Anyone here rocking a...
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mechanic1908
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I thought about one but ended up with a Kustom ph2012 instead.
Does all the clean solid state I need and has decent bass with the 12" speaker.
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I thought about one but ended up with a Kustom ph2012 instead.
Does all the clean solid state I need and has decent bass with the 12" speaker.
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Silence Kid
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Small and cheap enough to sound like a broken radio at low settings, still overall too loud to turn up and not bother the neighbors, unusable for practice with a band; they are not good amps. I don't really understand the purpose of most small 15 watt amps; but even the smallest Orange Crush, Line 6 Spider, or Guitar Center Acoustic brand 15 watt are MUCH better amps though. I think small Crate practice amps are really the only thing the Frontman 15 floats slightly above in the barrel.
For bedroom/living room practice at "listening level" I'd rather get a cheap iPad/iPhone interface and a small bluetooth speaker; or the small Orange Crush (10? 12 watt?) actually has a decent clean sound.
Small and cheap enough to sound like a broken radio at low settings, still overall too loud to turn up and not bother the neighbors, unusable for practice with a band; they are not good amps. I don't really understand the purpose of most small 15 watt amps; but even the smallest Orange Crush, Line 6 Spider, or Guitar Center Acoustic brand 15 watt are MUCH better amps though. I think small Crate practice amps are really the only thing the Frontman 15 floats slightly above in the barrel.
For bedroom/living room practice at "listening level" I'd rather get a cheap iPad/iPhone interface and a small bluetooth speaker; or the small Orange Crush (10? 12 watt?) actually has a decent clean sound.
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ItsaBass
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It's kind of in the same vein as my old Bullet Reverb. Cheap, light, small, better than nothing. It's a fine little bedroom noodling amp, but it can certainly get loud enough to get the cops called on you. I bought mine from my roommate in Nuke Training Unit, and it was my only amp the rest of the time I was in the Navy (8 years). Good amp for that: When you have no place to really set up a music room, you might be moving around a lot, it might get broken, lost, stolen, etc. I don't think I used it once after getting out. I sold it to my sister in law along with a Bronco Bass, just so she'd have some kind of amp.
To be completely honest, I highly prefer my Vox AmPlug TWIN model headphone amp. But if the Frontman is 20 bucks or something, I say grab it, and a nice pair of headphones to use with it, and use it as a headphone amp primarily.
It's kind of in the same vein as my old Bullet Reverb. Cheap, light, small, better than nothing. It's a fine little bedroom noodling amp, but it can certainly get loud enough to get the cops called on you. I bought mine from my roommate in Nuke Training Unit, and it was my only amp the rest of the time I was in the Navy (8 years). Good amp for that: When you have no place to really set up a music room, you might be moving around a lot, it might get broken, lost, stolen, etc. I don't think I used it once after getting out. I sold it to my sister in law along with a Bronco Bass, just so she'd have some kind of amp.
To be completely honest, I highly prefer my Vox AmPlug TWIN model headphone amp. But if the Frontman is 20 bucks or something, I say grab it, and a nice pair of headphones to use with it, and use it as a headphone amp primarily.
Chris Pile
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I have one in case my Marshall craps out (it hasn't yet).
I have one in case my Marshall craps out (it hasn't yet).
FuseG4
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I agree the 25R is a step up, I had one and was fun to crank, bit reminiscent of old champs and vibro champ amps, comes with some inherent boxiness to the sound but less boxy/farty/splatty than the 15G if you decide you wanna get louder than bedroom.
I agree the 25R is a step up, I had one and was fun to crank, bit reminiscent of old champs and vibro champ amps, comes with some inherent boxiness to the sound but less boxy/farty/splatty than the 15G if you decide you wanna get louder than bedroom.
DankStar
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That’s the free amp I got but couldn’t get it to work so I gutted it. FWIW when I was googling to troubleshoot I ran across a lot of unhappy customers and reportedly dead amps. Would appear they had some inherent issues. Wish I kept the transformer to play with.
That’s the free amp I got but couldn’t get it to work so I gutted it. FWIW when I was googling to troubleshoot I ran across a lot of unhappy customers and reportedly dead amps. Would appear they had some inherent issues. Wish I kept the transformer to play with.
FuseG4
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Jacew
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You don't need to turn it up. For transistor amps more is just always better.
I've toyed with the idea of getting a 2x12 100w Frontman just in case, if I for whatever random reason have a need for really loud clean amp. Since they're only around 100$, getting anything less seems like a waste of money
You don't need to turn it up. For transistor amps more is just always better.
I've toyed with the idea of getting a 2x12 100w Frontman just in case, if I for whatever random reason have a need for really loud clean amp. Since they're only around 100$, getting anything less seems like a waste of money
InbredJunk
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Oh man, back in the garage days in high school, one of those cranked up right in your face so you could hear over the drummer, and the horrible sound of it all bouncing back off of the aluminum garage door. I kind of miss it lol
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Oh man, back in the garage days in high school, one of those cranked up right in your face so you could hear over the drummer, and the horrible sound of it all bouncing back off of the aluminum garage door. I kind of miss it lol
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Silence Kid
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Curious to actually try one of those; I can see it being a lot better.
Curious to actually try one of those; I can see it being a lot better.
