Rivera Chubster arrived in one piece

[brisk]

but I am too hungry to unpack it.

You gotta eat.

[the guy who invented fire]

but I am too hungry to unpack it.

You gotta eat.

you're not hardcore...a REAL guitar player would starve in order to post a review!

[Seraphial]

Would love to know how it sounds! Got a Carvin Belair instead of the Chubster, but still get a wee gas attack whenever I see one...

[brisk]

you're not hardcore...a REAL guitar player would starve in order to post a review!

Dude, I am very hardcore when it comes to eating.

just hang on, I will post a review shortly.

[Scott_F]

you've now lost our collective respect.... sorry man.

[theodie]

I DEMAND A PROMPT AND COMPLETE REVIEW!!!!!! Come on Brisk, eat NOW and taste it later!! Buurrrpppppp!!!!!

[TwilightOdyssey]

Ah, this is one of those "teaser" threads ...

[Curly]

You gotta eat.

your priorities are all wrong!

[Jeff_H]

I like anything with the word "Chubster" in it !!!!!!!!!

[theodie]

Damn Brisk, you must be very hungry!!!!!!

[brisk]

I am to fulll too sit down and write a long review now but it sounds pretty cool.

Just give me a week or so for more objective review. Cheers

[HamerPlyr]

Eating over playing with a new toy? I think that Hank Hill said it best when he said, "That boy ain't right."

[brisk]

OK Chubster looks like this



Tolex and grill were custom order. Stock chubster comes in this color (green)


Somehow I like the color of mine than green. It looks like old R series.

[HamerPlyr]

I believe that we're all waiting for your initial impressions of the amp's tone. How's it sound? Give us your first impressions, and we'll see how they stand up after you've had some time to tweak it.

[brisk]

Chubster isn't big. For comparsion, the amp on the left is my beloved Traynor YCV 40, which is little smaller than Line 6 Flexton. Traynor is much wider than Chubster although they are about the same height.



Here is the funny part. Chuster is much deeper than Traynor. Kinda Chubby looking.

[brisk]

Chubster footswitch. In addition to the channel switching button on the left, there are two more button for boost for each channel. Somehow they call the clean channel boosting "Ninja Boost". Why? You tell me.




There are two inputs - high gain input & low gain input - similar to old style two input. Also, the left part of the panel has volume and tone knobs for dirty channel. Master volume knob also works as boost level adjust knob. I haven't figured out what "select" is yet.

[brisk]

knobs for clean channel. The master volume knob also works as ninja boost level adjust knob. Also, there are master presence and master reverb knobs.



It also has a standby switch

[brisk]

Chubster backpanel. IT has two EL34 driving 55 watt.



FX loop has level adjust knobs for both send and return



Also, it comes with Celestioan G12T-75 stock, which I am not that into. So, I just replaced with it with Celestion Vintage Neodymium (You should try it to believe it).

[brisk]

About the tone, tone is subjective. I spent an hour or so tweaking knobs to see if I can get sound I want. It was much easier to get a decent sound out of clean channel. It's midnight and I really can't turn it on to see its full potential. Once thing I can tell you is that the dirty channel somehow sounds like dark marshall sound. I will post another review when I get fully used to it.

Cheers

[XSSIVE]

woah...WTF is a NINJA knob lol...that alone is just plain cool...congrats on the new amp!

-Mike