Roland MicroCube GX
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2013
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Roland has announced the Micro Cube GX Guitar Amplifier, a miniature powerhouse that sets a new performance standard in ultra-compact, battery-powered amplification.
As the replacement for Roland's hugely successful MICRO CUBE, the MICRO CUBE GX improves on its legendary predecessor in every way, adding a MEMORY function, new amp and effects types, a chromatic tuner, and more. i-CUBE LINK opens new opportunities for practice and mobile recording, providing a convenient built-in interface for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
A top-seller worldwide for nearly 10 years running, the acclaimed MICRO CUBE holds the mantle as the most popular battery-powered amp of all time. The MICRO CUBE GX is a worthy successor, retaining the original's tiny size and huge sound while adding many great features and improvements.
Filled with eight of Roland's renowned COSM amps, the MICRO CUBE GX provides a wide range of versatile tones, from the crystal-clear JC CLEAN to the new EXTREME for crushing, in-your-face metal riffs. Five different EFX types include a new HEAVY OCTAVE effect that works great for adding unique, ultra-low power to distorted tones.
The independent DELAY/REVERB processor features a newly added spring reverb option for authentic surf and roots-rock sounds. A new MEMORY function turns the MICRO CUBE GX into a dual-channel amp, allowing users to store and recall their favorite amp and effects settings.
With up to 25 hours of playing time using six NiMH AA-size batteries, players can enjoy uninterrupted fun with the MICRO CUBE GX while jamming at home, the beach, camping trips, and parties. Increased power output delivers even better performance, and a chromatic tuner is built in, eliminating the need to carry an external tuner.
The MICRO CUBE GX features Roland's innovative i-CUBE LINK interface for simple and convenient connectivity with Apple's iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Two-way communication with iOS devices is provided via the included cable, allowing players to jam with music tracks and send studio-quality COSM guitar tones direct to their favorite music recording apps. The versatile i-CUBE LINK jack can also be used as a simple stereo input, letting users plug in nearly any music player or audio device and play it through the amp.
Available for free from the App Store, the companion CUBE JAM app turns an iOS device into a fun command center for jamming, recording, and learning. Users can play along with commercial songs through the MICRO CUBE GX, and record their performance back into CUBE JAM with their favorite COSM amp tones. The app also includes powerful tools for music practice, including independent speed and pitch adjustment of audio playback, Center Cancel, and more. - Розваги
I got a micro cube, and I'm pretty impressed with it. You can take it anywhere. Acoustic even sounds ok through it.
A demo with Rush!
I'm sold.
Well-played, Paul.
are you badger from breaking bad
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I have one of the original ones which has a broken on/off button I turn on with a chord tip. The blackface panel is really good sounding.
I have the original microcube, and I take it with me to teach guitar lessons and its perfect. Sounds great, and fits in my backpack. I would definitely recommend one of these to anyone looking for a portable amp.
yeah, i use it when i go on holidays, it's really light and sounds good enough for practicing :D
Dude...you sold me with Bastille Day!!! Amazing.
Wow, the MicroCube didn't sound even a quarter as bad as I feared. Considering, that it's such a tiny amp, it actually sounds pretty amazing.
I getting a Cube 20xl, it's a mad sounding amp, always go for Roland Cube amplifiers!
Oh, also good playing, Paul. Really liked it. Rock on, dude!
(sorry for double-posting)
Bastille Day Great choice of song to jam too! Great review. Cool little amp.
Perfeito! Eu tenho um, não me arrependo.
Hey paul I liked the rush you threw in at the end
You Did a great sample video, Paul, Be Strong
A lot of it is in your playing too. This amp has an awesome clean sound, and pedals come through nicely too. It's quite an amp.
Oliver Adam so we can use pedal effects with this amp? I am newby and this is what I am looking for about the ability of the amp to receive the external effect.
Btw what is the minimum size of an amp that can handle a stompbox effect well?
That sounds great for its size!
can icube jam play mp3 on all songs in iphone so we can jaming together with song that we played??? i confuse to buy this or marshall mg15cfr
Great little amps, i bought one last year. the bit at the end, Bastille Day by Rush!
That amp is insane what it does!!
The Rush Jam sold me!!
Please help me choose one between roland micro cube or gx10. I just wanna practicing on my room. Can this two amp play with android?
I love this portable amp.
Nice vid!
Would the micro cube be suitable volume wise to jam and loop myself outdoors with an acoustic guitar? (water flowing, wind, people talking etc)
Would it produce sufficient volume and decent sound quality? (Clean channel)
I would like to have heard a clean sound demonstrated.
How do you guys like this vs. the more expensive RX model?
Paul makes every amp sound like a micro cube.
I agree. It’s enough to make one take up the ukulele… 😆
Really great little amp!
Man... They'r COSM technology made a long way since my VS-2480 days around 2002...
Please do a comparison between this and the new Vox Soundbox Mini.
Great review. Thanks.
Guitar World has the guy in the video ever owned a 2002 epiphone Les Paul? I bought one about a year ago and it has the exact same pickups as this one. (The bridge pickup was uncovered as well)
any line out for recording? or i need to mic this up?
