roland cube 40xl

[gordiji]

just bought one of these for messing about, 195€, the price of a good boutique pedal.now i'm a bit behind the curve
when it comes to gear and what's available these days but this little amp has astonished me.
i can't find a bad sound on it, lots of footswitchable options (with the fs 6, 60€ also in the bag), no wonder the range
has sold over a million.
freaking brilliant.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Mmmm - I've looked at one of these to replace the second amp at one of our workshop benches - (currently got a nasty small Laney HCM)

Thought the reviews all looked good - thanks for confirming it
If the clean channel is good and it has good distortion too - it would be a winner for what i want it for

[gordiji]

it would be great for quick demo's of your guitars jonathan.it's the cleans and light crunch that have surprised me, normally the distortions on modelling amps are good at low vols .

[MDV]

I really miss my cube 30.

Low volume practice tones, distorted and clean, have been among the hardest for me to find. The cube 30 utterly ruled for it, but I sold it too hastily after I got my vox advt30xl, which is OK, but not as good as the cube by a long shot, in the long run. It also kills the peavey vypyr I have.

The only reason I didnt get another, is every time I have £150 to spend, I have something else I need to spend it on/put it toward.

[Ian Price]

Hmmm, I'm looking for something small and portable that has a looper.

[kevinr]

I use a Cube 60 for all but large gigs (where I  use Mesa DC5) and it continues to amaze me just how good it is! both clean and dirty, I can recommend these 100% as an inexpensive reliable workhorse.

[Fourth Feline]

Another 'Cube' fan here .  :)

I do most of my practicing - and impromptu playing to people , on my much loved Micro-Cube.  As I was most impressed with it, I managed to 'score' a Cube 60 for backup to the main Jazz rig.

For mellow Jazz, the Micro cube would be good enough to 'play out' with, in a small room.  It's built like a tank ( as the Cubes are ) - and even merited me buying it's own carry case / cover. The batteries seem to last a long time too, I'm still on my first set many months later.

My favourite settings for Mellow Jazz on the Micro-cube being :

Amp : 'JC Clean'  , Tone at 3 o'clock,  Reverb at 3 0'clock, Gain at 9 'clock, Volume at 3 0'clock.

Great stuff !  :)

[ToneMonkey]

i can't find a bad sound on it

Give me any amp and I could make a thousand bad sounds.

[Telerocker]

My first amp (late seventies) was a Roland Cube 100 transistor, with orange tolex. Great workhorse, never died. Played it some times stereo with a Fender Princeton Reverb II, which was rated at 18 watts, but was as loud as the Cube 100. Still regret I sold the Roland. The new ones sound very decent for their price. Nevertheless, I recently bought a Fender Blues Junior to rehearse. I know it's a onetrickpony, but it has amazing cleans and vintage crunch tones. TS-9 in front and go.

[gordiji]

i love fender amps and a model of one is just that. i'm a valve amp lover generally although i did have a jc 120 once
but it wasn't as good as the twin reverb i used to have.
that said, having played a bit with this xl which is insanely cheap for under a carpet(2ton) if i were to recommend
a gigging amp for someone short of money i'd have to tell them to look a it's big bro the xl 80.i bet there's not
a better all rounder under 500.

[Telerocker]

i love fender amps and a model of one is just that. i'm a valve amp lover generally although i did have a jc 120 once
but it wasn't as good as the twin reverb i used to have.
that said, having played a bit with this xl which is insanely cheap for under a carpet(2ton) if i were to recommend
a gigging amp for someone short of money i'd have to tell them to look a it's big bro the xl 80.i bet there's not
a better all rounder under 500.

Be happy with the price/quality/options-rate nowadays. Lots of small amps sound way better then 30 years ago. The same goes for guitars. For the price of a Squier Classic Vibe you got just multiplex those days. Still have my Hondo II strat, which was a complete disaster (what did I know?...), had to replace everything.