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Originally Posted by DoryDavis
I bought one used, never bonded with it, and sold it, broke even almost. On paper, it looks like a good amp. And there was nothing wrong with it at all. I think if you were playing any kind of high gain music, with breakup, it'd sound good. I was looking for a clean sound, and it certainly could produce that, but it just didn't draw me in. Totally subjective of course, some people swear by these amps and that is fine too...
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The TDPRI folks seem to like them, as either a low-cost alternative to the Blues Junior or a mod platform; FWIW I've seen a couple of reviews which mention the OEM Celestion speaker as the weak link (great for high-gain stuff but very limited for anything else, as you state) - the Eminence Cannabis Rex seems to be the go-to here, and based on my own experience with the Swamp Thang in an EL84 amp I'd tend to agree. I also understand that the current front-panel iteration addresses the major issues in the initial run - poor-sounding reverb and bargain-basement tubes (they've upgraded the 'verb tank and gone to Ruby Tubes last I looked); considering it's purported to be a Laney Cub 12R in plain-vanilla (literally) packaging, at half the street price of the name-brand box it's a bargain by any reckoning - I've had one on my radar for a while as a lightweight backup for my Bugera V22, and I personally wouldn't hesitate to take the plunge...