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RG50TC Review

manufacturer: randall date: 10/24/2007 category: guitar amplifiers
RG50TC
Whether you looking for a great sounding tube amp to jam at home with friends or flexible high performance road amp, the new Tube Series has your back.
 Features:9
 Sound:8.5
 Reliability:10
 Impression:9
 Overall rating:
 9.1 
 Users rating:
 8.9 
 Comments:
 11 
  pictures (1)  user comments vote for this amp:
overall: 9
Featured review by: axe_thrasher, on july 30, 2007
4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Purchased from: Dolphin Music

Features: This amp is pretty much for straight out metal which is good for me since I usually play death and thrash metal. It has two foot-swithchable channels, an effects loop, clean boost, and two gain types. I tend to not use gain two as it's pretty much same as gain one unfortunately, just a liitle less gain and a bit more bass also gain 1 and two arn't independant channels but just separate gain types. It's 50 watts tube power is more than enough for my bedroom, I have yet to gig with it, but it makes a roar at practice. It has 3 12AX7EH pre-amp tubes and two EL34 power tubes coming out of a 12" celestion speaker making an unbeleivable sound for £250. // 9

Sound: I am currently using a B.C. Rich warlock bronze series but plan on upgrading soon. This amp even makes this guitar give a brutal and skull crushing tone on gain 1, as I said I mainly play thrash and death metal and this does the job perfectly. Unfortunately it's clean channel distorts very easily even without the boost on, due to this I plan on buying an acoustic moddling pedal of some sort. The clean boost does have a nice subtle distortion to it, which is good if you want a metal amp but still play a bit of blues lets say. I have to say this amp doesn't give much feedback even with the B.C. Rich pickups. I've yet to turn it past 10 O'clock as it is very loud. // 8

Reliability & Durability: I have banged and bumped this amp around the place and surprisingly it has never broken. I've not had to replace the tubes as of yet. It even fell down in the back of a taxi on the way home form practice, it didn't even have a scratch on it. I plan on gigging it soon and would rely on it without a backup. // 10

Impression: I have been playing for about two years and sold my spider 3 75 watt combo to get this and I don't regret that descion for a second. One thing I'd wish I'd done before buying this amp is looking at the clean channel more closely, but it doesn't bother me that much that it distorts easily. If it were stolen or lost I would defintely buy it again. I love the distorion this amp makes on the gain channel. It's thick yet has good treble. It beats the hell out of my old spider 3 and where it lack in versitility to some other amp, such as the Vox AD120VT of my friends, it's distortion channel is truly awesome for the price. // 9

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overall: 9.3
Reviewed by: Exsuratientoel, on october 24, 2007
2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Price paid: $ 667.95

Features: It's can be played at bedroom levels, or you can crank it & it'll easily hope with most gigs. It has heaps of distortion & great tone. I play metal & metalcore mainly, you have to crank it to get the most out of it, but once you've broke that barrier, the RG-50 TC is one of the best 50 watt combo's I've ever played. It features two channels, overdrive & clean. The overdrive controls are gain 1, gain 2, bass, middle, treble & level, the clean channel controls are level boost, bass, middle & treble. It has spring reverb & a master volume knob. You can really have that all tube tone without burning a whole in your pocket. // 9

Sound: I use my Dean From Hell with a Bill Lawrence in the bridge & a Dean pickup in the neck, the RG-50TC is perfect for the kind of music I play. It's a full tube amp, so you get all the benefits of having tubes, & damn they sound good. The distortion is br00tal, I have it at 8 for my metalcore needs, but you can crank it all the way for those death metal tones. The clean channel is pretty good, but not the best ever, as long as you don't play loads of cleans, this amp is the perfect metal weapon. // 9

Reliability & Durability: I transport my gear around allot, & my RG-50 TC has never had any problems, it's been dropped once, fallen over in the can plenty of times, but it still sounds as good as it did when I first bought it. It's a solid amplifier, you could tour the world with this amp & it wouldn't let you down. // 10

Impression: This is one of the best amps I've ever played, it doesn't break the budget, & it's just the right if you don't have much space. It may be small, but it's packed with tone & distortion. The only downside is the clean channel becoming distorted when it's cranked above 5. I've played through many amps, my three favourites have to be the Peavey 5150, Marshall JCM900 & the Randall RG-50 TC. // 9

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 comments posted
axe_thrasher :
Actually I take back what I said about the clean once I fiddled with it I got an amazing clean sound out of it.
POSTED: 08/18/2007 - 12:08 pm / quote |
Shredmaster42 :
is the amp loud enough for some giggage?
POSTED: 08/24/2007 - 09:49 pm / quote |
PrestigeRGAx :
yea. it loud for giggage. Just not like big stages like over 1000 ppl unless you mic the amp. I sold mine because I didnt liek it. It wasnt versatile at all but it did one thing..metal and it did it well.
POSTED: 08/29/2007 - 02:10 pm / quote |
mattyt81 :
axe_thrasher, what settings did you use on the clean channel to get the sound you like?
POSTED: 09/20/2007 - 07:23 am / quote |
HELLSHREDD :
I bought the new line6 spidervalve 40 watt combo all tube amp & im sure that pound 4 pound the line6 will make any bedroom metalhead much happier than most combo amps with settings CLEAN, TWANG, BLUES , CRUNCH, METAL & INSANE, also i like to add that there are 2 settings for each channel & over 400 presets built in. I into Metallica , Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura & i never use the INSANE channel cuz its more for the new metal & its fricken insane, go try it out & make sure to come back & thank me K.....
POSTED: 01/14/2008 - 07:51 pm / quote |
Pingis_Or_Death :
HELLSHREDD wrote:

I bought the new line6 spidervalve 40 watt combo all tube amp & im sure that pound 4 pound the line6 will make any bedroom metalhead much happier than most combo amps with settings CLEAN, TWANG, BLUES , CRUNCH, METAL & INSANE, also i like to add that there are 2 settings for each channel & over 400 presets built in. I into Metallica , Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura & i never use the INSANE channel cuz its more for the new metal & its fricken insane, go try it out & make sure to come back & thank me K.....

Stop advertising please.
I'm gonna get this amp for my birthday, yay.

POSTED: 02/14/2008 - 06:14 am / quote |
higglor :
I heard that this amp rattles and flubs out on the low end at high volumes in an article on guitar player . com Would it be loud enough for gigs without being turned up all the way?
POSTED: 02/17/2008 - 02:25 pm / quote |
YngwieJnr :
well 50 watts tube is around 125 watts SS ive played in a hall of around 100 and i only turned the 120 watt amp up around 6 o clock. So im guessing 50 watts tube is enough. I havent got this amp yet though looks good

Also the line 6 is too digitally for me and its 100 pounds more expensive.

POSTED: 06/08/2008 - 03:44 pm / quote |
lukeuh36azabc :
i'm getting one of these in the next month or so...hopefully
POSTED: 07/09/2008 - 09:33 am / quote |
ReefTECK :
I just bought a brand new RG50TC at an auction from a store that was going out of business for 250 bucks! Totally brutal! Love it!
POSTED: 07/22/2008 - 12:16 pm / quote |
lukeuh36azabc :
yay i just got my RG50TC delivered to day and it's amazing!!!
POSTED: 08/27/2008 - 11:53 am / quote |
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