I had one... they're great amps and are pretty versatile. With the GT-8 you can make a nice amp like htat sound pretty much any way you want. It has a good clean tone and its distortion is more for hard rock than smooth ragae tones.... but with the GT-8 and the BV you would have all the firepower you would need for killler tone. And 450 is a steal on that amp... you can't buy the head for less than a grand anywhere... and hte cab is a beast too!!! Just make sure they didn't switch the celestions out of it.