Laney GC120

amazing!! that is all.

well so far so good, its a new preoduct for me but it feels very sturdy.

i havnt needed and yet!

my dad gor one second hand for ??45 GBP as it was broken he quickely fixed it as it was only a loose connection and gave i to me for christmas. so saved our selved about ??300 so its definetly worth looking around! but a great machine only had it for a day but its already blowe me away playing in my room i can only play it with the volume nob just past silent so as not to shatter the windows!!

You can play any style with this baby! 2 chanels (clean and overdrive) with independent reverb control, effects loops, headphone jack. You can use an external cabinet, just unplug the speakers. I play brazilian music, rock, blues, some funk stuffs.

I play an Washburn N2 and A Tagima Telecaster. Both sound amizing through this amp. Clean channel is clean at high volumes. Overdrive is a rounded sound overdrive, it is not a distortion. This amp is extreamly loud! You can do any gig, with no problems!

Oh man! It is really heavy! But its powerful! Well built!
An advise bout the buttons I think they are fragile, take care.

Never need.

My bandmates are really satisfied right now! Cause now I have the power. I used to play a Marshall VS30, good but with no power. If it were stolen I would buy it again, but it is really hard to find. But I would look hard to find another one.

Made in 1995(roughly)
Hi & Lo inputs, only one works at a time which is annoying because my mate has to drag his amp round to my house whenever we want to jam (There's no way I am going to his house as the Laney weighs a ton!). Clean & dist channels both with reverb and Hi-Mid-Lo EQ, effects loop, unpluggable speakers(speakers still work with headphones pluged in), direct line output, headphone socket(round the back, which is a bit annoying) , remote switch socket.
Two 10" 60 watt speakers and is sold state.

My band plays mostly mellow g-tar based stuff with synths and other crap but that does not mean it's played clean all the time. One of my friends likes his blues and jazz and it sounds great with that type of music.

Talking about volume, it's has stacks of it, barely past 2 in the bedroom but in the studio can overpower the drums no probs. Gigs no probs either. It does suffer a bid from the old zero-volume-to-lots-of-volume-before-number-1 problem a bit, but this can be reduced by lowering the gain.

I wanted an amp that could give me really nice clean tones that would complement my Tanglewood Sundance(semi with humbuckers) and after much debating with the dude in the shop he pointed me towards this behemoth. I play alot of fingerpicking stuff and it is hard to find an amp that doesn't sound too muddy in the bass area but the Laney delivers no problem. Hey don't get me wrong, I like a slice of distortion as much as the next man and it is quite good but a bit it is a solid state so it could be alot better. It's too...I don't know, lacking a certain something that only valves can offer! I did just buy a danelectro daddy-o out of shear boredom and I still can't decide whether it's any better than the built in dist which in comparison is alot beefier I think, so it can't be that bad.

Alot of my friends(well all of them basically) have played it and they all think it sounds great. If you put the gain up to about 4-5 on the clean channel you get a lovely kind of subtle crunch! It is very warm even though it is solid state.
The reverb doesn't live up to much, it comes in way too fast as you turn the knob, I rarely have it past 2-3 because it's too much. It sounds a bit too fake for my liking. A handy function would be a room-size knob that went from box to conference room giving you more control over the amount of reverb rather than just how loud it is.

It can be a bit noisy with my Tanglewood if the gains up a bit but it's OK using my Fenix(model unknown but it's purple/pink!) that has coil pickups.

Probably shouldn't admit this but my drum machine sounds amazing through it, don't worry g-tar heads I don't turn it up too loud, anyway it'a heavy duty customer and can handle it.

Similar in many ways to a tank apart from it doesn't have tracks, guns, reinforced armour, cannons, crew of 5 and isn't camoflage green.
Being a solid state pretty much nothing can go wrong.
Knobs are sturdy with a positive feedback to them, had it about 5 years and no sign of crackling pots at all.
I treat it like crap, use it as a table, spill stuff all over it and it's recieved a fair amount of heavy knocks and it's not as much as blinked an eyelid towards not working.

Never needed support.

I used to have a Park G10(didn't everyone!) and the Laney obviously blows it away, but thats a bit unfair because you couldn'd really put them side by side and compare them. I've tried alot of amps Hughes & Kettler or whatever there called, Fender, Marshall, Peavey and they are all good but when I go home and play my puppy I like it too much to change it. The only thing thats really tempted me was an ancient Fender amp with vibrato, it was very sweet.
If I somehow lost it or some dirty beggar managed to sneak off with it I would be mighty upset. I would have no second thoughts about buying one again, possibly a model or 2 up to get a few more knobs and switches though! You can never have too many switches, especially ones with lights!

I wish it had wheels and/or handles at the sides.

Buying it I compared it with a big Marshall thing but the clean tones were better in this. (I can already hear the Marshall-heads shouting at me but for some reason Iv'e never really liked Marshalls, Im not saying they are bad, you can recognise a Marshall anywhere. Maybe my ears want something a bit different!)