LX12 Review

The Laney LX12 is a great little amp for practice. Featuring 10 watts output, twin channels, Global EQ and a 1x6" custom speaker. And as you can see, it looks the business too!

Features:	8
Sound:	7.5
Reliability:	9.5
Impression:	8.5
Overall rating:	8.4
Users rating:	7.1
Comments:	5

overall: 8.3

Featured review by: cyanide533, on january 30, 2009

Price paid: $ 80

Purchased from: Guitar Collection

Features: This amp was made in Chine in 2005. It is Twin channel 10 watts solid state Guitar amp with three equalizers (Low, Mid, High), gain and volume knobs. It comes Black metal corners, gloss metal grille, rubber feet and 1x6" custom speakers. It has one stereo output and one CD line in input. With the price it comes with I cannot expect any other additional features. I wished it had a reverb and a foot switch. However if those two were included the price couldn't have been same. // 9

Sound: This amp is loud enough for home practise, I haven't tried it in jamming but I am not too hopeful it will be loud enough against drums. The clean channel is plain and sonically characterless. It does not colour anything. Therefore if you use good guitar it is going to sound like an expensive amp and vice versa. However I have noticed that the treble becomes more dominant if the volume level goes beyond 5... but it doesn't get clipped even at full volume. The distortion channel is same as clean channel; flat and doesn't colour the original tone. But the treble increases as volume increases. The distortion is relatively weak. it's good for playing classic rock which is one of my primary styles. I normally tweak from 5 to 8 to play classic rock. At 9 the distortion is quite good for playing modern hard rock solos adding sustain but at 10 it becomes noisy. However the noise doesn't overpower The Music itself and If you get good earthing the noise is reduced to an almost inaudible level. I have tried playing metal but it is not satisfactory.

The equalizers really works but the change of tone isn't dramatic. I guess the equalizers, in this amp, is built for fine tuning not to change your tone to a great extent. // 7

Reliability & Durability: No wonder I can depend on it but considering a 10 watts amp to gig is a job for intellectually challenged person. This amp is kick and abuse proof. I dropped it from stair it survived, it dropped from my table, again it survived. The grill and the rubber act like amour plate. However the weakness I found is absence of a back cover where the speaker is protection less. The input and output jacks are solid and knobs are solid and firm too. // 9

Impression: It is ok for any genres which are not high gain dependent. However you can use an external stomp box for that purpose. This guitar is good for testing how good a guitar is because it is flat and doesnt't't color your tone. So you wont be satisfied if you use a crappy guitar. I have been playing electric guitar since 2006 and acoustic since 2002. I have a Yamaha pacifica right now, it sounds ok with this amp. I also tried a PRS with this and it blew me off with thickness and warmth, again I tried an Cheap Indian guitar and it sounded disgusting. I think I will buy this again even if it was lost or stolen. I fancy for a tube amp but my neighbors are not sympathetic so I decide to buy a tonelab to play with this amp. // 8

overall: 8.5

Reviewed by: blobthedie, on august 25, 2008

Price paid: £ 35

Purchased from: Kempsters music

Features: Great amp for the price you pay. 10 watts, and more than loud enough for a bedroom guitarist, I generaly have it on 2/10. Gain, bass, mid, treble and volume knobs, all do their work perfectly well, and better than you'd expect for a cheap amp. Guitar input hasn't come loose yet, unlike my Squier Strat output jack, CD/Line in dose what it says on the tin, and whatever you're plugging in has to have an indipendant power source, phones jack's working at the moment. // 7

Sound: With light distortian it can make my affinity strat sound like an Fender american standard, loud even when unplugged, and I mainly play classic rock. The distortion isn't great, it just makes the guitar sound slightly warmer, but once you get past 7/10 it sounds like it should. // 8

Reliability & Durability: I've had it for a month and a half now, and it dosn't show that it's been out of the box for an hour. I've even sat on it for a few hours before now. Very dependable, I'd happily gig with it, If I was a better guitarist. // 10

Impression: Good match for any type of music, from classic rock to country, but I've not tried any metal yet, and won't till I get a guitar with hummbuckers, I'll leave a comment when I've tried. If it were stolen or lost, I'd definatley get another, andI'm gonna stick with Laney amps even when I can afford a proper amp. I like the kick-grill too. I don't feel safe with a cloth-grill cos I'm really clumsy. If you're a starter guitarist, or just don't have enough money for a bigger better version, it's well worth £35. // 9

Comments

[TAOD4ever]

yeah, it's a good amp I plug an SG in and rock out all the time.

[blobthedie]

Good amp, but I'm starting to outgrow it now, and it's actualy really quiet at 2/10, I now play it at the 1 o'clock position. And I had so many typo's in that review. And you couldn't gig with it, when you turn it up to full it looses any tonal quality it had. I'm thinking about getting a marshall bass amp next, cos then I can have one amp for bass and guitar. Any advice on that front?

[oers_magyari]

blobthedie wrote:

Good amp, but I'm starting to outgrow it now, and it's actualy really quiet at 2/10, I now play it at the 1 o'clock position. And I had so many typo's in that review. And you couldn't gig with it, when you turn it up to full it looses any tonal quality it had. I'm thinking about getting a marshall bass amp next, cos then I can have one amp for bass and guitar. Any advice on that front?

I have a Fender Rumble 60, bass amp, but, it can`t handle the hights of the guitar, has nice bass, quite good middle, but, the high is suffering. It`s quite normal. I say, guitar amp for guitar, bass amp for bass. Or you could buy an amp from the "Peavey KB" family, it is good for keyboards, vocals, guitars..etc.

[HannibalX]

lx12 vs vox pathfinder 10?

[cajun_prince]

pathfinder 15r.