Mesa Subway Rocket

Dan_Halen

Anyone a fan? There's quite a bit about them online but wondering how you guys feel about them. Need something that will do loud and clean, fairly portable and either fairly modest in price or with a very good master volume/attenuator. Bonus if it has a good dirty channel too. One of these has appeared nearby and wondering if it's worth a punt or best to avoid.

ICBM

Avoid, in my opinion.

Dark, middy, boxy, compressed, very loud for its size when overdriven but not much clean headroom. Not subtle or responsive.

I had one on loan, and replaced it with a Peavey Studio Pro 110, which sounded much less congested and had more clean headroom.

Dan_Halen

@ICBM - pretty comprehensive review cheers! There was a combo and a head for sale I'd seen locally, and I'd expect the head would be less boxy with the right cab but would still fundamentally sound the same. I've still got my Studio Pro 112 but it's down south for the occasional gig. Given you can pick one up for the price of a guitar pedal, I might just buy another of those to have here.

PAL

ICBM summed it up. There are better options out there I'm sure.