TUBE15 Celestion : After 6 months of ownership

I bought this because carrying my Mk IV Boogie to rehearsals was starting to get old. fast. This is much lighter, thankfully, but still feels pretty solidly made.

It is very flexible tonally... capable of chimey, Fender-y cleans, quite mid-focused Vox-ish crunch tones, and some lovely edge-of-breakup bluesy sounds. At first, the speaker seemed a little harsh, but now, after a hundred or so hours, it has opened up nicely and now competes favourably with my band-mate's Supro - high praise indeed.

It's not perfect though... reverb lacks delicacy. The knob seems to go from nothing to extreme in about 1/3 of its rotation. Also, a boost or second channel would be great, but this is a very inexpensive amp so I'm probably being unreasonable.

It responds well to pedals, esp overdrives and boost pedals where it can be pushed from edge-of-breakup to fully overdriven with a single click. Backing off the volume on the guitar can then clean up the sound completely.