Hi Guys,
At last! I have the Laney.
Quick review:
Build. This thing is perfect, everything is finished really nicely, it feels solid and I have no reason to believe otherwise, nothing feels cheap on it.
Sound;
Clean channel.
In a word, stunning. Very versatile, it can go from very bright to very soft and mellow, it does start to break up at about 12 but that is really loud anyway (that’s with a set of MM in the guitar)
Drive channel.
Again, it’s just what it should be, it is a vintage gain sound but the eq settings are so responsive that you can achieve quite a range of great gain settings.
With the bright switch and tone control on this amp you have a great array of sounds to play with.
The reverb is a little stingy but what there is very rich and natural sounding.
A couple of big questions that tend to pop up with the L5T seem to be a) Can it do metal? In a word, no, and b) could you gig it? A small gig with a microphone? Probably (think Moles club, Bath).
One of my questions was how compatible is it with a distortion pedal (a DistX in this case) and the answer is...
WOW, now it does metal, what I have now (including the pedal) is a three channel amp of mind blowing quality that I can play in the house without my neighbours wanting to inflict to much pain on me.
I don’t gush without reason, I have had my fair share of amps and most of which I was able to pick serious flaws with within minutes that seriously hampered my enjoyment of them but the Laney is different, its fun and I genuinely love it.
With the pedal it cost me £650 and its worth every penny, this one’s a keeper.
Since I have had the MM set in my guitar I have been using Line 6 guitar port, modelling software does no justice to those pickups whatsoever, only now am I hearing their true sound and it is awesome.
Thanks for reading,
Phil.
