Product: Music Man Twin 60
Price Paid: Australian $ 800 used
Submitted
01/04/1996
at
11:44pm
by
Anonymous
Features
:
8
A two channel solid state/tube hybrid, with the pre-amp as the tube. Channel 1 is rudementary(clean) with vol and tone controls, channel 2 has pre-amp vol, treble, mid and base tone, reverb and vibrato, operated by an unreliablefoot switch all before the master vol. it also has top boost and bass boost switchs.
Sound-wise its much more versatile than the Fender-twin Leo was building before he formed MusicMan. The trade is more rough and interesting sounds (good blues feel) with a less distinctive clean sound.
It comes in two power ratings(60 & 130?) but my 60 watt is plenty loud enough to drown any drummer in full flight.
Additional features I'd like, well parametric EQ would be nice...:-) Features I never use? - er I think I've used everthing including the vibrato , bt its a pretyy basic tonal amp in truth nothing flash just lots of different musical sounds in here...
Sound Quality
:
9
Noisey, yep sure is, but it was built and designed in the 70's so that is no suprse, its pretty quiet tho' under about half volume(which is pretty beefy anyway).
Sound variety is, for me this amps forte..there's lots of bluesy grungy noises in here, it's for certain a rock amp not a jazz amp I use a couple of semi-acoustics through it(Rick and Hofner) tho' it worked lovely when I used a good Telecaster too.
It suits my style pretty well, covering everything from melodic pop through blues style things really well.
The distortion is really controllable and I cant get it to over work to the point of un-usability in this area, in brief lots of color but not too much...
Reliability
:
10
It's NEVER broken down on me(th' the foot switch for the reverb is tempremental). This of course means it will break down tonite....
..If it doesn break down tonite, there is no back up so I depend on it..
Serviced yep, fixed, no
Customer Support
:
2
MusicMan dont make 'em anymore and havent for a number of years (suprise). I wish I knew why they didn't get popular. So if it does break you, and your repair shop, are on your own. Still its a prety simple piece of engineering and (apparently) is not hard to fix..
Overall Rating
:
10
I looked for this amp for 10 years, I'd byuy it again in a snap.
