Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something better?

[PRSfan nym 1985]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

I'm pretty happy with what I've got but I have an Egnater Tweaker so basically between all the switches, trying out different speaker/tube combos I basically have every amp i really want already.

Unless I had enough money to pickup a roland jazz chorus 120 and a Blackstar Artisan 30 the tweaker will have to make do.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

Got all I want and need.
Just play and play now.
If something is wrong, well then it is me who needs adjustment or a break

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

Quencho, are you using the Acoustic B200H bass amp with your six string guitar? That's cool. . .what speakers are you using? I like a deep full tone and that might work for my guitar. .

It's an orange JBL 12 inch car speaker, it has a huge ceramic magnet with another donut magnet stacked behind it. The whole rig cost 350, Acoustic+3/4 inch birch cab with tweeter. I wish I knew what model speaker it is, my friend sold it to me for 20 bucks, it was a punched in floor model from a car stereo shop. Yes I play my strat through it.

You would be surprised how detailed and awesome this amp sounds, it's extremely easy to get tones that fill the room properly, I can fine tune the EQ so the band can feel what I'm playing without sounding harsh or boomy. For the broke player who needs tons of headroom in a light package you cant go wrong. The lead tones are unbelievable, a touch of OD+compresser and an alesis picoverb unit in the fx loop, people think it's a tube amp. Bass amps are designed to deal with a lot of harmonic content, I feel like this amp lets me raise my treble and mid ceiling or lower it, and almost all settings are musical. 60hz raised up doesn't seem to add bass but adds air to the notes, kinda like playing through a stack.

The rig is blisteringly loud, it keeps up with stacks(clean obviously). I make most objects in my living room vibrate violently at will, it is easy to carry the cab with one hand, head with other. I can talk for crap for long periods of time about this amp because it has saved me money, and allowed me to play guitar and bass gigs for the past year and a half with no headaches while sounding good.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

I'm happy with my low wattage and high wattage amps. It's harder to find something just right in the middle wattage range. I have a '69 Princeton Reverb and an Ampeg Jet II for low-watt amps. I have an Ampeg V4 and an Ampeg Super Rocket for high-watt amps. I have a Reverberocket as a middle-watt amp, and it sounds great, but has too much headroom. I need to find a decent middle wattage amp somewhere in between the Jet and the Reverberocket.

 

[TSE]

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I'm very happy with my 6505+ now that I modded it back to the original 5150 spec. It sounds absolutely thunderous compared to the ll/+ version. They really should not have neutered the lead channel the ll/+. And my Valveking 112 also sounds much better after I did the "Mesa" mod to it. Added clarity and a better voicing for metal.

Really happy with my amps, I still like to check other amps out for fun though, but nothing seems to be able to best what I have right now logically speaking.

 

[Agileguy_101]

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My Bassman and pedals fit all of my clean to moderate crunch needs. I'd like something that goes farther than that. I don't need it, as I probably wouldn't play that kind of music any farther than jams, and often no farther than my bedroom. But it'd be fun.

I'll probably just get a crunchbox or something and call it a day.

 

[crguti]

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I couldn't be happier :banana:

Mesa head into Engl cab.

 

[RoccoFunnyMan]

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Like my Hotrod Deluxe but want something smaller, gonna give the Bugera V5 a shot.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

Zvex Nano head
Lil' Night Train head
Ampmakers SE-5a 5W head
Roland Cube 30 combo
Trace-Elliot Speed-Twin 50w combo

So far, the Lil' Night Train is coming closest to the sound I'm happy with. I'm certainly interested in others, the Laney Lionheart, the Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister and the Orange TH30 being amongst them.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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I couldn't be happier :banana:

Mesa head into Engl cab.

I LOVE ENGL cabs...

 

[Bludave]

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I own some very nice amps & for the most part my search for amps is over...

I have a 68 or 69 Super Reverb, a 68 Deluxe Reverb, A Marshall 900 50W combo a Komet 60 connected to a Marshall 4 12 with greenbacks & a Bogner Shiva 1 12" EL 34 combo. For a long time I used the Super reverb with a TS9. Then I bought the Marshall & A/B'd it with the Marshall(great combination but a PITA to move it all). Then I bought the Bogner thinking I could get the Fender/Marshall in one box.... It was very good but still lacking well.... something. Then I bought the Komet & my search for amps is now over. I have never gigged with the Komet simply because it is too loud. It is a raw amp & does not have a master volume or Reverb. No effects loop or anything it is just raw power & tonal bliss. Unfortunately I don't get to play it out & let other people hear how wonderful is amp is. Most of the places I play are way too small so I usually use my Deluxe Reverb amp. Its a great little amp with a Vintage 30 in it & it sounds great not quite as much gain as I would like on some things we do but overall its a great sounding amp.

