Yamaha T50-C

The Gain on the Clean channel rocks! Independent EQ for each channel is a great design. Five pre-amp tubes (12AX7s) and two 12AX7s for the reverb unit which is a full sized 3-spring reverb. The Celestian 12-70 has tone like milk over a waterfall. FX loop, Slave out. Adjustable Ohms output. Overall excellent sound and power.

I play a 93 Am. St. Tele, a 96 Am. St. Strat and a 97 Gibson SG Standard. Withh the gain all the way up I can strike a note on the SG and go out to lunch and it would still be ringing when I returned. Right now unfortunately we play a lot of cover material and the amp seems to be very versitile.

I haven't had the amp long enough to comment on its reliability. But the amp is rather old now and it seems to be in fine working order.

Yamaha acts like they don't even know the amp existed. Soldano says they don't have any manuals or anything but they have schematics and would be willing to service them. By the way does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Owner's manual for the Yamaha T50C?

I've been play about 20 years and have had some pro equipment as well as some real pieces of junk. I used to have a Fender Blues DeVille 212 and this little amp smokes it. I traded a Fender Princeton 65 (Solid State) for this amp and of course there is no comparison there. The Princeton was a fine little practice amp and sported quite good tone for a solid state amp but again no comparison here.

See descriptions below. Two channels (only one input), independent treble, mid, bass, gain, master, and reverb for each channel; overall presence knob; effects loop in back. 3-spring reverb is nice.

This uses 2 6l6's for main power, and 7 (!) 12AX7's for pre-amp.

I play noiseless pickups; my main guitars are a McInturff custom Empress with Zodiac humbuckers; a chambered McInturff Ltd. Edition "Forum" Guitar equipped with narrowfield humbuckers; and a G&L Comanche with noiseless 'z-coils'.

This amp suits the chambered forum guitar best: the guitar has its own sustain that really meshes with the very "tuby" sound from this amp... the other guitars sound OK, particularly clean, but at the dirtiest settings, the semi-hollow guitar works best.

The clean channel: is not clean... I also have a Rivera 112 (quite similar to this), and the Rivera blows this away wen it comes to clean tones.
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Getting dirty; playing dirty, this thing is a monster: the dirtiest 1x12 50W amp I've ever heard. However, at dirty settings, you need to crank the reverb down to nothing - it really seems to screw up everything, acting almost like another volume knob... odd.
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When I first got it, it had a nasty hum... my dad has been a certified Yamaha tech for decades now, though, and he was able to clean it up a little by wiring another capacitor in there somewhere... the amp is fairly old, and he commented that adding the capacitor was all he could do for the power source which was, plain and simple, a bit noisy.

In addition, the knobs on mine could use a good cleaning... right now, some of 'em are a bit scratchy when turning them.

Anyway: I'll probably sell this off again... it's OK, but my Rivera is blatantly better, even if it doesn't have as much distortion.

I don't gig electrically, so can't comment much on the reliability. When I have been out electricallly (at parties or whatever-have-you), I've taken my Rivera.

No comment; as noted above, I had my dad look at it.

I've been playing about 12 years; I've owned most every guitar out there, but recently have settled on a couple McInturffs and a G&L as my main electric guitars. I own a Rivera R55-112 which is roughly equivalent to, and better than, this amp. I have owned a Trace Elliot speed twin half-stack in the past, a Fender Stage 160, and am waiting on a Marshall JCM 900 (#4102) 2x12 Combo. (So - I haven't played much by way of super-high-end stuff).

I noted above that the power source is a bit noisy: I imagine Soldano's own newer stuff is probably much cleaner, (and damned well better be, considering how much they cost).

If stolen or lost, I'd go elsewhere: even for the $350 I paid for it used, I could just as well get a used solid state amp that would be better so far as I'm concerned... (I might and up doing this at some point down the road anyway... tubes are nice, but I'm an effects junkaholic, what can I say...)

Love about it: the distortion it can get and the reverb on the clean channel; hate: how noisy it is, the break-up of the clean channel.

With a serious overhaul, (e.g. send it to the Fuchs dude and let him work his magic), this could be a killer amp. As is, though, it just ain't a Soldano: DO NOT buy one thinking you're getting a good deal on a "Soldano-equivalent". It's OK, but for the money, there is solid state stuff that's every bit as clean/dirty/warm/good.

I think this all tube amp was produced in the early 90's and then Soldano pulled his design out from Yamaha... maybe he didn't like the way they ran things or want to be affiliated with anyone. This is one of the MOST versatile amps I've played! To name a few; Marshall, Mesa, Fender, Peavey, Crate(yuk), and a bunch of others. They all did one thing well, but this amp gives me joy every time I plug in. If an amp can do that, it's worth hanging onto for awhile. I play everything out there, so I need a gigging amp that can do a lot.

It's very ominous in it's simplicity. And although it may sound like it has a lot of features, it looks very straight forward... I like that, no bull, just balls. It has two completely independent channels with independent reverb, and a master presence being the only control that is shared. Standard EQ section with preamp and master on each channel. Tube serial FX loop(Yessah!), tube reverb that sounds great, switchable impedance, line out w/level and it even has an unswitched outlet on the rear panel that I can plug my rack into! The speaker is a 12&quot; Celestion G12M70. I'm not sure you can put anymore into an amp and have it reasonably priced.

