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  • Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

    Something that sounds different than my Traynor YCV40 (which is more of a clean Fendery thing). I don't want modelling stuff, end up playing with menus and options rather than playing guitar.


    How are those little 1 watt marshall heads? Any good?
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    Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

    I have the Bugera G5 head
    at 0.1 watt it is loud speaking voice volume not yelling

    and has an emulated headphone line out
    thats always active
    just leave the amp in standby with a speaker attached of course

    their V5 and B5 Combos are supposed to be good as well

    that Austrailian dude
    In the blues you Tube compares the V5 with his Marshall 5


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    • #3
      Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

      Originally posted by GuitarStv View Post
      How are those little 1 watt marshall heads? Any good?
      I used to have one of the newer Vietnamese ones. It was good. The Classic channel is VERY bright, though. It can be dialed in right, but then, the Ultra channel ends up kinda flat because it has a shared EQ. I guess that's not a problem for recording, since you can adjust the amp accordingly, but keep that in mind.

      The Ultra channel is a bit loose and fluffy, but it takes a tube screamer in front to tighten it up like a champ. It's kinda stuffy-sounding, so it gets along better with brighter and more open-sounding cabinets. Overall, it sounded much better through my Marshall 4x12 than through my Orange 1x12, but then again, what amp doesn't. That's the head, though. The combo with its 8" speaker doesn't sound that much better than any 8" combo out there.

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      • #4
        Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

        Originally posted by Rex_Rocker View Post
        I used to have one of the newer Vietnamese ones. It was good. The Classic channel is VERY bright, though. It can be dialed in right, but then, the Ultra channel ends up kinda flat because it has a shared EQ. I guess that's not a problem for recording, since you can adjust the amp accordingly, but keep that in mind.

        The Ultra channel is a bit loose and fluffy, but it takes a tube screamer in front to tighten it up like a champ. It's kinda stuffy-sounding, so it gets along better with brighter and more open-sounding cabinets. Overall, it sounded much better through my Marshall 4x12 than through my Orange 1x12, but then again, what amp doesn't. That's the head, though. The combo with its 8" speaker doesn't sound that much better than any 8" combo out there.
        Yeah, I don't want a combo. I want an itsy bitsy head that I can use with a vertical 2x12. Probably loaded with a v30 and manowar. Also checking out Traynor's Dark Horse.
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        Originally posted by Douglas Adams
        This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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        • #5
          Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

          build yourself a little tweed princeton head, theyre like 4w.

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          • #6
            Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

            I have an old class A el34 type tube amp, maybe 4-5 watts and even it is too loud to really get cooking when I'm recording stuff.
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            Originally posted by Douglas Adams
            This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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            • #7
              Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

              It's not teeny-tiny, but the Fender Bassbreaker 15 (you'd probably want the head model to save space) sounds incredible, and has a direct out on it for recording.
              Originally posted by LesStrat
              Yogi Berra was correct.
              Originally posted by JOLLY
              I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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              • #8
                Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                here's my G5 and a comparison of my open back Jet City cab with the custom Eminence speaker
                compared to My homemade closed back Scoshe car enclosure with a cheap EHX speaker

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                Ehdwuld branded Blue semi hollow custom with JB/Jazz
                Reptile Green Gibson Custom Studio / Aqua Dean Shire semi hollow with piezo
                Carvin Belair / Laney GC80A Acoustic Amp (a gift from Guitar Player Mag)
                GNX3000 (yea I'm a modeler)

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                • #9
                  Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                  Originally posted by GuitarStv View Post
                  I have an old class A el34 type tube amp, maybe 4-5 watts and even it is too loud to really get cooking when I'm recording stuff.
                  My Jet City Picovalve has a 2/5 watt switch. Plus it will run any octal base power tube. You might be able to find a used one.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                    There is the 0.5W ZVex Nano Head. Clint 55 got one recently.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                      I've never heard those tiny amps sound all that great, actually. Maybe I just need to hear the right ones, but it seems like the selling point is that they are quieter tube amps, instead of just being amps that sound great.
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                      • #12
                        Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                        to be honest

                        my G5 sounds much different at 0.1 watt than it does at 5 watt
                        it comes alive at 5 watt
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                        RG2EX1 w/ SD hot-rodded pickups / RG4EXFM1 w/ Carvin S22j/b + FVN middle
                        SR500 / Martin 000CE-1/Epiphone Hummingbird
                        Epiphone Florentine with OEM Probuckers
                        Ehdwuld branded Blue semi hollow custom with JB/Jazz
                        Reptile Green Gibson Custom Studio / Aqua Dean Shire semi hollow with piezo
                        Carvin Belair / Laney GC80A Acoustic Amp (a gift from Guitar Player Mag)
                        GNX3000 (yea I'm a modeler)

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                        • #13
                          Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                          Best super low volume amp I have ever owned tone wise bar none is my 50 watt PRS Archon head. STUNNING super low volume tone doesn't have to mean super low wattage. Make no mistake now the Archon really gets with the program at very high volume levels and pounds like a sledge hammer but is just superb at a whisper. It's also MUCH more controllable at lower volume running the full 50 watts than the lunchbox style 15 watt PRS MT 15 is at 7 so.
                          Last edited by Ascension; 03-25-2020, 10:28 PM.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                            If I had €835 to spare for a tiny low gain I watt amp..I'd get one of these...










                            But I don't



                            Still the sweetest sounding one I've ever heard..
                            "Less is less, more is more...how can less be more?" ~Yngwie J Malmsteen

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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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                            • #15
                              Re: Looking for a teeny tiny tube amp head for recording at home with

                              Originally posted by Phantasmagoria View Post
                              If I had €835 to spare for a tiny low gain I watt amp..I'd get one of these...










                              But I don't



                              Still the sweetest sounding one I've ever heard..

                              Man, that amp sounds lovely!
                              Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!

                              Originally posted by Douglas Adams
                              This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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