difference? A couple-a-$100. The Bad Monkey is listed at only $69.95 which means you can get it in some places for as low as $50. Guitarists have been [...]
Behringer Ultracurve PRO DEQ2496; Ultra High-Precision Mastering Processor
Behringer, as we all know, is a out in the market to battle with mega-buck music products by providing a cheap, feature-rich alternative. While professional equalizers are tricky, Behringer’s quest to “break the scene” started with the Behringer 8024. It was received warmly even by the most discerning [...]
The Peavey Vypyr® 15 is a 15-watt modeling guitar amplifier. It has an 8-inch speaker with 12 amplifier channel models of popular amplifiers so clean and distorted combined, you get 24 unique voices of different amplifiers. In addition, you also get 12 different effects, with the ability to use four simultaneously. Now that’s a lot [...]
The Behringer PMP518M is a compact, rack-mountable, 5-channel, 180-watt powered mixer that has a 24-bit FX processor. Its design makes it easy to transport and store because it is nearly half of a conventional mixer.
It’s quite affordable too, as with all Behringer products. It is listed for $289.99 but usually sells for less than $200.00. [...]
Danelectro DJ-4 Corned Beef Reverb Mini Effects Pedal
The tiny DJ-4 pedal from Danelectro weighs a mere 11.2 ounces and retails for only $49.99. The sound of the Corned Beef is what others might consider reminiscent to a slapback delay pedal. Particularly a slapback delay in front of a short reverb.
We enjoyed toying around with the [...]
Here are some good reviews of Radial Engineering’s Tonebone Classic Tube Distortion.
Terry – harmony-centreal.com
I bought this for heavier classic rock sounds like Allmans and Santana. I wanted that singing violin single note tone for certain songs. This box gave it to me. It makes the Fender and Music Man amps I like so much for [...]