Washburn BD12 Combo

This amp is pretty basic, about as basic as you can possibly get. Has a gain and volume control with an overdrive button as well as equalizer's. Has a headphone jack and a lineout.

The sound quality it not very good. My ibanez sounds like crap on it, my sg sounds a little better (better guitar obviously). But it is not very clear and is lacking the full rich sound that better bigger amps produce. I've used this amp at my buddies jamming, and at full it is not loud enough over his drums.

Haven't had any problems with it...

I've been playing about a year and now that i'm quite a bit more decent at the axe i'm looking for a nicer amp. I got this amp for free too and I wouldn't really suggest anyone buy this. Overall, it is OK for practicing at home but is inadequate for jamming. Spend a little more and get something else

The features on this are very limited with only one gain controll and a treble middle and bass. The overdrive is allright and the reverb is average. A meaner distortion would have made me happy.

A used this amp with a pignose strat with 3 single coils and a fender Jagstang. All the sounds are weak and dont stand out exspecialy the clean. I also used the amp with a Boss DS-2 distortion pedal(witch i like very much)and that beefed it up quite a bit. I play mostly classic rock,metal, gruge, and some punk and i didint like the variety the amp provided without the pedal.

It is a reliable amp it has never broke me but its 19 watts so im not using it for gigs.

Never had a problem.

I got it for free and i still hate it. I am saving up for a Peavey right now. The amp is farely decent with the right pedal.If it was stolen i would not think about buying another.

this is a follow up.

this amp will make almost any player sound like complete shit. after going without my halfstack for more than a month, only using the bad dog, i withdraw almost everything positive i said about it. it's got lots of distortion, but high output pickups sound like ass on it, and so do low output. mid output (duncan custom, etc) sound a bit better, but not enough to save this amp. the cleans are pretty lame. apparently the 40w version doesn't sound this terrible, so it must be due to the 12w's undersized speaker.

new guitar players: do not buy this. go buy a line6 spider practice amp or something. the only thing this has going for it is it's volume.

2001 model with reverb, overdrive, headphone out etc

Played through standard strat - all single coils (sounded just OK), Maton double cut solid body DiMarzio humbuckers (bridge superdistortion) - humbuckers made the amp faint.
Blues/rock/jazzy stuff - hmmmm didn't really suit any style to well.
Brought as a small practise amp for home - only place i really used it.
The clean sound was just adequate as long as you kept the volume low - clean distortion was HARSH and not pleasent at all, overdrive was NASTY - as in tinny sounds like crap really.
Funnily enough the reverb (tank) actually sounded good.
Overall the thing sounded pretty rubbishy.

Never broke while I had it. Did develop a nasty little electronic whirr-click that would sometimes surface.

Not tried out.

It was a first amp replaced with a Roland cube 30 (so, so, so much better!). If someone had stolen it I would send a condolence card to them for their bad taste and subsequent suffering. I hated this amp.
I wish it had some 1/2 decent tone.
If you are starting out with electric guitar - GET A DECENT AMP so you can hear how you actually sound. Amps like this must put more people off playing electric guitar than anything.

made in china, 6 inch speaker, 12 watts, nothin super great about it. solid state, OD and clean channels that share gain (weird).
with the clean channel selected, below 5 gain is clean, above is (i quote the manual) "a bluesy overdrive"

i use a ESP/LTD ec300
distortion is plenty brutal, but quite harsh and somewhat tinny. try taking the back off and making a new piece about 1/3 as big. really opens up the sound. SUPRISINGLY loud, when playing alone i usually have it around 2 on the volume w. gain dimed.

i will never use it live, but it seems dependable for what it is (a small practice/jamming amp)

I'm not sure they'd appreciate me modifying the back of the amp.

i bought this completely to practice on when my Randall halfstack is at my drummer's place. It's not the greatest practice amp out there, but it's one of the only ones that costs about 120 canadian. and it's freakin loud. i find it to be a good value.

pics of it
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