Comments about Egnater Renegade 65W Tube Guitar Amp Head:

Sounds sweet with a strat, sounds good and crunchy with a SG. Got it used on a trade about 1 year ago and no problems. Can get a lot of sounds and different tones. Like it!!!
love the tube mix, and good foot switch
seems to be built well no problems
Just like Marshall kinda PRICEY

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My only grip is the clean channel is too clean hardly any crunch to it could use a little more gain, no over lap between the 2 channels, but they both sounds great.
This baby has a lot go'n for her. 2 channels with plenty of options to tweak your tone. Great foot switch. But the best is the tube mix feature, plus the ablity to swap in alot of different type of tubes. Now the difference between tubes is not night and day, but you can hear and feel them. Ever want to hear the difference between those NOS tubes and current stock, this is the way with instance swaps so you don't have to remember load them both and play away. This amp is not missing to much, one os the best bang for your dollars plus they give you the foot switch and cover.
It's not handwired, it's made in china, but they are solid, real plywood, they give you preamp tube shields for all the tubes, nice power and output trans, the stock tubes are ok. All the knobs are smooth.
For the price, you can't go wrong. They give you everything, just plug in and rock

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First off, please don't believe that Bruce Egnater doesn't care about his product or his customers. This is absolutely rediculous. Just go to rig-talk.com and look at the Egnater forum. It's literally riddled with posts from Bruce and Ian trying to help out their customers. Everything from making custom mods people can buy to answering my stupid questions about amp building.Secondly, the amp itself is great. I don't know where the mystical term 'tone' comes from in you mind, but this is definitely a good sounding amp. Highlights are being able to go from a California clean to a Britsh snarl with a press of the footswitch. Guitars really bring out their personality well. I have rarely heard an amp that so vividly brings out a Strat sound, then a full bore smooth humbucker sound with a guitar switch. Also, if you are hurting for 'tone,' I have literally heard from a dozen people that a tube swap does this thing WONDERS. It's also pretty easy on the wallet considering whet you are getting. The stock cabs are actually pretty good as well, though many people scoff at the Chinese-made Celestions.The bad part, there are some reliability and quality issues. I myself have a bad potentiometer that makes my gain knob sketchy. I'm not willing to mail it to a tech for a $3 part, so I will probably ending up voiding my warranty to fix it. Big sacrifice for a trifle like this. There are also a lot of issues with people disliking the reverb and effects loop, both of which I believe Bruce is creating mods for.Overall, I couldn't ask for much more. If I didn't have that bad pot, I could seriously give this a perfect score. I do guarantee you though that Bruce cares about his customers. Get in contact with him or Ian if you have a problem. They do not like leaving issues with quality hanging out there unresolved.

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Bought the Egnater Renegade head on Feburary 1 2011 , it worked for about 2 hours , loud disturbing humm hiss on high , master volume at 9 o clock . I called Egnater we tried a number of quick fixes , none worked I had to pay 58 dollars to ship amp back to Egnater time frame is owning amp 2 weeks playing on amp 3 hours total and eas delivered supposedly fixed first wek in March . I tried amp even more problems know volume fluctuates still loud noise a, this amp can never be used for studio or live not reliable at all . This time Egnater is paying for shipment back to them and they are still insisting on sebnding back same amp to me fixed . My answer is no!! I want a NEW oNE iM TOLD WE WILL SEE . dO NOT BUY FROM ANY COMPANY THAT DOES NOT STAND BEHIND ITS PRODUCT BUT EVEN MORE DO NOT BUY FROM ANY COMPANY THAT WONT EXCEPT THERE FAILURE ON QUALITY CONTROL AS A FAULT !! iF THIS GOES TO COURT I WILL WIN THIS AMP IS A LEMON aND SHOULD BE REPLACED eGNATER i WILL NEVER BUY AGAIN AND I OWN 2 212 CABS AND THERE TWEAKER . jUST THINK 1100 AMP BOUGHT IN fEBURAR AND ALREADY RETURNED 2 TIMES AND A COMPANY WONT EXCHANGEE IT !!

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This is an excellent amp with significant power and outstanding tone. I think the stock tubes produce very good results, particularly when compared to similarly priced amplifiers using stock tubes. I now have NOS GE preamp tubes, with a JAN GE 5751 in the phase inverter, Winged C 6L6GC tubes (which I prefer for the clean channel over the EL34?s) and Winged C EL34 tubes (which I prefer for the overdrive channel over the 6L6?s). I tried scores of tubes before I decided on those referenced above. The tone of this amp with these tubes is competitive with any other modern amp regardless of price, particularly for classic rock. The upgraded tubes cost approximately $400 for a total investment of $1,400.00. Simply put, this amp is an outstanding value. I rate quality at 4.5 only because it isn't a hand wired, turret board based amplifier. Customer service is outstanding; Bruce Egnater himself answers most e-mail questions within 24 hours. I believe that the reviewer who gave Egnater amplifiers poor marks due to reliability problems with demo units in a store is doing potential buyers a disservice. I don?t think people who simply use equipment in a store should write reviews because they likely have no knowledge of the history of the reviewed equipment, nor are they intimately familiar with the sound of all associated equipment and/or the room acoustics. This is a reliable amplifier with a 3-year warranty backed by a U.S. Company who quickly responds to all telephone calls and e-mails. There's even a forum that company employees/executives participate in on a regular basis. Most problems are with blown tubes and/or fuses - replaceable items that are not indicative of the build quality of an amplifier. I am a very satisfied customer and I firmly believe that the tone and flexibility this amplifier provides will satisfy me for many years to come.

