Product: Kustom 150 Head
Price Paid: US $300 used
Submitted
05/16/2001
at
06:34am
by
Ross
Features
:
7
This is an old seventies amp. Its got two channels, but there is no channel switching, but you can fix that with an a/b switch. Its really great for blues and clean tone. Turn up the reverb to 2 and man o man, great tone. Its got 150 watts (hence 150) which is really to much for me, I never turn it up above half, and it is normally at less than 2. Its got reverb and tremolo/vibrato, which i dont use, but its cool. It's also got a bright switch on it, but i dont use it. Feature-wise, its pretty straightforward.
Sound Quality
:
8
I have a strat and a les paul, the les paul with the tone all the way down it gives it a really nice muddy blues tone. The strat is more versatile through this amp though. The "your amp is on" static is kinda loud, but no problem at all. There is no distortion on it, but no big deal, you just buy a distortion pedal. Although it still doesnt have a very good metal sound which i would like to have. Sweet blues sound though. So the blues tone gets a 9 from me, but the metal gets a 6, and the clean is 9. so an average of 8
Reliability
:
7
I had to get it fixed it once, but its so old thats not a big deal. It wasnt a major repair it only cost me thirty bucks. The on/off light burnt out, no big deal at all. Pretty heavy, so I think it is pretty sturdy.
Customer Support
:
6
Kustom parts are hard to get. It took like a week for the parts to get up to michigan. So i'm going with six.
Overall Rating
:
8
I've only been playing for a year. If it were stolen, i'd get pissed. But i dont think i would buy another one. I'd get a metal amp. I used to be in a band, and this was as loud as the other guitarists crate gfx 212, when his crate was blasting and this baby was only at half! But now the band broke up and i'm looking to sell it. If i were rich and i could afford two amps, i would keep this one, and buy a separate metal amp. But i'm poor and because i'm into metal, i'll give it an 8
