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Randall RG50TC 50W 1x12 Guitar Combo Amp

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Sound	I tried this with a pair of EMG 81's in an Ibanez SZ320. Not really noisy in the time I took trying it, the cleans are ok, nothing amazing. The Distortion sucked on the one I tried, couldn't get much more than a warm tone out of it (and not a great one at that), distortion does NOT seem versatile. Other amps SMOKED it for sound (e.g. Peavey Valveking), no question. I'm sorry but I disagree with the other reviewer on sound!
Reliability	Seems reliable, I would just say the tubes are the only things that will break down for a while.
Customer Support	Never dealt with Randall.

Liked about it	I liked: -Clean Boost is a nice touch -Comes stock with Celestion seventy 80. -2 mode per channel is a good idea.
Didn't like	I didn't like: -I couldn't seem to get many tones out of it. That's it really, what do features matter if it doesn't sound good?

Overall satisfaction:

3.0

By Guitarist-Jonny
Oct 19, 2009

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Sound	Let's start this first review... I play everything from pop-rock to metal and I wanted a tube amp with a good amount of gain but still with a pleasant clean sound. (played with Ibanez RG 20th, Jem 77V, ICT700, Epiphone G-310 and a whammy pedal). I tried a lot of amps ended with this 50w combo. It's a 2 channel all tube amp with four modes, from the Randall site: Clean, Clean with Boost, Classic Hi-Gain, Modern Hi-Gain. It has a Celestion seventy 80 speaker, 6l6 tubes and spring reverb. It sounds well in every situation, even at low volumes.
Reliability	now, the bad point: the Classic channel started to fuzz (like when you put your finger on top of a connected jack cable) a few time after the warranty expired and as i'm writing the problem it's still not solved (i'll try to fix this by myself, if I find out it's not a great thing to repair, but still...)
Customer Support	I've never dealt with the company.

Liked about it	- great, versatile sound. you can switch from great cleans to a blues crunchy sound to a hi-gain distortion, and this amp will always sound good. - it's easy to carry around for its small dimensions and it has a great volume reserve. you can play it at home, with the band, practicing or at gigs, its voice will be heard :) - the reverb sounds better than your medium amp reverb
Didn't like	- the Classic channel issue, obviously. - I wish it had two separate eq's for the two drive modes. it has two eq's by the way, but for clean/drive. - nothing more, i rated it four hoping the channel issue to be fixed soon.