Product: Laney 120TR World Class Series
Price Paid: $280 (Australian) used
Submitted
03/28/2003
at
04:23am
by
Uncle Mikey
Email: s317099<at>student dot uq dot edu dot au
Features
:
9
Date of manufacture unknown but presumably early 80s. Very tranny to look at! 2 Laney brand 12' speakers with honey sound. Independent channel spring reverb; distortion channel and clean channel with crunch (I don't know how that fits in to the 'clean' category...); 3 band eq on both channel with boosts; prob is that the boost switches are pull-out type and the amp is so heavy that when you carry it it bashes against your legs (and car doors, and walls, and bass guitars...) and knocks the switches back in. Use this tranny amp for small gigs and it has heaps of power. Bback panel: FX loop, DI out, headphones, speaker. Lots of features. English built.
Sound Quality
:
9
I like loud, accurate and this is perfect. I never amp distortion- Boss OS-2 does that. Has a perfect clean channel. Setup: Yamaha RGX (with all single coils)->JEN CryBaby (red fasel)->Boss OS-2->Boss ME-30->Ibanez DML10 (modulating delay)->Laney. We play original guitar ambient/light rock and it is perfect. It is not too noisy as long as I turn the computer off and faithfully reproduces the sounds I make. 1 thing: the clean channel is about 1/10th the volume of the distorted, which is a problem for me. Otherwise, it rocks!
Reliability
:
10
It was in a bad way when I got it but a little work (nothing major) and it was fine. The channel select switch doesn't work, but it's jammed on the clean channel anyway. The box is cracked but looks like it I might hide in it if Osama or Sadam comes after me. Very reliable- Laney quality.
Customer Support
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2
No help at all. They have no assistance in Australia and website is useless as it only carries current models and a couple of older ones.
Overall Rating
:
10
I love tranny amps because of their clarity. I played Marshalls and THEY DO HAVE MUCH FATTER, MEATIER TONE (the VS-100 blew me away for fat tones) but we don't play fat-tone-y stuff. If you wannabe Jimi or or Jimmy Page, get the Marshall; if you want something more subtle (The Edge, Robert Smith, Coldplay) then this is perfect. There are a couple of niggly little things which bug me sometimes but generally the best amp I've ever owned. (Compared mainly to a Peavey Studio Pro and Scorpion 2x100W)
