Just bought the combo version today! It's only £30 more than the head and I could plug it into a cab anyway if I wanted to. The staff reduced the price for the VAT drop too which was nice. The only problem is.... that it's still at the shop. Got it from Mor Music in York when I was visiting my gf. I had a busy day today so I said I'll come pick it up another day, which is probably gonna be 2 weeks time!! This is torture!
It's a great little amp for practicing and recording. It sounded a lot less "little" than other similar amps imo. I thought the ISF thing wasn't as drastic as I'd imagined but still an interesting tone shaping tool. I did have the mids set high and it's supposed to work best with mids down so maybe that's why. Imo it did the British tones better than American tones. It being a wee little combo, it couldn't help sounding a little bit boxy with the gain piled up, but for all intents and purposes I thought it performed very well. It has loads of gain btw, not death metal gain, but about on par with my Laney VH100R. I can't wait to try boosting it and put it through my 4x12. I agree with twinfan about the volume though. Even with a very efficient cab, I highly doubt it will keep up in a loud band context. The volume up full (with the inbuilt speaker) was about the same volume as my VH100R on 1.5 I'd say.
