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I have an Archon 50 V2 Combo. Something's not right. I mainly use the clean and it's plenty loud enough. I don't see a lot of difference between the volumes on the lead and clean channels unless I really drive the gain on the lead channel. I do use the clean both with and without effects. When...

Back when I was 19, in full on 1st get punk mode, and on a fast track to ear-damaged Heaven, my back line was two sets of those - with a HiWatt on top of each stack. Gain only had one setting and was very occasionally moderated by the knob(s) on my Rose-Morris Ricky. If I was really really lucky...

Mine's quiet with nothing plugged in - but - and it may well be an important 'but', I don't use the effects loop. I'm pretty light on effects and so just plug them in front of the input. I have experienced 'noise' once. This was a cross between a hum and a buzz with a little white noise thrown...

Notts - got my Archon 50 from PMT Nottingham. I see that PMT have a B Stock combo in at the moment. I'd agree - the lead channel is more Boogiesque than Marshalleque but the clean channel takes pedals really well and so I'm sure that you will find one to suit. I have a Tech 21 NYC 'British'...

The ones that I first pick up (for playback) are my DT770s. I also have some Sony MDR s (I think 7506 or something like that) and these give an alternative take to the Beyers. The only other pairs of closed backs that I have are some PerSonus HD9s - which I find really useful for plugging into...

Hi Jamie I'm also in the UK and have been using a current version Archon 50 for the past year. Everything that's been written about the original US version is similar to my findings with the current version. I have the combo, not the head version. The drive channel is a very hot channel , the...