Engl Powerbal

Fica Aqui a Review do Engl Powerball.

Review:






Well, the
amp has 4 channels: Clean, Crunch, Low Gain Lead, High Gain Lead, 2
Bright/Bottom switches, Extra Crunch Treble control, 2 EQs, each 4 band, one
for channel 1/2, one for channel. Volume controls for each channel.

ThePowerball is an overall amp, because you can nail any kind of sound you want
from it, but it is typically suited for metal, with lots of head room and
massive gain. Clean channel is really crystal clear, and its great combined
with the bottom switch, giving more body to the sound. It’s not the best clean
channel I have heard, but it sounds great. The Crunch channel, which has the
same eq has the clean, has a nice sound for Richie Kotzen, Andy Timmons, AC/DC
and hard rock in general, although like the Low Gain Lead and High Gain Lead,
its distortion is kind of compressed and less organic. It works and you can get
a great sound from it, but it’s not what this amp does best. If you want an amp
for a crunch distortion, you better look for other options.

The Channel 3 (Low Gain Lead) is probably what you will mostly use with this amp. It has a
switch for Open and Focus Mids which tightens up the sound
for staccato-styled riffs, the excellent definition of this channel lets you
hear just every note/mistake, it’s great for modern metal/rock (and of course
any style of more extreme metal, Jeff Loomis from Nevermore and Chris Broderick
from Megadeth used to have one) and it sustains for days. This channel although a bit compressed, can
fight by side with Mesas, Marshalls, and all kinds of metal heads.

At last and unfortunately at least… the Channel 4. This is basically the
3º channel but with a lot more gain, I practically don’t use it. The amount of
gain is just surreal, I play channel 3 with gain at 10 o’clock, and already has
a lot of it.I think this channel is probably more useful for
soloing, but it doesn’t work for my taste.







Liked about it:
- It’s an amp where you play any musical style you want and sound great.
- Channel 3 is top notch metal distortion sound, I mean it. I dropped some musicians
friends jaws with my tone while playing a Hello Kitty guitar. It’s just that
amazing.
- Price for the value of the amp.

Didn’t Like:


- Channel 4, I think this could be something else or work in some other way.


- Shared Equalization, I like to have each channel with its own eq.