Apart from my tube amp, I'm also using a Carlsbro Glx 80 solid state, for about 20 years now. It's well maintained but suddenly the preamp.
. 50 TOP Evolution Head INTRODUCTION Thank you for buying a Carlsbro product. Correctly used it will provide years of reliable service, and deliver great tone and performance. Please read this user guide thoroughly in order to safeguard your equipment, and obtain maximum performance from it. It is a fully featured professional standard valve amplifier, equally suited to live and studio work. It is complemented perfectly by Carlsbro’s ‘Classic 412’ cabinet, but can be used with any appropriate 8, 16 or pair of 16 ohm cabinets.
Connecting a meter between TP1 and TP0 allows the bias voltage to be measured for valve 1, and between TP0 and TP2 allows the bias voltage to be measured for valve 2. Contact the Carlsbro service dept for detailed instructions on biasing of valves Note: We recommend that a qualified electronic technician, using suitable test equipment, performs installation of valves and valve biasing. The unit does not contain any user serviceable parts. For details of spares, accessories and other Carlsbro products, contact your local dealer. In the event of any difficulty contact our sales office at the address below.
There are four sounds in this Amp:. Clean/Normal is very good, as long as you have a good guitar. Clean/Bright is somewhat belly, but it could improve your guitar if it is not that good. OD/Crunch is like AC/DCish, but a little poor. Absolutely useless for solos. Some buzzy noise when not playing. OD/Lead is the same sound but noisier.
Just little useful for punk or hardcore, but nothing else. I agree with the guy who posted about the 50cc motorcycle. A lot of buzzy noise. The great versatility gets no compensation in sound, so you cannot explode its capabilites, if it has, for instance:. The five OD EQ knobs almost are changing anything else than more noisy/less noisy, but you don't get anything different. You cannot footswitch between lead and crunch, that could be useful when switching between rithm and solo in the middle of a song. Anyway, you should to change dramatically the knobs.
The mixing among channels is cool, but it's very hard to get an homogeneus, well mixed sound. Because of the poor overdrive channel, the mix doesn't blends ok. It's more like two separated guitars playing at once. Furthermore, as I was looking for versatility, I always needed at minimum a pure clean channel an a pure overdrive on, so this yet spends the two different configuration mixes. Resuming, clean OK, bad overdrive, and the mixing channels thing is funny but useless. Reverb is OK, nothing special though.