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?), the natural channel on my Rocker 30 "just about" manages clean sounds loud enough unmiced with the band, and that's into a 2x12 with a V30 and a creamback H65, so pretty efficient speakers. And even then it isn't pristine clean like you'd get from some amps - it'll break up a bit if provoked. I reckon with half the power you'd be struggling.
Having said that, I like the sound, it's my only gigging amp. It's just not really a "loud clean" amp if that's what you're after, even with the 30W power amp.
Used it with a DM-2w and RV6 in the loop, and the natural channel sounded great right off the bat for clean(ish) sounds too, I didn’t miss having a tone control at all.
Mind you I also have a 12ax7LPS in the phase which apparently boosts the headroom a touch too.
Pleased to report that I’m really getting it dialled in nicely - I find it sounds best with the treble and mids slightly after noon and the bass slightly before, and the gain around 2 or 3 o’clock (depending on guitar pickups) so I can roll back the guitar volume to clean it up, or boost the front end for lead.
Not gotten round to experimenting much with the natural channel and pedals, but will report back.
Also pleased to report that contrary to my earlier post, the fx loop does not actually add noticeable noise - I just had the output setting on my multi fx set to +4dB line level, so once I switched it to guitar level and brought up the unit’s volume control to compensate, level was the same as before but the slight hiss was gone. (I puzzled over this for a couple of days, after finding that individual boss reverb and delay pedals in the loop didn’t add hiss whereas the GX-100 did even with noise gate).
I’ve been spending some time playing around with the half/full power settings combined with the headroom/bedroom controls. I’m guessing that the half/full switch is power reduction whereas headroom/bedroom is some kind of resistive attenuator which also has slight frequency compensation to brighten the sound a bit.
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