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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
worked against it.
I know it does Phil Jameson's head in, as the amps are designed to be played loud. The guy at Divided By 13 has had numerous rants about it as well, folk buying stage amps to use at home.
One of the great pleasures of my life is that I can play amps at my studio at whatever volume I like. Matchless amps absolutely come alive in that setting at serious volume. I play through an HC30 and a Clubman together a lot in there, and even clean sounds are just massive.
I spent a day recording my Fender Supersonic 22 (diode rectifier) alongside a deluxe reverb (5R4 valve) with a friend. On the clean channel the supersonic sounded identical to the deluxe reverb even when cranked.
I do believe that less is more, an amp with too many switches, pots and buttons is just an expensive headache waiting to happen.
I think the kicker was I'd been taking the BC30 to some practice sessions but it's quite a weighty beast at over 30Kg so one week I took the Fender (a lightweight at under 25Kg). One of the other guitarists looks at it and says, "Where did your tone go?".
All that said I suspect with some different speakers and a few mods (changing V1 for a 12AY7 helps a little) there might be an ok amp in there somewhere. Be aware they can also suffer from the same fried motherboard problems as some of the other Fenders. They can be picked up relatively cheap though so if you budget for a bit of work on top there is a potential result in there somewhere.
In a band mix everyone has to give each other the right space, so it's never completely one instrument/players fault if it doesn't sound good.
Some people forget amps usually have some sort of eq as well as volume and dirt. Use it!
Just because it has transistors doesn't mean it will sound bad.
The most important part of an amp is the speaker.
Any amp I own, have owned, or will own sounds universally better when played by somebody else.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.