Laney HCM60R

12" speaker,65watts,2 channels, a clean with equilizers(bass,mid,treble)one and crunch one .the crunch has a max botton that does nothing.and at last a reverb knob that works okay.
it has cd line line socket.and another one to connect multi effectors through a headphone socket and an external speaker one.

the clean is awesome though i dont use it much and never gets distorted on high levels.if you want to play metal you should by a distortion thing aside. the only thing that crunch is good is "black sabbath".
i use now an mt2 with it and we play grindcore/hardcore punk it pretty does the job.it can go with the drums on level 5.

no problems till now...its pretty reliable i would take it to a gig with without hesitating.

i didnt deal with them yet.

ive been playing for 2.5 years and i have an mt2 and a yamaha eg 121 guitar.If it were stolen ill be pissed and buy something else.something with tube distortion.but if hadnt so much money ill rebuy it. its worht the value of money and more. i wish it had a delay feature.
soo what ever style you play .if you want to jam along with your drummer and bassist or do a gig this is so good and for cheap money.but to metalheads you need to use a distortion pedal with it.

Solid State amp with two channels. 65 watts and comes wit Reverb

I've used two guitars with it. An SX Les paul copy with Duncans in it and an Ibanez RG450. On cleans, you get this real nice tone with my Duncans Jazz pickup on the SX. It was kinda muddy sounding but I had to turn the bass control pretty low to get the sound I like. One note though, It comes with this weird buzzing problem, no matter single coil or humbuckers. The overdrive was pretty useless .. Only good for playing lead a recon.. but Power chords sound ok on it.

I've used it in a concert before. I just had to turn it up half way to be heard over the 2 drummers and everyone else. Pretty reliable. The OD channel is pretty useless though coz u have to bend down and change it. But if you're using it with pedals, It's ok.

Never tried.

Pretty reliable amp. But would rather get another as the OD channel is much useless.

this amp has 2 channels, more than i need, one clean, a warm tone drenched in van-halen style reverb ooh baby with a sustain i could stick my pole in. it has a 3 band equiliser, many tom-hawk pre-band suspend nazis will claim that one needs an 30 band equiliser to make even the most sexy knobable sound work from even the sharpest axe, but who needs it when really all you need is full bass full gain drop A power chord crunchy riffs to make you cream and punch your mother in the face.

ditto with a yamaha distortion crunch pedal Xtreme simon.

oh yeah

renee is a sick curnt

FUAK YEAH

a 60 watts guitar combo, with 2 channels, reverb, and a od. booster..

i use a yamaha superstrat with di marzio tone zone, and a 1975 hofner 165 model with hand made p 90s......

this amp really rocks, specially at high levels, the clean channel warm, versatile and it sounds super clean, from 1 to 10...

the crunch factor is really good, lots of harmonics, the lower strings sound clear and the higher ones are powerful.....this amp kicks assssss...

this amp can do the job every where, it really punches, and sounds rrrrreeeeeaaaaallllllyyyyyy LOUD.... this guy sounds louder than it seems.... may use and external speaker in a very big gig, apart of it, this man rocks..

nice warranty, nice price and easy-to-find info....

i have been playing some years and tried lots of amps, and i really like this one, i compared it with a laney tube fusion (a "better" amp), but the hardcore won the first place.....after this, only a tube amp....

This is the 2000 model of the amp, which is cosmetically different from the current model but functionally identical. This is a pretty versatile amp, although it only excels at dirty tones. The clear channel is fairly restricted in tone choices. Fortunately, I have relatively little use for a clean guitar sound, so I only use the clean channel along with wah and distortion or heavy overdrive anyway.

It's a 2 channel amp with a set-level effects loop. It has a headphone out, aux in and out, and seperate EQ for the clean channel. The other EQ set is switchable, and includes the spring reverb. Pretty clever, yet simple- you can choose to set up your sound without those effects, then flick them in. Shame it's not footswitchable.

At this price level, there's really no missing features. It's a bedroom amp and has no pretensions of being suitable for gig use, but for that job it's very good.

I use the amp with 4 different guitars... A Gibson SG Special, a Fender MIJ Fat Strat with an Ibanez Super 3 in the bridge, a Squier Stagemaster (needs some explaining- this is the production prototype for the new Showmaster, and this variant was HSS with a Floyd Rose, and a strat style scratchplate, plus inverted body colour strat headstock. A really superb budget guitar. Mine's been upspecced to HSH with Seymour Duncans- a Custom TB5 in the bridge, Quarterpounder in the mid, and '59 in the neck.), and occasionally a Fender mex p-bass. Why? Because bass amps aren't built for high distortion bass. Neither are guitar amps, but you can get some good sounds.

It suits my musical style very well, as it caters most to dirty sounds. It can handle everything from blues to thrash, although not always too well. Usable tones rather than brilliant ones.

The clean channel is quite hummy, and tends towards piercing highs at volume, while the crunch channel needs some volume to be usable or it just fizzes.

