Lunchbox Amps - Legit or Toys?

[justFred]

Re: Lunchbox Amps - Legit or Toys?

5E3 Tweed Deluxe head at 12 Watts is a very serious lunchbox amp...if it qualifies...form factor may be outside of the definition.

 

[6stringerguy]

Re: Lunchbox Amps - Legit or Toys?

My engl has a 1 watt, 5 watt and 20 watt setting , can get to about 5/6 on the master on 20 watts and never use the lower wattage settings because it doesn’t have the bass response.
A lot of the sound is the air moving and the speakers being pushed rather than the power tubes being pushed

 

[Red_Label]

Re: Lunchbox Amps - Legit or Toys?

Well, that depends how they're designed and your rig. Many amps don't sound good volume down and some do, regardless of wattage.

Most of distortion in TT, for intance, is from PI before master volume. Works fine with low volume, if you can get that single knob tone stack to work with your rig.

I just yesterday wrote review here about my new Egnater Rebel 20w, which really sounds just as good with master volume at home practice levels as at noon.

I don't believe in digital cab sims etc... They might sound good, but I don't like them.

That's what I like about Dave Friedman's amps. He flat-out says that he designs them to sound great at low volume. And they DO! The master volume is just so great. My BE100 sounds awesome at bedroom volume, and gets even more glorious as it is turned up. I can't say that about many other Marshally amps that I've owned. My attenuators are collecting dust these days. I hate attenuators any way. Talk about constipating a great tube amp sound.

 

[PoorMan]

Re: Lunchbox Amps - Legit or Toys?

Got the EVH 5150 LBX (not V2). Playing it through a 1960B Marshall cab at 1/4 power low volume. Sounds amazing! Very crunchy, articulate and plenty of harmonics. Exactly what I wanted.

Meanwhile my beloved JCM800 is crapping out.

If you like a lot of gain, this little head will make you happy.