Laney cub 10

Hootsmon

anyone , any owners, like to pipe up about their thoughts / experience with this little amp?

JezWynd

I love my Laney Cub 10. I've had it about 3 years now and it's been flawless all that time (I'm just asking for trouble with that statement). I use it with guitar and with bass, outputting to a 15" cabinet and it sounds near identical to my Ampeg PF20 head. Both use 12ax7 into 2 x 6v6, so not surprising I suppose. I particularly like the way it smoothly dials in a bit of grit as the gain is increased. Ideal combo for home practice and output to an external cabinet, probably loud enough for small gigs, jams etc.

Hootsmon

How is it c/w OD pedals Jezzers?

JezWynd

hootsmon said:

How is it c/w OD pedals Jezzers?

I don’t use OD much but it takes pedals very well generally, even though it has no fx loop. I’ve used it with SD-2 & OD-1 with the amp set clean and they both sound very good. It’s a small combo so can be boxy but I found using an amp stand to tilt it upwards or feeding it out to a bigger external cab makes it sound louder and fuller. It’s a 15w amp so with the right speaker it could get loud. I’ve never pushed it hard, my external speaker is a 15” excelsior cab, but it does very nice cleans and raising the gain level gives it a pleasing bluesy edge.

More recently I’ve been using a Vox Pathfinder 15r as it’s so convenient with onboard reverb and trem but I miss the valve response to finger picking that the Laney has and may go back to it (though the Vox is a great combo).

Hootsmon

ICBM

Don't you already have a VC15?