Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

[shreder75]

I was in guitar center and I plugged a peavy wolfgang into the AT-100 tri mode rectifier head and I was TOTALLy blown away..this thing sounded NASTY and it wasn' teven cranked..and I didn't mess with any of the knobs..just plugged right in and BAM....and I dig the price too with the green tag sale...

I'm really considering unloading my vetta and getting this amp....I like the vetta, but I have a love/hate relationship with it...some days I like it, sometimes I don't..and it gets buried very easily..doesn't cut through like tubes would...so I think it's time to put it out to pasture..I wouldn't even consider it if ratings on sites I looked at weren't so high for the B-52 and the price..oh the juicy price!

any info would rock..thanks!

 

[Closed Eye]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

I'm very interested in trying a B-52, but I've no idea where to pick one up. But I'd be interested in hearing more about them as well.

 

[TheArchitect]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

Well, from the screeching I heard other guys getting from it while purchasing some studio stuff I would have to say I wasn't terribly impressed. Don't get caught up in the flavor of the month.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

I have one in my garage, the solid state version at least. My other guitarist uses it as a poweramp and my V-Amp2 as his preamp. He bought it on a whim because he needed a halfstack, and didn't have much cash. Bad idea...the thing sounds like a rhino farting through a wet blanket.

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

yeah one of the crappy local rehersal studios here has the solid state B-52 full stacks and i must say, that was THE WORST amp i have ever played through...i got better tone using a zoom multi effects pedal through a bass amp...don't ask lol.

-Mike

 

[shreder75]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

well, I'm not talkin' about solid state..if I wanted solid state I'd go with a randal =) I'm talkin' about the tube amps

 

[Curly]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

B-52s are affiliated somehow with GC. I have a friend who plays in a classic rock cover band and bought one for that gig - a 100 watt half stack. He says it sounds good. He also got a smokin' deal 'cause he works at GC.

 

[Guitarist]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

Steer far away from the SS B52s.... They sound just like DSS described.

Steer far away from the SS B52s....

...on second thought, scratch that. :laugh2: :burnout:

 

[Xeromus]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

the tube ones sound pretty bad too

 

[B2D]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

Those tube B52s are pretty awful. The only people i saw buy them during my stint at GC were kids with very little money who just HAD to have a tube smp and didn't think to buy a MUCH nicer-sounding Line 6 at the same price or people with plenty of money that had bad taste in amps.

They just.... suck. I don't know how this company even got off the ground. Those amps sound like everything bad about tubes. yuck.

 

[RushOfBlood]

Re: Anyone know anything about B-52 amps?

from what i heard of those tube ones, screechy and trebly, not really alot of definition either.