B-52 Pro Audio LG100A Head

First off let me just say that if you want an awesome metal amp that's built like a tank, THIS IS IT! it has 2 gain channels, a clean channel, several effect loop jacks in the back, 4 ohms at 100 watts and 8 ohms at 120 watts in the back. As many people have said, this amp is built like a tank.

I play old school thrash metal (kill em all, killing is my business, etc.) i get a perfect sound for that! It also has a great clean channel. As i said before, if you want a metal amp on a budget, buy this amp!

I would never gig without a backup (anything could happen) but other than that, this is a very reliable amp

Never needed it

Great amp...these things go cheaply now days. you can spend more money for marshall's mg series amps and this will just blow it away. I compared it to the other guitarist's and it's no contest.

We all know the features 3 channels clean, distortion, and brutal distortion.

How I found this amp is is funny. I recently pieced together my dream rack system, Marshall JMP-1, Peavey classic 50/50, G Major, Sonic Maximizer, and my 23 year old Carvin 4X12 cab. I'm using this with my Mockingbird (w/ Duncan Pearly gates and Jazz pups), and my Strat (sanariam cobalt noiseless pups). I thought I was the schnizit!
Wrong... I played this solid state half stack at at rehearsal studio one day and was blown away. We sound more like a band than ever. It cut through the mix, and I could even hear myself over my ridiculously loud drummer. Something that didn't happen with the rack set up. Don't get me wrong the rack was loud, but it seemed to be missing those crucial mid frequencies that electric guitar occupies in a mix. Needless to say I bought the same Half stack (only $175 craigslist) and I'm selling my rack gear. I've been playing for 31 years, so I know that ultimately I'll buy an old JMP, or Jcm 800. But for now using this amp for distortion and A/B'ing to a JC-120 for cleans is just fine.

Have only had it a week. But I'm guessing solid state gear (if not abused)lasts a while.

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I got mine used - It's an older one - maybe 2006. 100 watts, Solid state, Three channel, reverb, footswitch for reverb and channel switching, 12 inch speaker, and effect loops with level controls.

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This is an update from the previous 'Cicio' review. I stated that the reverb is electronic when it's a spring reverb. I shook the head and low and behold, the spring reverb was vibrating.

Yes, the clean channel does sound Fender-like! Both overdrive channels offer enough tonal options and gain to get all kinds of tones, including Marshall. Very quiet. The reverb is electronic and sounds good - quite usable.

This is a BIG head. Built very well. Like a tank. Very well designed and it should out last me.

I hope I don't have to use them - don't know.

Because this is a head, it's very crucial what it's played through. I run it through a Crate cab with one 12- inch 8 ohm Eminence Rock Driver speaker - a great sounding cab to begin with. The head is LOUD with plenty of head room (with an 8 Ohm speaker, you get about 60 or more watts). It's a very well designed layout with bass, mid, and high on Clean channel. Bass, mid, high on Overdrive channel 1 which links to Overdrive channel 2 which has a contour control. The amp does have TUBE like sounds and has a great thick midrange push. You can get all kinds of tones - very versatile. At loud volumes, the head cuts through like a knife without sounding harsh. Plenty of crunch in this thing! I don't use effects loops, so I can't comment on that. You have to take time to adjust the levels between channels on this thing - like most amps. I also own three Marshalls and a Fender amp, so I know my tones. The B-52 fits right in nicely offering plenty of power with tube like tones with a slightly different tonal palette, but good! Good looking amp (yes, that's important) and a Great amp for the money!

3 channels, decent reverb, XF Loop and line out.
Everything you need!

I used this thing for several years. The clean channel is virtually unusable... If you are planning to use a lot of cleans, or if you are using a processor for you sound, PLEASE go tube!
The distortion is pretty nice. Especially for rock and metal. It had a bright tone and HIGHS FROM HELL! And along with the B52 cab (or a Boogie if you can get it) the lows can be monsterous.

I likes this amp a lot for what I used it for.

It is pretty sturdy. Never had a problem with it.
Touring as much as I did with it, (which is the main reason I didn't use a tube amp for the longest time) I am surprised I had it as long as I did!

Honestly. I bought the thing used and never had a problem with it. So, I haven't testing that out!

