Vintage Roland Cube 20 (Blonde)

[Tal_175]

Unlike its bigger cousins (cube 60 and cube 40), there isn't a lot of information about these amps online.

I got one recently. It's a quality, clean practice amp. A little too SS sounding at times perhaps but Tech 21 Blonde warms it up nicely.
Does anybody else on the forum has this amp? Is it loud enough for drum-less live playing? Would make sense to upgrade the speaker to an efficient and warm guitar speaker? The speaker in it is 8 ohms and has no brand logo.

[Woody Sound]

Unlike its bigger cousins (cube 60 and cube 4)) there isn't a lot of information about these amps online.

I got one recently. It's a quality, clean practice amp. A little too SS sounding at times perhaps but Tech 21 Blonde warms it up nicely.
Does anybody else on the forum has this amp? Is it loud enough for drum-less live playing? Would make sense to upgrade the speaker to an efficient, round guitar speaker? The speaker in it is 8 ohms and has no brand logo.

Nice score, did you buy it? How does the verb sound? Be careful to measure internal front to back before getting a speaker, if I remember from my orange one they are very tight. That magnet is right up to the back.

[Durban]

I used one of these way back not quite the same as the 40 or 60 w, i think more for practice perhaps, cant remember, i had several white 60W very good and the 40W is good, put a Cannabis Rex Hemp, or Lil Buddy in, it takes it to another level.

[Tal_175]

Nice score, did you buy it? How does the verb sound? Be careful to measure internal front to back before getting a speaker, if I remember from my orange one they are very tight. That magnet is right up to the back.

Thanks, will do. That's good to know. I might end up keeping the stock speaker as it's hard to find 8ohm 8 inch speakers.
It's got spring reverb. I think it sounds good.

[Gladders]

I've got an orange one and I'm very happy with it. It's not very loud but it's enough for practice.

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[Tal_175]

Do you guys use the overdrive channel? It doesn't add much overdrive but I seem to be getting a more "tubey" sound from that channel. A little more rounder and fatter sound than the clean channel. It's also louder. I keep the gain (volume knob) low so it's still clean, but even all the way up it's mostly a cleanish, bluesy overdrive.

[Gladders]

Do you guys use the overdrive channel? It doesn't add much overdrive but I seem to be getting a more "tubey" sound from that channel. A little more rounder and fatter sound than the clean channel. It's also louder. I keep the gain (volume knob) low so it's still clean, but even all the way up it's mostly a cleanish, bluesy overdrive.

I use it for the single coil on the tele and sometimes for the floater on my ibanez archtop. I agree it adds a nice bit of warmth. It's not so good at keeping a full sized humbucker clean - my dot goes muddy quickly in that channel.

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