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Rocktron RT122C 212 Combo

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Manufacturer URL http://www.rocktron.com/
Features 8.3 (4 responses)
Sound Quality 8.5 (4 responses)
Reliability 7.8 (4 responses)
Customer Support 8.7 (3 responses)
Overall Rating 8.5 (4 responses)
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Product: Rocktron RT122C 212 Combo
Price Paid: 185.000 (chilean pesos (300 bucks))
Submitted 11/30/2005 at 07:22am by Max Salas

Features : 8
This is THE REVIEW to read if you plan to buy this. Hope it helps.
Clean and distorted channel, chromatic tuner, chorus and reverb, 2x12, efx loop, hi-lo gain inputs, etc
Its a bit heavy but something common in a 2x12.
Many features, not much usable (see sound section)

Sound Quality : 5
i bought this amp to run it next to a jc85 in order to get the bottom end the roland does not deliver, i got the bottom, but no clarity. In clean, the amp is not nearly as pristine as the roland. The Rocktron rt122c sounds plastic and muddy. The EQ controls are picky and doesnt make big difference dialing it until it gets towards the end of the pots sweep, right in there a huge change is achieved, but its damn hard to get the sweet spot cause it changes dramatically.
to me, the clean channel is less than average (like a behringer in a sort of ways), not BEAUTIFUL at all.
The drive is not too bad and the built in noise gate works cool.
The tuner is a nice trick.
The chorus and reverb sounds are not GREAT, they are just ok.
60+60 W rms is hell out loud, no problems there.
Any of the new marshalls MG or VS sound better than this, even a crate 2x12 is better in clean.

Reliability : 7
its hard as a rock, and you can gig w/o a backup. never broken. The chassis is not real wood and gets damaged easily. Its made in china... really dont know how long it will last, ive had it for a year or so.

Customer Support : 8
If you email them, theyll answer quick (within 2 days). Thats fast to me.

Overall Rating : 5
Ive played 13 years, many amps, i dont really like this one. Ive thought about putting some celestion v30s in it, but i dont think worth the money. Ill sell it as soon as i can. Believe me, this is not an amp to replace a roland or a vox, its just less than average. But if you want a cheap amp to have many features, go and get it. Itll do the trick but itll kepp you awake at night thinking in something better.


Product: Rocktron RT122C 212 Combo
Price Paid: canadian (700 tax inc)
Submitted 04/04/2005 at 02:30pm by sidewinder

Features : 7
features clean and distorted channel, chromatic tuner, chorus and reverb

the disto sounds like poop
the clean channel is BEAUTIFUL
the tuner is alright
the chorus and reverb sound GREAT


Sound Quality : 10
i use it on the clean channel with an array of guitar pedals, mainly a boss ds-2 and mt-2 as well as a big muff pi
they all soudn greta with this amp. basically, i use the clean channel and then switch on whatever pedal i need for the rest

Reliability : 7
mine messed up after a few months, the volume would drop and a speaker becaome un hooked, thing is i only gigged it live once...
but npw everything is A ok and it has been working great ever since.
i think the issue with rocktron is that they have poor quality control, i have a rocktron wah that has never failed me, but others have had damaged ones, either way its been taken care of

Customer Support : 8
not too bad
warranty of a yera i believe

Overall Rating : 9
its a great sounding amp but the disto is terrible, so buy a distortion pedal if you get this


Product: Rocktron RT122C 212 Combo
Price Paid: US $450
Submitted 10/25/2002 at 11:13pm by Anonymous

Features : 9
I just recently bought the Rampage 122C. It has Automatic Gain Expander, spring reverb, and built in dostortion. It holds 2-12 inch speakers running at about 150 watts. It has two channel: clean and distortion and also has a built in chromatic tuner. For my personality, I baught this amp to help me step up in the world of amps. The built in chorus is pretty weak, but I am not a fan of chorus anyway. The amp also sports a high and low input jack in the front. For me personality, I love the way this amp can go to 10 on the volume, but still stay clean with no distortion. When I need it to, the distortion is more than enough to get me through any jam session

Sound Quality : 10
From this amp, you can pretty much dial up any sound or style you need too. I play just about every style out there and I have no problem getting all of the tones necessary to play my styles. No matter what I am playing, I can get the sound from this amp. The clean is very crisp and the distortion is very good. You can go very loud for very long with this amp.

Reliability : 10
I know that when ever I will need this amp for anything, it will be there and ready to kick tail. I know that the amp can take a pretty good beating and still go like no other.

Customer Support : 10
Though I have never had to send the amp to the company for repairs, I have called the company with questions and I have not been disapointed with them. They helped me in a very fast manner and got me taken care of.

Overall Rating : 10
I have been playing for about 7 years now and played about every amp that could make up a young boys dreams for guitar amps. This is by far one of the best, if not the best, combo amps I have ever had pleasure of playing and owning. I would recomend this amp to anybody who plays in a band or in the room at home. This is by far the best $450 I have ever spent on my habit/love that is guitar.


Product: Rocktron RT122C 212 Combo
Price Paid: US $400
Submitted 05/21/2002 at 12:17am by Steve Bradley
Email: lbt48108<at>yahoo dot com

Features : 9
Brand new solid state 2x12 Combo with analog chorus and spring reverb. Clean and distortion channels with a shared eq section, stereo headphone out, stereo preamp and line out jacks and stereo effects loop. Also a built in tuner which actually works better than most of my tweaky Boss and Korg tuners.120 watts, 60 per side.
I bought the amp because I was looking for a good amp to do clean sounds while letting my Sunn Model T handle the distortion. I was immediatly impressed with the tones I've been able to get with this amp.It sounds better than a Roland Jazz Chorus and I would recommend it for anyone looking for an amp to handle such textures. I play a wide variety of music and sounds. Originaly I was looking for an older Fender Twin and was amazed to hear this solid state amp that could capture the low end that a twin can put out. The only reason I'm giving a 9 rating instead of a 10 is because of the shared eq for the 2 channels. I haven't yet tried running the distortion channel full bore with my band but like I said I bought it mainly for it's clean sound.

Sound Quality : 9
I play a custom Tele and a Mexican Strat both with Duncan Hot Rails. On the Strat i use a Cool Rails bridge p/u in the middle slot for more pronounced quack. I also have a new Epiphone Les Paul Standard that I just put old Lindy Fralin humbuckers in. All the guitars sound great through this amp. Even my girlfriend commented on the sound! The amp has a built in noise gate so it is extremly quiet.The clean channel has more clean undistorted volume than my old Twin. The distortion is real thick and with the active eq you can set it to sound like a modded Marshall or even a Dual Rectifier. Of course being solid state the distortion doesn't cut through like those amps but for practice it works just fine. Don't expect a blues tone because it's not there but there's more than enough pedals out there for that.

Reliability : 7
As i just got this amp a few days ago I can't comment but after playing for over twenty years I feel confident it will be around for a long time.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 10
I love this amp, and highly recommend to any one looking for a good clean sound and at it's price it would make anyone happy. Two thumbs up for Rocktron for making my day!

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