If you can pick this up for a couple of bills or less... DO IT! It is loud and dirty! And with the right cab WELL worth the money!

I bought mine about a year ago. I was in a metal band and wanted something LOUD, CHEAP, and had good distortion. It's a pretty much a three channel amp; One clean and two different overdrives. It has an effects loop, a headphone jack, a decent reverb, and I'm pretty sure it came with the footswitch. It's solid-state; it covers it well but you can still tell that it's not a tube amp at times.

I play it mainly with my Schecter Gryphon. It's actually a pretty versitile guitar. It has two humbuckers that can both be tapped to get a single coil sound.
The distortion is very good. The second overdrive channel has a contour control that lets you warm up the sound or cut out the mids if you're a metal-head.
The clean is good; but it takes a lot of tinkering to get a pleasant sound. it's almost too punchy.
The amp isn't too noisy. The clean channel is almost totally silent. there is a little noise on the overdrive channels but not any more than any other amp. If you're having noise problems it is your guitar.
The amp sounds ok. It's ridiculously loud. They make a very similar amp that is 200 watts but i don't think many people have lived after playing one. I want to make it know that this amp breaks up at anything past about 5 on the volume knob. and not in a good way.

It can take a beating. after almost a year of abuse the second overdrive channel broke and lost a ton of gain; so now it's like a blackface sound. it'll hold up though.

don't know

it's a decent amp for the price but you only should buy it to play heavy music. It either does heavy or the pretty clean but no in-between whatsoever. I play softer stuff now and can't really get a tone I like out of it. I think i'm going to sell it and get a lower-wattage tube amp so I can drive it just a little bit; and not rip off faces.

It's your basic solid state amp, at a budget price. 1 clean Ch. 2 distortion ch. FX loop. Reverb......which is becoming more rare in lower priced amps. I'm sure there is a better listing of features somewhere here. I give it a 10 for this category.

I am a tone snob. Love tubes....love tube amps.....love what a tubescreamer does to a tube amp. Most solid state amps get bagged on for being to " digital " sounding. On this amp, it totaly works !! Sorry Marshall !!!...this is WAYYY better than your low budget stuff.

I really do NOT think of this as an " amp "....I feel it's the worlds biggest distortion box. Master of Puppets tone right out of the box.....NO S*%# !! I was using it OVER my tube amp for months...WITHOUT any distortion boxes ! I was ripping out "Puppets " and " Damage inc." and loving the tone.

I have had ZERO issues with mine.....though I know there are reported issues with it.

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I've had mine for a year and a half. It' is my back up, but I like to break it out and rip up some old school metal on it. I don't have any complaints.... or wishes.

The price is right, great for a newbie wanting to get some " tone mojo " on mom and dads money ( I wish I had one in 1981 when I started playing ).

I would bet another if this were stolen, due to they are in-expensive...NOT CHEAP !...and one always needs a back-up.

100 watts, reverb, effects loop, 2 channel (1 distorted with 2 gain settings, and 1 clean)normal shit.

As it is, the amps sounds really decent for a transistor amp, but when you start trying to use any effects though the loop, it stunts the volume, even if you have the effect's levels turned up properly

Pretty low..I bought it, brought it home, and found that the reverb did not work. I had a huge hassle returning it to guitar center becasue they didn't have another one in stock, which made me have to wait a week, then drive 30 miles to the other store to get another one. The 2nd one had a problem with the effects loop, which may have been something wrong with it, or it could of been the nature of the beast. When you put an effects unit in the loop, it severly cut down the volume, and even with the proper levels set on the effects unit (alesis nanoverb) It still had a diminished output. To make things worse, if I turned the bass knob up more then half, the amp just made this nasty buzzing noise, and it also made the clean channel useless because of this constant buzz, even with the bass knob turned down.

Didn't deal with them. Guitar Center refunded my money.

It sounds decent right out of the box, but if you try to use it to do anything real, it does not function properly. It would work for someone who just wants to plug and play, but sucks for someone who is trying to play gigs and use other equipment with it.

