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Roland Blues Cube

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Real valve tone from transistors?Read more
This Vox-inspired special edition of Roland’s analogue modelling amp is equally impressive at home, on stage or in the studio.Read more
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Pros

  • it is easily as responsive as most tube units
  • affordable amps in the solid state world that has a pretty decent tone
  • Blues Cube is the best kept secret in guitar amps

Cons

  • Blues Cube is nothing more than just another over hyped emulator
  • it only has 75 watts
  • amp is not the same as the new Cube amps
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  • Valve (vacuum tube)
  • Straight
  • 80 W
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Roland Blues Cube - Pros & Cons

Roland Blues Cube

Pros

  • it is easily as responsive as most tube units
  • affordable amps in the solid state world that has a pretty decent tone
  • Blues Cube is the best kept secret in guitar amps
  • Very easy to use
  • responsive and flexible amp
  • it was fairly easily fixed
  • it responds and the way it emulates that tube sweet spot is impressive
  • Portability
  • reliability
  • consistency and affordability
  • The clean tones are powerful and very musical

Cons

  • Blues Cube is nothing more than just another over hyped emulator
  • it only has 75 watts
  • amp is not the same as the new Cube amps
  • metal distortion - buy a pedal
  • No noise
  • remote for channel selection and reverb
  • there is no effects loop here
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  • real lack of clean channel headroom running straight into the higher input
  • the RF capsule is not yet available in stores
  • there is only once channel available

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Roland Blues Cube - Full Specifications

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General
Amplification technology
Valve
Cabinet shapeStraight
Fullrange/bass element quantity1
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Design
Colour of productBeige
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Audio features
Power (RMS)80.0 W
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Connectivity
USByes
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Dimensions
Width17.05 in
Depth9.41 in
Height16.26 in
Weight27.78 lb
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Power
Battery operatedno

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Roland Blues Cube Roland - Editorial Reviews (2)

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Published: 24.03.2016
Roland Blues Cube Hot review

Real valve tone from transistors?

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Roland Blues Cube Roland Blues Cube Hot British EL84 Modified
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Published: 24.08.2017
Roland Blues Cube Hot British EL84 Modified

This Vox-inspired special edition of Roland’s analogue modelling amp is equally impressive at home, on stage or in the studio.

By Paul White
9 minute read

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