The Roland Blues Cube Artist Guitar Amplifier brings the classic combo into a new era. It mixes modern tube tone reliability and easy portability. Versatile clean and crunch channels can both be used independently or combined in order to produce a complex range of sounds. Its variable output power modes let you dial in further burning and full-throttle sound at any volume. Road-tested and fine-tuned with feedback from top players, the gig-ready Blues Cube really delivers.
Highly responsive amp tones. Warm, bouncy, responsive, dynamic, and elastic – these are all terms that guitarists use to describe their favorite tube amps. Thanks to its Tube Logic design, all these words can be used to describe the iconic Blues Cube Artist as well. Dramatically evolved from the original ’90s model, today’s design accurately reproduces the complex and highly interactive behavior of the classic in meticulous detail. Great feel, distortion control, bloom, sparkle, power supply, and more – everything that players love about a finely tuned vintage tube amp is present in abundance with the Blues Cube.
Wide-open sound at any volume. Ready for live playing, this combo comes equipped with 80 Watts of power plus a custom 12-inch speaker that has been specifically designed for maximum tonal response. Every tube amp player knows that you really need to turn up the volume and push the output tubes to get the amplifier to sing at its best. Delivering the complex distortion of output tubes and their interaction with the output transformer, the Blues Cube truly outshines the rest.
Clean, crunch, and dual tone. The Blues Cube Artist features two independent channels. One has been voiced for cleaner tones, while the other is for crunch. Designed on each channel are boost and tone switches that allow you to shape your sound to suit your style. The clean channel’s single volume control dials in natural tube fullness and bite while the volume is cranked, while the crunch channel’s variable gain provides a range of grit flavors from mild to aggressive. With the press of a switch, the unique Dual Tone mode lets you blend both channels together for an endless array of rich tones. And just like a vintage tube amp, the Blues Cube loves stompboxes, allowing you to further shape your personal sound by hitting the amp’s front end with your favorite gain pedals.
Maintenance-free and effortless to transport. With its modern approach, the Blues Cube eliminates two of the biggest drawbacks found in all tube amps powerful enough for stage playing. The originals were extremely heavy, prone to vibration damage, and require frequent tube replacement and other costly maintenance to keep them going strong. This modern remake is totally maintenance-free and has been strategically designed to reduce weight in every area that doesn’t affect the tone. Enjoy a great tube sound at every gig, but with much easier load-in and no actual tubes to worry about.
Specifications:
– Product Code: BC-ARTISTB
– Electronics High Input Level: -10dBu
– Low Input Level: 0dBu
– Effects Loop Return: -10dBu
– Speaker: 1 x 12″
– Controls: Power, Dual Tone, Channel Select, Clean Channel: Boost, Tone, Volume, Crunch Channel: Boost, Tone, Gain, Volume, Equalizer: Bass, Middle, Treble, Effect: Tap, EXF Loop, Tremolo, Reverb, Presence, Master Power Control Clean Channel Indicators: Boost, Tone, Crunch Channel Indicators: Boost, Tone, Tap Effect Power
– Connectors: Input High/Low Jack: 1/4″ Phone Type, Line Out Jack: 1/4″ Phone Type, Phones Jack: Stereo 1/4″ Phone Type, Footswitch (Tremolo, Ring EFX Loop) Jack: 1/4″ TRS Phone Type, Footswitch (Channel Select, Ring Dual Tone) Jack: 1/4″ TRS Phone Type, Footswitch (GA-FC): 1/4″ TRS Phone Type, EFX Loop Send Jack: 1/4″ Phone Type, EFX Loop Send Return Jack: 1/4″ Phone Type, Record Out: USB Type B, AC In: Jack
– Dimensions: Height: 48.5cm, Width: 59.2cm, Depth: 26cm, Weight: 16kg