On full whack, the distortion is pretty brutal- it lacks any sense of sophistication, of course ;) It can all degenerate to noise at volume with the crunch set on full.

For a sub- #200 amp, it covers a reasonable number of bases pretty well.

It did briefly break down as the input jack packed in after about 2 weeks- but 10 minutes with a screwdriver and some pliers sorted that nicely. It'll happen again, I'm sure- the contacts are very loose and just bend too easily. But it's a slow break and easily fixed and maintained against.

I wouldn't use it in a gig, period, it's a big practice amp. But I certainly don't expect any severe maintenance problems in the forseeable future. The build quality is very solid.

n/a.

I've been playing for just under a year, and I own the abovelisted instruments, plus an assortment of stompboxes- a Zoom HyperFuzz, Boss DS-2, OD-2, and CS3 distortion, overdrive, and chorus, a Zoom GFX707 multi board, and a Danowah modelling wah pedal.

If it were stolen or lost, I'd put the insurance towards a stack, since I'm starting to outgrow this amp.

I loev that it's quality on a budget, and that while it specialises in heavy sounds it covers others pretty well. No #200 amp can master everything it tries, and Laney didn't waste time trying to achieve that. I hate the lack of clarity on high distortion levels- it can all just fall apart into fizz.

I compared it to Peavey and Marshall small combos, but this one was far cheaper for the same spec.

For a first amp, this is well worth consideration, but you will need to step up if you plan to take your playing out of the bedroom. Still, most people can't start out on Marshall stacks or Mesa Boogie recs, and bearing that in mind, this is as good a startpoint as any.

i have a new one....it does the job for what i do.......only been playing a year, but it does the job at church where we have 4 singers, piano, drums all on the big pa, and i have to play over them not mic.ed up. its just standard solid state, has 2 channels, yada yada.....read the other reviews.

nice sound, although when i got it, it was buzzing on clean past like 4 on the volume........and it annoyed the crap outta me......so i had to play quiet, or dostortion........got it fixed eventually, but more on that later!! also needs a little fiddling to get the sound you want

this is where my whinge starts.......this buzz thing was really bad.....its put a damper on an otherwise reasonably good experience. you'd think they could at least get things like that out of the system before selling!!

it was a pain in the butt getting this thing fixed.......took 3-4 weeks.......how hard is it to fix......i'd have gone for it myself if it didn't say so in the manual........then the shop told me mine was back, and it was someone elses 30 watter.......not a good sight knowing there was 2 dodgy laneys going around......didn't impress me!!

it was on like a half price sale......thumbs up
it had that stupid buzz......thumbs down
took ages to get fixed.....thumbs down
sounded quite good when it was fixed......thumbs up
......after a bit of frigging around......thumbs down

......i'll give it a........

98 Model Laney Solid State Combo features are prety basic: 60W - 8 Ohm
2 Channels, 1-Clean, 2-Crunch with Max button. Nice feature is Seperate volume control and E.Q. on each channel. External Speaker out, Headphone out, FX loop (No level setting),Line Out. Cool Reverb not too strong but subtle. Many features for the young aspiring guitarist or gigging guitarist that does not want to lug around 100lb's worth of gear to a restaurant.

I use both a fender std Mex strat & Ibanez Artist with humbuckers, both sound pretty good. Amp is very responsive of all frequencies. Has little noise on single-coil pickups and lotsa low-down bass with humbuckers. I play in a trippy rockabilly band as well as a hardcore trio called Triple X and do some solo gigging at pubs. So I needed a small yet versatile amp that doesn't give me crap (sparx & smoke oops no valves and 100 people waiting). This amp has a VERY clean channel with no noise on a strat! (Compared to a Roland JC-120 sssssh this is jazz heaven). The "Crunch" channel is a bit harder to figure out and works nice for clean/driven blues to hard rock. Very bassy overdrive that will do metal with enough tweaking although I doubt it. It is a solid state amp and the overdrive is great for it. It sounds like a valve amp when playing at low drive (Blues, rock etc.) but for metal this will not do. Rather get a valve amp combo. I must admit though using a Zoom, Metalzone or SM7 really strips the paint of walls in a metal way (Rage to Pantera to Korn). Its way loud for a solid state amp.

My Comparison are based on the following.
I recently played a gig with 12 KW a side they had the following amps to choose from Marshall JCM 900 (with reverb), Marshall VS60 1x12, Peavey Transtube 100W (My old rig is a Traynor 120W tube PA with my Zoom as pre-amp and 2x15 Cabs). The JCM's valves were shot after the third band played on it (its kinda sensitive) the peavey had terrible noise on my strat when the Metal Zone was engaged (Not even the Zoom's ZNR could sort it out) so I played the smaller valvestate. It sounded great but just couldn't deliver that in your face drive. This Laney does and can kill the bass from our bass player's Trace Elliot 150 W Combo's.

For the $$ its great. Jazz, Rock and metal (with stomp box)
No Noise, Loud. Very Loud like all Laney's. Bet you they have a lot of def engineers.
My FX include a Boss Metal Zone (For harder sounds) Boss Dual Overdrive (Gain Boost) and a Zoom 707 in the FX Loop.

