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Laney A1
multi purpose guitar amplifier

A1 - ACOUSTIC GUITAR AMPLIFIER
A1 - PORTABLE PA SYSTEM
A1 - BUILT IN DIGITAL MULTI-EFFECTS PROCESSOR
A1 - RCA INPUTS - CONNECT MP3 PLAYERS ETC
A1 - POWERFUL 65 WATTS RMS OUTPUT
A1 - THREE YEAR AUSTRALIA-WIDE WARRANTY

Formed in 1967 by Lyndon Laney, Laney Amplification is a British based guitar and musical instrument amplifier manufacturer who were closely involved with Tony Iommi of BLACK SABBATH in the birth of the ‘Heavy Metal’ music genre. Since 1967, Laney Amplification has gone on from strength to strength and is presently a multinational company that continues to design and build class leading products for the Music Industry.

Laney currently work with globally renowned musicians and bands such as The Prodigy, The Foo Fighters, Killswitch Engage, Skindred, Black Sabbath and many more. Their design archive collection spans the music decades.

The Laney A1

The Laney A1 is an acoustic-oriented amp for multi-instrumental per­form­ers, though it must be said that it’s capa­ble of extremely good elec­tric results too. Laid out in a con­ve­nient monitor-like for­mat, you can angle it upwards for extra pro­jec­tion (for either your­self or the audi­ence) meaning that you don't have to turn it up too loud to be able to hear it.

Not that volume is a problem, the Laney A1 is a decep­tively pow­er­ful amp and punches well above its weight (a very portable 13.5kg) with a solid 65 watts rms power output on tap.

Feature wise it is has virtually everything you may need: Instru­ment, XLR, Hi Imped­ance and Stereo Phono (6.3mm) inputs; three chan­nels; Full EQ for chan­nel one, includ­ing para­met­ric mid EQ and notch fil­ter for feedback control; Bass and Tre­ble con­trols on Chan­nel Two, a Series Effects Loop, 16 cus­tom Digital Effects (Cho­rus, Delay, Flanger, Reverb, Tremolo and Octave as well as com­bi­na­tion set­tings); Head Phone Output, ‘enhance’ con­trol; DI Input and Tuner Output.

Kompact Size…Killer Sound

The Laney A1 sounds big, much bigger in fact that its relatively compact size would indicate. A lot of this is to do with the way it han­dles bass, par­tic­u­larly due to the carefully designed bass ports around the back. Between the bass ports, the 10″ Celestion dri­ver and the high fre­quency tweeter, it can be hard to pin­point exactly where the sound is com­ing from. This makes it a great amp for fin­ger­pick­ers and other per­form­ers who need to fill up a lot of space in a room while still retain­ing some level of sub­tlety. Turn on the phase switch, though, and the sound thick­ens right up and appears to centralise.

The basic tone is extremely clear with excellent low frequency performance. You can dial in a lot of fine detail with chan­nel one’s tone stack, and the dig­i­tal effects are superbly voiced. The effects are very use­ful, espe­cially the reverbs, which enhance acoustic gui­tar tones beautifully. The A1 is also great for record­ing. You can also assign the effects to just the gui­tar, just a micro­phone, or both. If you need fur­ther pro­cess­ing power on top of the A1’s nat­ural tone there’s also an effects loop.

The A1 Sonic Solution…

The Laney A1 is a perfect choice for any­one who per­forms in cafes or bars. As well as Solo and Duo work, the A1 also has enough power to hang in there with a full band. The Laney A1 is also a great Jam amp with enough inputs to get three people involved. Schools and Churches should find the features, portability and sound quality particularly useful. What­ever you use it for, though, the Laney A1 is a very well-designed and great sounding amp.

Features/Specifications:

Power RMS: 65 Watts
Inputs: 1x Jack (Instrument Channel). 1x XLR and 1x HiZ Jack (Mic Channel) and 1x dual Phono (CD in)
Channels: 3
Equalisation: Full EQ on Instrument channel 1 including para-mid and tch filter. Bass & Treble controls on channel 2
FX Loop(s): Yes
Drivers: 1x 10" Bass Driver plus HF tweeter
Effects: 16 Custom Effects Algorithms
Headphone Socket: Yes (With Auto Speaker Mute)
Enhance: Yes (Instrument Channel)
Compressor: Yes
DI Socket: Yes (Balanced)
Tuner Output Socket: Yes
Ports: Dual Ported
CD Input: Yes (Phono)
Dimensions: 387mm x 396mm x 364mm (WxHxD)

Three Year Warranty!