This amp has 3 channels one clean 2 distortion and reverb so its got some versatility now if your an effects freak your gonna need an effects pedal or just go for something like line 6 its a solid state but like everyone else said on here the distortion is amazing for a solid state i loved it when i first got it but i grew out of it i sold it to my best friend though, the whole stack (the head and the b52 cab) for 450 dollars i paid 600 for the whole thing the best styles to play this amp would be metal hard rock anything with distortion

The distortion on this is amazing for solid state with reverb it sounds very creamy the clean channel though, i hated it you have to mess with the eq so much or the clean channel sounds like crap i did recordings with it clean and yeah unless you got an effects pedal i suggest not using the clean channel but the distortion is the best ive heard from a solid state most of the time i would rather use this amps distortion than an effects pedal and im picky about my tone but yeah i just grew out of it i used to play hardcore shred metal stuff but i got into more indie music and i do not like this amp for this style

this amp could be used to smash doors down its built as sturdy i think as orange amps and those are known for being tough this amp has always worked i would not worry about having a backup for a gig this is a weel made amp

never had to thats why it gets a 10 on dependability

i have been playing since i was 7 im now 17 i got this amp for my 15th birthday i loved it i was so happy with it but yeah everytime i played in my band id complain about my tone because my style changed up a bit and they said i grew out of it and i did i finally sold it today but if you want punchy in your face distortion bass that could vibrate your whole house id say go for it it is a great deal but it just does not sound good to me clean but whenever i need to describe this amp to my friends i just say"it wants to take over the world" if you try one you will know why

It has a clean channel, and a distortion channel with two differant gains on it, also it has a reverb, as well as a level knob for each channel and a master volume as well. so it can get very loud!
I play metal, not just metal but metal metal! heavy shit, like lamb of god, and devil driver. i used to play on an amp that was $700, but i played on this amp at guitar center just so i could test out a guitar i wanted to buy. it turned out i bought the amp instead. it's very cheap and can dish out alot. i play in an international metal band called dark asylum. so i usually don't buy cheap equipment. but i played this and thought it was a damn good deal for the price! it's a solid state amp with good tone.

I use and esp F-200, and a digitech GNX3. the digitech floorboard is where i get my distortion, so i always use the clean channel on the amp. when i was testing out the amp at guitar center i thought damn that amp has some brutal distortion, so i bought it. when i got back to the practice space, i had to turn it up to full stage volume. i wanted to test the factory distortion first, and i had alot of fuzz. so i used my pedal board, it made my already good destortion preset even better, so i then start messing with the amps EQ. it had great low end. witch my $700 creat head could never do. i wouldn't use the amps factory distortion but when i run it thought my pedal board it has the greatest sound.

i've had it for a couple of months now, and so far so good. but i never gig without a backup! thats just industry standards! but so far i have had no trouble with it.

i got the amp with a one year warranty, but there was a longer option if i wanted it. as for the customer support center i've never had to use them.

overall i think if your going to be using this amp for it's distortion, i hope you will be playing it in a small setting, or else you will get a lot of fuzz. but if you have a digitech, line6, or boss pedalboard with it, or some rack mounted amp modules, it will work very will. it has a lot of low end if you use it right.
If this amp was stolen i would buy another one, it was cheap for the sound i was able to get out of it!
the only thing i hate is the color of the amp, it looks like a marshall with the gold trim on it, but hey, the sound is what truly matter to me.

Only comes with 2 dirty and 1 clean and also reverb, I play through a Line 6 PodXT Live effects pedal, so I run all my effects through it, but the sounds on the head are still very good.

The sound of this amp is really unbelievable, I play PS900, w/ 2 Humbuckers, and the sound is great. The clean channel I find to be awesome never loses its brillance. As far as the dirty channels go, they are good, but like I said I play through an effects pedal, but I really don't need to, this amp gives you all the balls you need. I play classic rock to heavy and even some country, and they all sound great through this amp.

I've been playing guitar for 10 years and I've played through alot of amps including Marshall, Fender, Peavy, and Crate, and beleave me I've had my share of problems w/ amps, but I find the B-52's to be well made and very reliable.

Never had to use them.

I have to say that for the money, this is hands down one hell of an amp. When I bought it I tried out the Marshall MG100HDFX, and a Crate, and thier amps at that price couldn't compare, they seemed very cheaply made, but this amp is built like a tank, which is just what a working musician needs. If anything were to happen to this amp
I would run right back to Guitar Center and buy another one. If you want amp that you can trust, and you don't own a bank, this amp delievers. TWO THUMBS WAY UP!