Needed money, traded way down the tube amp ladder but got more than what I was hoping for given my absurd $200 budget. $200 for a tube amp? Why not just get a modeler!? Cuz hot glass sounds good loud... But I digest
Searched and was thinking it would have to be a bugera v5 or valve jr, or Peavey valve king vk112 or do you do remember those old crate palominos, and some stuff like vht special 6 not ultra, that's the kinda stuff that kept coming up. Was leaning toward vht but saw for $200 a bugera v22 that was on good condition and not suffering any of the common problems with reverb or channel switching or overheating so... I thought how bad could it sound? It had a microphonic tube so I got another $15 off.
The reverb is crap and placed before the tone stack so the tone controls have a wild effect on the verb character. Not a great design there if you ask me. Stock speaker was ok but the attack was very clucky, luckily I had an Eminence laying around.
i tightened literally every screw on the thing. Had that "built on a Friday afternoon" feel a little. Rattled a little before tightening everything, much better now. Glad that worked.
With the new tube and new speaker I really can't complain especially for the price. Kinda like a slightly less ballsy peavey classic 30 crossed with a less honky/sizzly vox night train. The feel is pretty punchy but there's good sustain on the clean channel. I do miss the compression of the Princeton
Haven't tried any pedals yet strangely, still getting to know this strange cheap beast.
Not a big fan of the bugera badge. Big chrome eyesore. Here I've covered it with this jazzmaster
Searched and was thinking it would have to be a bugera v5 or valve jr, or Peavey valve king vk112 or do you do remember those old crate palominos, and some stuff like vht special 6 not ultra, that's the kinda stuff that kept coming up. Was leaning toward vht but saw for $200 a bugera v22 that was on good condition and not suffering any of the common problems with reverb or channel switching or overheating so... I thought how bad could it sound? It had a microphonic tube so I got another $15 off.
The reverb is crap and placed before the tone stack so the tone controls have a wild effect on the verb character. Not a great design there if you ask me. Stock speaker was ok but the attack was very clucky, luckily I had an Eminence laying around.
i tightened literally every screw on the thing. Had that "built on a Friday afternoon" feel a little. Rattled a little before tightening everything, much better now. Glad that worked.
With the new tube and new speaker I really can't complain especially for the price. Kinda like a slightly less ballsy peavey classic 30 crossed with a less honky/sizzly vox night train. The feel is pretty punchy but there's good sustain on the clean channel. I do miss the compression of the Princeton
Haven't tried any pedals yet strangely, still getting to know this strange cheap beast.
Not a big fan of the bugera badge. Big chrome eyesore. Here I've covered it with this jazzmaster
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