Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

[SepultuRick]

Right i am selling my jcm900 combo. I need something that can do modern high gain at low volumes whilest still sounding warm. Maybe i will have to go solid state? that way i can get decent-ish metal tones at low volumes. some ss amps even have the added bonus of a headphone socket which would be very useful to me.

some considerations are the marshall mg series, the marshall avt series and the line 6 flextone 3.

any of these amps any good?


p.s does the flextone have a headphone socket? and also i have owned the spider II and not liked it so will i not like the distortions on the flextone too?

thanks. any other suggestions, tube or solid state would be much appreciated. ideally i want an amp that can deliver good toneful distortion in the more modern territory and has also an amp that has a decent enough clean channel. i have owned the roland cube 60, supposedly one the best ss practice amps there is and i never liked it. the digital fx were awful and the models left much to be desired. i have heard the cube 30 sounds better?

 

[pac112]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

i play both the AVT and MG. for what you want i think the AVT is more suited. but going from JCM to AVT?

 

[Kommerzbassist]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

If you like marshall sounds, how about the one in my sig & avatar pic?

 

[SepultuRick]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

well the jcm2000 head won't be good at low volumes will it?

 

[FenderStratRock3]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

3 Channels (right?), so you automatically get that sound going at whatever volume.


I'd look for a good modelling amp. If you're talking GOOD high, modern gain sounds, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything decent at low volumes. The HD147 is supposed to be MADE for high-gan apparently. Though it's a head, you could get a small cab for cheap. May be what you're looking for.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

Now knowing what you're looking for, stay away from high power heads, unless you plan on gigging but from the sound of it, this is going to be a bedroom amp. So, stay away from the high power heads.

Since you didn't like the Cube 60 you won't like the Cube 30. They're very similar, have the same models and effects except the 60 has a couple more and a few other extras.

For what you want, and since headphones are a bonus, look at a PODxt. Then look at the Atomic Reactor amp. The Atomic is made for the POD and is a tube amp. JeffB has one but he runs a PODxt LIVE through his. The PODxt LIVE is the same as the normal PODxt, just in floorboard format. With this you'll be able to get whatever the heck you want and then some.

Then again, I gave what I thought was good advice on the JCM900 and look what happened.

 

[SepultuRick]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

thanks erikh you've been real helpful with the jcm900 advice. it just so happens my friend has just bought himself the atomic reactor and a podxt so i will have a chance to try it out. its not too cheap though.

the vox valvetronix range looks good right now. maybe not for metal though.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

thanks erikh you've been real helpful with the jcm900 advice. it just so happens my friend has just bought himself the atomic reactor and a podxt so i will have a chance to try it out. its not too cheap though.

the vox valvetronix range looks good right now. maybe not for metal though.

I try to give good advice.

Cool about your friend. I've heard clips of JeffB's Atomic and it's pretty killer with the XT Live. Apparently there's a parametric EQ on the Live that he didn't have turned on at first and it didn't sound that great. Once he turned it on and got it tweaked, the tone improved 100%.

The Valvetronix stuff I've tried was OK. Not very metal sounding though to me. I like the Roland Cubes better than those.

 

[Kommerzbassist]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

well the jcm2000 head won't be good at low volumes will it?

The 60W one will be... I mean not as good as turned up, but I think that's obvious and goes for every amp ss or tube....

 

[DesertRose]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

I crank the DSL401 up and it sounds better than having it at low volumes.

As for the JCM900, which I just bought recently .. ain't selling it away even if its using darn 6L6. Its a pretty good 100 watt amp especially when I played some distortion on it.

 

[34029324079]

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uhh, forget ALL TUBE AMPS if you want high gain at low volumes to sound good.

I like this thread because I have been pondering tone at low volumes myself; and all I could come up with was:

the vox modeler head units! Assumming that they got the bugs out of their new top of the line modelers.

 

[iekobrid]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

the vox modeler head units! Assumming that they got the bugs out of their new top of the line modelers.

Which models / bugs?

 

[Telesexual]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

If you are going solid state, I would go Line6. My buddy has a spyder I was playin earlier. It has tons of gain

 

[suislidE03]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

I just cant get past the fact that people actually think the spiders sound good. Please stop recommending those :yell: Personally i like the vox stuff, most of the models sound pretty good, even for high gain. If you want something really brutal it may not be the best, but it will cover 95% of that territory. If you want brutal and SS, get one of those old marshall valvestates like the 8000 series or whatever. If you know who Death is you will know what i mean.

 

[iekobrid]

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Dunno how warm you'd personally consider them to be, but I've yet to find a solid state combo that beats the Randall G2 series for modern gain sounds at reasonable volumes. They're coming out with a G3 series, apparently, so you might be able to find G2s on clearance. I'd own one myself right now, but the great deal I had a lead on blew right through them before I could take advantage. Still considering some of the places charging full regular price, though; I liked the G2 sounds that much.

 

[iekobrid]

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I just cant get past the fact that people actually think the spiders sound good. Please stop recommending those

I second that emotion. :smack: I love my PODxt, think the Flextone and Duoverb are pretty decent, got my best sound ever through a Vetta II, and wouldn't mind test driving an HD147 for a couple months, but D**N I hates me some Line6 Spiders. Nauseatingly useless little buggers.

 

[Telesexual]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

I just cant get past the fact that people actually think the spiders sound good. Please stop recommending those :yell: Personally i like the vox stuff, most of the models sound pretty good, even for high gain. If you want something really brutal it may not be the best, but it will cover 95% of that territory. If you want brutal and SS, get one of those old marshall valvestates like the 8000 series or whatever. If you know who Death is you will know what i mean.

Sounded decent to me for the price the dude bought it for. Vox makes good stuff too though, of course I really dont play high gain too much at all though

 

[Kommerzbassist]

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uhh, forget ALL TUBE AMPS if you want high gain at low volumes to sound good.

This is just not true... if you have a modern more channel amp, you can just turn up the preamp gain and it'll sound good too. (Of course not as good as cranked, but good)

 

[Foeburner]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

Why don't you just buy an Attenuator, then you can run tube amp at low volume.

 

[DesertRose]

Re: Ok so i am selling my JCM900 combo. Which amp next??

the valvestate 40 rocks too. I regretfully sold it away, its sounds like an AVT 50 and perhaps BETTER !