Played a Rebel 30 at Guitar Center lastnight. Very nice!

[guitarzan58]

I've heard the comment about the OD channel be too aggressive. I'm truly not sure I understand. There is a knob called gain that you can turn down, right? I'm not kidding...please explain. The 30 does have a little more gain than the 20. Do I not understand the term "aggressive"?

Bruce

Bruce-

I am comparing the Rebel 20 (which I own and love, thank you) to the 30. On paper the 30 is more like what I need: two channels, more watts, built in reverb, footswitch. Problem is I am so happy with the 20 and the 112X cabs that the 30 was a letdown for the reasons I mentioned in my post.

In comparing the two amps the gain seems to kick in on the 30 way earlier than the 20. I quoted an earlier post when I agreed it is "aggressive", meaning it comes on much sooner and more intensely than the gain on the 20 (at least it did with the tele I played).

 

[guitarzan58]

I was getting a very non-aggresive sound out of the second channel. I had the gain at about 10:30 - 11:00 and the master at 2:00 - 2:30. Wide open, clean but over-driven, great RTM sound and sitting there ready and waiting for a nice high gain OD pedal for your third problem. I didn't think there was anything cheap about it. I kind of hard to understand that statement based on the fact that you own a 20. Reverb sounded great and could be faded and dialed so far back it was just barely there.

The reverb and channel wattage controls feel like 1970's era crt or television fine tuning knobs. Felt cheap.

 

[aeroic]

I was getting a very non-aggresive sound out of the second channel. I had the gain at about 10:30 - 11:00 and the master at 2:00 - 2:30. Wide open, clean but over-driven, great RTM sound and sitting there ready and waiting for a nice high gain OD pedal for your third problem. I didn't think there was anything cheap about it. I kind of hard to understand that statement based on the fact that you own a 20. Reverb sounded great and could be faded and dialed so far back it was just barely there.

The reverb and channel wattage controls feel like 1970's era crt or television fine tuning knobs. Felt cheap.

they are the same knobs that they use in the modular series...done for space reasons...

Eric

 

[RockStarNick]

Every knob on the front has the same pot behind it, im *guessing*.

 

[Len Rabinowitz]

I turned the knobs on one for a few seconds today. It didn't feel cheap to me- felt pretty solid. The overall design isn't what I would want- I have to have front mounted controls. Still I can't wait to hear it, and the Renegade I X 12 looks really tempting...