by normula1 Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:58 am
The GM.
I'd bought it with a view that it had all the flexibility of a modeller but with the tone of hot bottles, and the built in attenuator would mean I could have a relatively quiet, compact solution for noodling along to myself using a TC Ditto in the loop and not have a gazilion cables to plug / unplug if I wanted to take it elsewhere. And if I wanted it to, I could easily integrated it into my existing MIDI setup.
In the end though, 1 watt is still quite loud when you turn up the master, I much preferred the tone when in 36 watt mode into an external attenuator. To noodle using Ditto with effects properly I had to retain my TC GMajor in the loop and all the cables that goes with that and when I put it up against my old amps ('73 JMP Marshall, Boogie Studio 22+, self built tube preamp for cleans and a Laney LionHeart 5 watt combo) in an A/B test I much preferred the tone of my old amps.
And whilst Fredo's excellent PC editor (and the Android editor too) made editing patches a really simple thing to do, the issue with the MIDI Volume pedal was a pain even though I did come up with a work around by setting max volume limits on each patch in my MIDI foot pedal or again controlling volume using my GMajor in the loop.
Essentially, the GM wasn't working for me in the manner I had thought it would. So after doing lots of tube and speaker rolling and pretending to myself for the last six months that I hadn't made a mistake buying it, I sold it on pretty much to the year after bringing it home and just sucked up the financial loss to experience.
I'm in no way knocking the amp itself, I'm sure it's perfect for lots of people, just not for me.