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I played both the Rebel 30 and this amp (Renegade) in the store for about 30 minutes using an Epiphone hollowbody and no pedals. The sounds I got were quite good. It's a bright amp with a crisp clean and solid bottom end response. I like the speakers and, most of all, the generous features built into the amp. I commend Bruce for the smart design. From a tone perspective, I liked most of what I'd heard. The distortion is a little harsh to my ears, and not in a cool edgy way like the Orange Terrors. It's more in the cheap sense. The power sponge was a little gimmicky ? it was there but it didn?t do much. Everything else sounded great. If you have a Crate V Series, Jet City or a Bugera tube amp and are looking to upgrade, this is a great choice. If you have a midrange tube amp like a Marshall MA, Vox AC or a Fender Hot Rod, you might not feel this is a sufficient step up for the price.My biggest issue with it is the spotty quality control. The store had about five Egnater amps. Of these, the Renegade head's gain channel wasn't working at all. The Rebel 30 combo had a slight rattle. I?d also read several reviews online listing reliability issues. If you still want to get it, MF offers great technical service and support. But for me, these are unacceptable and inexcusable lapses in quality and reliability for the price range. I played a Fender Deluxe Reverb for $100 less than the Egnater and not only did I get SUBLIME sound, the amp oozed quality. No rattles or burnt out channels. I think the Egnater Tweaker series is right on target. At their price you're willing to deal with occasional issues. But the Rebel 30 and Renegades are off-message. They?re expensive, nowhere near the quality of boutique amps, and nowhere near the value of budget amps. It's NOT a price range that should have so many problems. It?s just not practical to make a high end BUDGET product. A Ferrari is a Ferrari for a reason. If they made a $30,000 Ferrari, you?d run into the same problem: a product that gets the unfortunate distinction of neither boasting quality nor being a big value. Like my Renegade?s busted drive channel, Egnater is sending mixed signals with this idea of ?budget boutique.?

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I have been buying and using amps for 10 years now, about 90 to compare this to. The tubes are the weak point in this amp. It comes with Sovtek 12AX7WA in V1-V6 positions, and a pair of Sovtek 6L6WXTs, and a pair of Ruby tubes EL34s. I replaced the V1-V4 with Mullard reissues, and it warmed the tone up significantly. The stock preamp tubes are not very musical and are only rated a 2 on a scale from 1 to 5 from a very well respected online tube store. Mullards get a 5, so do Tung-Sol. I replaced the EL34s with Mullards also, much warmer and smoother, still plenty of bite. Gain set at 9:00 on channel 2. The biggest improvement was replacing the 6L6s with GEs. Rebiasing was easy thanks to test points on back. I get blackface touch senstive crunch on channel 1, liquid Hi-gain on channel 2, even my Mesa can not do that. Reverb sounds great, not Fender-Like, but good enough. The 18/65 watt switch only works at high volume. The 65 watts is only attainable when the mix knob is centered, and all 4 power tubes have equal signal. My clean channel likes the old NOS 6L6s, much warmer and crunchier even with a strat. Turn the gain to about 3:00 and its crunch-time. No pedals needed with this amp. The footswitch has four buttons and will allow you to switch the volume up for lead solos without adding gain, so it's like havingh a 4 channel amp. It has a resonance control (called "Density") and a master presence control. The midrange control will shape the tone of the EL34s to sound like Hendrix, or SRV. I keep the main 1 control fairly low and turn the volume of each channel very high to cook the power tubes, and gain set low. This is the key to getting good overdrive without fizz and noise. I play this through a 2x12 Bandmaster closed back cab with a a pair of Vintage Fender EV-12Ls to get more bottom end. It should sound good with any 2x12 or 4x12 cab as long as you change the tubes.

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I bought this amp under "emergency" conditions, my other amp caught on fire and wouldn't be repaired by the time I needed it. I caught a magazine review the day before my amp died, so I ordered it. It is a serious piece of gear for a great price. I have three guitars, passive and active pickups, humbuckers and single coil, and everything sounded good through this amp. The cleans are warm and rich, the distortion is great for anything other than heavy metal, and it takes to pedals very well. You can dial in a bunch of tones, but what counts is that all the tones sound musical on this amp.

Comments about Egnater Renegade 65W Tube Guitar Amp Head:

Excellent cleans, excellent crunch, can play any style, the best thought out foot switch that I have ever seen, affordable, loud enough and quiet enough. I play everything but rap and this amp can do it all.

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Don't get me wrong,this is no Bogner Shiva,but it is close! I sold my Shiva and bought 2 of these. The clean channel will give you anything from lush, sparkling cleans to just the right amount of grit. The dirty channel is awesome. With some judicious management of the gain control, you can get beautiful, tight crunchy tones. Great job Bruce!!!! This a great choice for worship bands that need a lot of versatility in a single amp package.