Yorkville Bloc 100G

I bought this little gem for $150 Canadian. I bought her in 1990 used.

It's a good solid amp for practicing or for the stage. I'm amazed at the output power.

For what I paid, it has been extremely dependable and powerful.

I played in a blues band and a typical non-descript-sort-of-music Ramada Airport Inn lounge. It had plenty of power for the lounge but I needed to have more punch in the blues arena. It's probably because my fellow musicians had Mesa's and Fenders that I couldn't afford. We had no compalants about the Bloc though, it has a clean fat sound.

I also used it in worship music in church. This amp was just great for that. It had plenty of power and the acoustics of the building really helped. The gain knob was always at a lower setting for this. I could overpower the preacher's wife who played the organ and I had to keep the Bloc's gain low. You always have to let the Preacher's wife have her way.

This amp has a sweet overdrive that is totally controllable from 1 to 10. The amp can do a subtle quiet dirty sound at low volume and gain setting and can irritatingly distorted at the high range. It puts out a full range of distortion. This is one of the things that I really appreciate about it.

The Bloc 100g is solid state but has a very simple circuit design. I fix my own electronics and have never had to touch her except for a real need for attention to the pots. You need a can of contact cleaner and you need to clean them often. The amp's electronics are easily accessible and it's easy to clean.

I have a Fender Strat and a Fender Tele (made in China but you wouldn't be able to tell the diffference between the US models and this one if you didn't look at the top of the neck). I think everyone should use humbuckers and adjust your sounds through a pedal or the amp.

I also have a Gibson es175, an Ovation 6 string and two Ovation 12 strings, and a delightful Seagull acoustic. With this amp I have to be very accurate on the fenders and the 12 strings. It picks up on everything. You can't be a lazy player with this amp. You have to be accurate. You gotta work on that little finger.

The Bloc 100g isn't ever distorted at high volumes. If you play a hollowbody, you've got to keep playing in a direction that will never point in her way because this amp is sensitive.

The distortion is controllable. I am thinkng that I might change the pot to one that has a wider range. It's cheap enough and easy enough to do.

This is an indestructable amp. I've left her in 30 below zero weather and 30 above zero weather (celsius). She's been tossed into the back of my Ranger pickup truck and driven on logging roads. The finish is really tough. It's very obviously designed for Canadians like me who don't get to Toronto very often. She's strong and she always looks great.

I always carry a backup amp just in case and a long patch cord in case I have to plug into someone elses amp. I have a Peavey amp that sounds like cardboard but it was cheap and servicable.

I've never had to deal with customer support. I don't even know if the manufacturer is still alive and well. It's a simple amp and anyone with a little electronic knowledge can repair it. It's really simple in its electronic design. I reiterate..you have to clean the pots often.

I'm 54 years old. I started playing when I was 16 years old.

If she was stolen, I'd feel bad. I'd certainly look for another. This amp is easy to carry and tough and has never let me down...never. I've never had any kind of emergency with it. Just keep those pots clean.

I chose this amp way back in 1990 because it was comparable in cost to other brand names that didn't have the wattage and it looked good. Other musicians recommended it highly for my weeny and ambitious skill level.

I have a Zoom 505 and it is wonderful for what I do and for where I intend to go with my music. It works really well with my Bloc 100g.

No amp needs anything but power and clean sound really if you have a great guitar and you are really serious about becoming a better musician. If you need better sound and more variety, get better as a musician and buy a nice imput device with a lot of patches. Technology is so advanced and inexpensive nowadays and most inexpensive devices, guitar copies and amps can make you sound great for a lot less dollars than it took ten years ago. Love being a musician and work on it. Take pride in what you do.

I bought this amp new in Alexandria Louisiana in 1987. It has only failed me once and that was because I accidently plugged in the added speaker output using a shorted wire. It blew out the output fuse.

I have used this amp for both guitar and bass. For bass I would get a bass cabinet and it would just about bring the walls of the building down. As a guitar amp it has a very sweet sound with my 1961 Gibson SG1. (Single Pizo pickup, but added a Humbicking Pickup to the neck area)

The distortion control is awesome, even to this day. The reverb is lacking in depth tho'.

About the only thing close to a complaint I would have is the pots need cleaning/replacing as they are very noisy. Especially the reverb pot. I just about blows out your ear drums to move it with any amound of volume turned up on the amp.

Other than the noisy pots the amp is clean and fairly noise free. It's designed for studio work, mainly. It has the plugs in the back for patching into a recording system. I can patch it into my home studio and not a peep out of it until I strike a string or two on my guitar. <GRIN>

I have a Gibson SG1 and a Hondo Les Paul copy for guitar.