I really liked the JAZZ, POP AND COUNTRY settings.
This amp is great for recording or running direct to a pa...The Classic Stack sound is my favorite.....I use a cube 80Xl for big shows even..It is awesome...Tone comes from your fingers.....!!
Is this compatable with acoustic guitar or violin
actually there's a huge market these days for amps in this range with quite a few that are actually not bad at all. Some are even a bit cheaper like the Fender Frontman 25R or the Peavy Vypr VIp.
Dude, I love your review vids. You rock.
What's the music he plays at the end
Oh hey Badger! I see you got an new hobby... good for you! =)
Vox Mini3 or this? Which one is better???
A very good Review , thanks .
Brit setting sounded great, but did you have the use Phaser on the Extreme one? Blegh
what kind of mic is that
I have the older Micro Cube without the "Xtreme" model. It makes me wonder what the hell you would need even MORE gain than the R-Fier model. I mean, with active pickups the little thing sounds huge just on the R-Fier, truly destructive gain. Honestly, "Xtreme" just seems like a gimmick for kids.
what is the song he starts playing at the end ?
Does it have a noise gate?
How loud is it?
Really torn between this and the Orange 20LDX
this or Yamaha THR5?
how to use memory button? i dont understand how do you set different settings and then turn them with memory button.
Set knobs to get desired sound for the amp you're using. Hold "memory" button for a few seconds till it blinks repeatedly. When you switch out of that amp or adjust knobs, just press the "memory" button to recall the setting you made for that amp.
Brit Stack for Bastille Day tone? It was dead on!!
how Loud is it??
did i miss the price? how much is it?
Does the i cube link work as a regular aux in for mp3s etc?
He said that it does, so I would assume so.
Just love the Les Paul !!!!!!!!!
What les paul is that ?
Paul's a KILLER guitarist!
Caress of Steel!
Can you place a Microphone on the cube with the guitar?
It doesn't hold anything on the Yamaha THR amps
cheers brother :)
Cool TINY amp!!!
Nice amp! Damn!
What kind of Les Paul is that?
Any good sounds in that thing??
You had me at Bastille Day!
when volume goes up， the sound is terrible?
Allen lifts weights it's ok but remember it's only a practice amp.
-Roland Micro Cube 2W
-Blackstar ID:Core 10W
Can you people advise me which one is better?
(What I look are; natural sound, good crunch, mostly for classic and alternative rock.
I don't care about battery use or max voice output, size etc...)
I use Cort EVL Z4 (with EMG HZ H4 passive pickups)
Owned the ID:Core 20 and the 40. Returned both, because while their ISF control is simply amazing, when you turn up the gain, they sound quite harsh. Distortion has remnants that just sound wrong and like noise, instead of the instrument. Tried all gain and volume levels. The emulated output/headphones, USB connection and software are pretty sharp.
I mostly play classic rock and the distortion was a bit much, thru that little speaker.
Best sounding of the small modeling amps and what I finally ended up with, was the Yamaha THR-10, I have the regular model but am going to trade for the 10X as it has the two Brown Sound channels, which take it to another level of tone. It comes closest to reproducing tubes, imo.
Play everything thru humbuckers. Les Paul, SG and and old Kramer
JD Hoov Thanks a lot mate.
I ended up buying Nux Mighty 30.
A local store praised this product a lot and the sound seems good until now.
I'm still testing it though (crunch might a bit heavier than it should be)
Yamaha THR-10 seems great but the price is over my current limit. But I will keep this in mind for future of course.
warbringerrr
If you're still shopping amps and I don't know many guitar players who aren't always shopping amps. You could probably pick up a Yamaha THR-10 for pretty decent price. I don't usually see a lot of used ones, but I haven't looked either.
I would avoid the THR-10X, its just a bit too hot an amp, doesn't clean up at all. Its just balls to the wall distortion. I'm able to stomach it, by making it emulate my SL5.
I screwed up trading it, but... live and learn. I'll probably end up buying the THR-10HD when it comes out, if its cheaper than the advertised $1300, by a considerable amount.
Main drawback of the MicroCube GX ?? It's not footswitch compatible. Sad.
Jimmy Page signature, right? Cool amp, although it's shame the metal setting is gone, I always use that one on my Cube30.
I travel a around lot, and have a different selections of battery driven amp's, and the biggest issue with the Roland micro-cube specifically as I see it is the abstinence of the low bass sound range that it basically can't handle, in witch is super important even if you're strumming the guitar, or hooking up your ipod/mp3-player.
Only good thing about it is that the battery time last a lot longer, but that can and should be choosable with a little EQ and a better amp/speaker.
Next time I go for a VOX-Box, cause it carries a way better room of sound.
are referring to drop D and nu metal stuff (?) because nobody else seems to have this problem.
Atacama Humanoid I'm not sure what you mean by that though .-P
Yeah I play D-Drop but not any nu metal stuff.
I think a portable amp should be able to power up an mp-3 with a good range of sound.
The Roland mini cube doesn't do that compared to other and even cheaper amps..
