Great metal head with amazing low end that sounds great outta the box. The fx loop its an amazing game changer, I tried it with a metal zone followed by an empress Parametric eq and it sure gives you a lot more sound options. Loud enough to disturb the neighbors and to record some great shredding guitar tracks.

This 1 watt amp has great sound quality on the high gain settings. I have not played clean yet, so I can't comment on that. Love the metal setting.

A small tube amp head addict here - also have blackstar ht1h metal, h&k tubemeister 5, jetcity pico valve, egnater tweaker, marshall jvm-1h & dsl-1h. This is one of my favorites in the bunch sound-wise. Replaced the stock tubes with GT-12AX7-R3 and GT-12AU7 ('bout $60 extra). I use it with an ibanez screamer (does not break up enough to play metal even at max gain) into an egnater 112x cab. Sound is sweet mix of warm but bold tube crunch, growling mids, and punching bass - brutal with down and tremolo picking riffs while preserving the definition beautifully. On par with the tweaker (too loud) and the jvm-1h (sounds is too marshall-y) and better than anything else I have. Like mentioned, only minus is you need to push it with some pedal for enough break up. Also, the red glow is actually LEDs inside the box, not the tubes glowing :-)

I just got it yesterday,it's cool alright.it sounds as cool as it looks,it lights up red from the tubes glowing!.I was going to get a lil night train from the local guitar center,but i'm kind of a metal head,so I wen't with randall.i'm glad I did.i bought a matching rg8 speaker cab,it goes perfect with it.no need for reverb because it really rings out pretty good,clean sounds good rock sounds good and of course metal sounds great,very versatile.thank you.