Laney GC60A

The clean on this thing is really good.. no more no less, the chorus...same the reverb is almost great, just a little too bright. The lead channel is another 8.5 like the rest. The acoustic channel is spectacular. It gets nice and loud. I very affordable amp with a crazy amount of features including 2 discrete channels and a great electric and acoustic sound at the same time! Bonus: it has high freq tweets that you can turn on and off!!!. This is one of the kkings of versatility

Great for most styles except heavy heavy stuff. The acoustic amp is really really tight...thats def the best part.

no problems...4 years so far of medium usage

Damn good all around

This is one of the better solidstate amps I've played. If I want to play somewhere where I need an amp for my acoustic-electric and my electrics and I don't want to carry two amps, this is the amp I use. The chorus and the reverb aren't the best, but they get the job done. The chorus by the way is stereo, and the amp is rated at 60 watts.

I use this amp with my Les Paul Studio Gem with P-90's, a BC Rich Warlock with factory humbuckers, and a Takamine G-Series acoustic electric. The amp may not be the best in all categories, but it does get the job done. The distortion can be adjusted (I do wish you had more control over the eq), the clean is good (not as good as a Fender tube amp but I wouldn't be embarassed to play on stage with it.) I do regret that the amp isn't quite as good at low volumes as it is at high volumes.

I've had it a while now and have not had any problems with it. I would have no problems playing a gig without a backup if I were using this amp.

The manual isn't great at all, and if the amp controls were not fairly self explanatory then I would be highly upset. The manual included is for a GC50 and GC 80 if I'm not mistaken.

I've been playing about 5-6 years. I owned a Johnson Millenium. The Millenium of course blows this amp out of the water, but again this amp ways about 30 lbs less than the Johnson. Far easier on the back. I love the versatility, I hate that it doesn't come with a much needed footswitch.

I think it was made in '98. Designed for both electric and acoustic, it has two sections each with high and low impedance inputs: Electric with gain, drive, level (pull-on drive), mid,treble,bass, reverb. Acoustic side has gain, bass, middle, middle, treble, notch filter depth/frequency, reverb. Master volume and chorus speed/intensity controls. Back panel has switch for single or both channels on at once, two stereo switch plugs with Reverb/Channel, Drive/Chorus and headphone sockets. Each speaker pair has it's plug, enabling an external pair of cabinets to be connected. It also has fx send/return plugs. As well as two H&H 10" speakers it has two high frequency tweeters with and on-off switch so you can tailor ampsogs it is missing are line-out and standard footswitches If it had these it would be a nine. The footswitches override the manual switches for reverb, channel and chorus on the front panel. The metal front grill panel is handy for protecting the speakers.

I am using an Ibanez mahogany acoustic with a modified piezo electric buzzer pickup. It tends to feedback easily on every amp I've used including a Fender Acoustasonic. My other guitars are an Ibanez Artwood twin with tri-sound humbuckers and an Ibanez Les Paul copy. The acoustic is not quite as nice sounding as through an acoustasonic, but louder and less feedback. The Ibanez humbuckers on both electrics are powerful-sounding through the electric channel. The clean side stays clean to quite loud depending on the volume. It is not a tube-amp warm. The reverb and chorus work well, although again not as nice as some amps. The distortion is quite good but not at low volume. The impressive thing about this amp is the range of sounds which are achievable and it's adjustability. It's easy to get muddled with the number of controls, and they have a good range. It does do both usable acoustic and electric sounds a a good volume. I haven't used more than 5 on the volume, with 2 or three on the gains and the guitars' volumes backed off! If judged against a dedicated acoustic or electric tube amp it would not be far short, of either and superior overall. As an all-round amp for gigging, avoiding duplicating your stage setup, it is great. Bearing in mind price and the fact it is one amp against two, it is very good value/money. It is not noisy - barely audible except when overdrive is on.

Had it one week. Appears to be solid and quite heavy. Solid corner protection and heavy-duty wrinkle finish vinyl. Knobs protected by extended side panels. One year warranty.

Purchased ex-demo/old stock. No manual came with it. have e-mailed Laney to see where I can aquire one and for footswitch details. Will find out. Original retail was $Aus1049, so I'm not complaining too much.

For one box, 48x17x10" and weighing about 50lb, it is incredibly versatile. Loud enough for gigs (60 watts) and can handle electro-acoustic and electric guitars. Much tone adjustability. It's not a tube vintage amp, or a PA. But it is a useful and usable item for the practical and multi-instrument user. If the price seems high, bear in mind an Acoustasonic is $1299 retail over hear, and a Blues Jnr $1199.

This amplifier is a dual purpose amp in that it has one channel for acoustic instruments and one for electric. In the band I play in I was playing strictly acoustic plugged into a Boss AD-5 (see my review elsewhere) and plugged into the PA head. Then I came into an electric guitar and began playing that also. But I had no amp and had already spent $300 on the AD-5. I found a couple of amps that would serve my needs and tried out this Laney at the local store. The acoustic channel is outstanding as they truley made a decent design to reproduce the subtle tones of my Martin. The amp includes what they call an "HF Driver" on off switch. This turns on the tweeters for those higher frequency sounds that a straight electric amp cannot reproduce when powering an acoustic. One shuts them off during playing of an electric. The EQ controls are minimal (Bass, Middle & Treble) but effective and the anti-feedback controls work very well. The stereo chorus adds a great sound and the reverb is very clean. They even give you two inputs (one Hi one Low) per channel to accomodate guitars with on board electronics or without and electrics with high or low output pickups. The electric instrument channel has a terrific sounding overdrive and has a great overall sound.

I play a Martin J65M with a Thinline pickup (no onboard preamp or other electronics) which I installed myself. When I first started plugging this in to an electric guitar amp I was very disappointed with the sound which led me to buy the Boss AD-5. This was great too but my needs changed and this amp fits the bill quite nicely. I also play a 70's issue Ibanez strat with standard gear (hey someone gave it to me so I don't know the particulars about this guitar) But both instruments reproduce very well with this amp. And man I never knew 60 watts could be that loud, especially with the distortion channel cranked! The band plays mostly classic rock and this amp fills the bill really well. Now I can really rock out on the electric for the hard rock tunes and mellow it out with my acoustic on the softer stuff.

Just got it about 2 weeks ago and can't speak about the reliability. I must say that the construction is rugged and the speaker metal grill rather than cloth is a welcome addition. I've always worried about poking a hole through the speaker cone with those cloth grilles.

Again don't know, but the manual left alot to be desired. They enclosed the manual for the GC50A/GC80A (the models above and below mine) and a suppliment on my amp which is woefully inadequate. The suppliment only covers the front controls. For the back panel you need to refer to the other two amps and they are nothing like my model. I was able to figure it out but what a pain in the neck! The warranty is pretty decent, 1 year parts and labor (except for speakers and tubes).

I've been playing for over 30 years. Started out as a bass player, advanced to 6 string and got out of playing in bands. I played acoustic for many years just for pleasure and dreamed of owning a Martin. My wife bought one for my 40th birthday and I absoultly love it. Then I happend to know 3 guys that played and suggested a jam. That was 2 years, 2 bass players and 4 drummers ago! I never thought that I would be playing in a band again. That is what drove me to electrify my Martin and to buy the Boss AD-5. Being given an electric led me to seek a one setup solution to my unique amplification requirements and the Laney is it. I told my wife that this is it on the purchases (really honest honey!) because this combo does it all! I'm not in the habit of giving "10" ratings as I don't find many products that deserve it but the three 10's I gave are deserved.