Aria Pro II AG-35R

This is an old amp, not sure what year exactly, but at it's from the last millenium for sure. Controls for: volume (gain), overdrive, master (volume), treble, mid, bass, and reverb.

The volume in combination with the overdrive knobs control the type and amount of distortion you get - I'm not sure, but I thnk they're gain controls for two gain stages. The EQ is decent, but seems to be extremely bass-heavy, which means it gets muddy very quickly. The mid knob also seems to be set a little into the bass frequency range. The reverb on this thing is utterly useless. I'm a little suspicious that the reverb unit on this particular amp is broken, because it's unbelievably noisy, and almost all-or-nothing - it suddenly blasts on full with the knob at ten o'clock.

I pretty much keep the volume and overdrive maxed out on this baby - I have other amps (Fender Twin, Ashdown Peacemaker) that do cleans, semi-cleans, and overdrives. I wish the EQ was a little more balanced, and that the reverb was worth anything at all.

Naturally, this is an all solid-state device. Headphone jack, line out, and a single input.

I'm using a Gibson Les Paul Classic, a Squier Affinity Strat (yeah, I know), a Washburn Maverick series, a Washburn WG587 (again, I know) and a Stagg Flying V. This amp pretty much only has one useful sound - full-out distortion. The tone of this amp, when EQ'd right (which can be difficult) is very Marshall Jubilee-ish (think Slash). It can do very solid-state sounding light distortion, and has a hard time with utterly clean sounds, so it pretty much just gets used as my heavy rock amp. The distortion is really crunchy, and sounds perfect for down-and-dirty heavy rock. I've never gigged with it (use the bigger, nicer amps) but it's great for bedroom use, or full-band jams. If you dime the volume, you can keep up with the hardest-hitting of drummers.

Overall, while a bit of a one-trick pony, it does that trick so well.

As it is, this amp has worked perfectly (reverb aside, which may or may not be broken) for five years - and I bought it second-hand. It seems very solidly built. I'd pretty much trust it to work at any time.

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I've been playing for seven years, and I really only bought this amp on a whim, as it was cheap, and would be good for bedroom noodling. As it is, it's got a fantastic dirty flat-out crunch tone, that augments my existing amps (Ashdown Peacemaker, Fender Twin). If you own a Marshall (particularly a Jubilee) this amp won't do much for you. If you already have some decent amps to cover clean tones, and metal/blues/country/what have you, then this amp can be picked up second-hand for the price of a good distortion pedal - and it'll probably give you a better tone, IF it's the sort of thing you're looking for.

Its very basic, has volume, overdrive, master, treble, middle, bass and reverb.... thats your lot. There is only one channel. It has a very small speaker which crackles when turned up loud.Its powerful enough but only cos im using a Marshall Speaker cab to make it clear when its loud. It has a headphone jack.

Very nice when in clean with a hint of overdrive... but when you want total distortion it just isn't there. There is no sustain on the o/d. You play a chord and it dies strait after you play it. The Reverb is good.

This is a good point about the amp, i think mine is about 7 years old of something like that and it still works as soon as i swithch the power on... trusting it on a gig tho mite not be the best of ideas.

I've been playing 6months and am currently lookin for a new amp because i am just startin 2 get good and need a better sound. if it was lost i would get something a lot better. i like the reverb on it and the clean sound i can get but i hate the distortion (or lack of it) i need to play it thru a large speaker and also need an effects pedal to get any distortion at all.

This amp has controls for volume, treble, middle, bass, and reverb for the clean channel, a push/push button for channel switching, then gain,shape,and volume for the boost channel.It has headphoe jack, midi out and cd in sockets, along with areas in the back for a footswitch for reverb and the second channel. I currently bought this because i need a bigger amp for a small band to practice with, and needed more features then" volume tone, and {crappy ass fuzz that will make your amp barf}". woulda got a 9 or 10 if i didnt have to buy a seperate peice for foot switches.

I am using a bc rich bronze warlock with it, and ussually through a dod death metal and digitech rp-200.It makes my tone thicker then my last amp, and my effects all sound clear through it.A little bit past halfway to full volume you start to get a small humming.The amps clean channel has a very nice amount of mids,the highs are good and the reverb stinks.If you slide or hit a single note, its allright-but overall for chords and playing a little faster it just seems to add to your amount of noise.I dont use too much bass but it sounded nice and full when i was messing aroud with it.The boost channel has very, very nice overdrive but it has a slight sound, not muddy,(but close to that description)that sort o pushes your clarity a small step back.Minor problem, the overdrive is still like a bowl of capn crunch, sweet crunchy and loud.Not too versatile, but you can get a decent range on each area and can get a decent crunch.

I definatley want to get a second one so i can have stereo amp sound, but i think that it could have cleaner overdrive, and overall i cant complain.So now is the time where i say a cool thing like this---LOOK OUT FOR OUR BAND!.we are.............oh man i ferget the name. monkey..... somethin with monkey in it.See that ruined my whole ad.BUT THE AMP ROCKS!!!!!