ericmeyer4
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Well am in need of some type of practice amp/main amp. (Yes I want an amp that can do it all! lol)
My girlfriend's cousin wanted to start playing guitar, but his parents didn't really want to put the money up for a guitar, lessons, etc if he wasn't going to stick with it. I can see where they are coming from. He is 11 and he has school, baseball, basketball, soccer, and they didn't want to spend the money on a guitar and lessons and have him back out. Understandable.
So I am letting him use my old acoustic for the mean time. My only other guitar is my electric and I need to get a small amp. When I am at home I just plug into my computer, but I won't be giving the lessons at home so I will need an amp.
This amp will be staying at my girlfriend's house because the lessons are going to be when ever we have time during the week and I don't want to haul it 20 miles back and forth and not be using it.
What I need....
*Something small because I don't want to be taking up a lot of room at her condo-duplex-thing (what ever you call it).
*Something low powered. The neighbors are on the other side of the wall so a Marshall stack is out. I know it sucks.
*Something relatively inexpensive. She has a black lab/pit-bull mix that is soooooo cute (I love her), but likes to destroy her stuffed toys. So Scarlett (aka scar-face) accidentally mistakes it for a stuffed animal and rips its squeaker out I won't be too upset. (She is really good and has only destroyed stuffed animals so I am not too worried about this, but better safe than sorry.)
*Something relatively inexpensive pt2. It is for guitar lessons I don't need to sound like EVH when showing an Em chord. (Or do I?)
*It can't totally suck. I would like it to have a nice clean sound. (Setzerish and Surfish) If I hate the sound I am going to be totally uninspired and less excited and that will translate into my teaching.
*For distortion sounds 80's distortion is cool with me ala Boston, Heart, White Snake. I know I will not nail any of those tones, nor do I want to, I guess what I am trying to say is an over produced distortion tone is what I'm after. Weird Huh?
*Tube or solid state I don't really care.
*FX a plus but not required. (Well maybe some reverb)
*Headphone jack a major plus. I don't want to disturb my girlfriend when I'm trying to workout stuff for the next lesson.
*New or used whatever. Don't care.
I was thinking about a Roland Cube amp, but I am open to all suggestions.
I will be using a Warmoth guitar with a SD vintage P90 in the neck and a SD JB in the bridge. Gernerally I use the neck for the clean sounds and the JB for the distortion.
Thanks,
Eric
My girlfriend's cousin wanted to start playing guitar, but his parents didn't really want to put the money up for a guitar, lessons, etc if he wasn't going to stick with it. I can see where they are coming from. He is 11 and he has school, baseball, basketball, soccer, and they didn't want to spend the money on a guitar and lessons and have him back out. Understandable.
So I am letting him use my old acoustic for the mean time. My only other guitar is my electric and I need to get a small amp. When I am at home I just plug into my computer, but I won't be giving the lessons at home so I will need an amp.
This amp will be staying at my girlfriend's house because the lessons are going to be when ever we have time during the week and I don't want to haul it 20 miles back and forth and not be using it.
What I need....
*Something small because I don't want to be taking up a lot of room at her condo-duplex-thing (what ever you call it).
*Something low powered. The neighbors are on the other side of the wall so a Marshall stack is out. I know it sucks.
*Something relatively inexpensive. She has a black lab/pit-bull mix that is soooooo cute (I love her), but likes to destroy her stuffed toys. So Scarlett (aka scar-face) accidentally mistakes it for a stuffed animal and rips its squeaker out I won't be too upset. (She is really good and has only destroyed stuffed animals so I am not too worried about this, but better safe than sorry.)
*Something relatively inexpensive pt2. It is for guitar lessons I don't need to sound like EVH when showing an Em chord. (Or do I?)
*It can't totally suck. I would like it to have a nice clean sound. (Setzerish and Surfish) If I hate the sound I am going to be totally uninspired and less excited and that will translate into my teaching.
*For distortion sounds 80's distortion is cool with me ala Boston, Heart, White Snake. I know I will not nail any of those tones, nor do I want to, I guess what I am trying to say is an over produced distortion tone is what I'm after. Weird Huh?
*Tube or solid state I don't really care.
*FX a plus but not required. (Well maybe some reverb)
*Headphone jack a major plus. I don't want to disturb my girlfriend when I'm trying to workout stuff for the next lesson.
*New or used whatever. Don't care.
I was thinking about a Roland Cube amp, but I am open to all suggestions.
I will be using a Warmoth guitar with a SD vintage P90 in the neck and a SD JB in the bridge. Gernerally I use the neck for the clean sounds and the JB for the distortion.
Thanks,
Eric