It has a high pitch range rather than a full range like the other amps I'v tried.
I hope to be wrong, but i think this amp lis a bit, not only this micro, i talk about any Roland Cube, either 40gx and 80gx.
Please let me know if im wrong.
I have this one, Micro Cube GX and im fascinated with two types of amps that i use to practice, Brit combo (VOX AC-30) and Classic Stack (Marshall JMP1987), i love them ...but i think in real life or the real models dont have the amount of gain that you have in this amps, is great for leads, i dont like Metal sound like Rectifier and Xtreme, i like the British sound .. i have been seeing a lot of videos and reviews of this two models (VOX AC-30 and Marshall JMP1987) and i have not seen a video when they get that amount of gain, the max level of gain they can gave is like a crunchy but far from leads.
Price please
Bear in mind this amp is mic'd up.
90% of people don't realise that you only need a huge full stack amp with 4x12 speakers if you're going to be gigging with no PA. This amp will sound shit in the corner of a room, but mic'd up for recording it sounds brilliant...
Can anyone confirm if this is realistically the sound quality you'll get out of it?
I have the same amp, it sounds awesome (like this)
***** depends on your guitar/pickups but it sounds pretty good with my cheap strat
+Quit Ewe I would go as far as "DEPENDS on the PLAYER". You play like crap, you'll sound like crap regardless on how much money your rig is worth. A great player will make any cheap rig sound like $1,000,000.
It sounds good with every single coil guitar, humbucker guitars are another story, because the amp's speaker can't handle the low end of the sound that humbuckers make, and the distortion will turn into more like some kinda fuzzy noise than real metal distortion. ppl say that the extreme channel is bad, that's not true :D with my guitar (ibanez rg 421) i like this channel for metal the most but if you play in blues-jazz style, this amp is gonna fit you until you don't play Stevie Ray Vaughan. :D
Playing professional for over 30 years ! I have the 80 watt Roland cube GX. It is stunning! Great Vox AC-30 Fender Twin and Deluxe and Marshall. Nothing else I need! Built like a German tank! and these modeling amps sound just like the real deal ! Hands Down!
yes it kind of does but not nearly the same versatility as a boss pedal would give you haha the effects are probably set on a specific setting that you cant modify
Thx
Would it kill them to put an fx level control in this or my Micro Cube? wtf
Old thread but I agree, I usually run it dry because the fx are too exaggerated, would love a way to make them more subtle
Really positive small thing...way bigger than size.
Creo que las pruebas de sonido deberían ser con una guitarra económica, no todos van a tocar con una Gibson
I agree!!
Nice
What was that song ?
The ending song? Bastille Day by Rush, the greatest band on earth.
From the beach to the bedroom!!! Tell'em Pauli, yo baby want to come back to my place for a Roland in the Hey -ooooohhhhhhh!
perfect mini amp for practice.
I hope people don't actually expect a world class monster tone from a tiny practice amp.
I want the guitar nix the amp.
Sounds great apart from that 'extreme' setting, that sounded bloody awful, certainly nothing like Nuno :-)
Just iPhone.?
Grow Up, give a regular 3.5mm Jack.
Agreed - I'm weary of how many things just align themselves to Apple so if you don't use their gear, you're stuffed. I like the look and sound of this amp, but why pay extra for all the Apple links I won't use?
It's a normal aux in, which also outputs the processed audio to the mic contact on a 4-pin jack. They have a shitty iphone app which will let you record this, but there is nothing iphone specific about the hardware.
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@@Havanacuba1985 shut it dock.
This guy was hilarious in Horrible Bosses.
hahaha, 4:30 is so cheesy. could've done without the flanger too. :P
Rushs Bastille day😏😏😏😏😏
Wonder how it sounds without a $6k guitar..
IDONTGETPAIDFORTHIS1 A Guitar is a guitar no matter how expensive, there isn’t gonna be much difference!
@@rhashmi75 also a 100 dollar amp isn't going to sound as great or have the same tolerance as a 1,000 dollar amplifier. With or without a crappy or super expensive guitar, also the player. Give a pro a 300 dollar guitar he can shred it, give a beginner a $6k guitar its going to sound like crap. equipment is always about needs not wants
Give Me the Cube Boy! Megatron from Transformers The Movie 2007.
Too bad the link & app are Apple/iTunes only. Too bad no Android support.
you can still plug your android phone and play music from your library or youtube etc.. you just don't have the app but who cares
I really don't like being negative but this is a terrible review because it made me think that this amp is not capable of anything but a nasty gritty high gain lead sound, but this video at 8:50 shows that it CAN do it /watch?v=x1SHilKAkOs
I don't think its as good as the Line 6 Micro Spider.
But not that bad
How loud can this thing go?
I have one this thing gets pretty loud. I don't even turn it up past a quarter of the volume.
TheJAYpoop I ended up getting the Cube 20GX (the next one up from this). Holy shit it's LOUD AS F*CK! Not even 10% of the volume.
Who cut your hair?
Briggs and Stratton.
LoL
BASTILLE DAY FROM RUSH!!!! :D