$2000 Budget for Amp

[Demanic]

Re: $2000 Budget for Amp

See if you can find a used or modded Jet City Picovalve. The 2 watt setting sounds good in the room and it won't wake the wife on the other side of the house. This being through a closed back 1X12 cab with an Eminence C-Rex in it. The 5 watt setting will keep up with a drummer and bass in a small room. And it will take any octal based power tube you can find.

[6p5p]

Re: $2000 Budget for Amp

I have a $2000 tax return and I am being irresponsible and blowing it on an amp. It could be a Head or a Combo....

It will be very hard to find an answer in such a forum like here because it is purely a matter of taste and anybody who answers is just describing his own taste.

There are plenty of modern low wattage tube amps that can sound great even on room talking volume. Peavey mini head amps for example have fantastically sounding built-in attenuators (down to 1W), or you can get an A class 5W Laney Lionheart either as head or as a combo, with an 0.5W output... a really beautiful tube amp fat blues rock sound. Wouldn't be that good for jazz, though.
Mesa mini rectifier can offer you pretty any sound you could ever need, but it needs an attenuator at home.

Otherwise buy just any amp you like and use a good attenuator.

[astrozombie]

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I could tell you but why would I tell you what my dream amplifier is?

[80's_Metal]

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http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/randall-ola-englund-signature-satan-120w-tube-guitar-head

$1996.00 Randall Ola Englund Signature Satan 120W Tube Guitar Head

[DESERTRAT1]

Re: $2000 Budget for Amp

Express 550 plus head or combo. 5-25-50 watts. Clean, Crunch, Blues and Burn modes.

[dystrust]

Re: $2000 Budget for Amp

Mesa mini rectifier can offer you pretty any sound you could ever need, but it needs an attenuator at home.

I was checking out a mini Rectoverb a few days ago in hopes that the volume would be more manageable than my 100W Marshall Jubilee. I'm a bit disappointed to say, "Not really". On the 25W setting that amp is LOUD. I was more than a little surprised at how little the volume differed between them; at the point I'll probably just stick with the amp I have.

[Lewguitar]

Re: $2000 Budget for Amp

The amp I've had the most fun with at home (and on the gig) in a long, long time is the Fender Mustang 3 V.2. $320.

Once I got it figured out and set up my own presets and deleted most of the factory presets.

I don't need use a single pedal in front of it or in the effects loop.

The Mustang 3 has them all built right in.