Like I said, "THIS IS THE PERFECT BEDROOM AMP!"It can get fairly loud on distortion, and IS loud enough clean that it could bother close neighbors or adjacent apartments, but the beauty is: When you turn it down it doesn't suck the tone away
I've never heard my guitar have such a bright clean tone
The tone is not perfect and digitalness of it is apparent to all from a valve amp
I think the various types of distortion are good and produce good tone
It does however have a nice suite of on board effects, some good software for editing the effects and good tone.
The Core10 has 6 "voices", which are kind of like different amp models: Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD1, and OD2.
In case you aren't familiar, the amp has two clean preamp modes (warm and bright); two crunch preamps ("crunch" and "super crunch"); and two overdrives ("OD1" and "OD2"
Crunch is bright with some tube-like breakup (similar to a Vox), and the three higher gain settings could be part Marshall, "Brown Sound", Soldano, depending on your opinion.
I'm glad this amp had good cleans, nice crunch, & good effects because all my pedals didn't sound good in front of it, except for the crybaby wah.
You can choose from a variety of sounds including: Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD 1, & OD 2
Run the clean channel and dial up the gain and your playing a Fender Twin, clean until you pick it hard, and your hitting a sweet overdrive.
It feels great and doesn't hinder your playing whatsoever
All too often small bedroom practice amps lack the feel, dynamics, reaction, and tonal fullness of a warm reactive tube amp, but this one makes playing fun and easy...at a low volume
and I am pretty picky, and have to say, this is one of the better amps I've played in this price range.
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It does a great job volume wise practicing in your room up until about half way on the knob you get a reasonable sound level for a room, then after that it get's pretty loud
It is hand down the best practice amp I have ever owned
Great practice amp...just need to know output impedance of headphone jack.
If anyone is considering getting a cheap practice amp, I highly recommend this one.
I bough this Amp used for 50$ without doing any research, thinking it should make a decent practice amp
Great!I have never had so much fun playing through a solid state amp in my
But the Core10 seems to avoid two key annoyances that plague most solid state amps with 8" or smaller speakers: (1) Unwanted rattling; and (2) Speaker breakup/distortion.
They would then hook that up to whatever crummy solid state amp they could
However, a true solid state without modeling is kind of hard to find.
However, a true solid state without modeling is kind of hard to find.
Only bad thing I can mention is the effects you set up manually will disappear when you turn the amp off and then back on.
Lastly, this little thing looks awesome and feels as if you are owning as kick *ss and expensive Marshall, Mesa, Roland, Ampeg or fender amp.
Each effect type has 4 subtypes (so with the modulator effects, for example, there's phaser, flanger, chorus, and tremolo), and all have 3 editable parameters on the amp itself, contained in the two knobs and a button – depth, blend, and speed (a tap-tempo button).A cool thing about the effects is that they're in a distinct signal chain (being
I cant say enough good things about Blackstar amps across the entire product line