Crate FlexWave FW120H Guitar Amp Head with DSP, 120W Review

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(More customer reviews)Crates have been making amps since the 70's, along the way of becoming guitarists go to amp for their amazing price, they've established a thorough fan base with classic models such as the Blue Voodoo an all tube head. Specifically though Crate has released an all new run of amps, ranging from 15watts up to 120watts (along with heads), called Flexwave. These are the natural progression of the last run, for those familiar I'm referring to models like the XT120R and the XT65R (both combo amps).
This specific model is very much like the XT120R, featuring an amazing overdrive, a versatile clean channel and a sought after high gain channel. Crate has never let me down with their reverb; it's very atmospheric and can push a solo to a new realm (or gloss mistakes for sloppy guitarist). Flexwaves are durable, and affordable! The FW120 delivers quality tones and sound for a price that won't disrupt your budget. One of my former Crates eventually bit the dust, or so I thought. Using the speaker input, I plugged it into a pair of speakers and saved it. You can sit on them, have them accidentally fall over, crowd the back with garbage and they'll last.
I downloaded the manual off the Crate home page. I never realized how many struggle with this amp due to `Channel Tracking'. This feature saves effects on all three channels, so when you toggle between them you don't have to readjust anything. Channel tracking was brought on by the Evolution 5 Preamp. People tend to dislike this for whatever reason; personally this is a plus in my book. Effects (DSP) on this amp range from your typical phaser and flange to a reasonable chorus and distinctive reverb. There are variants of delay to be found here too. This head should come with a foot switch to toggle on and off channels, switch one is clean, two is overdrive, and both on is high gain. The third switch is for effects.
If you like hard rock overdrive will suit your needs, high gain will be pleasurable to metalheads, and the clean channel with enough tinkering can be euphoric. Currently these heads can run you about 300$. I purchased one refurbished for 200$. I'm running this through an older 90's Crate cab, sound just fine.


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Dig if you will the awesome FlexWave120H head. If sheer volume combined with tone so outstanding it should be declared illegal is the action you crave, then put the FlexWave120H at the top of your shopping list. Producing 120 watts of savage power while sporting three channels and built in effects, it’s the perfect head for the gigging maniac. We guess you could use it in your bedroom too if you didn’t mind re-plastering the walls every week.
The FlexWave120H’s FlexWave™ Evolution 5 preamp uses our patented Sequential Channel Tracking™ technology, for a tone with so much balls, it needs a jockstrap. Variable 3-channel operation allows you to switch between twangadelic clean, hot-as-freaking-heck overdrive and tortured high gain channels via the remote footswitch we lovingly pack with each and every unit. With 18 stereo DSP effects, Channel Tracking™ of effects settings, and our proprietary Shape Control circuit for sculpting wicked custom leads, it’s statistically impossible to dial up a lame sound. We highly recommend our Crate FW412A/B 4x12 cabinets for projecting the bold power of the FlexWave120H head into the skulls of your rapt listening public.

Crate's new FlexWave Series reinvents the old-school solid state amp as a modern, fire-breathing tone monster capable of producing the saturated overdrive today's guitarists demand. FlexWave amps feature the remarkably responsive Evolution 5™ preamp, as well as Sequential Cascading Gain™ technology for rich, articulate tone and playability, and Channel Tracking that remembers your effects settings when you switch between channels. Capable of producing a wide array of sounds from crystal clear cleans to white-knucle distortion, FlexWave proves there is no better value around.

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