A real beauty in every way, take me back to when musicians had total control of their sound, lots of knobs with various names for them, to when a slight move of the knobs made complete change to the sound, the HB80r is that guitar amp.
Internet downloads, "give me a break". This amp is the real thing and sure.
The slight prob is its sensitivity to the electricity supply, my house is 'out in the hills' electricity is pretty 'dirty', so I can't really use this amp at home because of this, I had a 'hi watt' years ago with the same prob, but at gigs, this HB80r is perfectly OK with town electric supply & rings like a bell, a big bell.
A superb machine for sure, ideal for mature P90 rockers like me.
1 year later.... so I reordered this amp, because I can't that "brute force" clean sound anywhere else, and I've tried quite a few, I don't need much distortion for my style of music, so this sound monster is perfect for me, not too big or heavy, plenty loud too.
Controls are basic and in your face easy with one foot switch. Perfect.