I play country rock and can intertain just about anywhere. If the area is too big for the single 12 inch speaker (that hasn't happened yet) I can simply patch it into the PA system for better disbursioin.

The only sounds this amp comes with is the reverb and distortion. But it has a very sweet clean sound.

I can take this amp to any gig you can think of and it will perform with no hitches, unless I goof somewhere.

The warranty was only 1 year. I think it may be out of warranty now. <GRIN>

Any of the local repair shops can work on it. But the only place to ever have to work on it is out of business and the original owner has passed away.

I have been playing 45 years.

If I lost this amp that would be it. Unless someone had one sitting around I wouldn't be able to replace it.

The only thing I wished this amp had was built in FX processor. But this amp is way before that time was available, I think.

This amp was made in Canada in 1989. It has 2 channels, distorted, and clean. The distorted channel can be cranked all the way for mega distortion, or, just a little bit for a nice growl. It has a send and recieve (effects loop), an input for a pedal to switch between channels, and a headphone jack. It has 100W RMS output, and it is completely solid state with a nice spring reverb.

I use a double humbucker telecaster and a Gibson hollowbody copy with this amp, and it faithfully recreates each of them. It has a gain control for each channel, and guitars tend to hum with it turned all of the way up, but if you leave it at half, it sounds fine. It can make quite a variety of sounds, as I have run organs through it, and had a nice crunchy sound. The clean channel tends to be clean, and as I said before, the distortion can go from brutal to subtle.

This amp is quite dependable, and has never broken down, ever when neglected for years.

I have never dealt with the manufacturer.

It always suits my needs because it is small, yet powerful. If it were lost or stolen, I would definately buy it again.

Made in 1986.

Two channels, one dirty one clean. Effects loop, line out, reverb. 100 Watts of solid state power, is my guess.

I got this a long time ago while I was playing in high school jazz ensemble. Some twit broke in to my house and did me the favour of ignoring my guitars while he stole my crappy peavey amp. That thing had a sound like cardboard. At any rate, I found this bloc100g in a second hand store.

At the time I used it for amplifying my aria II herb ellis jazz guitar. It did an alright job, and I found the power was more than enough to play with bass and drums in a rock setting. I mean, it's not a mesa mark IV but for 150 it suited my needs just fine.

Never tried the effects loop, and I rarely used the distortion on it.

Well, this amp has kind of disappeared due to being stored at a friend's place for years. So I don't currently use it. But my guitars at the time were an aria pro II herb ellis jazz guitar, and a bc rich US made strat with a godawful paint job.

The amp worked decently for jazz and decently for rock. Even in retrospect, after having played mesa boogies, evans amps and the like, for 150 CDN it sounded a lot better than anything else I could find in terms of a clean style. I now use fender amps for my cheap solid state practice amps, but they're a little bit more pricey.

The amp is a bit noisy, but it's not too noticeable. The distortion is kind of farty, so I recommend a pedal.

The clean channel is quite reasonable, and at high volumes it loses its sweetness but doesn't really distort that much.

I've never tried to get a lot of tones out of it, so I can't attest to the variety. Lots of bass response, by the way.

I'll give it a 5 overall (after all, it doesn't compete with tube amps), but for a solid state it's probably a 6.5.

This thing was a workhorse. I took it busking out in the sun with little or no cover (yeah, stupid). I took it to gigs and dropped it once or twice.

Indestructible.

Never needed servicing besides some cleaner in the pots.

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Right now I have a convertible 100W combo, a fender studio 85, roland acoustic chorus, godin lgx electrics, some acoustics and some outboard gear. I've played on a lot of amps.

Well, there's a good possibility it has been stolen, so I guess I'm not in a hurry to replace it given the other amps I own. But if I were strapped for cash and wanted a decent, powerful combo with which to play jazz (and I couldn't beg borrow or steal a polytone or fender) I'd definitely buy one used.

Even though this thing didn't get high ratings for features, the ample power, the ruggedness and reliability of it, and the performance/price ratio I got out of it bumps the overall rating up to an 8.

Just keep in mind that it would probably go for 100 US dollars used. Sure, a mesa kicks its butt, but how much is a used mesa?

This amp was made in 1990, I have no idea how many watts it has, It has a clean channel and distortion channel, also has reverb, effects loop, head phones jack.

I am using a yamaha rgx612 with it, the amps distortion is not thick enough for metal, so I use a metal zone through the clean channel. This amp is very loud, I was suprised by the volume out of this little amp. The reverb sounds decent to me, this is my third amp and it surpasses the previous ones I own.

The amp makes weird noises sometimes but not latley, I haved gigged with it once, It pulled through pretty good, I wouldnt use it in a large venue though.

never dealt with them

decent little amp but no marshall stack