Laney are an excellent company. I repair amps from time to time and Laney service is second to none. They even send out manuals for obsolete kit within minutes of an e-mail request. What's not to love about that?

Love it when there's an amp that no one is shouting about and it does the job as good as anyone else. Dumble can suck it.

@soundknight

2 жыл бұрын

True

@DMSProduktions

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly HYPE!

@kwyatt261

2 жыл бұрын

And we all know that at the end of the day, whatever you play through, you're gonna sound like you

@Bobby_Digital37

Жыл бұрын

I hate the dumble sound… but I’d take this Laney in a heartbeat!!!

@deanmlshredder

7 ай бұрын

I LOVE the Dumble sound. But I get it with a Fender blunior and a homemade Zendrive.

I bought my first Laney off of Reverb after watching this, i can't wait until it gets here. It''s a 2008 Lionhart L5. Incredible playing guys please keep it up.

@pharmerdavid1432

15 күн бұрын

I just can't decide which one to get, they are all so attractive - and I love their look too!

Love Laney. They have a soft fuzz sound to their breakup that still has a classic rock sound.

@matheusleao2035

2 жыл бұрын

I love this aspect of this amp too. I've been hearing it from mine and couldn't get it if I was going crazy or if that was really from the lionheart. I just know it makes the drives from it really great! Love mine with all my heart.

Such a great conversation and playing 🎸 I’ve been playing Laney LC-30 few years back and these are indeed a great amps. Thanks!

I have the head and 2x12 cab version shown here. I do not get any noticeable hum even with single coils. The amp did come with a footswitch allowing one to select Drive and Reverb. Great to see that Laney Lionheart amps and speakers are back to being manufactured in the UK.

@roxammon5858

2 жыл бұрын

I didnt realise that ! - I must get one!

I had two Laney combos that I bought back in the mid to late 80’s. They were both the pro-tube AOR series amps. A 30 and a 50 watt. Great sounding amps!!

I have been extremely pleased with my wee Lionheart! It is (by miles and miles) the least epic and powerful amplifier I own...I am primarily a bassist and, I am fully loaded with my Mesa Boogie, Ampeg and, Eden amplification and 2x15, 4x10 and, 8x10 cabinets/monstrosities that I've rocked for decades with my 71 Pre bass...but, I picked up the Lionheart as part of a package deal with a Gibson Les Paul Jr from a kid who was gonna be a father and, who needed to get sorted for rent and diapers asap. I can't even describe how much I love this little gem. I have used it in the recording studio in place of my engineer/guitarist friend's Vox AC 15 and AC 30 (and, alongside them) with fantastic results. Maybe because I am definitely NOT a guitar gearhead or, even a marginally half decent guitar player I am likely not the best person to be advising people who ARE great players who are hugely informed about this stuff...but, I really give the guitar and amplifier a ferocious workout when I play as I am going to coax all kinds of mutant shards of musical shrapnel and pretty much throttle the guitar and abuse the amp. I have always been pleased with what the wee Laney has to offer up. I think it is a wonderful little studio beast. And, then there's that Tony Iommi guy...he seems to think that the Laney's are ok

That Tele sounds incredible.

The LT5 112 is one fantastic amp, it does everything and excels with low output vintage instuments, adding a 10 inch Jensen Cab and does all Fenderisch stuff, adding a 12 " Greenback Heritage cab it can do Marshall stuff, add a TS 9 or a DS 1 and a conpressor its a blues weapon, add a Nux Plexi tone and you are in superlead territory, add a Steelslinger and it does Blackmore, or add a delay and digi reverb and a Electric Mistress and you are Gilmourish, channel 2 more gain and a booster and you are Toni Iommi " isch" , light and compact🤘

These amps sound great, even on YT. They especially shine when you two are playing together. Very naturally musical without any frills.

I just bought L20 1*12 and i love it.

Great sounding amps!!!

I’ve got an old uk made VC15 which seems very similar and is a great little 1x10. good to see these being uk made again.

I still have two l20s from the original British range. I have the discontinued 4x10 and the head + 2 2x12s. Killer simple amps that pair well with my guitars and fender amps

big thumbs up for those SE R1 mics too!

Great demo and amazing sounds, thank you! Do you find there is any risk of the amp sliding off of the tilt-back cab with the head sitting on top?

I have the 5 watt head. Took it to quite a large jam and it was almost loud enough so I'll probably get the 20watt too. It's a great amp. The thing that shocked me was I finally engaged the bright switch and everything didn't go nasty and spikey like some amps it just added the perfect amount of upper mid detail which was totally musical. Love it.

These are old school now. They were great back in the early 2000s too. I still want one.

@guitarist

2 жыл бұрын

Production has been moved back to the UK, hence the revisit -

@soundknight

2 жыл бұрын

@@guitarist oh, cool factor just went up

@thebaneofyourexistence.3377

2 жыл бұрын

@@soundknight I have a U.K. made one from back in ‘the day’, these amps are stunning and well worth the money.

