BluesNRock87
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walked into a music store yesterday just to check it out the tele's, walked out with a used CRATE VC 30, for $250 including footswitch, cover, and all original documents. Perfect condition, all original parts, no flaws. Blonde w/ brown grill?
Its a great sound, exactly what im looking for. It smoked the Peavey classic 30, and it was the best all tube combo i cuold get for my money (under 450). I have 200 left over to mess around w/ tubes and possibly a speaker, though the guy at the shop said to leave it unless i was gonna replace it with an alnico, becayse otherwise it wasnt that much better?
what tubes do i get now? JJ's? go for clean headroom. it has the stock sovteks in it.
ill have to figure out a way to record it, maybe get a cheap mike or something. I highly recomend this amp though. its a great amp. while it doesnt ahve marshall gain or fender clean, it comes darn close and sounds better than alot of more expensive amps. Mines a 1X12 combo, 2 channel, seperate reverb which is nice, fx loop. it does break up early, but i havent really cranked it yet. i was told its based on an AC30, but its not handwired or fancy like that.
Its a great sound, exactly what im looking for. It smoked the Peavey classic 30, and it was the best all tube combo i cuold get for my money (under 450). I have 200 left over to mess around w/ tubes and possibly a speaker, though the guy at the shop said to leave it unless i was gonna replace it with an alnico, becayse otherwise it wasnt that much better?
what tubes do i get now? JJ's? go for clean headroom. it has the stock sovteks in it.
ill have to figure out a way to record it, maybe get a cheap mike or something. I highly recomend this amp though. its a great amp. while it doesnt ahve marshall gain or fender clean, it comes darn close and sounds better than alot of more expensive amps. Mines a 1X12 combo, 2 channel, seperate reverb which is nice, fx loop. it does break up early, but i havent really cranked it yet. i was told its based on an AC30, but its not handwired or fancy like that.
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