WOW! I love this thing! I used it at rehearsal last night and it was a plug in and play kind of deal. Very, very easy to get a great tone with just a few tweaks.I set the gain at about 10 O'clock giving a nice warm overdrive, just enough not to much, it would be easy to get carried away because you can drive the snot out of this thing. For a SS amp it has a lot of inherent bass in it's overall sound, sort of reminded me of a Acoustic 360. My tone controls were treble at 3 o'clock, mid at 12 o'clock, and bass around 9 o'clock and my master right around 10 o'clock. Vintage is the word to describe this amp, if you are looking for a modern tone move on. My '67 Thunderbird just sings on the settings I used, notes on the D and G string were lively and full, the E string had lots of punch and growl. The overall tone is what gets me, I have used tube preamp pedals and earlier hybrid amps and the all sounded grainy to me, The Terror sounds warm and full. Another thing that impressed me was it's sound at relatively low volume, Punchy, gritty, with lots of life no notes dying on the fingerboard (always a problem for me at lower volume). This amp can do it all from rehearsal to small gigs and big venues. In the settings I have used it so far I like it better than my Hiwatt DR201
I can't wait to use it live, that direct out and the effects loop will greatly improve my FOH sound. I bough this amp for smaller venues and as a back up to the Hiwatts but I can certainly see me using it at larger gigs