Amazing amps! =)

Stick a clean boost pedal in front of the Drive channel and you will be sent into Black Sabbath mode in a hurry. That's my favorite. I keep the Drive and Drive Volume on 5 and using your guitar's volume knob gives you a myriad of ranges from clean, through Tom Petty "edge of breakup" to full on AC/DC crunch. Hit the boost pedal from there to melt faces or peel paint off the walls. I have an o.g. UK made model from the original 2007 40th anniversary run. The old ones like mine have a real spring reverb tank in the head. The 2x12 cab from the early runs has UK made Celestion Greenbacks and the build quality is unreal. It's the nicest, best looking, best sounding cab I've ever owned or even seen.

I love my GH100. I don't have to put much gain or drive at all. It's such a clean sounding amp. When I want some serious distortion, I just throw the gain to 08 and its AMAZING!!!!

Great video, thanks Gents! Neville - I've long thought the Lionhearts deserve more attention. Any chance you could talk to Dan and Mick over at TPS to see if they might take a look at what these Laney's bring to the table and compare them to their high end boutique contemporaries?

@matheusleao2035

2 жыл бұрын

That would be awesome! I've been trying to find anything like that on KZread since I've got mune, but no one seems to have recorded a video comparing a lionheart with another classic good tube amp, like a good fender or vox.

Amazing amps, I had the old made in England combo, the only thing bad about it was the handle made out of some sort of crumbly artificial leather, lol, and it seems they changed that. They work great with a harmonica too.

VERY nice!

I still have a 10 year old L20T-112. It's a keeper.

sounds good

Lovely Amps, such nice tones and not a pedal in sight!

I’m using a Laney IRT60 and wondered if the Lionheart 20 would be ideal for home use?

@thebaneofyourexistence.3377

2 жыл бұрын

Get the L5. L20 would be too much, I think.

@GigsandGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebaneofyourexistence.3377 Cheers for the advice, really appreciate it. Regards Kev 😊👍

@thebaneofyourexistence.3377

2 жыл бұрын

@@GigsandGuitars no worries. By the way, these are absolutely superb.

@misteraon

Жыл бұрын

@@GigsandGuitars yes get the 5 watter. I have the LT5-112 combo and it’s too loud around 3 in volume at home. It’s amazing how loud 5 watts can be in a tube amp.

@GigsandGuitars

Жыл бұрын

@@misteraon thanks for reply, but I did dive in a buy the 20watt version a couple of months ago. Main reason for live use and using OD pedals at home to bring down the volume. You might be interested in my video about an Amp I rescued recently (almost) from a Skip! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZmyXxrqcpcvafMY.html

great

Does anybody know the name of the tweed amp in the backround right in middle?

@davidkieltyka9

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a repro of a Dual Professional.

Nice

Does it chug?

24:00 Dont let me down beatles sounds

why no spring reverb? not sure about the cost of these but sadly found lacking : (

@millmoormichael6630

2 жыл бұрын

It has the reverb button

@pharmerdavid1432

15 күн бұрын

5-watter has spring reverb, and probably all I need.

Classic tube amps...

Don't turn the drive above 5. It all turns into fizz town. Apart from that, is quite good.

@Runark79

5 ай бұрын

Learn to use knobs😉

This huming noise is normal?

@soundknight

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not getting that through my expensive headphones...

@soundknight

2 жыл бұрын

Aaah, I heard it when he brought his tone up to 10. That hum is pretty normal for an old tube circuit. Depending where you face and move the amp in a room you will get varying levels of radiation interference.

@topnobby

2 жыл бұрын

It’s coz they’re sat right behind them - they mention it at one point. Any valve amp would do the same if you get too close

@DMSProduktions

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't know the words...

@JrPfreedom

2 жыл бұрын

@@DMSProduktionsso all valve amp have huming noise?

Just play the things

Have difficulties to find a proper tone...it is certainly not for Metal ..Sounds ok with humbuckers..the strat sounds too tiny

@Runark79

5 ай бұрын

My issue is, that its too loud

id take a laney over an orange anyday for the other british sound. good amps for much cheaper without the stupid teenage fanbase.

too much talking not enough sound playing.

I want to like these, they're beautiful, but every video, including this one, the lows are really droney and muddy. Also, that noise was excessive, even that close with single coils. Not impressed, Laney.

I hate these microphones in front of amps. Can we hear amp as it is? Every guitarist put mic in front of amp. Why is that?

@rgarcia4412

Жыл бұрын

Because you then hear the amp through other mics, either the room mic or camera mic. That's how we are able to hear the amp, mics!

@GregStraub42

11 ай бұрын

Do you not understanding how recording works? A room mic is going to sound like absolute shit and not capture anything like what it will sound like to you at home.

thanks but you speak too much.. !