yeah i got a good deal in that guitar village sale a little while back- as you've probably noticed, the prices on most laneys jumped up recently, and the price in the GV sale was close to the old prices (under £400), so I figured if I was ever going to get one, I had to get it :lol:
I like it- being single-channel (with boost) it's not super-versatile in the way, say, an engl is, but it's very nice, it does pretty much what I want, which is a more 80s high gain tone, hot rod marshall type of thing. It wouldn't be my first choice for br00tz, though- it'll do it, but more if you mainly play rock and hard rock, but sometimes need br00tz. It's very nice for what I paid for it, but again it just depends on what you want tonally, and how many options you need to be footswitchable etc.
And yeah, I'm well aware that sounding good at low volumes is a bit of an engl thing- though funnily enough I've never had a problem with rectos or 5150s either at lower volumes when I've tried them in shops. Fizz never really annoys me that much, nor does too much compression (which a lot of people hate)...
I just said the 6L6 thing because a guy on UG has a gh50l too and he put 6L6s in and discovered it helped the lower volume tones a lot. I'm keeping el34s in because, although I need it to sound good at low volumes too, I also want it to be as marshally as possible, and as far as i'm aware, the 34s will help with that.
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