Roland CUBE 30X Guitar Amp

ROLAND CUBE30x Details ^top

Compact Guitar Amp with Modeling, Overdrive, and More!
Roland's original Cube Series may well have been the best sounding, "practice" guitar amps we've encountered. Roland's Cube-30X takes that amazing sound and adds some equally amazing new features. The Cube-30X is called a practice amp, but that's just abecause it's compact and easily portable (and very affordable, by the way). In reality, the Cube-30X packs a punch you won't believe with great new features such as Power Squeezer for maximum sustain without maximum volume, a fully equipped guitar tuner, acoustic simulation inherited from BOSS AC-3, a mini-jack aux in for playing along to MP3 and CD players, COSM amp modeling with the amazing Dyna Amp feature, and of course that ncredible Cube sound!

Roland Cube-30X at a Glance:
30-watt, 2-channel amp with 10" speaker and effects.
COSM amp-modeling and Dyna Amp feature.
Recording/headphone out, aux input, footswitch in, and onboard tuner
Power Squeezer for maximum gain and sustain - even at low volumes

30-watt, 2-channel Amplifier
The Cube30X has has a two channel configuration that lets you switch between a clean channel and a "lead" channel with separate gain and volume controls. The Cube-30X also features onboard effects that include reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, phaser, and tremolo. A 3-band EQ lets you shape your tone across the frequency spectrum. The Cube-30X sends 30 watts of power at 8 Ohms into a high-qulaity 10" speaker.

COSM Amp-modeling and Dyna Amp
The Cube-30X comes with nine onboard COSM Amp models, including JC, Brit Combo, Tweed, Metal Stack, and R-Fier. The Cube-30X also includes an acoustic simulator taken from the BOSS AC-3. COSM modeling faithfully provides every inspired nuance and characteristic of a variety of classic and modern amps, down to the preamp and circuits, speaker and outputs. Roland's "Dyna Amp" amp type lets you create unique tone transitions based on picking dynamics. You can get a transparent clean output sound on the Cube-30X by picking softly, or a powerful hi-gain amp sound by picking more aggressively. Dyna Amp's distortion can create cool tonal transitions based on the intensity of your performance.

Recording/Headphone out and Aux In
Aside from the ususal 1/4" guitar input, the Cube-30X also has a auxilliary input (mini-jack) that allows you to input signals from an MP3 player, CD, player, or drum machine etc and play along. There's also a 1/4" record/headphone out that enables silent practice or recording - great for those late night bedroom jams and recording sessions. The Cube-30X also allows you to switch channels and select effects via a TRS footswitch input. Another great all-around feature is a fully-equipped onboard guitar tuner.

Power Squeezer for maximum gain
Speaking of bedroom jams, if you need to play at lower volumes (we say "need" cause no self-respecting rocker wants to), Roland has thoughtfully included a a new feature called the Power Squeezer. As you knw, when you bring down the volume of an amp past a certain point, it stops responding porperly - sustains don't last and the tone just isn't right. The Power Squeeze keeps the speaker loaded as though major gain is going through it. The result, is that you can play at extremely low volumes without loosing the sustain or great response that comes with playing at higher volumes.

Roland Cube-30X Features:
30 watts of power
clean and overdrive channels
Powerful COS® amp-modeling onboard
High-quality 10" speaker
Recording/headphone output and auxiliary input
TRS footswitch jack for selection and effects
Acoustic simulation inherited from BOSS AC-3
Convenient onboard tuner
Power Squeezer for maximum gain and sustain - even at low volumes

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