Yorkville Traynor Review: YCV 80 Custom Valve 80

History:

Purchase: I acquiried this unit at Long and McQaude, TO, Canada. I payed $855 plus tax on top.

What I Like About This Yorkville Traynor YCV 80 Custom Valve 80: The price is great for an all tube amp. All tube amps have a warmer, creamier tone then the solid state ones. Very powerful speaker with 80 watts and plenty of options as far as hook ups go in the back. Two seperate channels with the usual settings for the lead, and clean channel like mid, treb, bass plus a reverb for booth and master volume. Some neat features are standby switch to save tubes, scoop for more bass and crunch on lead drive, expander for higher highs on the clean channel. Diffently a good sounding amp! Try it out, if not try out the little brother, the custom valve 40.

What I Do NOT Like About The Yorkville Traynor YCV 80 Custom Valve 80: The first one i got was humming like a bitch. I returned and got a new one. Distortion is great but a little fuzzy as it is vintate. This is not due to cheapness however, but the fact that its more a vintage sounding amp, and thats the sound of distortion in that era. Wish there was more to the footpetal and seperate reverb per channel.

Yorkville Traynor YCV 80 Custom Valve 80 Quality Rating: solid, body. 60 lbs. 2 x 12 inch celestion speakers. Can take a beatin. Knobs are indented to provide protection agaisnt breaking.

Review Summary: Great sounding amp, even better price. great 2 year no questions asked warrenty. I recommend it to all! at least try the ycv 40!

Rating of this Yorkville Traynor product: 5

This Yorkville Traynor YCV 80 Custom Valve 80 Guitar Amplifiers Review Submitted By: Bobby Pols

Review Date: 2002-11-27