Roland Micro Cube Review

Price: 129$ on zzounds.com   Roland Micro Cube is an awesome guitar mini amp for traveling musicians and street artists. The device can be powered by both ways: 6 AA batteries or AC adapter. Good alkaline and rechargeable batteries provide about 15-20 hours of work!

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Despite the amplifier has only 2 watts of power, it sounds really loud.

The Cube has built in guitar effect processor with basic guitar effects such as:

delay/reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and amp-modeler with pretty impressive

distortion sound for such small combo. The effect processor has only control knobs to tweak

sound, no difficult menus and multiple button clicks.

Moreover little cube has a tuning fork with the switch between notes of A, Ab and G.

input for mp3 player or other input sound device to jam with,  or you can plug in

one more guitar to it, but note that this input is unbalanced and without any effect processing.

Next to the input slot, there's Aux output for connecting the micro cube to another amp,

mixer, or recording device.

The combo can use only one modulation effect (flanger, chorus, tremolo or phaser)  per time and combine

it with distortion. Delay and reverb are independent from other effects, but OR delay OR reverb

can be used in the same time.

If you like Carlos Santana or Brain May smooth guitar sound you'll probably like micro

cube amp modeler. Combining with some amount of reverb or delay it sounds really good.

If you like heavily distorted guitar, in my opinion, the cube won't deliver it.

It does have heavy distorted amp (R-FIER) but to me it feels kinda unnatural.

But I found a solution: I discovered that combining any good distortion pedal

or other effect processor with cube's JC clean amp gives way better heavy metal sounding.

MicroCube also has an acoustic guitar emulator, as well as jazz and a few vintage amps

for blues and old rock playing.

There's also preset for microphone usage on the board. So it's possible to sing along

with delay, chorus, flanger effects...

Overall Roland M. Cube makes very good impression as all-in-one mobile amplifier, combining

everything you need on the road, and a find for street musicians or guys who like to play

outdoor. And I give it FIVE STARS.

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