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Roland Micro Cube

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Roland Micro Cube

The Roland Micro Cube is the first battery powered modeling amplifier distributed by the Roland Corporation. It is a small, lightweight, portable amplifier, for use as a portable practice amp or when larger or more expensive amplifiers may not be practical. The Micro Cube is part of a Roland CUBE series of combo amplifiers, including the Cube 15, Cube 20, Cube 30, Cube 60, and Cube 80.

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Features

The Roland Micro Cube features five different amp models, some clean and some featuring distortion, as well as an acoustic simulator and a vocal preamp. Also built in are several effects and a touch sensitive digital tuning fork. Its power output is two watts and it has a five-inch speaker. The Micro Cube includes a standard quarter-inch input jack, an auxiliary quarter-inch input and an eighth-inch input (which are played without modeling or effects), and a headphone/record out quarter-inch jack.

Amp models

The controls on the top of the Micro Cube

  • Acoustic
  • JC Clean - Modeled after Roland's own Jazz Chorus (JC-120) Amp
  • Black Panel - Modeled after Fender Twin Reverb Amp
  • Brit Combo - Modeled after Vox AC30 Amp
  • Classic Stack - Modeled after Marshall JMP Amp
  • R-Fier - Modeled after Mesa/Boogie Rectifier Amp

    • Controls

  • Gain
  • Volume
  • Tone
  • Delay/Reverb
  • Flanger/Phaser/Chorus/Tremolo

    • Updated Versions

    Since its release in 2004, the Micro Cube has been released in two more colors; white and red. Additionally, the Micro Cube RX has been released in 2008, which is a slightly larger version with 4x4" drivers. The Micro Cube retails for $129.99, the RX, $249.99

    References

    Roland Micro Cube Wikipedia
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