Roland CK-60 Cube 60 Keyboard 112 Combo

As the other review said, about 35 lbs, pretty garish looking silver tolex. 12" speaker and a horn tweeter. Two mono outs, effects loop, headphone jack and external speaker jack. The mono outs are disappointing, I'd prefer if each channel came out seperately rather than mixed. Line level outs would be good too. I'd say the portability is the 2nd best feature, but it's hard to record this thing easily. You need a mixer and that makes it less portable. The most useful bit is definitely the two channels, each with seperate volume and reverb on/off-- it'd just be nice to have some recording flexibility. My friend and I jam with this amp, we plug in either two guitars or a guitar and an amp and then I sing. At home I can plug my guitar and mic in.
The tone controls and reverb level are shared, though. Oh, and the volume knobs are push-pull to give you more control at low volumes. Very good for when it starts to get late in the evening-- just pull the knobs and you're playing quiet without having to adjust the levels of the two inputs.

I was given this amp (semi-broken) to use with my Line6 POD 2.0. The innards are basically a hi-fi amp, so you'd think it'd work great. It actually does a good job amplifying the POD, but it just doesn't sound very exciting. This is the POD's fault, as it sounds flat, like a recording, and the amp reproduces it. This amp is just too linear. However, it's so portable and "good enough" that it's the only amp I use for the POD.

Recently, I got tired of the tangle of cables and other PITA parts of the Pod and just left it at home. Both basses I've tried through it sound just fine, and two of my four guitars sound good. The real stand out is a Strat I've modified with a Bill Lawrence humbucker, Duncan Scorcher Rails, and Dimarzio HS3. It sounds just as good alone as it does with the Pod-- just a great, simple clean sound. The rest of my guitars have "modern" pickups that just sound too boring and flat, except for an ash bodied Ibanez RG that sounds great in the neck position.

I like the reverb up until about 6 or 7. Then it just sounds completely unnatural.

Oh and I've never been able to get this thing to distort. This is good.

It's pretty damn solid overall. I throw it in the backseat and drive to jam with it at least once a week. The tolex has some rips.

Here's the problems though:

When I got this amp, the reverb did not work, the high end wasn't there, and the volume fluttered. The latter was a simple fix-- contact cleaner in each of the pots. I took the amp apart and found out why the reverb and high end were broken-- some of the wires had come off the board and the tweeter and reverb were disconnected. Well after a few months the reverb went out again... then I shook it and it came back, but only on channel 1. Another car trip later and it was stuck on with channel 2, couldn't turn it off. I have to take the back off and wiggle the wires every few months, and even then the reverb keeps acting flakey. But usually shaking it makes it well.

I've been playing almost three years now. I've got three Ibanez RGs, a Strat, an Ibanez bass, and an old Teisco Del Ray. A Line6 Pod 2.3, a homebuilt amp+cabinets, and this Roland. I think I've also got a decent ear.

Overall, I love this amp. The price (free) was right and it's just so damn useful when you want to keep things simple. It'll do if you don't want to bother with a real guitar amp, or the Pod, or carrying around some humongous cabinets. It's plenty loud.

The only down sides are that I can't just run the outputs straight to a tape deck. This would be the ultimate in simplicity for me, but alas... if we want to record the mixer has to come out.

The flakey reverb is annoying, but it's only car trips and going up and down stairs that seems to set it off-- so once you're playing, it's not going to break on you. If it's broken at the time, turn it off and wait till next time.

If someone stole it-- and I really doubt anyone would, it looks so very gaudy 80s-- I don't know what I'd do. I'm not sure where I'd find another, and whether I could spend the money right now. It'd be a sad day.

I think it's from the 80's, maybe the early 90's. Silver tolex, 60 watt solid state keyboard amp with 12" full-range speaker and a horn. It has two channels with separate inputs and controls for volume, treble, midrange, bass and reverb. On the back are two mono recording outs, a speaker out, an effects loop, and a headphone jack. It's about 18" tall and weighs around 35 pounds. It's easy to carry and store. Lots of options.

This is a keyboard amp but its super versatile. Basically, it's a full-range clean amp. In addition to playing electronic drums and keyboards through this, I have used it as sort of a mini-PA, with an acoustic guitar into one channel and a microphone into the other, as a bass amp, and as a clean jazz amp with my hollow-body Gibson. It worked very well for all of these things. It's like having a blank canvas. Lately, however, I have been using it as a practice amp for electric guitars running through a Korg PX4. With the full range speaker I can blast the PX4's drum machine and bass lines at full volume through one amplifier. I would not dare do this with my Deluxe Reverb or most guitar-only amps. The horn allows it to cover the high notes very well. It's great at both low and high volumes (although I have never tried it with a full band). If you want to use an electric guitar you will need an amp simulator or maybe a good pedal. This amp does not add any real color of its own to your sound, it just kicks out what you put into it, which is exactly what I wanted.

I've never had a problem with it, although I do not know whether the reverb works. The tank is pretty small and I can't tell tell any difference when it's on. I use external reverbs, tremelos, phasers and delays anyway so it does not matter to me. Other than that, the thing is solidly built, and works perfectly. I would use it on a coffee house gig without a backup.

Never dealt with them.

Get one of these if you can find one. I have been playing 15 years and it is a great utility amplifier. It is easy to carry, reliable, quiet, and the two separate channels means you do not need an external mixer for playing two instruments at once. It does pretty much anything you want it to. My other amps are a Silverface Deluxe Reverb, and a Crate GFX-15 practice amp (which is a pretty good little amp that I don't use anymore since I got the PX4). While this would never replace a real electric guitar amp, especially not a good tube amp, it does a lot more than a dedicated guitar amp does. I use this a lot more than my old Deluxe Reverb because it is less tempermental, does not need to warm up, sounds better at low volumes and can handle the high bass sounds put out by the PX4, or my drum machine when I practice. If you have a Pod, a Korg or any kind of amp simulator, this amp (or probably any keyboard amp) would be a great way to amplify those modeled sounds. I would not get rid of this thing.