Fireball 100 E635 : Very good and versatile amp from Engl

It's my main amp at band rehearsals.

It replaced JVM and put him at second place at once.

We play mainly hard rock and heavy metal.

It is good choice for such stuff, combination of excellent cleans with modern metal sound.

Matched with good guitar and 4x12 cabinet spreads out total devastation to the audience :)

I was always very anxious how Engl will do the work.

I'm a big fan of Marshall amps but this one fits better my music tastes.

Huge distorted sound and high clarity for soloing.

Sounds more deeply at low end than Marshall's.

It is massive difference with sound character.

What to say about cons?

Maybe merged controls for clean/overdrive chanels.

But anyhow overal tone is very good.

It's much easier to find good sound out of it than with JVM.

Build as a tank, with a few good improvements comparing to other amp-maker brands. Noise gate on board, valves selfcheck diodes informing about possible malfunction, robust foot-switch and several options what can be set as ON/OFF functions.

Price for this amp isn't very low but when take all pros and cons one by one there is no doubt that you are getting excellent product with decent money.

I'm honestly positively surprised how good it is in overall.

Maybe because it fits better to music style we developed. We are not "cover band" and we do not need to copy sound of our let's say "competitors" :)

Cheers

Marek