Roland CUBE-10GX 10-Watt Guitar Amplifier (CUBE-10GX)

I've played music all my life, and am good at guitar and keyboards. I am somewhat obsessive about sound quality and specifically how an instrument reacts musically, though I also believe you can get a good sound out of lots of budget gear. I am a music therapist who was looking for a small light amp to use during sessions that could run the range from clean to metal. The battery powered amps I tried were nice (katana mini) but not quite loud enough. With reasonable expectations in mind (this isn't a big amp for playing live with a loud band, it is not a little boutique tube amp for using in the studio), this amp is everything I needed. This amp is absolutely loud enough for me. Gets over my noisy music groups no problem. Might keep up with a drummer in a practice setting if they aren't an idiot but I havent tried. It is sensitive at it's lowest settings like others say, but it's really not a big deal. This amp comes with an adapter, which is fine. I sometimes wish it had a fixed cable but it hasn't bothered me much. The bigger amps in this series do, if that matters to you. It is stupid light and a perfect size. And it seems really well built. And its really REALLY inexpensive. I use it on both keyboards and guitar. The effects are fine. I usually use a bit of echo or reverb. The app is kinda clumsy, but I used it exactly ONCE to put the models I want on it. Heres the big thing about the amp models... THEY SOUND AWESOME. With the three I have loaded (JC Clean, Tweed, Orange) it is hard to make a bad sound. Put all the eq's at noonish, don't over think it. I typically crank the gain up all the way and set the volume as needed. Heres what that gets me - the JC breaks up a bit but stays pretty clean and FAT. Like it has a compressor on but a good dynamic one. The tweed is very dynamic, and can get a good roots rock or blues thing going. Can get fairly hairy with hot pickups in a really nice way. Cleans up with volume or pick dynamic. The Orange - Forget the other metal settings - use the Orange Stack. Stick a pedal in front if you need more gain. But you probably dont, because this one chugs and chugs. It is really open and thick sounding, not fizzy like the rectifier seems to be for lots of people. On any of these settings, with the gain up high - this amp feels and sounds like it is opened up to it's "happy place" (if you use tube amps you know what I mean here) even at manageable volumes. It responds well to your playing and sounds nice and full. TLDR: This amp is good, its cheap, use the JC, Tweed, and Orange. Get it.

I am still breaking this amp in but so far im finding the audio quality fairly uninspired. I am using JC Clean mostly and then adjusting the signal via external pedals. Cranking the amp gain level all the way does produce a reasonably nice tone, but only if that’s what you’re looking for. The clean tone without gain is relatively quiet at max volume and also not particularly pleasant. I found it useless with active pickups on an acoustic electric. I tried to drive some Beyerdynamic 770 (80ohm) headphones with the clean signal and that is also pretty quiet even at max volume. I ended up somewhere around 30% gain on JC Clean, max volume on amp and guitar, to get an appropriate volume in my headphones. Mostly I’m working with this because it’s relatively compact and therefore fits in the space I have. The price wasn’t terrible I guess, resale probably will be difficult when I inevitably decide it’s time to get a nicer sounding setup but with the low initial investment you can only lose so much on resale.

As with all Roland products, this one is high quality.It's surprisingly good sounding for such a small thing. You'll be surprised, if you close your eyes it sounds much bigger than it looks. Lots of good effects. I like that you can do two effects-- like reverb and chorus, at the same time. Lots of good emulations too. Highly recommended.

This thing is dang loud, and the effects are bada'. Certainly a great deal for your room, and might even accompany a band.

I wanted to like the Rolad Cube. I have a Roland JC-22 that I love. With all the praise the Cube was getting, even from advanced players and guitar teachers, I thought that this would be a no-brainer as a solid-state practice surrogate for my tube amps. In the end, after a lot of back'n'forth listening with several amps, the Cube turned out to be a (albeit mild) disappointment. On the plus side, the Cube has a very nice tonal signature, with the character of each of my guitars showing through admirably. There is absolutely no solid-state edginess or hash. Just high-quality, accurate tonality. The preamp offers very good control over tone/volume paramaters, with no undue dulling of the tone. The 8-inch speaker covers the frequency range of a guitar with no strain. However. There is a "thickness" to the sound that, while not unpleasant, just fails to reveal the details of, say, a chord, especially in the lower register. On a good amp, the individual notes of a chord should be clearly heard. The Cube simply does not allow that kind of detail to show through. Compensating adjustments to tone controls always resulted in a different aspect of the sound quality to suffer. This would be forgivable in a $130 amp that didn't have a reputation as a giant killer. For me, it failed to inspire continued use. I just defaulted to other amps. So, not bad... but not the $500 dollar amp for $130 I'd been led to expect. I probably should know better....