 

[jeremy]

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90% of my gigs i use my '66 deluxe reverb and it sounds amazing. i modded the normal channel so there is no tone controls which works great for a fat lead boost when i kick it on.

i also have a '69 dual showman reverb, celtic 5e3, celtic 5e7, a musicmaster bass amp thats been modded to hell, and a sweet bass rig (svt5pro thru goliath 4x10)

i dont need anything more but im still building a tw express clone and a few other things that i probably wont use much

 

[ImmortalSix]

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I feel like I want a more experimental amp like the Egnater Tweaker, but every time I have ever bought a piece of gear that was a fad or "flavor of the month," I have regretted it.

I recently converted my 6L6 Hot Rod DeVille 2x12 combo amp to EL84s.

I still haven't started a thread about that, because I want to have some video evidence of the sound / change in sound from 6L6 before I do.

I will say this: it is really, really interesting.

 

[PRSfan nym 1985]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

I would hardly consider Egnater a flavor of the month he's been in the biz a long time I own a tweaker and it's an amazing amp at any price range.

I'm about to order a set of 6CA7 power tubes and some ECC803 long plate preamp tubes for mine. I'm also going to be swapping out the stock Egnater/Celestion speakers for a couple of Emi's (a redcoat and a patriot). I'm using this combo of tubes and speakers so I can get the best of UK/US flavors depending on how I set the amp. The 6CA7 tubes are great because you get the low end of a 6L6 but you get the mids and highs of an EL34.

Between the knobs and switches on the amp, the different speaker cab options you could potentially run (and obviously choose different flavors of speakers), and being able to run any octal tube (EL34, 6V6, 6L6, KT77, 6CA7, etc) it's pretty much any amp you want it to be. It loves pedals. It's my favorite amp to date.

 

[guitfiddle]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

I'm happy with my low wattage and high wattage amps. It's harder to find something just right in the middle wattage range. I have a '69 Princeton Reverb and an Ampeg Jet II for low-watt amps. I have an Ampeg V4 and an Ampeg Super Rocket for high-watt amps. I have a Reverberocket as a middle-watt amp, and it sounds great, but has too much headroom. I need to find a decent middle wattage amp somewhere in between the Jet and the Reverberocket.

Sounds like a Gemini is in your future.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

Sounds like a Gemini is in your future.

I am always on the lookout for a nice GV-22 locally. Looks like E-Bay is the best way to find one, though; and I am loathe to have an amp shipped, both for cost reasons and fear of damage. I'm also leaning heavily toward a Mesa F30 combo. I had the F50 head for a while, and I loved it.

 

[lex666]

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Very happy with what I've got now; Mark 5 head and Marshall TSL602.

But I'm always curious to see/hear what other tones are out there. Only a fool would close the door on other tone options. I'd love to just spend some quality time with various amps just to see what the possibilities are... Not just try it out in a store for 30 minutes... but some serious quality time.

 

[drew_half_empty]

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Love my twin. F-in love it, does everything I need it to. I look at other amps, but never consider selling it to get one.

It's kind of great to start to accumulate really nice pieces that are the best at what they do instead of always trying to "have it all". I have the fender clean and BF overdrive thing covered now--the only reason to ever buy another amp that does that would be for easier transport, but... amps like that you get when you can finance one with gigging.

Same with the p90 les paul, I'll never need anything else that sounds like that, it's got that covered

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

I was thinking, I have another identical car speaker to the one in my cab, I just might get a birch 3/4'' ply 14 by 14 cube for that 12'' JBL for easier gig transport.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet

I'm fairly complacent about my amps. There aren't a lot of different things to try out where I live; most of the stores carry the same stuff. And I hate carrying amps around, buying, selling, etc. I mostly play the same handful of amps and just change guitars or pedals to get different sounds.

TSL100 with either a 1906A or a Mesa Rectocab 2x12, Mesa Rocket 44 combo, Hughes & Kettner ATS-Sixty combo, Behringer V-Tone GMX212 modeling combo, a Fender solid-state head and a little TubeWorks 4x10 cab. It's that stuff, and/or a PocketPod, ToneLab, etc.

That said, I'd really like to have another Fender tube amp. The DRRI wasn't really my thing; the Blues Deluxe seems about right. And I'd like to have a Rectifier head.