Tech 21 Trademark 60

2 channels, 1 is like a big, old fender valve reverb amp, 2 is like a modern marshall JCM. Got to be one of, or the, best solid state amps around. hats off to the guys at tech 21 in NYC. Mine was kinda old and shop soiled with some cosmetic damage, got a ??200 reduction. score.

AWESOME. seriously. this amp blows others out of the water. i had a fender hotrod deluxe. not anymore. this amp sounds amaaaazing, even better than the highly credited valve amp. Channel 1 is awesome, super clean jazz and samba sounds can be made with the driva and punch completely off and the volume anywhere you choose. the great thing about the amp is that, because it is solid state, any volume level sounds the same, so you get that same awesome tone be it in your bedroom or playing at a pub. love love love it. i would never ever trade it against something else just for channel 1. However, channel 2 is a bit bad in comparison. its alright if you want a medium to high lead sound, but apart from that youre stumped. turning the drive just gives you that same sound, but less driven - no crunch when youre about 9 o'clock just kinda mud. :(. however, to rectify that i bought an ibanez tube king which should do the job, fingers crossed. great amp overall

great great great. mine was a bit cosmetically challenged - scuffed and missing the tech 21 name plate thingy, despite it being new (wtf?!) but i did get a healthy reduction =D. so yeye. no problems so far. one of the lil' chicken head knobs comes off now and then, i just packed it with a bit of paper and pushed it back on. no probs. all is well in tech 21 land. SPEAKER IS AMAZING.

theyre well good! i like emailed them inquiring about a new tech 21 plate and they got back in like an hour. unlike seymour duncan (fiendish fiends) who never even replied when i emailed regarding some broken pickups they had sent me, *******!

loves it. great. better channel 2 needed tho. maybe its just me. still give it a 10 tho.

Model year: 2009
Versatiity: Yep. I play "world music jazz," ranging from jazz bossa to funk to souped-up jazz standards.
Channels: 2
Features: loaded, no modeling, solid state analog, interesting array of selections to dial in just about any tone you're aiming for.
Where used: Home, gigs, miked for recording...60 watts is plenty of oomph for just about any venue--it can develop serious output, people.

I have a Fender Classic Players 50, an Ibanez AS73 natural, and a Switch Oscar IV Les Paul type. I'm not sure I want to ask the interrogation questions. All I want to say is this: From the moment I plugged into channel 1 (clean) I was hooked. I was on the holy grail for jazz tone--the ever-so-slightly distorted, slight growl but crisp, creamy voicing. This amp allowed me to create THE sound. Once a Fender addict, no more. Of course, the amp also has a wide array of possibilities, even though there are minimal effects (no chorus, delay or flange) what you do get is unsurpassed--and I'm not kidding here since I just went through a painful 3 years of anguish trying to find that elusive yet instantly recognizable tone.

It's a solid state, solidly built, and with Tech 21's reliability and customer service backing it. I am certain I could use this amp without a backup.

Tech 21's customer support is one of the reasons I bought this amp (I was testing it next to a Epiphone Jet20).

Tone-a-holics (except for metal shredders) can delight in being able to dial in a couple of favorite tone schemes. It has an Accutronics 6-spring reverb, and unlike many reverb units it complements instead of dominates the tone.

This amp is 5 to 8 years old
60 watt
1 12" celestion speaker
Six springs reverb (older ones have 3 springs)
2 chanels (fender-vox-marshall clean style to dirty) and (marshall-vox-mesa-style crunch chanel) (solid state analog circuitry)
XLR and headphone out.
3 button footswitch (plugged with regular guitar cable) Boost/reverb Chanel effect loop.
Controls panel starting at the left
Chanel-bite-drive-punche-level-weep-drive-growl-level-link-boost-reverb-low-high.

You can see it is full of feature if it was a 3 chanel amp i would have gave it a 10.

I used into it a gibson SG, PRS SE costum, yamaha pacifica 112 (with and without seymour duncan pick-ups) Godin XTSA and Godin SD.

This amp is pretty good for all the styles i like to play, but it does not do extreme metal without some help from a pedal. (it all depends on your definition of a metal tone)

If you check the controls on this amp are a bit unusual it gives you lot of freedom to taylor your sound so the sound quality depends on your understanding of those controls (N.B the eq is active cut and boost.) The more i use this amp the more satisfy i am with the tone.

The amp is very quiet but still have a bit of background noise. (the boost function boost the noise when you are not playing. Switch it off between songs for more quiet operation)

The sound range from very old fender to old boogies.