Bought this to amplify my voice when playing guitar and the echo works well to enhance voice. Works well for that, but don’t have an electric guitar, so I can’t review that use. However, it does NOT sound good when connected to iphone pandora. No setting I tried would make that even half-way acceptable. But that’s not what it’s made for. Haven’t tried it with batteries yes.

Darn impressive little amp - I'm no expert. I just built myself my first electric - LP style with Tonerider Rocksong pickups and classic LP wiring - this cranks a lot louder than I need but it is fun. The effects are just enough to satisfy my needs as I relearn how to play after a very long layoff from guitar. I guess a lot of people want more in an amp but it does all I need. I have the iphone app but have not yet downloaded any amp profiles - I've been happy with the three default profiles so far. Anyway, a few more effects might be nice but for a simple inexpensive amp, its sounds great to me.

Great little amp

Super... fidèle à Roland on a quasi le JC 120 en miniature avec des effets en plus...

自宅での練習用のアンプとして使用なら大変使い勝手のいいアンプです。 サウンドを期待しすぎると少し失望するかもしれませんが、 なんと言ってもこの価格ですから、割り切って使えば重宝します。 因みに私はこのアンプのサウンド好きです。

Ho utilizzato Roland Cube per registrare brani con chitarra acustica. Suono limpido, volumi appropriati. Gli effetti presenti sono buoni. Ho acquistato questo modello, perché in precedenza utilizzavo il Roland Cube Micro.

Der Titel sagt eigentlich alles. Ich war nur auf der Suche nach einem kleinen Übungsverstärker und habe öfters schon positives von dem Roland Cube gelesen und gehört. Für den vergleichsweise schmalen Kurs habe ich ihn mir kurzerhand bestellt und muss wirklich sagen, dass der Sound von Clean bis High Gain sich echt hören lassen kann. Tatsächlich gefällt mir das Rectifier-Model des Cube10 sogar besser als mein Engl Gigmaster, den ich kurzerhand verkauft habe, da er trotz Power Soak sowieso viel zu laut für die Wohnung im Mehrfamilienhaus war. Equalizer und Effekte arbeiten präzise und der gewünschte Sound lässt sich in kürzester Zeit einstellen. So weit, so gut. Negativ sind mir bisher zwei Kleinigkeiten aufgefallen. Zum einen ist es zwar toll, dass sich die Amp-Models als Preset speichern lassen, allerdings finde ich den Weg dorthin über die App und Anschluss vom Handy/Tablet via Aux-Kabel an den Verstärker ziemlich umständlich, zumal neue Smartphones meistens gar keinen Aux-Ausgang mehr haben. Ich hatte hierfür zum Glück noch ein altes Tablet mit Aux-Ausgang rumliegen. Eine Bluetooth-Verbindung wäre deutlich angenehmer und zeitgemäßer, dürfte dann meinetwegen auch ein bisschen mehr kosten. Zum anderen ist der Amp mit einem Säugling zuhause in manchen Situationen trotz der 10 Watt noch immer zu laut, sodass Kopfhörer her müssen. Ich nutze hierfür die AKG K240 MKII, die ansonsten ein sehr transparentes und unverfälschtes Bild vom Sound abgeben. Ich weiß nicht, woran es liegt, aber der Sound des Amps über Kopfhörer ist bei weitem nicht mit dem Sound aus dem Speaker zu vergleichen. High-Gain klingt sehr künstlich und Clean sehr dünn. Insgesamt irgendwie sehr unbefriedigend. Für mich kein Grund für große Abzüge, da der Einsatz von Kopfhörern eher die Seltenheit darstellt, aber dennoch erwähnenswert.

Exactly what i needed