Anyone try the Roland Micro Cube?

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I own a Cube 30, but got to try out the Micro Cube. It's cool, but I'm still glad I bought the Cube 30 because it's much louder (if you want it to be) and has much better bottom end. I think of the Micro Cube as an advanced toy, where the Cube 30 is a small but serious amp.
 
kid klash,

Thanks! I thought that too when I saw it first come out. I'm looking for an amp to take on small gigs rather than my 60lb Fender amp. Plus, I can get the Cube-30 at a nominal price over the Micro-Cube. Thanks again for your input on this and the other threads.

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kid klash said:
I own a Cube 30, but got to try out the Micro Cube. It's cool, but I'm still glad I bought the Cube 30 because it's much louder (if you want it to be) and has much better bottom end. I think of the Micro Cube as an advanced toy, where the Cube 30 is a small but serious amp.
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Well of course the cube 30 is going to sound better. The micro was made just to take places nothing fancy.

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kid klash said:
I own a Cube 30, but got to try out the Micro Cube. It's cool, but I'm still glad I bought the Cube 30 because it's much louder (if you want it to be) and has much better bottom end. I think of the Micro Cube as an advanced toy, where the Cube 30 is a small but serious amp.
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I'm looking at the micro cube as well. I'm a singer/sonwriter/pianist/drummer (not a guitarist) looking to use it for scratch guitar parts first, before any real guitarist returns with his full rig

was thinking of putting a 57 in front of it and running it through my Great River?..you think it will sound decent for that purpose?
 
I have the Cube 30 and am very happy with it. The Micro would be a good practice amp but that's about it. The Cube 30 is well worth the few extra bucks IMHO.
 
For those thinking about the Roland Cube amps, Vox has just come out with their own similar-sized and powered modeling amps.
 
I just tried the micro cube at my friends wharehouse the other day and it is amazing. It's very versatile and it can get LOUD considering it wieghs like 3 pounds. The effects are actually useful, not the usual ridiculous presets but for delay flange tremolo and reverb there are simple graduated increases. seperate Gain and Volume controls. Good and Clean to fairly Crunchy sounds for 100 bucks. Iwant one. I'd love to try and gig with it.
 
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Lambo said:
The Micro would be a good practice amp but that's about it.
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I tend to think the miro-cube is also good for a home studio. I've recorded all over house using it. being that is battery powered and light. put an sm57 off axis 3 inches away from it and set it dead center on the bath tub, you can't go wrong.
 
I tried one today for 45 minutes and was completely amazed...I want a Micro and a Cube 30 (but will have to settle for one)!

While I am more focused on bass; obviously I am into recording and write on guitar and some keyboard...My last guitar amp was an original Peavey Bandit circa 1982 but I traded it in with some other stuff for some Alesis MK 1 monitors not the best trade but I needed some monitors and had no cash.

This micro sounded amazing....Good clean tones, nice gritty mildly dirty tones with the "Brit" setting but adustable with the gain. Effect were excellent as well from Chorus (very tastefull... just enough to really fill out a lead tone without sounding like an obvious effect).

It was wierd - I played a Tele on the neck pick up with JC 120 setting, a little chorus, a little overdrive and a touch of reverb and it had this singing blues tone like BB Kings "Lucile" that reacted well to picking dynamics.

False harmonics using the finger tip/thumb on the pick edge rang out very nice on dry over driven sounds and I have always loved tremelo for certain things.

GC had lots of Micro's but no Cube 30's - special order only...Sweetwater has free shipping at $225 but I asked for GC gift certificates for Christmas.

The thing I don't get is I was going to go for the Cube 15 since I just want it for recording...no gigging but it is a completely different set up that the Micro and the 30.

My question is I want to use this mostly for re-amping and I am wondering wich one would produce better midrange for sitting in the mix? Specifically comparing micing a 5" speaker to a 10" speaker

Kid Clash commented on the 30 having better bottom end and more volume neither of wich are a concern for me...I don't want the guitar eating into my bass guitar frequencies.

So does anyone know about the recording these two by micSpecifically comparing micing a 5" speaker to a 10" speaker and how they would compare in the midrange picked up by the Mic?

I am guessing the 10" is going to sound more similiar to traditionally recorded 10" and 12" guitar cabs.
 
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yeah, ive played through the micro cube a bunch of times. it really cool little amp.. suprizing good for what it does. good for a practice amp because its small, and portable. seems like a cool thing to bring on tour, ive haven't used it on batteries yet though, dont know how long it lasts.
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I just got the microcube last night. I'm leaving next week for a trip and wanted something portable and that would also run on batteries. I also bought a pignose to compare the two. The microcube totally blew away the pignose. It has good volume and a much clearer sound. And then there are the different amp models that start clean and get dirtier. I can't wait to sit out on the deck of the cruise ship and jam with this. I also tried running a drum machine into it through the aux input and jammed with the drums... it was very good. Not super loud but great for practice.
 
I have a Cube 30 and love it. Any of the Cubes should be great. You can run it to a PA for volume if you have to I suppose. I've run mine into my Bose PAS.
 
the microcube rocks

yeh , the microcube ROCKS!

It cranks pretty damn loud for how small the speaker is - my friend has it and often uses it over his Laney VC30 (not due to it sounding better, cos it certainly doesnt), but cos it is VERY portable , sounds good normally, and even better through headphones.

He does, however, have a very nice heritage (~2000$US i believe) jazz box, but we could pull out some nice AC/DC tones and even metallica on the recto settign :)...

VERY loud for it's size and 2 or 3 watt power rating , can stand up against any shitty 10Watter and the (while not neccesarily a good thing for longevity of life), when the speaker is cranking u can get some nice overdrive.

Some very cool tones in that box, nice chorus and delay for something so small and simple and also a recording out which is a cool feature.

Anway, hope that helps,
ciao, Jeremy
 
I ordered my Cube 30 at GC yesterday with the Christmas gift certificates.

As good as the micro sounded I can't wait! GC here does not carry the Cube 30 in stock...special order only.

Since i could not compare the two together I amost settled for the micro but the smaller speaker concerned me about miking it....It seems to reason that the 10" and 12" being the norm in guitar cabs for a reason.

I would have to say that micro sounded very good for any amp and shockingly amazing for a 5" speaker in a shoe box!


This is going to be worse than waiting on the bottle of ketchup...anticipation...
 
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