Re: Cube 60... again

I spent a while playing a Cube 30 and Cube 60 in a local retail
establishment. No matter how I tried to tweak it, it never came anywhere
close to the warmth and smoothness of a Polytone. The clean sound just had
that constant plinky upper end "presence" thing and no matter what I did, I
couldn't get a sound out of it that was both clear and mellow. If you can
find a good one, I'd be way more likely to get a used MBII than a Cube for
jazz.

As far as wattage goes, I recently bought a Vox AD15VT off of craigslist for
$80. It was a good deal, since they usually seem to go for about $100 on
craigslist. Banjo Center sells 'em for $180 MAP. I've used that little
AD15VT and it's little 8-inch speaker in rehearsal with a full band
including keys, electric bass, a medium volume drummer, and a tenor and
trumpet too. Clean sound was plenty loud, maybe even too loud if I didn't
watch it. For rehearsal, a (very) small club gig, and a solo restaurant
gig, I'd think a 30 watt Cube would be more than enough. At least given
that the VoxAD15 seemed to be plenty.

I don't know if the Cube 30 has an extension speaker out, although I know
the Cube 60 does.

As far as 7 strings go, I haven't a clue. I'll be Jim Soloway at
www.solowayguitars.com has tried the Cubes with a 7. He might be worth
e-mailing for an opinion. Jim's a fine player, BTW, and even makes an
occasional appearance here.

I do know that upright bassists occasionally use the Polytones --- Not the
greatest sound, but certainly capable of a 7 string. I used my frankenbass,
which goes down to a low E around 40 Hz, a 5th below a 7 string's low B, on
a friend's MBII with a 12" speaker, and the result was quite good compared
to other standard guitar amps I'd tried.

My 2 cents is screw the Cube and find a good Polytone MBII. I'd rather have
one good sound than 20 mediocre sounds.



"David J. Littleboy" <davidjl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"tomsalvojazz" <tomsalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What are your overall impressions of a Cube 60 compared with, say, a
Polytone Mega Brute in terms of the "size" of the sound?

I'll have both a Cube _30_ and a MegaBrute here later today, and will
write up first impressions.

I play in pretty quiet groups, so won't be able to speak to the size of
the sound issue, though.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan




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