Laney AOR Pro Tube 30 Head

I bought it on ebay, so I'm not sure on the year of production, but I think it's a mid-80s build.

I play bluesy doom rock and this amp is great for that. I figure if Laney is good enough for Tony Iommi, then it's certainly good enough for a hack like me.

One channel, simple, streamlined design.

I don't call on my amp to provide many features, so it has all I ned. I use a Cry Baby wah, a Big Muff, and a Small Stone for the effects. I'm a pretty organic guitar player, I like the guitar, amp, and fingers to do the talking.

This amp is used for practice but it could work in a small club with a loud drummer. I'm a big fan of low-wattage amps and you can always mic the cab and run it through the club's PA, if you need to be louder.

The tube's are great, they break up at low volume and sound really warm and crunchy.

There are two input jacks on the front. Apparently they each send a different strength to the tubes. I imagine one is for rhythm and the other for lead. It's pretty cool.

My main guitar is a Gibson LP Standard and it siounds like heaven through this amp. I run the head thrugh a Peavey 4x12 cab w/ Celestians and it sounds great. The Gibson really brings out the bass in the cab and I find myself dialing up the tone as to avoid a muddy sound.

That said, if you want that creamy, blues or even jazz tone, you can dial down the tone on the guitar and amp and use the neck pup on the guitar and get a really warm sound that is great for background rhythm.

The amp is a little noisy, but not too bad. As soon as you start playing, the hum is gone and all you hear are the notes.

This head has a great tonal range, but it's not the most versatile amp in the world. I bought it for my style of music and it fits that perfectly. You're not going to get that glassy, clean sound even with a single coil guitar. It has a lot of headroom, but does break up quickly when you dial up the pre-amp.

The presence knob doesn't seem to do much. I guess it's like a simple chorus-type thing, It adds a little for fullness to my tone, but not that much. I leave it around two or thre most of the time.

The trebble, mid, and bass knobs each have a bod feature obtained by pulling out the knob. They ll work quite well at adding a little oomph to the respective tone.

This amp has plenty of crunch, but is not cold or harsh. If you want to sound like some crappy nu-metal band, you can scoop the mids, but you'll never get as cold and thin as you want to be. Go buy a solid state amp for that crap.

No issues yet, built well, solid, good condition. I imagine this amp will last a lifetime requiring little work.

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I've been playing for a few years and was always a Kustom man, but this Laney will change all that. I think this amp is as good as any modern Marshall or HiWatt and certainly more fitting to my musical style than Fender.

I highly recommend Laney amps and low-watt amps in general. Buy one.

Simple, no-nonsense, single channel master volume head. Powered by 12AX7's in the preamp and 6V6's in the power stage, this amp is a pure blooded British valve (tube) head. No reverb, but it has a back panel mounted effects loop to patch in a reverb unit if you desire. The head also features two cabinet output jacks that are switchable between 8 and 16 ohms, and front mounted high and low input jacks. I wish for reverb in this head, but for the way it sounds, I guess I can't have everything. It's a British Master Volume head. If you want bells and whistles, buy a Line 6. If it's pure, uncompromising tube overdrive you're after, you've found it.

Not suprisingly, this amp sounds, acts, and feels like a hot-rodded Marshall Plexi. As with any master volume head, there are some clean sounds available, but it's not going to clean up like an old Twin. Once again, your clean sounds will be more akin to an old Hiwatt or master volume Marshall. The sweet spot in this amp is when both the pre and power stages are pushed hard. It's 30 watts, so it's possible to get some really great over the edge tube overdrive while still maintaining a relatively respectable volume level. That said, it's 30 watts. I've used my Laney on stage, but up against a Marshall 100 watt half stack and a Peavey Fire-Bass stack, I found myself wishing for more volume. However, in club situations, or situations where the amps are mic'd, this amp is great. If your looking for an amp to cover sounds all the way from Alabama to Anthrax, this isn't it. If you're looking for that Cream/Led Zeppelin/Rolling Stones sound, you found it. This amp does one sound and one sound only, but it does it probably better than anything out there.

It's a simple valve amp, so it's fairly easy to get it worked. I've never had a problem with mine, and I've heard very little, if any bad about ANY Laney product.

Never dealt with them, but I'll give them a '9' until they prove otherwise.

I've had this amp for about 10 years, and I wouldn't give it up for anything. I love the way this thing sounds. Nothing beats a set of tubes smoking hot and pushed to the edge. Nothing. I would definitely buy another one.

This is a mid-eighties amplifier, all tube, head, 30 watts. Effect loop. Switchable for a 8 or 16 ohm cab. A direct out line. The eq is boostable like all of the AOR series. I really wish it was two channels and I wish it would scream at a low volume like it scream when it is cranked. By the way it cranks!

I bought this to use at home so I could be a little more quiet and still get the tube overdrive that I need for 80% of the stuff that a play, classic rock and metal. I mainly use this with a Fender fat strat floyd rose or a Jackson dinky. It does make a overdriven sound that is out of this fricking world, but nothing else. The eq on this amp is way different from other Laneys that I own. The bass boost will over-boost until the mster volume is cranking at way above a "bedroom" level. So the bass boost won't really work unless your wife and neighbors are real easy going. I can't figure out why it is wired this way? So the amp does not work for the real reason that I bought it for. I guess I'm stupid to think, one, that a thirty watt Laney would be quiet enough for home use and secondly, I could get a clean sound out of it. Taking the gain down and turning the volume up to clean it up just doesn't work.
But if you need a single channel amp that just screams Zep, Cream this thing will turn heads in a big way. I can't give this a huge rating beacuse it has no clean sound all it does is drive.