This amp is great itsa LANEY! Yeah I know what you are saying "Cheap Bastard". But I live outside the US and here Peavey & Laney cost about the same and Marshall only about 2/3 more. It does not get 10 because I've heard some of the laney valve amps etc.

I got mine broken and was really upset (through mail order). The CD-line in did work so it was not the amp just the pre-amp. Fixed and rockin like a horse now.

I got mine broken and was really upset (through mail order) but the guys at Laney was very friendly. (Tip do not say "My fucking up does not work" say in polite tone "I think something is wrong in the pre-amp or input"). Every service person does not like rudeness even though you are upset. They paid courier and returned it within a week. No problems ever since still under warranty...

Been Playing for bout 7 years now (I'm 26) and really love this little thing. Its like a loud baby amp compared to my power amp rig. (which leave chics drippin like a perculator in a rain forrest).
If it were stolen I'd kick my own arse (its not insured yet) and get a new Laney LC 50 (valve). I love its versatility and weight (only 18 kg ~ 30 lbs) whish my girl sounded so sweet. The options are easy Solid state = Laney = Low $ = good sound = low weight. You don't pay for a triple rectifier so dont expect one, but you get more than your money worth. (Also you wont sound like your dick friends with the marshall this thing has a better clean channel. Combined with overdrive pedals its way louder than most solid state combo's of the same wattage(a/b with same pedal).

Thise Lany amp features 60 watts of explosive power with clean, distortion, and extra dirty channel and a revreb knob. Also ports for cd player so you can listen to a cd and play at the same time. It sounds fantastic! Sounds best in larger rooms.

I play a hohner guitar as well a f--ked up Ibanez rx which sounds like crap. Playing with the Hohner though it ust delivers some of the hardest sickest sounds in its price range. Clean leaves a little to be deisired but thats because it's not a vintage tube amp so what the hell.

I don't really know. It seems well built though. As long as you don't beat up on it I'm sure i'll last a lifetime.

Warranty is a couple years I think. So far I haven't had to deal with Laney.

I also own a marshall half stack which is the absolute shit! I would definitely kick the crap out of anyone who steals this Laney of mine. I love it!!!!! I hope to buy more Laneys in the future

Solid State amp 60 Watts RMS. made in 99 or 2000.
2 channels with "max" boost for O/D channel to give a harder sound
headphones socket, FX loop, cdplayer input, f/2 footswitchable( not supplied)Ext speaker out( this cuts out the amps own speaker & that shits me!!) great sound!!

man this amp has a brilliant clean channel!! it was so easy to dial up great sounds on my les paul studio with SD pickups!! the "crunch " channel took a bit more twiddling but came out trumps again. I actually went to pick up a Fender deluxe 90 but the noise on the O/D channel was terrible!! i tried a few other fenders but all were much the same. Then the guy plugs me into a laney and F%^$#@%$# WHAT A SOUND!!! its so full and great prescence! I traded a Marshall VS100R for this!! the marshall was the last 1 i'l own no presence and only for HEAVY METAL!!!! shithouse clean( thats a joke u cant play clean on one of those)this amp is 40 watts less and more powerful!!! Laney have won me over with it. I"ll definately buy a laney valve amp next. the only reason it didnt get a 10 here is the cutting out the speaker if you plug in an ext cab, I ordered a 112 cab when i bought this and its useless really just 1 speaker or the other so i'm gunna build a 4X10 or 2X12 cab.

only had it a week 3 year warranty but!!!! better than the other bigname cheapskates!!!

I'vebeen playing for 15 years and have owned a few ( too many!!) amps. But i think this is the best allround combo i've found. OK if you really love that marshall or fender sound then go ahead and pay twice the price for one but really the vintage ones shit all over the new and who can afford a vintage???

Think its a 99 Hardcore MAx Laney 60 watt 1x12 amp. 2 channels, clean a crunch or dirty. Has bass treble and all the ret for each channel, cd lin and line out, fx loop, speaker cabinet line, footswitch, and a head phone socket. 1 guitar in put. Reverb. Solidstate with British Invader for a speaker.

Im using a Stratocaster with single coils in it. I play heavy stuff and the crunch on this rocks. THe clean channel is pretty good too!!
THere is a Super crunch which just makes the channel dirtier. real nice. I played on 10 and it didnt break up, makes the normal sounds when you have crappy pickups in your guitar, i hate my cheap ones. This amp is just like any other amp, this is very goood for the price.

So far nothing has happened to this amp, The back is hard and the cage is metal. Looks very strong, it is pretty heavy, maybe 50 lbs. something like that.So far the amp hasnt broken down, but if a fuse broke the store i bought it from will replace them.

Never had to deal with them. I think its a 3 year warranty.

I have been playing for lmost a year. This is my first amp, which should last me a while and it has enough power to do many gigs. I would bye it again if it was stolen, but i probably would have to sav up. I wish it came with a footswitch so ill havee to buy it somewhere else.