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  • “Best” aka your favorite Lunchbox Amps?

    What are some of your favorite ~15W lunchbox amps for use with a single 12” speaker? Let me know how you are using it (pedals, straight in), types of tones and why you like them.

    I’m looking for a smaller amp I can jam at home with, easily take to a drummerless jam, etc. I like my Princeton Reverb, I’m thinking something similar in size/power but with higher gain and a more hot rodded Marshall voicing.

    If you hate them or whatever, no need to comment.
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  • #2
    My Jet City Picovalve. Only 5 watts, switchable to 2. It can use any octal base tube without needing biasing.

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    • #3
      Just saw a thread by misterwizzy where he's selling a Jet City 20 watt head. You should check it out.

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      • #4
        Right now if I was buying it would probably be the dsl20w, mainly because I don't own a marshall and the fact it does have el34s.

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        • #5
          Hughes & Kettner Grandmeister 40 Deluxe.
          Guitars:Gibson LP Trad ('57 Classics); Ibanez SEW761FM (TB-16/STK-S7 m&n); Charvel DK24 (TB10/SSL-6/A2Pn), DK22 (HRb/SSL-6 m&n), SoCal Style1 (Distortion set) & SoCal Style2 24 2PT (Fluence OCC); ESP LTD MH-1000HS (TB-14/Lil59n); Effects: Line 6 Helix Floor, Digitech Drop & FreqOut, ME EP-1L6,Shure GLXD16, Headrush MX5;

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          • #6
            PRS MT-15

            Pound for pound the best high gain and clean tones in one amp for the price.

            It can get loud, takes pedals like a champ but doesn't need them to sound good.

            Beautiful cleans to heavy brutz and anything in between.
            The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

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            • #7
              As much as I love my little Yammy THR 10's, (lunchbox size), I can't beat my H&K Edition Blue 60, with a Celestion 12", for tone. A guitar needs a 12" speaker.

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              • #8
                I have a Peavey Classic 20. It is switchable for 5-10-20 watts. It is feature full and sounds wonderful. I can get great high gain tones without the use of pedals. Don't let the tweed fool you the amp rips and has plenty of grind.

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                • #9
                  The Marshall Studio Classic head still pretty much slaughters every other small/low wattage amp I've ever tried.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Little Pigbacon

                    Bruce, I’m afraid I just can’t handle the cognitive dissonance here. I need an amp to look how it sounds. Unless there is a drive pedal in the mix.
                    I love showing up with a Tele (w/ a SD), a tweed head and cab and ripping metal through it.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Cynical View Post
                      The Marshall Studio Classic head still pretty much slaughters every other small/low wattage amp I've ever tried.
                      Seems like that one is about 20dB too loud as well. But it does look awesome.
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                      • #12
                        Someone please buy mrwhizzy's Jet City head before Friday.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Demanic View Post
                          Someone please buy mrwhizzy's Jet City head before Friday.

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                          I think it belongs in Arizona!
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by PFDarkside View Post

                            Seems like that one is about 20dB too loud as well. But it does look awesome.
                            5 watt mode is manageable. The 20 watt mode is... loud.

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                            • #15
                              Probably my 30W Cicognani Brutus Live...

                              Harmonically rich lead tones that are ever so sweet! Incredibly touch sensitive and can go from great crunch/plexi to awesome high gain w/o a boost..

                              It's this guy's "signature" amp made by Cicognani. Apparently he runs a popular guitar academy in italy...





                              Your's truly w/ a Mooer Ge300 "tone capture" preset I made with my own amp (first two solo's)




                              I'd say my 15W Chinese Goldea Rex & 30W Laboga The Beast plus see at least as much use and they both sound awesome too though the Brutus Live wins for sheer versatility



                              EDIT: Here's another Brutus clip I recorded (thrash/speed metal rhythm) on the "Lead 2" (hi gain channel-all 3 switched Presence/EQ modes). It's just the raw/unprocessed mono track..

                              Last edited by Phantasmagoria; 04-27-2022, 07:32 PM.
                              "Less is less, more is more...how can less be more?" ~Yngwie J Malmsteen

                              I did it my way ~ Frank Sinatra

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                              If you let your tone speak for itself you'll find alot less people join the conversation.


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