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Crate DXJ112

Crate DXJ112

  1. Name: Avid Stewart

  2. Band: -----

  3. Model Year: -----

  4. Price Paid: $429

  5. Performance

  6. The Crate DXJ112 is a digital modeling amp. It is very easy to use. The EQ and level controls are big and easy to grasp. The digital control keypad accesses the first 10 patches of the amp’s 128 slots. The rest require a MIDI pedal to access. (I use my BOSS GT-3, which accesses programs 1 to 100, not all 128.)

  7. Performance Rating: 10

  8. Sound Quality

  9. The amp models 14 guitar amps and two stomp boxes. There are three Fender models, two Marshall, two Mesa Boogie, four Crate and Ampeg, one HiWatt and one Vox. The stomp boxes are a Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzface and the BOSS AC-2 Acoustic Simulator. I am very happy with the models. The Fenders are very Fendery — not having a reference amp to compare to I can’t say whether they nail the amps, but they sound like Fenders. The Marshalls have the satisfying crunches I know from Marshall. The Mesa Boogie models I can’t judge comparatively, but they are excellent amps — very versatile, wide ranges of tonal color. All around, I have found the kinds of sounds I’ve been looking for and I really like the amp’s (many) sounds. I shopped this amp against the Line 6 Flextone II and Spyder. I was far more impressed with the sounds from the DXJ112.

  10. Sound Quality Rating: 10

  11. Construction

  12. The product does seem solid — this particular one. I had to return the amp I bought originally because the speaker coil was rattling around in the speaker.

  13. Construction Rating: 10

stats

  1. Average Ratings
  2. Performance: 10
  3. Sound Quality: 9
  4. Construction: 8
  5. Ratings Key
  6. 10: Excellent
  7. 0: Useless
  8. Company
  9. Crate

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