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I've had the Cube for 2 and a half months now. It offers a wide range of effects, sufficient amplification for home practice, and...a wide of effects. The effects are really what this product is all about. What it lacks in power, it punches you in the face with various sound distortions. Acoustic, Heavy Metal, all these sounds are packed into this Cube.

Best of all, it's small and portable! Like the vast majority, I am constrained by budget (who isn't! :P). While no professional guitarist needs this, I consider it a good buy for most of us part-timers.

This was a gift for our US Marine Corp son who was looking for big sound, a small footprint, and portability. The Roland Cube certainly exceeded his expectations. It's perfect for the barracks and will go with him on his next deployement.

This is a great product. Easy and portable -it makes a terrific sound and has multiple tunings and adjustments. Can run with the big boys.

i bought the cube because i wanted a smaller portable amp to take to work or on road trips. this has since become my main amp, easily besting my Marshall MG15DFX. the acoustic channel with reverb will do a nice job of simulating an acoustic, but its extremely quiet. the JC Clean is a decent clean channel, but for cleans i prefer the Black Panel option, a little smoother cleans, with a bluesier sound to it. the R-fier mode is a bone-crunching metal tone, i use it for all metal, from sabbath to metallica, pantera, dethklok and everything in between. the effects are all very decent and work well. the only problem with this amp is the 2 remaining channels. the brit combo and classic stack are extremely thin. they are pretty much unusable, as they are very tinny, thin, and can make a 1000 dollar dean sound like a 90 dollar squier. those models aside, this amp is worth the money, and i am very pleased with this purchase.

I bought this as a practice amp for its small size, ability to run on battery power, and headphone jack. It's met those needs and exceeded my expectations in several more areas.

The amp simulations the Micro Cube provides are, well let's just say they're vaguely reminiscent of the amps they are trying to emulate. The sounds still differ from one another enough to be useful, though, and this little box can pump out some serious (digital) distortion. It's also fairly loud. Like the Pignose and other small amps, you can also mic this amp and get some really suprising results. Using the headphone jack as a line out will obviously yield pretty much the same result you're hearing through the speaker, as the sound is entirely digital.

Effects aren't too bad. Trem is pretty good, reverb a notch behind, and I'd stay light on the Cube's flanger and chorus. Forget the "digital tuning fork" - it's just a button that generates a tone to tune to. Any kind of separate tuner is far more useful.

Batteries seem to last forever with this thing. I'm amazed at the battery life, to be honest.

Small, rugged, very usable as a practice amp, for street playing, recording experimentation, etc. Good stuff.