Hi Ellen,
What's the verdiict on the amp. Gonna do the smaller Vox?
Hi Woody!
I got home late (after 8 PM), because I drove 10 miles south to the Kenosha Music Go Round. I grabbed a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion (as I've mentioned before, I used to have one), and I tried out the Orange Crush 30R It was OK, but not my cup of tea. Then for the heck of it, I tried out this:
It's a Randall RX75RG2. Like my old Mesa .50 cal, it has a single 12" speaker, housed in an oversized cabinet for better bass response. I gave it a heft test, and at 49 lbs, it was lighter than my old 2x12 cab. I plugged in, and proceeded to go nuts playing! The amp has 3 channels, clean (with a footswitchable mid boost function), and 2 distortion channels. The clean channel, does some pretty nice warm sounding cleans. While it can chime, it's nothing like a Vox - it's more like a Fender. One of the distortion channels is more of a classic overdrive sound, for 70s rock. Turn down the gain, and it gets close to sounding like a dirty Fender. The other distortion channel, is pure aggressive, modern metal! Yeah!!!!
The amp is solid state, with a power output of 75 watts.
The amp is foot switchable for the different channels, the reverb, the clean mid boost, and the effects loop (which is adjustabe for send and return levels [the footswitch was included with the amp]). It also has a headphone jack, and 2 jacks for running external speakers. There is also a parameteric EQ/contour control on the distortion side of things, for adjusting the center frequencies for the tone controls. It seems to have a biggest effect on the low mids, IMO.
The price was $250, so I bought it. I guess I can't stay at the cool table anymore!