I bought this amp on ebay and it arrived missing screws that hold the amp into the cabinet. Screws missing for the corners and even worse it sounded like shit because every pre-amp ( Fisher radio??? ) tube was blown and the power tubes were from different manufacturer. First it blew a fuze when I was cranking it. After I replaced that it would just stop working and fade back in or blow another fuze. Thats when I looked at the tubes. What a joke! Some glowed, some didn't. Some had blue spots that would fade in and out. The jerk I bought the amp from said the amp "just screamed!". God, I hate liers. After all of the tubes were replaced I it sounds just fine. I never gig without backup guitars and amp.

First I must say that I love Laney amps. I love them. No other amp screams like the old AOR Pro Tube series from the eighties. Nothing. I have not played a new Laney and really wonder what they sound like. Also, I hate Marshalls not because they sound terrible, it's just everybody plays them. I had another guitar player jam with me one day in our rehersal room and he saw our second guitar players Marshall half stack, so I told him to plug into it. He's over there going, Marshall, Marshall, Marshall! Meanwhile he starts noticing the incredible sound I am getting from my Pro tube fifty. After a while he is over messing with my half-stack instead of playing guitar. Laney's rock. It's just that simple. he only problem they have is a lack of a true clean channel, even the two channel amps you have to mess with the amp or run them clean(er) and run a Tube screamer to lead out.

Features are covered from others. I like the push/pull knobs and the dynamic range of the pots. Things I don not like so much is that there is no standby switch. This is stressful to the tubes. Additionally, there is no reverb.

I collect guitars so my review applies to most brands. Exception here is the vintage collections whose tone is just phenomenal. I use this mainly as a practice amp. Can;t resist the deal $130.00 used. British distortion characteristics. It is difficult to set the clean tone. I have to use the "low" input.

It is light but reliable.

This a 1988 Laney Pro Tube 30 from the AOR range. It features all tube construction, pull boost knobs and look well built.

I ran across this amp while buying guitar strings. I have been looking for a low power head to go with my Hiwatt Lead 20. Plugged in, wailed, bought it!

This amp uses 6v6 power tubes, and claims to be 30 watts. I think the Hiwatt is actually just as loud, if not louder. Sound good for my stereo setup using 2 4x12s.

N/A Probably won't have a problem with it. Built like a tank.

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I've never really been that impressed with Laney amps. This one SMOKES though. An ideal foil for my Hiwatt!

I have no real idea of the vintage, but I suspect that it is about a mid 80's model. It is a 30 watt, all tube amp with four 12AX7A tubes and two 6V6 power tubes with an effects loop. One low and one high input jack. One channel. No switching from clean to dirty available on this amp....it's like a JTM 45 in that respect. We play blues, rock classics, and originals. I bought it because I am familiar with the high quality of the '80's vintage of tube Laney gear. It is essentially the same amp as the AOR Pro Tube 30 Combo without reverb. Very light but housed in a 50 sized head cabinet (why, I'm sure I don't know because the chassis is only as wide as the front control panel). The pull boost on the bass, treble and middle are VERY effective and you will fiddle with it for hours because every adjustment effects every other tone knob. A little confusing at first, but you begin to see the possibilities very soon. VERY flexble EQ section, which beats the Hell out of a Fender Deluxe. Needs reverb to be a complete head (in my opinion). The effects loop is very good.....quiet and transparent. This is a very well built amplifier.

I play a '72 Les Paul Gold Top Deluxe, mostly blues, classic rock covers, and original blues tunes. This amp is very much like a Fender Deluxe Reverb, but infinitely more flexible. The master volume and volume knobs make it possible to get sounds from the classic, clean Fender Deluxe to the most raunchy, maxxed-out Marshall sound you can imagine (which I have no need for). It doesn't have the same bottom end push through a 1x12 of a 50 watt head through a 4x12, but you wouldn't expect that from two 6V6 tubes anyway. I would love to run this through a 4x12 cabinet with Eminence 30 watt speakers just to hear what might be possible. My set up is to hook it up to a Celestian 85 watt 1x12 cabinet for portability (I really can't manage a big speaker cabinet any more.....compact car). I generally set it up to run almost clean and let my CB Labs PRX 902 provide the needed distortion. This amp is happy with my MXR DynaComp too. A nice combination. Effects, when run through the loop, work very well. Use the loop. This is a top-notch piece of equipment. If all I played was straight-up blues I would run this amp wide open and just let the final stage sing, which it will, and very nicely. I love this amp.

Haven't had it long, but I don't forsee any problems. Again, very well constructed.

Zippo, Baby. Amp technicians don't mind working on amps of this quality, but I have not found schematics for it yet. This is high on my list of things to do for this year.

You know how it is.....everyone has their own favorite tube amp sound preference. I actually prefer my '84 Randall RG80 112SC because it has more bottom, but in tube amps I have always preferred the sound of two 6V6 tubes to two EL84 tubes in a medium power, tube guitar amp. I once played my '72 Les Paul Deluxe Gold Top (still my main guitar) through a '62 Fender Deluxe and, owing to the fact that it wasn't loud enough, loved the sound anyway. The Laney amp is much louder, so it serves me well in a small club environment. I wish it were the combo version with reverb, for convenience, but I can deal with it like it is. I may build a new 1x12 enclosure for the chassis. We played for 150 people tonight in a club laid out like a big screened porch and I had a ball with this amp. It sings, you know? A lot of amps just dig ditches, they're reliable and they're loud, and you appreciate them for that (Peavey) but they have no real voice of thier own. This one does.