Re: Best affordable 20W to 50W Combo tube amp for Rock/Metal
Any looking at what the OP wants, a lot of it seems to just contradict itself.
You want high gain, tight tones, but you're not willing to get at least an 100 watt amp?
You're not going to nail KSE tones with anything less than 100 watts, KSE tone comes from having amps with tons of headroom.
You want tube dynamics, but you want to play a fair bit in your bedroom?
Honestly, sell the Metalzone, keep the Cube for your bedroom because unless you buy a SUPER low wattage amp you're not going to get the proper tube feel in the bedroom (although AFAIK the ENGL Powerball is one of the few tube amps that genuinely sounds good at bedroom levels, but you can't afford that anyway).
And a super low wattage amp doesn't do modern metal anyway, so that's out of the equation.
Save up for a 5150 head and cab combination.
It will do EXACTLY what you want at jamming levels (with a drummer type jamming levels). End of Heartache uses 2 tracks of 5150 for the rhythm guitar FWIW.
If not, find a decent amp modeling solution that will do higher volume stuff than your Cube.
Any looking at what the OP wants, a lot of it seems to just contradict itself.
You want high gain, tight tones, but you're not willing to get at least an 100 watt amp?
You're not going to nail KSE tones with anything less than 100 watts, KSE tone comes from having amps with tons of headroom.
You want tube dynamics, but you want to play a fair bit in your bedroom?
Honestly, sell the Metalzone, keep the Cube for your bedroom because unless you buy a SUPER low wattage amp you're not going to get the proper tube feel in the bedroom (although AFAIK the ENGL Powerball is one of the few tube amps that genuinely sounds good at bedroom levels, but you can't afford that anyway).
And a super low wattage amp doesn't do modern metal anyway, so that's out of the equation.
Save up for a 5150 head and cab combination.
It will do EXACTLY what you want at jamming levels (with a drummer type jamming levels). End of Heartache uses 2 tracks of 5150 for the rhythm guitar FWIW.
If not, find a decent amp modeling solution that will do higher volume stuff than your Cube.
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