Re: VOTE!!! Small 5 - 20w Tube Head for the Dali
I realize this thread is a few days old, but I'd like to add a plug in favor of the Tweaker.
I have the 15-watt Tweaker head running through a homemade 1x12 cabinet. It has selectable tone stacks that are more-or-less marketed as "Fender", "Vox", and "Marshall". Now, these definitely do not sound exactly like what they're purported to (although I think you might fool someone with the "Fender" setting under the right conditions), but if you instead think of them more as, "great, usable tones in the style of some famous amplifier lines," you'll be a lot more satisfied.
I think it sounds great; I do not have trouble fighting with my drummer or bassist to be heard. I mainly play Strattish stuff through it at that edge-of-breakup transition between glassy and crunchy, which is where I think it shines, but you can switch to a humbucker, dime both preamp and master volume gains, flip the switch to "BRIT", and get a nice roar out of it, too. I will agree with Diego that it sounds best when you crank up the master volume and make those output tubes work. Also, I always have the "HOT/CLEAN" switch set to "HOT", even when I'm playing at my cleanest.
A tangent about modeling devices:
I think amp modelers sound great when recording, but I've never quite warmed up to playing live with them. Even modeling amps like the Line 6 Spider always kind of make me feel like my amp is miked up in the next room, and I'm listening to it through monitors. Even cranked up, they just feel like loud monitors--there's some lack of immediacy that more feels off than sounds off to me.
I realize this thread is a few days old, but I'd like to add a plug in favor of the Tweaker.
I have the 15-watt Tweaker head running through a homemade 1x12 cabinet. It has selectable tone stacks that are more-or-less marketed as "Fender", "Vox", and "Marshall". Now, these definitely do not sound exactly like what they're purported to (although I think you might fool someone with the "Fender" setting under the right conditions), but if you instead think of them more as, "great, usable tones in the style of some famous amplifier lines," you'll be a lot more satisfied.
I think it sounds great; I do not have trouble fighting with my drummer or bassist to be heard. I mainly play Strattish stuff through it at that edge-of-breakup transition between glassy and crunchy, which is where I think it shines, but you can switch to a humbucker, dime both preamp and master volume gains, flip the switch to "BRIT", and get a nice roar out of it, too. I will agree with Diego that it sounds best when you crank up the master volume and make those output tubes work. Also, I always have the "HOT/CLEAN" switch set to "HOT", even when I'm playing at my cleanest.
A tangent about modeling devices:
I think amp modelers sound great when recording, but I've never quite warmed up to playing live with them. Even modeling amps like the Line 6 Spider always kind of make me feel like my amp is miked up in the next room, and I'm listening to it through monitors. Even cranked up, they just feel like loud monitors--there's some lack of immediacy that more feels off than sounds off to me.
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