Crate V-Series Guitar Amplifier Half Stack with V100H Head and V412A Cabinet
The full power of the V-Series amplifiers. Ready to rock arenas.
Overall User Ratings (based on 3 ratings)
Submitted August 11, 2008 by a customer from yahoo.com
Crate V-Series Half Stack Customer Review
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I just hope this thing goes for a long time...love the sound of it. Buy it! Trust me you aren't going to find a better sounding amp for less!
Sound
Great sounding amp for the price. The trick to this amp is driving the clean channel with a distortion pedal. I use a BOSS DS-1 and it has a great crunch sound. I use the amp's regular drive channel for that classic rock rhythm sound, it doesn't sustain like the driven clean channel, but overall a great EL34 sound for a great price!
Features
The amp comes with a boost and reverb feature. The reverb is ok, the boost doesn't really seem to do much other than make it louder. I was disappointed the amp didn't come with the footswitch but luckily I own the flexwave series half stack as well so it really wasn't an issue.
Ease of Use
Easy to use, pretty self explanatory. The clean channel has a bass, mid, and treble EQ, as well as a volume. The dirty channel has all the same features with exception of an additional gain knob.
Quality
Very well made product, the cabinet is extremely tough. I own both the Flexwave series cabinet and the V-Series cabinet, and the V-series cabinet is built much tougher and heavier for that matter.
Value
Where are you going to find 4 EL34 tube amp for around $300? I mean seriously...this is by far the best value amp I've ever owned! Other manufacturers need to catch on, b/c I have a feeling that Crate is going to sell tons of these!
Manufacturer Support
N/A, never had to use support, the Crate products I have used have been very good.
The Wow Factor
Good looking amp head and cabinet.
Musical Background:
Active Musician
Musical Style:
Rock, Classic Rock, Modern Rock
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