ampeg guitar amps?

[kevlar3000]

Re: ampeg guitar amps?

so do they normally have good distortion or no distortion at all. do they take pedals well?

The have plenty of gain, but much more headroom than say a Marshall of the same era. Wide open, they flat out rock. With an attenuator, you can get to the goods. They can hang equally with any amp from that era, Marshall, Hiwatt, Laney, they are not lacking in a classic rock voice. Loud and punchy with wonderful sustain. My B25 is a good deal louder than my old Plexi RI was. It is a fantasic rock head, I snatched it up for 200.00 and cannot believe in this day and age, that I could find that tone for that price. Many of my heads have needed a couple tweaks to get em where I like them. This amp, save for a couple of filter caps. is voiced perfectly. There is really nothing different that I would like it to do. I jhave gigged it a few times and it has gotten rave reviews from folks in the crowd.

I honestly have not found any of my old heads to be bad at taking pedals, I think that has much more to do with how the user applies them.

 

[fab.regnaut]

Re: ampeg guitar amps?

I have a VL1002 Ampeg head , designed by Lee Jackson and this thing is sickly LOUD !
Very good clean channel , and dirty one that I never push the gain after 2 O'clock cause I don't llke compression , want to keep this marvelous clean and punchy attack , with a little overdrive before the preamp .
The beast is tremendously heavy to carry around but it worth the pain .

Being out of production I took the chance to grab another one , a VL503 50w combo on Ebay , 3 channels and reverb and loop switchable on a 5 toogle footswitch , out for recording , external screw for power tube biasing , fuse that protect against tube blowing , switch for 6550 or EL34 , power attenuator for low volumes , etc .
I would not trade any of them for a Mesa of any kind !