alan a
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Some of you may have seen my thank you to PRS in the general section, but I didn't write a proper new amp thread...
Quick backstory I'm fairly new to PRS (owning not lusting after) I am a very split guitar player in that I love really heavy gain as equally as a good clean. This usually involves multiple amps. My last couple gigging amps had been another high gainer for the insane (get it?) the P (2x12 beast of a combo) variety really had an ok clean after tube and speaker swap, but I was never fully satisfied. When The F 50watt version arrived I jumped at it. Granted it was called a three channel I ran it as two. I was pretty happy with it, but had a few annoyances. The shared eq on 1&2, the almost 70lb cab only having one top handle, and I was honestly worried about reliability as I've had a problem or seven with that company over the last few years.
Enter the Archon...
Everything I have really ever wanted. The combo is a good weight and really holds it own. Someday maybe I'll grab and extension cab (be cool if there was a matching one) but there are no problems with volume. Some say combos are boxy, but I really think this sings. The clean (especially with the split sounds) with the bright on is dreamy! The gain channel cleans up well as long as you don't dime it (even I don't need that much gain but love that it's available). Also really love the combo cover I ordered this week! If there was anything I didn't like and I'm really splitting hairs is if the footswitch cable detached from the switch. But really it's fine and I just coil and Velcro it to my board.
To sum it up... This things ROCKS
Quick backstory I'm fairly new to PRS (owning not lusting after) I am a very split guitar player in that I love really heavy gain as equally as a good clean. This usually involves multiple amps. My last couple gigging amps had been another high gainer for the insane (get it?) the P (2x12 beast of a combo) variety really had an ok clean after tube and speaker swap, but I was never fully satisfied. When The F 50watt version arrived I jumped at it. Granted it was called a three channel I ran it as two. I was pretty happy with it, but had a few annoyances. The shared eq on 1&2, the almost 70lb cab only having one top handle, and I was honestly worried about reliability as I've had a problem or seven with that company over the last few years.
Enter the Archon...
Everything I have really ever wanted. The combo is a good weight and really holds it own. Someday maybe I'll grab and extension cab (be cool if there was a matching one) but there are no problems with volume. Some say combos are boxy, but I really think this sings. The clean (especially with the split sounds) with the bright on is dreamy! The gain channel cleans up well as long as you don't dime it (even I don't need that much gain but love that it's available). Also really love the combo cover I ordered this week! If there was anything I didn't like and I'm really splitting hairs is if the footswitch cable detached from the switch. But really it's fine and I just coil and Velcro it to my board.
To sum it up... This things ROCKS