The clean sound of this amp is pretty close to my old fender deluxe reverb with a bit of tweaking (but a bit less graceful) The distortion is pretty good too for my taste again not exactly like a tube amp but real good (The other day i tried a marshall satck and i tough the trademark was better, but the fender blues amp was better than the tradmark by a tiny bit) SO tube vs solid state for me is not a debate the debate is do i like the sound or not. I love the sound of that solid state amp and it is the only amp i kept in my collection. It is highly versatile and the direct recording out sounds great. I post song on the internet and when i was using my line 6 stuff i got spotted has a line 6 user, now that i use Tech21 nobody spotted the fact tha i recorded a solid state amp. So if the blind test work i guess it sounds good.

So for all the Tech21 product i own(3) are of very high quality. But i always use it at home. The only thing that i do not like is when you start the amp i feel like it needs to charge itself like the flash of a camera, once the current is at full steam your good. An example of what i mean is if you play with the headphone on and the remove the headphone jack to switch to the speaker the sound is farty a bit, it is like the output transformer is not fully charged. If i close the amp and reopen it without the headphone it sounds good. It is not a problem of reliability just the way it works. You either use headphone or speaker just do not hotswap from headphone to speaker. No tubes to change YEAH! very tough construction. almost perfect design.

You can write to them and they respond very fast. Of all the costumer support i tried the were the best!

I never needed to use their repair service but you have to know that tech21 does not have service centers you need to send the amp to them in New York to have it fixed and you need to get a repair order number before you send it. I never used their repair service but that information is on their website.

I truly believe that if you use your Tech21 gear reasonably you will not need to have it repair i own 3 tech21 product and they are very solid, but i can not speak for the product i do not own.
I have a California pedal and a bass driver.

I start playing in 1988 I owned a Marathon Amplifier (not so good)a Yamaha amplifier (good) A Fender Deluxe reverb (great sound but expensive to maintain) A line 6 spider (Good live sound too processed for recording) A tech 21 Trademark (0 expense to keep it working. good live and recorded tone an almost perfect compromise between tone and reliability) This is truly a great amp. price to quality ratio is pretty high!

2 channels. Reverb, boost. Active effects loop (love it!),60 watts.

I LOVE channel 1!!! It sounds like a fender but not as trebly. This channel loves effects too. I'm not a fan of channel 2(the distortion channel). It's too dark and it's just not for me. I run dirt boxes into channel 1 and they sound awesome. I use a MI audio crunchbox for heavy and Fulltone ocd for light to medium overdrive. I run the dirt boxes straight into the front, but all other effects go through the effects loop. I really dig this amp.

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They are the best!

I originally bought this amp because i did not want to haul around my tube amps to gigs. Well, I ended up selling most of them off and using the TM60 exclusively. This is a great amp, ss or not.

I owned this for a year or two. It sounded really nice. Really warm for a solid state. Kind of like a modded marshall. I believe I didn't like the effects loop, but I really can't remember!

I didn't like the cleans on this with my Fender American Strat. Too much bass. I found the eq on the clean settings to have too much of a full sound, if you know what I'm talking about. I have a Fender Concert (essentially a Twin with one speaker), and it sounds super sweet clean and is quite adjustable in tone (except for low-end), so I suppose I noticed a difference. The distortion is very nice. I could see a player playing Stevie Ray Vaughan or maybe even some old Van Halen with this. The distortion is not as textured as a tube amp, and sounds more synthetic. However, I don't think that's bad at all because it sounds good! I had an Ibanez S series 540 FM. I put a Full Shred in the bridge, and it sounded great with this amp. However, I don't own that guitar anymore and the amp didn't sound good with my RG3120, which has a very dark guitar tone. I didn't like this with my strat for clean settings, but dialed in a very nice light distortion sound. An 8 for what it does best.

I've owned lots of gear. Various tube amps. A small stable of guitars. Now, I own just an rg3120, a flextone III plus, a fender concert, and assorted pedals. I liked this amp. Sometimes, I miss it a little because it was light, and I love solid states that sound warm, like my Flextone! In the end, it just didn't make sense to keep it because it wasn't a good fit with my decision to take the minimalist approach to gear. I wasn't a fan of the reverb on this amp. While the tone of the amp is as good as my flextone, it wasn't as versatile as I would have liked. Also, placing effects in the effects loop didn't sound good, if I recall correctly. I think this would be a nice amp for a player into Jazz or straight ahead rock. Also good for some modern blues sounds.

