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Went to the OKC Guitar center today and a few music stores and pawn shops in the area. (picked up a new amp too, it wasn't the Krank.) Anyways, Off in the corner of the 'vault' was a looked like new Krankenstein 1/2 stack. Had green and white screen printing on the chassis (woo, two colors!) and a footswitch.
I didn't play with it for a long time, but the clean was flat, and the overdrive channel could be dialled in for so much gain that at whisper volumes it oscillated with the volume off on the guitar. The overdrive channel had two masters, and both affected the gain. Interesting idea, but the execution was lousy. I guess it was so you could get so much distortion that you'd never need a pedal.
Anyways, clean tones were flat, overdrive was a little thin but not the worst I've ever heard. It sounded like a preamp dimed high gain reverb JCM900 with a boost pedal in front of it. It just had that kinda thin gained out sound - it didn't get real beefy when I 'kranked' it either. This was with the matching cab, so it's not like I played it through a crate cab or something. It wasn't the worst tone I've heard, but a Randall RG100 or 80 would eat it's lunch.
Channel switching worked ok. Even if price weren't an issue, the B-52 or whatever the hell those ugly things that GC sells sound better.
I'm going to post the price on it later... let's just say the price/performance ratio was abysmal.
Pete
I didn't play with it for a long time, but the clean was flat, and the overdrive channel could be dialled in for so much gain that at whisper volumes it oscillated with the volume off on the guitar. The overdrive channel had two masters, and both affected the gain. Interesting idea, but the execution was lousy. I guess it was so you could get so much distortion that you'd never need a pedal.
Anyways, clean tones were flat, overdrive was a little thin but not the worst I've ever heard. It sounded like a preamp dimed high gain reverb JCM900 with a boost pedal in front of it. It just had that kinda thin gained out sound - it didn't get real beefy when I 'kranked' it either. This was with the matching cab, so it's not like I played it through a crate cab or something. It wasn't the worst tone I've heard, but a Randall RG100 or 80 would eat it's lunch.
Channel switching worked ok. Even if price weren't an issue, the B-52 or whatever the hell those ugly things that GC sells sound better.
I'm going to post the price on it later... let's just say the price/performance ratio was abysmal.
Pete
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