ENGL Savage 120 E610/2

The Engl Savage 120 Mark II E610/2 is an upgraded version of the popular all-tube hi-gain guitar amplifier that has won the favour of many metal and rock musicians. As with the original model, it offers four channels (Clean, Crunch I, Crunch II, Lead) and 120 watts of power, so any size room and stage won't be a problem for you.

You'll notice the changes in the design, where the amp has a sleeker feel, and in the front control panel, where the controls have been expanded to include additional switches. This will appeal to "tweakers" who like to play around with the sound and settings of their instruments, and to guitarists who want to be in full control of the final guitar tone without the aid of external effects pedals. This doesn't mean, however, that you're in for a lengthy twist of the knob before you achieve any reasonable sound - all the knobs do is shape the basic tone of the amp and give it other colours to choose from, i.e. you're more likely to be deciding whether a good sound can be very good or even better. The built-in Noise Gate (missing from the original version) also has an effect on the sound quality.

The Engl Savage Mark is rightly regarded as the ultimate metal machine, and it's no different with the twin, but of course it offers clinically clean tones and everything in between, in addition to sharpened, thick hi-gain sounds. If you're into the clean, clearly defined tone of Engl instruments, then you'll be supremely satisfied.

The rear panel of the amp offers two effects loops for integrating your favourite boxes, each with selectable parallel and serial connections, outputs to external speakers (1x 4, 2x 8, 1x 8, 2x 16, 1x 16 ohm), a line out, MIDI In/Tru jacks with MIDI switch inputs and inputs for standard footswitches.