Roland Amps 60

Roland Cube 60 Guitar Combo Amplifier (60 Watts, 1x12 in.)

Roland's Cube-60 takes the acclaimed Cube amplifier line to new levels and larger venues. It packs a punchy 60 watts of power into a compact 12- in. design, giving you the performance of a bigger amp, without the excess baggage. It features enriched COSM amp models, popular digital effects, versatile outputs and well-respected reliability. Just like its popular siblings, Cube-60 stretches the limits of where you can go with your music, both in terms of tone and venues.

Features

• Powerful 60-watt output in a compact, 12 in. speaker design.
• Built-in 9 COSM guitar amp models, including JC, British Combo and R-Fire.
• New Dyna Amp feature offers expressive control over enhanced dynamics and tone transitions based on picking style.
• Six classic built-in Roland effects, including Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo and independent Delay/Reverb.
• Multiple outputs, including Recording/Phones Out, Line Out, Tuner Out and Ext Speaker Out (for connecting external cabinets).
• Channel switching, delay/reverb and effect on/off control via optional footswitch.

Bigger, and Better

The Cube-60 has more power, punch and performance features than the competition, with a newly developed custom speaker and specially tuned power amplifier. Its compact and lightweight design makes it easy to transport from rehearsal to gig, while its powerful 60-watt output and built in COSM(R) effects and amp models ensures your performance won't go unnoticed, or unheard!

A Roomful of AmpsAll in One

The Cube-60 comes with nine onboard COSM Amp models, including JC, British Combo and R-Fier. COSM modeling faithfully provides every inspired nuance and characteristic of a variety of classic and modern amps, down to the preamp and circuits, speaker and outputs. Roland's new "Dyna Amp" amp type lets you create unique tone transitions based on picking dynamics. You can get a transparent clean output sound by picking softly, or a powerful hi-gain amp sound by picking more aggressively. Dyna Amp's distortion can create cool tonal transitions based on the intensity of your performance.

Tweak Your Tone

There's plenty of room to tweak your tone, with versatile onboard effects and EQ and a newly equipped Bright switch and Presence knob. Six of Roland's world-class effects are built in, including Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo and an independent Delay/Reverb processor. Additionally, there are footswitch inputs for switching channels and turning delay/reverb and effects On/Off.

Versatile Outputs Fit Any Playing Environment

In addition to the Control feature, the Cube-60 is equipped with a wide range of output options for recording or live performance. There are separate output jacks for Recording/Phones Out, Line Out and Ext Speaker Out. Additionally, the Tuner Out jack makes it easy to connect an outboard tuner such as Roland's TU-Series.

Technical Info

• Rated Power Output: 60 W
• Nominal Input Level (@ 1kHz): INPUT: -10 dBu/1 M ohms
• Speaker: 30 cm (12 in.) x 1

Controls:

Power switch, Select switch(JC Clean channel); Volume knob, Bright switch(Lead channel): Type switch, Type (Acoustic/Black Panel/Brit Combo/Tweed/Classic Stack/Metal Stack/R-fier Stack/Dyna Amp), Gain knob, Volume knob; (Equalizer): Bass knob, Middle knob, Treble knob, Presence knob(EFX): EFX (Chorus/Flanger/Phaser/Tremolo) knob, Delay/Reverb knob

Connectors:

• Input Jack: 1/4 in. phone type
• Recording Out Phones Jack: Stereo 1/4 in. phone type
• Foot SW Jack (Delay/Reverb, EFX, CH select): 1/4 in. phone type
• Ext Speaker Jack: 1/4 in. phone type
• Line Out Jack: 1/4 in. phone type
• Tuner Out Jack: 1/4 in. phone type

Power Supply: AC 117, 230, 240 V

Power Consumption: 60 W

Accessory: Owner's Manual

Option: Footswitch FS-5U (BOSS)

Dimensions (W x D x H): 16-3/16 x 10-7/8 x 17-3/8 in. (410 x 275 x 440 mm)

Weight: 14.5 kg (32 lbs.)

Price: USD345

Product Review

"Don't skimp with the 30- get the cube 60!"

Feature:

It would be nice if each effect had a different knob, but that would be mostly unnecessary. And a foot switch would be useful

Quality:

Wow...Mine's been through a lot. I mean, I use it for BASS, and it's a guitar amp. any normal guitar amp would die in weeks from that, but this has lasted for almost a year of bass. The only thing that's ever happened was the plastic ring around theinput jack cracked when I was using it for vocals and our singer yanked the cord to hard. but you can just use one from an ext. speaker spot.

Value:

there are better amps out there, but they're all way outside this price range

Desirability:

It doesn't look like much...Except for the steel grate.

Sound:

This thing sounds awesome, I got it a few years back for my birthday, and hasn't failed me yet. I've used it for guitar, bass, vocals, acoustic guitars, amplifying cds and mp3s, and it's never blown out, or made that annoying cracking noise. The clean channel with the bright switch is pretty cool, but I really only use the superawesome distortion this thing has. Just switch it to "metal", crank up the gain, and you'll be ready to bust out some seriously chunky riffs, or some melodic lead goodness

Ease of Use:

Really easy to use

Support:

never had to deal with'em, and that's the best kind

Overall:

Good sound, amazingly dependable. If mine broke I'd probably see if roland sells the head by itself.

Submitted: 6/20/2007
Style of Music: rock based black metal (like...satyricon, or late Immortal)