Studiotone XL At first
glance, you would be forgiven if you
dismissed the Studiotone as just another
tiny combo. In classic Koch tradition
however, this compact power combo sounds
much bigger, and has more features than
one would suspect.
Beginning with four EL84 power tubes in
Class A, a newly designed speaker and
cabinet, three foot switchable channels
and two powerful voicing switches, the
Studiotone sound brings to mind the
British valve amps of the 60’s. The
three channels (clean, overdrive &
overdrive +) take you from round warm
tones to saturated EL84 overdrive &
compression. The 2-way ‘Mid Shift’
allows you to boost the mid frequencies
around 800 Hz and the 3-way ‘Bright’
switch allows you to cut or boost the
high frequencies for fine tuning the top
end. Some of the big surprises are left
for the back panel though, and a quick
inspection reveals a serial effects loop,
a recording output with microphone
placement and cabinet style simulators,
two line outputs (one unfiltered and one
low level) and a ‘Headphone Out’ jack.
Speaker outputs at 4, 8 and 16 ohm allow
for any combination of speakers and the
built in Power Soak/Speaker on/off
switch allow the amp to be played with
the speaker turned off for recording or
headphone use. There is also an short
spring reverb tank, with front mounted
level adjustment. |
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