Cornell Romany

jellyroll

I was quite interested in Cornell Romany as I thought it's inbuilt attentuation would be great for home playing. Then I watched this video. Beautiful cleans but IMHO terrible in attentuated mode. Any thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_sD1G6Iyn4

jellyroll

PS. I know the model in the vid is a Romany Plus but I expect it's quite similar to a Romany. 

JohnPerry

the vid doesn't lie. Had two Romanies. Loved the cleans - but found it farty when driven and fizzy at the lowest attenuation level

frankus

I love mine both for the Fender Cleans with the tele and for some jazzy driven mayhem on the 335.

Roaster

Sounds like theres an Octaver on it or something, not nice IMHO

ArchtopDave

I have a Romany Plus, which is my main practice amp at home. Bought it a few years ago. It's the version that has 3 settings -10 watt, 2 watt, and 1/4 watt. There's very little clean headroom at 1/4 watt, but I use the 2 watt setting at home, where there's plenty of headroom (I play clean most of the time). If the difference between the Romany and the Romany Plus is still the same; the Plus has Reverb and, most importantly, a proper Leather Handle!!

thewiddler

I've got the older Soft/Loud (2w/10w) model. The cleans are superb, only enhanced by the reverb. Granted the breakup gets gnarly and shrill beyond a certain point, it's an acquired taste, but very distinctive. What I would say about this amp is how well it takes pedals - RAT, Swollen Pickle, Liquid Sunshine - all sound amazing and at low volume, making the really low watt attenuation (for me) unnecessary anyway. 

jpfamps

On the original Romany I actually preferred the sound of the 1/4 W setting to the 2W setting.

The octave effect is due to the signal being half wave rectified in the power stage; if you drive the power valve beyond a certain point grid conduction occurs and the valve acts like a diode.

To avoid this you need to turn the volume down on the lower settings when you use the lower power modes.

crunchman

I used to have a Romany Plus - then I tried a Lazy J.

The power scaling on the Lazy J is far better than the attenuation on the Cornell.  It also sounds a lot better at high volumes.