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The Jensen speaker can be a little bright but you can fix that by changing to a better guitar. A Gibson.
References to some other amp maker that costs much more money, and has nothing to do with the thread title make me suspicious. Fanboyism is OK. On the appropriate fanboy thread.......
I would say it took pedals well and had a great reverb. I remember running a Wampler "Plexi" pedal of some description into it for crunch, and stacking it with a fuzz for a lead tone. I personally felt that it favoured single-coils as mine was susceptible to bass flub and sympathetic vibration with humbuckers - not a unique experience for owners of this model of amp.
Certainly light-weight and portable.
The low power settings were useful at home if you were a bit tired of the sound of the pedal and wanted some amp-provided gain but, as I stated above, it just wasn't my tone. Might be yours, though
As I've stated twice before in the thread, with the benefit of hindsight, I'd say that the PRRI is a better amp as well, and is in the same price range. The silver face 68 version is probably cheaper.
I've been lucky enough to have played through a couple of Cornells recently and it's been an enlightening experience. I play purely for personal enjoyment and I usually aim for a metal sound, ranging between Scorpions and Van Halen. Sorry, that's just the way it is. I tried the Vintage Brown 10 and felt it was OK, didn't really invest too much time in it. I'm now wishing I had given it more effort. I think if I went back to it I might understand it better. Understand how to adapt to its strengths instead of trying to make it do something it's not designed for.
Then recently I've been playing through a Plexi 7 12" and am going through what you might describe as a renaissance. At first I was trying to make these things sound like my old amps (Marshall 100, Rivera M60) which I now believe to have been a mistake on my part. Historically I've used delay as a crutch and that's obviously better through an amp with an effects loop. And I use a ton of gain, through multiple stages to make up for a lack of technique.
The thing about the Plexi 7 is it has acres of tone, and the breakup as it edges toward distortion sounds very authentic to me. Just a really really nice sound. I find I can play at quite tolerable volume levels and it encourages me to play, which for me personally is the most valuable thing of all. I've got a great Guitar Rig 5 setup that I play through a stereo, but it rarely invites me to play, whereas the Plexi 7 sits there with an on/off switch, promising to give me a good session where I end up feeling good about myself. Visitors to the house have been commenting about what a good sound I'm making and one of my friends asked if I gave guitar lessons. I never knew anyone ask that when I was playing with the mega overdrive setup I had through my Rivera amp.
As I'm continuing my experiment I'm plugging a wide variety of FX pedals into the front end and coming to an understanding of what my new sound might be. The weirdest thing is I'm using EMG81s and the tone is great. I'm thinking if I experiment with some more toneful Seymour Duncans I might find myself with another major improvement.
I think the head version is a better amp