I bought this amp new in 2006. Its the 1x12 version with a celestion speaker. I play blues, rock, jazzy styles on this amp and it really does the job. The amp has two channels, Channel 1 with Fender type sounds and Channel 2 with Marshall sounds. It has channel switching. I've used it for gigging in last six months and played about 20 gigs with a four piece band. It has been brilliant. It is plenty loud enough for large gigs and the ability to use it at lower volumes means its good for small gigs or miked up with a pa when the backline needs to have less volume.
It takes a bit of time to work out the controls as they work a bit differently from a standard amp but once you've got used to them it's fine.

I'm using a deluxe strat and a Westone Thunder 1A with humbuckers for slide. I use the Fender channel with quite a bit of drive and use the volume on the guitar to clean up the sound. It works a treat and cleans up well for rhythm work and the lead sound with the guitar volume up full is great. Channel 1 is really loud. The reverb is excellent. You can get anything from very subtle to really large reverb sounds. I began gigging using the Marshall style channel set quite clean but it doesn't cut through as well as channel 1 and is a bit muddy so now stick to channel 1. However if I ever want to jam some metal/rock channel 2 would do the job. I tend to think of the channels as seperate amps, as with one EQ and very different voicings I find it easier to stick to one channel. I've had lots of compliments for the sound from sound guys and other guitarists. The fact that its not valve isn't an issue as it sounds great.

So far it hasn't let me down. Its solid state so it is hopefully more reliable than a valve. I keep a short lead in the effects loop and have contact cleaner in case of moisture in the jack sockets as mentioned in an earlier review. I don't have a back up amp.
The amp appears to be well made with quality components. When I bought it I liked the fact it was made in the US and was really pleased to see a video on You tube with a tour of the factory by the designer.

I have emailed the company with a couple of questions about the amp and they got back to me within a couple of days.

I've been playing for about 25 years. I would certainly consider buying this amp again. When I bought this amp I wanted a top quality solid state amp that was easy to transport. I considered an Award Session but you can't try out a Session as they are mail order. I've used valve amps in rehearsal studios and the sounds can be great but often they are way too loud and the sound isn't that far off the Trademark to my ears. I tried a blues junior which has a great clean sound but isn't quite as versatile. The Trademark was quite expensive even though I got ??50 knocked off, but you can get them cheaper on line or second hand on ebay. However when you consider it's US made and it's really well built then the price seems more reasonable. I like the fact this amp is very portable, it's a real workhorse gigging amp and it sounds great. It would be good to have two Fender channels one for really clean and one for disorted sounds but I can always get a Tech 21 pedal to do this.

Bought the amp 2nd hand in 2004.

2 channel amp with footswitchable reverb/boost, and effects loop. XLR output.

Light weight, excellent range of sounds

I use with a Les Paul with '57 classic pickups and Fender Strat Plus with Fender Lace pickups. My style is rock and blues with other stuff too (Van Halen and alternative stuff too on occasion).

This is a superbly versatile amp, with a whole spectrum of good analog sounds contained with it. I'm a pretty much a "one (good) sound" of guy: I find the sound I like best and I stick with it. I think this approach is pretty common - unless you are in a band that covers many different styles and tunes.

Like so many guitarists, I am after that classic tube amp sound from the 60s and 70s (Kossoff, Clapton, Green, Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy etc etc) and I have to say this amp is really very very good at getting a tasty sound that satisfies me. I am not saying it is exactly the same as a Marshall plexi - for one thing you can't "ride the volume knob" on your guitar like you can on a cranked up Marshall 50 or 100 watt head but, frankly, probably 90% of the people reading this should remember that (although you can fantasize...) they really don't need this either, in fact it is just not practical.

Channel 1 is the clean-to-moderately distorted channel, and like most people have already said, this channel is an absolute winner. It is almost impossible to believe this is not great Fender tube amp with great gobs of tube-like distortion. I have a nice Fender tube amp, and they are so similar it is unreal - except the Tech 21 is more adjustable and less trebly. I would not say it is better or worse. Frankly for a gig I take this amp rather than the Fender.

This channel can go pretty overdriven by my standards - 90% of the time its all I need. It is very clean when set clean and the amp is very quiet - quieter than most tube amps.

Channel 2 is less satisfactory - I agree with what others have said here, it seems to lack definition and treble attack. You can improve it with boosting the eq, but somehow it is never truly great like channel 1. I think it is OK for soloing (you can get a useable Santana tone or David Gilmour "Comfortably Numb" sound with it, for example) in high-gain mode, but for chordal work it is a bit on the muddy side.

I guess my summary is that channel 2 is not the reason to buy this amp and I find I don't use it much. If you want a metal-suitable amp then don't buy this one!

The boost switch is a cool feature that gives you a footswitched volume boost for soloing that does not otherwise affect its sound (the gain remains the same as you have already dialed in). It can be useful.

4 years of no trouble.

Playing c. 25 years or more.

