Product: Drive EA30 Acoustic Combo
Price Paid: US $120
Submitted
06/29/2004
at
06:07pm
by
Mike O'Brien
Email: mgopilot at aaahawk<dot>com
Features
:
10
2004 Acoustic piezo and 3 pin microphone 30 watt (70W input) 4--5" speakers (which measure 4" exposed gold metal covers), 8 preset effects, headphone jack, speaker out jack, solid state one channel, good for rooms up to small club, very nice sounding for acoustic electric and vocals. Good looking and loud for its size 16.5x 16.5 x 10, 18 lbs. Gold corners and accents, and front panel. Charcoal black tweed pattern, and black chicken head knobs. -15 to +15 EQ treb., mid., bass. red lit on/off rocker. Top handle/strap.
Sound Quality
:
9
With this setup a Talman guitar and 3 pin mic. The guitar wants to feed back at 50% vol. and within 10 ft. Distorts at full volume a slight amount. There's a level control for each, guitar, mic., and effects. The effects sound nice, not too radical. dig.spg.rvb., chor./slap echo, slow chor./rvb., trem/ stud.rvb., fast chor./rvb., 320ms delay, flangge/stud. rvb., chorus/600ms. delay.
Reliability
:
8
I haven't had it long, seems well made and reliable.
Customer Support
:
9
bought from musiciansfriend, and they are always good. 1 yr. warranty
Overall Rating
:
10
This is my first acoustic amp in 30 yrs. playing. A real bargain and looks like a mini Gibson half stack. I would definitely replace it if stolen. It's 30 watts, but I suppose I could mic it to my big amps (face it backward for no feedback). Acoustic/electric is an addition to my usual full blown Hendrix style. I hardly ever sing, and the first song I did was "Running Scared", and I'm not bad (no Orbison). My wife sang and she sounded better, too!
