Rivera Chubster 40, opinions?

[alangale84]

I have seen a few of these around recently and wondered if anyone who had one or has played one could let me know what they think of the amp?

[MajorScale]

Had one years ago, very versatile, good quality and full of great tones. Really beautiful clean channel which I loved it for, then Marshall-esque gain channel which wasn't so much to my taste. Probably would have kept mine longer but my Chub developed killer tube rattle...can't remember if I swapped out tubes to try to eliminate the issue or just tried dampers...really been too long since I had it! Good amps though!

[alangale84]

Thanks for that, all input is appreciated as there doesn't seem to be much online about them

[bertie]

I have one - I love it, supremely versatile. If you are a "guitar" player and not a one trick monkey, you'll love it

[alangale84]

Could you elaborate a little on that mate? I am very much about getting a good clean tone and building from there upwards, obviously if the 2nd channel is good then even better, however I am yet to hear a 2 channel amp that I like both channels.

I had a DRRI for about 3 days and shipped it out because the treble on the vibrato channel was ridiculous, any such things with the chubster that you wish you'd known before you got it?

[bertie]

well, there are some that only play a particular type of music/want a single specific type of sound from an amp.........and this might well not fit that niche. Its trump card is its versatility.......... it makes a great stab at fendery cleans and reasonably marshally OD accross the two channels, with the appropriate 'buttons'

For a 'covers' type player or simply someone who plays accross all genres, its a great amp - I find the deep cab, really helps fill out the cleans/warm cleans at lower volumes.........which can often get 'tinny' on smaller boxes

[Dewar54]

I have one and I haven't been looking at other amps at all since getting it (although I did buy a Rivera rake head on the strengths of the chubby). Go try one out if you can, if you can't then just buy one anyway cos they're an absolute steal secondhand. I know it's all subjective but I just love the tone of it, gets me exactly where I wanna be. Now if only I could play well enough to warrant owning it I'd be happy

[DrBob]

I have a Chubster 40, I came to it as the logical conclusion of a love affair that that started with a Clubster 45 via a brief dalliance with an R30 and yeah like Bertie says if you had to have one amp to do it all I don't think you could do much better than the Chub with maybe a drive pedal added for the reeeelllly high gain stuff. Seems silly to say but that deeper cabinet does seem to add some real chunk & depth to the delivery that belies it's physically compact form.