Help me pick a relatively cheap amp...
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Sludgenutz
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Re: Help me pick a relatively cheap amp...
Benjy does make sense. Yes, you can get a used 5150...and if it were necessary, I would have myself!
I had no intention to buy anything but a tube amp combo. I could have bought an all-tube B-52, or Randall tube combo, or used 5150. I was totally willing to put $500 cash down, AND finance the rest too nearly $1000 if I had to....but I didn't! I swear upon my own future grave, that this Randall combo I bought thunders like all hell to an equivalent of 40 watts tube!
Truth be known, transistor amps cr@p out MUSICALLY long before the knobs are maxed out. With that in-mind, a Randall at garage levels for the average home is gooood!
milkandmeat said:
Benjy does make sense. Yes, you can get a used 5150...and if it were necessary, I would have myself!
I had no intention to buy anything but a tube amp combo. I could have bought an all-tube B-52, or Randall tube combo, or used 5150. I was totally willing to put $500 cash down, AND finance the rest too nearly $1000 if I had to....but I didn't! I swear upon my own future grave, that this Randall combo I bought thunders like all hell to an equivalent of 40 watts tube!
Truth be known, transistor amps cr@p out MUSICALLY long before the knobs are maxed out. With that in-mind, a Randall at garage levels for the average home is gooood!
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Sludgenutz
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Re: Help me pick a relatively cheap amp...
Yup, The Valve King is the new economical standard for modern tube tones, but it still needs a moderate amount of space/volume to give the "bloom" that tube amps need to excell.
Tube powered amps are like powerful animals. They sound absolutely killer in a large space. If you try to squeeze them into a small space, it wont work. It's kinda like trying to keep a tiger inside a closet.
Kac said:
Yup, The Valve King is the new economical standard for modern tube tones, but it still needs a moderate amount of space/volume to give the "bloom" that tube amps need to excell.
Tube powered amps are like powerful animals. They sound absolutely killer in a large space. If you try to squeeze them into a small space, it wont work. It's kinda like trying to keep a tiger inside a closet.
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Valve King = good, 5150, XXX, or JSX = omfg.
Valve King = good, 5150, XXX, or JSX = omfg.
Re: Help me pick a relatively cheap amp...
I went throught the same thing with a Flextone III. I bought it in October, had a honeymoon with it for about 2 weeks, and I just couldn't get over the feeling. That "it really isn't tubes" feeling. I'm betting that if I recorded with it, I'd get some good tones, but....
Sh it comes in, sh it goes out.
I'm awaiting a Vox AC-30CC1 (112 Celestion Neo Dog). Should be here this week. I traded the Flextone and FBV shortboard in and have to pay the equivalent of about $100 here in Japan.
If I had to buy an amp under $500, my choice would be the new Vox AC-15 CC1 (with Wharfedale speaker). Great tone, great value, giggable volume (small club). Nothing beats my old Super Champ, but this new AC-15 is about the same loudness clean and approaches the same volume when the master is turned up compared to the Super Champ on its gain channel.
Check an AC-15CC1 out today. If you ever feel the need to upgrade, you can purchase a Celestion Alnico Blue separately (cheaper than purchasing it as standard equipment on the AC-15CC2).
I went throught the same thing with a Flextone III. I bought it in October, had a honeymoon with it for about 2 weeks, and I just couldn't get over the feeling. That "it really isn't tubes" feeling. I'm betting that if I recorded with it, I'd get some good tones, but....
Sh it comes in, sh it goes out.
I'm awaiting a Vox AC-30CC1 (112 Celestion Neo Dog). Should be here this week. I traded the Flextone and FBV shortboard in and have to pay the equivalent of about $100 here in Japan.
If I had to buy an amp under $500, my choice would be the new Vox AC-15 CC1 (with Wharfedale speaker). Great tone, great value, giggable volume (small club). Nothing beats my old Super Champ, but this new AC-15 is about the same loudness clean and approaches the same volume when the master is turned up compared to the Super Champ on its gain channel.
Check an AC-15CC1 out today. If you ever feel the need to upgrade, you can purchase a Celestion Alnico Blue separately (cheaper than purchasing it as standard equipment on the AC-15CC2).
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