If lost or stolen: I would probably get the 2 x 12 version (wish that one was stereo!)

Got to give it a 9 for sound. 10 for value.

This amp is a bargain and can hold its head up with most tube amps twice to three times its price.

Improvements - would prefer conventional EQ controls with 3 knobs not 2, but in practice this does not matter.

I don't think the reverb is so great (although it is Accutronic) I use it only on low-to-moderate reverb (I need the digital delay for better surf tones).

My foot switch is the older type and it is easy to hit more than one button with your foot, which can be a pain. The newer in-line switch is better.

I think that there should be two channel 1s - that channel is so good it would be great to have the choice of two footswitcheable gain settings for it.

2 channels, solid state. Celestion seventy 80. 60 W. No master volume.

With my LGX godin with Dimarzio super distortion.
Rock rock rock !
No noisy.

I change the HP with celestion G12-65 : excellent !!!!

Clean and distortion are amazing.

Tech21 is very reliable. I have a PSA1, a TRI-AC, acousticDI. Perfect.

I don't know.

I prefer tube amps but for gigs but they are no reliable.
Trademark is the only one solution for tubeless with a sound good !

Sorry for my "f......" english !

This amp may take a bit of getting used to. The controls and features are not the run of the mill common ones you find in most amps. If you play around with it, you'll get used to it pretty quickly.

Well, what can I say? I know this amp will not be for everyone. It's a solid state amp that is supposed to sound like a tube amp. Does it? It's close enough for me. A real quality tube amp (fender, mesa, etc.) will sound more "tubey", but this amp sounds just fine to me. It has it's own sound. The clean channel is great, it goes from crystal clean to medium overdrive. The distorted channel isn't bad either, but it is a bit dark for me and will probobly not have enough gain for some people(metalheads). I use this amp with both strats and les pauls. I must confess that I don't usually use the dirty channel; I use the clean channel with a distortion pedal. The amp has a decent reverb and a decent clean boost. It has an active effects loop... It's a great amp, like I said, it won't be for everyone. I can just imagine purists whining about it (they always have to find something to whine about), but the fact is: this is a hell of a good amp. It's a workhorse. I know plenty of people that bought this amp because they wanted to have a bang around amp to gig with and preserve their precious fender twins or mesa combos (myself included) and just ended up using it as their main amp.

Well, I do have some complaints. First off, the footswitch for this amp can be a bit inconsitant. Sometimes you step on it to change channels or turn off the reverb or effects loop and it will not work. Most of the times it does, but as we gigging musicians know, "sometimes" does not cut it in a live situation. Like I mentioned earlier, I only use the clean channel, so it's a non issue with me, but still...

Tech21 are the best when it comes to customer support. they answer emails, they talk to you on the phone, they are never condesending or mean, always helpful. I actually live not too far from their headquarters and if I wanted to stop by with my amp for a quick repair of some kind, I'm willing to bet that they'd be very cool about it. I trust them.

I've been playing a long time and have owned many amps. I won't say this amp is my favorite, but it is damn good. Definitely in my top 5. If it were stolen, and I was on the same budget I'm on now, I'd buy another one. If I had the money, I'd probobly spring for a tremoverb combo or a matchless. If this amp had a more brutal distortion, that would make a difference to a lot of players. It would make it "complete" in many ways. But for those looking for a good solid gigging amp, check this puppy out.

60 watt solid state two channel amp.
Reverb.
A footswitchable adjustable "boost"
XLR out to mixing/recording desk.

I use a Gretsch 6120 and Gibson 335.
I play mostly hard rock, some indie, dark country/rockabilly type stuff.
This amp is the QUIETEST I've ever owned, no thumps or pops when you switch it on, and only gets hissy with too much reverb.
It's a two channel amp but to be honest I only use the first (it's not really "clean"), I can get pretty much any sound I need out of this channel.
The dirty channel is pretty unusable it's murky sounding and lacks punch.
I'd like to see a version with two "clean" channels on it instead of the awful distortion, that way I could set up a nice crunch/70's lead arrangement.

I've had this amp for about two years and gigged extensively with it, it's never let me down, I've played everything from marshall combos and stacks to fender twins and vox ac30's and they ALL broke down at some point. It's light (which is a major factor often overlooked) and it has great projection.
I would recommend an amp stand just so you can have it a little quieter and not deafening your singer haha! it is LOUD!

I've never had any need for customer support.

I would buy another one of these in a heartbeat - it's the perfect amp for me. Sounds great at any volume. Portable. Very reasonably priced. Versatile.
The only reason it doesn't get a 10 is the aforementioned second channel. Just put two first channels on it!