The Good;
Jon turned me on to this, I'm glad he did...
It's simple, lightweight, compact, reasonably priced boutique tone.
One input gain, One tone knob, One output volume.
3 speaker output jacks; Two 8ohm, and 1- 16ohm. Comes with a gig bag case.
At the moment I am pushing a closed-back 8 ohm Altec 15 inch guitar speaker,
which may be giving it some extra low end.
It kicks through my Vox 2-12(16 ohm) cab, and has more bite
because of the range of the speakers.
My favorite amp of all time was a late 60's silver face Fender Bassman (8ohm)
through a 16 ohm bass Marshall straight cabinet and turned up all the way,
no effects, usually a 64' strat, or 64' ES-335 using the volume knobs for dynamics.
It was a good sound, though never quite loud enough for the band I was performing with.
Because it was an 8-ohm amp, 16 ohms being more resistance to that amp,
it resulted in attenuation. The 40 watt amp was acting as a 20.
The Tiny Terror has that sound without the result of eventually burning something up,
by using the provided speaker jack.
You can get any desired increment of distortion with the combination of gain into overdrive,
using the tone knob as the catalyst.
So, I can get that sound in my apartment living room studio, at a volume that
doesn't bother the neighbors.
A simple dial-in of the tone knob for presence, and I'm ready to rock!
The Bad; At first, I thought maybe an effects loop would be good, but there is nothing like
just plugging directly into the amp for punch and clarity.
When recording it dry, you will be able to experiment with different effect plug-ins,
instead of having them recorded and unable to change them.
It will work well with a combination of amps as A/B with even a stereo amp with multi FX, for all the fancy stuff.
If you plug your effects into the front, remember that if you're driving the gain,
with the output volume low, reverb and other clean effects will get distorted too.
For a quick amp switching effect, I just use a true-bypass tone booster,
Beano by Retroman.
The Verdict; Guilty of being badass for recording and jamming,
just put up a mic and go. It's great!
Skip Hahn