I use a Les Paul and a Tele (both modified) for the variety of sounds that I need and those combined with this amp make it easy to get great clean sounds (characteristically better than the Fender tube amp I had), and great overdrive sounds along the lines of AC/DC, Rush, Zeppelin or whatever you can think of in the classic rock scene, even great high gain sounds can be had by adjusting the EQ and tweaking the gain up a notch. You don't need to max out the gain at all to get what you need, I rarely ever go above 3 or 4 on the drive channels gain... I mostly use the master to push the power tubes into it's glorious harmonic gain. When I do that I can't help but hear the early Van Halen tone. The clean channel can go up to 6 or 7 on the gain and still keep it together with just minimal breakup, and it's punchy and crisp, not dull like most multi-channel amps(Marshall,Peavey). The drive is sweet, clear and articulate... never harsh unless you turn up the presence, I always keep it around 4 or 5 so if I need a hair more bite on the clean I can tweak it. I guarantee that if you try this amp in good working condition and put the knobs at 12:00 to start, you will be pleasantly surprised and maybe even slightly startled and think to yourself, &quot;WOW, HOLY $HIT!&quot;

Although it's very well constructed and designed, and I know I can depend on it to not fall apart... all tube amps are somewhat fragile if you don't take reasonable care. I would never gig without spare tubes and fuses. It's not the amp's transformer that will go, it'll be a tube or a fuse. It hasn't broken down in the couple of months that I have owned it, but the original tubes (one or two microphonic) were in it. That tells me that for nearly 10 yrs. the previous owners never maintained it... it was somewhat neglected, but it has found a good home now. It does make that reverb clang when switching channels like the other reviews said. However, it doesn't seem to be all that bothersome. Interesting that it does that though, I never heard any other amp do that.

Here's where the story ends. They are terrible. I can see why Soldano pulled out. If I don't get a teenage $hithead on the line, it's a tech who doesn't know what a potentiometer is and acts like he knows what he's talking about! Yamaha, if you read this... GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!!

I've been playing for over 15 yrs. and have gone through some equipment. Believe me when I tell you that this is a fine amp, and although I sold my Marshall for $500 and bought this for $450, I wish I could have scored it cheaper. Some people have given it away for ~$200 on eBay! Grab one if you can! And for the skeptics that tell you that this is not a Soldano amp, they're partially right. It has his name in big bold print on the rear panel... M.J.Soldano, and in front of it says &quot;Designed by:&quot; That means Yamaha manufactured Soldano's design and I'm sure he somehow supervised the production because from what I hear, he backs his Soldano brand amps with a lifetime warranty and will even help people out with problems or mods they have on the Yamaha T series amps. Why would he do that if it wasn't one of his amps? Just in case you didn't get the gist of what I'm saying... I LOVE THIS AMP!!

This amp did not perform to my expectations. I had been dying to get this amp for about a year, and I was disappointed. The problem is, I play music where I switch from dirty to clean. I like the independent reverb, and the tube reverb JAMS!! but it POPS (sounds like "SSSSHHHWAIAIAINNUUNNGSHGGSSHH....")going form the dirty to clean channel. Going back to transistors after this one!! Way too loud, by the way.

I didn't think the distortion got brutal enough. It is whisper quiet, but has limited sounds. That's O.K. The clean channel does have a gain, adn it breaks up nicely at high levels (>6 or 7). Great clean channel. For country clean, second only to a Fender clean.

Did not have it very long. I have a friend with a T100C. He says he's dropped it about ten times.

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If it had been stolen, I'd put a chair where it was. Luckily, I sold it. Loved the clean, mediocre dirty, hated the switching effect. To give you an idea, I sold this amp (for the price I paid of $290), and I bought a Dano Nifty Fifty and a distortion pedal.

Pretty versatile, decent clean channel, but absolutely killer gain on the dirty channel. Designed by Soldano I think. Channel switching, FX loop, celestion 70 watt 12" speaker. Real loud all tube design.

Great for hard rock decent for funk. Very quiet. Excellent for studio work. Sounds great with my Les Pauls and Strats.

So far so good. Bought this one used for $295 and it ha the original tubes!

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Would definetly buy it again, especially at this price. This amp smokes a groove tubes I got rid of as well as every boogie and marshall combo I've owned. A fender twin still has the best clean sound, but the T50C distortion rules!

2 footswitchable channels with seperate controls for each, including reverb- presence knob works on both channels-soldano design-this is a super high gain amp with 1 75 watt celestion 12-seems just about right as far as loud is concerned

the 10 rating applies only to the dirty channel, I find the clean side to be rather two dimensional and lacking in complexity compared to say a good fender but we buy a soldano for the gain-right? this is great-huge amounts of quality dynamic gain built in-I like the gain about 6 or 7, likewise on the master-then we can use the guitar volume to go between high gain and just ridiculous-I like the guitar (strat) on about 5-turning up to about 8 gives all the gritty distorto I'd ever want-ususally leave the guitar right around 5-the modern high gain sound...

seems very well built, Denis Kager, I believe...

not real versatile, but who cares? it has that super high gain sound and it is remarkably quiet there is a nasty clang of reverb when switching to the clean channel but again with this amp, why would you want to do that?