A Question You Never Thought I Would Ask

[ratherdashing]

Re: A Question You Never Thought I Would Ask

Your first post describes the Traynor YCS100H to a tee:

http://www.traynoramps.com/products.asp?type=1&cat=60&id=357

100W class AB or 30W class A, three independent channels, built like a tank, and sounds awesome.

I believe Gr8scott was selling one a few weeks ago, so maybe you should shoot him a PM.

 

[Benjy_26]

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I remember getting some great tones through my BF Bassman Export that was being fed by a Mesa V-Twin. That set up went from crystal cleans all the way up to Modern metal.

A SF Bassman 100 with a V-Twin through the right cab should be a pretty versatile, toneful, 3 channel rig.

 

[Copperhead]

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KRANK Revolution!!:doh:

 

[tc]

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STILETTO!!!! jk, i really don't know...hows your wallet??

 

[devastone]

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Seriously man, check out the Traces. They are Made in UK custom shop tube amps, around $2K retail new, going for ridiculous prices now.

The channel 1 is Fendery, channel 2 is JCM800 on medium gain and Bogner/Soldano-ish on high gain (which is footswitchable). There is only one set of controls for channel 2, including gain, but it still works very well switching between medium and high gain, better than I expected. For a versatile all tube amp, they can't be beat at those prices, I'd take one over a new Marshall or Mesa any day. I've owned Soldanos, Marshalls (800s, 900s, and old Superleads), Mesa Recto and Mark IV, Laney, rack stuff including a Kasha preamp (the best I've used), and the Trace is the ticket for versatility. Sometimes I get nostalgic for an old JCM800, but I'm pretty sure it's just nostalgia.

Of the amps I've owned, the Soldano was the next closest thing. I can honestly say that I'm not a Mesa fan.

<$0.02,
Roger

 

[drpietrzak]

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El Diablo

 

[34029324079]

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Switches were a little cheaper feeling and the indicator light seemed cheap too, but it had a good clean tone. I didnt get the chance to crank it though to see how it sounded balls-out, but maybe you can?

This one went for only $450. http://cgi.ebay.com/MESA-BOOGIE-50-...7QQihZ015QQcategoryZ43374QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

wow thats a sweet amp for 450$ ...I guess the mesa 50 caliber + go for a little more cause of the eq and stuff. that price is awesome there.

 

[firebirdV]

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If you are looking at the mesa boogie mark 1-3 series, make sure you take note of the stripe on the back. The stripe can change how the amp sounds a lot.

 

[Axl H]

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Engl Savage 120 or Blackmore Signature. Both of those heads have four channels ranging from crystal clear to all out extreme metal. They also do everything in between and sound great while doing it.
Only problem might be availability in the US

And as always +1!

Screamer might be good for what you are looking for too. It is also cheaper.

The only problem is, that the clean channel has problems staying 100% clean when you crank it. but the drive sound compensates for this to the fullest

 

[Imp]

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Marshall DSL50?

i dunno if i've missed something, but for a cheap head that'd be at the top of my list..

i dunno what it's like in the US, but the UK's slowly subsiding with the piles of used DSL50's lying around

if you were to pick one up used, it'd be the same price 12 months down the line.. if you sold it, like..

tom

 

[LesStrat]

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Find and old Traynor.

But keep it.

 

[PUCKBOY99]

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TECH21 TRADEMARK 300 ????

http://www.tech21nyc.com/tm300.html

They're out opf production right now, but you could probably find a used one for a decent price.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tech-21-Tradema...yZ121161QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

How close to Amherst are ya' ??????

 

[Rich_T]

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Marshall DSL50?

i dunno if i've missed something, but for a cheap head that'd be at the top of my list..

i dunno what it's like in the US, but the UK's slowly subsiding with the piles of used DSL50's lying around

if you were to pick one up used, it'd be the same price 12 months down the line.. if you sold it, like..

tom

I noticed how many of those things there are on ebay, wierd, I quite like them.

 

[Simon_F]

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I noticed how many of those things there are on ebay, wierd, I quite like them.

I guess people are offloading them to buy JVMs and Vintage Moderns.

 

[dystrust]

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wow thats a sweet amp for 450$ ...I guess the mesa 50 caliber + go for a little more cause of the eq and stuff. that price is awesome there.

The Mesa .50 cal and .50 cal + are two completely different amps, and both are available with or without the graphic EQ. The difference between the amps is that the original .50 cal is 4 EL-84s in class A while the plus is 2 6L6s in class AB. The original is a very neat amp on its own; half mark series Boogie and half Vox. The plus on the other hand is a production engineered Mark III. The easiest way to tell the two apart from a distance is that the original has toggle switches for the power and standby while the plus has cheap plastic rocker switches.