The Guitar Magazine – July 2019

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KEY FEATURES


PRICE £2,599
DESCRIPTION Single-channel valve head with
reverb and valve buffered effects loop.
Made in the USA
POWER RATING 35W
VALVES 4x 12AX7, 12AT7 (preamp),
2x 6L6 (power amp)
CONTROL PANEL Gain, bright/mid/deep boost
switches, treble, middle, bass, reverb, master,
presence, standby
REAR PANEL Reverb send, 3-way gain-structure
switch, effects loop send and return,
4-, 8- and 16-ohm speaker outputs, power
DIMENSIONS 397 x 232 x 254mm
WEIGHT 11.8kg/26lb
CONTACT Coda Music
coda-music.com, two-rock.com

beast. If you want this amp to overdrive,
both have to be set fairly high and that
means you’re going to get blasted.
Let’s begin by establishing how much
clean headroom is available. The gain-
structure switch is set in the up position to
select Two-Rock’s ‘traditional’ front end, the
master is maxed out and we slowly edge up
the gain control. Using the middle pickup
of a 60s Strat, the gain can’t be pushed
much beyond nine o’clock before we hear


Both head and
combo versions have
excellent-sounding
spring reverb

There’s a trio of
frequency-boost
switches next to the
three-band EQ

The gain structure features
Blackface, Traditional
Two-Rock and Matt
Schofield Signature settings

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