Certainly it is far more than a simple drumming surface for an idle mind and unemployed fingers. This is a 5-star amp stock, and even better with some easy changes, so it gets another 5 stars. Be a Tissue and Organ Donor and Tell Your Parents to Make It Happen. Makes voilins and saxes sound as if they were made of glass, steel, granite and poop. A similar spec'ed Unison research or Audion Sterling happen to be far wiser choices to go for if you actually had to buy an amp, rather than win one at a raffle.
Solo violin sounds astonishingly strident regardless of how sweet the actual recording was.
Solo violin is a torture test for the oto se. So are saxophones. To be fair, it has a nice set of pots. Well, I had to do a core dump on this piece sooner or later. It all started when I attended the Philadelphia Triode Exposition a few months ago.