Epiphone 50R

As previously listed

I absolutely love this amp! People comlplain that it doesn't do this or that.....well, in my experience the best amps provide only a few good tones. Why do you think so many pros use multiple amps in their rig. If you want to have every tone and every effect at your fingertips, go get a line 6 (and sound like everyone else) This amp has a very brown and round sound. The gain is more of an overdrive than a distortion, but the down and dirty sound of this unit is one of its best attributes. It sounds like something you hear in a biker bar or a roadhouse about ten minutes before getting your @ss kicked (whilst plugging in your line 6)

Had it for five years and never had a problem.

As was said before, there is no mid adjustment on this amp which definitely limits things. It's got the standard foot switch and headphone jacks, and spring reverb.

The distortion is okay at best, and really muddy at worst. The thing I absolutely can't stand about this amp is the fact that it's almost impossible to play anything without it becoming distorted. You either have to play extremely quietly and somewhat muffled (because you can't turn up the gain at all) or deal with nasty distorted clipping. And it's not only clean stuff that suffers; because it distorts, it really hurts the sound of any distortion pedal that you put in front of it.

It may be a fairly loud amp for the price, but what's the use without decent sound? I don't understand what's so hard about making a good clean channel.

I don't think this amp is going to break, but I'm always thinking the handle is going to pull out of the body when I carry it. As far as reliability goes, it's fine.

Never dealt with Epiphone.

This is the only major guitar-related purchase I truly regret. I could have bought a (better now that I know) Peavey Transtube combo, but I figured this must be better because it didn't bother with any extraneous effects. That was really stupid logic now that I look back on it.

I'm unsure of the year of manufacture of this amp. It's strictly an amplifier, not an all-in-one magic digital box - although it does have a true spring reverb. I run my guitars through a Digitech GNX-3, so I didn't want to pay for an amp with those less versatile effects built in anyway. It has a footswitch for boost/lead. I do wish it would switch only the overdrive instead of boosting the volume as well. There is a headphone jack.

This thing has more power than I can use at the moment. The paintings on my walls rattle at half volume. But I've not tried to use it in a live setting. I always go through the PA anyway.

Noise is not an issue with this amp. The first reviewer here states that the amp does not have a 'mid' control. I don't find this to be an issue at all. Mids are merely relative to bass and treble and are not necessary. More mids? Turn down the bass & treble, and turn up the volume. Less mids? Turn the tones up and volume down.

It has a sweet overdrive sound. I build custom effect pedals, so I turn to them or my Digitech for distortion on any amp.

It's very dependable! It has never failed me. It's quite the heavy-duty combo.

I give this a 9. It's a great value for a powerful amp.

This is a pretty bog standard solid state amp, with nothing very flashy on it at all. For a start there isn't anything to control mids (just treble and bass), which is *very* annoying, and makes it less versitile than it could be. There is this other very annoying "feature" which makes it so that even on the clean channel, when the gain is anything past 5, it still adds distortion. It has a nice sort of metalic and clunky sounding reverb though. The channel switch doesn't really switch channels, it just seems to act as a gain boost jobski. The best feature by far, is the fact that it looks like it was made in the sixties. Which is a bad thing, btw :)

I've only really heard this amp through my guitar, which is a Washburn Mercury (2 singles and a hummer), and to be honest, it sounds pretty bad. It's only really very good for playing sort of grunge, which is dead now. It would be nice to have it more versatile. Even though the amp is a cheapy crappy beginner type thing (more of a second amp, really) it hardly makes any noise at all. This is most likely because it does really weedy distortion. As a matter of fact, it's not really distortion at all, it's more like overdrive, which I don't like. It sounds more like the speaker's been ripped up than anything else. It's really tinny, as well. The louder you play it, the more distorion you get. While this is good in the sense that you can play lightly and get a nice lovely pixie rainbow sound, and then play loud and get a distorted mess... As I've allready writen, you can't adjust the mids, so you could spend a long long time trying to get the sounds you want out of it. The only really good thing I can say about it is that it's easily heard over drums when the gains on about 8 and volumes on 7 :) Very tinny as well. Which is a bad thing also.

Well, it's fairly sturdily built. You could spend a while trying to break it. It's wooden. It's big. If you accidently put it down too hard, the reverb spring goes crazy, which gets me quite scared sometimes. When it's on and the reverbs up high when you put it down hard, you may find a couple of christians ducking for cover screaming something about the appocolypse if you're not careful :) Very disturbing sound...

I've been told to tell you about my equipment and how long I've been playing, so: I've been playing for a year now, allthough I'm not crap or anything. I've got a Washburn Mercury worth about $700 ($500 US). I'm after a Boss MT2 distortion pedal, because the distortion on my amp is very bad. If my amp got eaten by my sister or stomped on by a brontosaurus or something, I'd much rather go and get a small second hand tube amp that sounds decent. It's good in the sense that it's very loud for what it costs, but when it comes to sound, it's just (fairly crap) bare bones. The only thing I really like about it is the way that it adds distortion the louder you play (allthough it forces you to keep your guitar on full all the time). I absolutely hate the sound though. Full stop. All it's really good for is making your guitar louder. And reverb. I'd have given it another mark for a mids nob :(