I couldn't resist the sudden urge to buy this very clean looking late 80's all tube Laney head when I saw it laying on the floor at the local music store with price tag of 150 euros. This is my seventh tube amp so I really didn't need another one but the price was so low and I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn't even have the time to plug it in before I bought it. Last Sunday, two weeks after I bought it I finally had the time for a little test drive at apartement volume and I was really pleased with the palette of sounds I could get out of this thing by tweaking the really effective tone controls and the nonintuitive volume controls.
How are these volume controls supposed to work? There's four pots labeled Master volume, Preamp1 level, Preamp2 volume and Preamp1 volume and when I pull out the Preamp Volume1 to engage the distortion channel all of these four pots affect the amount and character of distortion and overall volume and when I push it in only the Preamp1 level has no effect. I even took the chassis out to see if someone had modified the preamp but everything inside looked like as if the amp would have rolled out of the factory yesterday.
How are these volume controls supposed to work? There's four pots labeled Master volume, Preamp1 level, Preamp2 volume and Preamp1 volume and when I pull out the Preamp Volume1 to engage the distortion channel all of these four pots affect the amount and character of distortion and overall volume and when I push it in only the Preamp1 level has no effect. I even took the chassis out to see if someone had modified the preamp but everything inside looked like as if the amp would have rolled out of the factory yesterday.
