views on crate amps??

[Sirion]

Re: views on crate amps??

I have a Crate Vintage Club 50. For me, it works great. The clean channel, while a bit loud for my purposes, are really dynamic, how hard you are picking counts A LOT here, more than any other amp I have tried. The Dist channel are good, but not great.

However, I would not recommend one if you are a strat player. If I don't turn down the treble knob on the amp and tone knob on my guitar, I get icepick sounds, and I am using a all mahogany flat-top LP! It may be the pickups though (Bought it used, so I am not sure what they are. When did Dimarzio get the double cream patent? My guitar is from 81, so if it was earlier, then it was Dimarzio.Anyway, bridge is WAY to muddy, and bridge is a little too bright). They will be replaced soon.

 

[diggamark]

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I use a GFX120, and love it.... have been using it for 2 yrs with zero trouble...

 

[Scatterwound]

Re: views on crate amps??

I bought my Crate amp about four years ago. It is a VC 508 1X8 tube combo amp. Yes! Tube amp. I was specifically looking for a small practise tube amp and at the time the only one available to me was this one made by Crate.

5 watts with an EL84 in it.

It is great for practicing. When people see it they say "Cute little amp". When I tell them it is tube they go on to say "Tube?! No Way! That's awesome".


Four years running and no problems at all!

 

[That90'sGuy]

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The Blue Voodoo line is insanely cheap for the quality you get. For about 400, you get a lot of power, some sickeningly crushing distortion and a clean channel that beats Marshall and Mesa. I think some reverb or effects would spice up the BVs clean channel, but with a little tweaking, the distortion is quite good. A fine amp for the money. :sword:

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: views on crate amps??

The Blue Voodoo amps are probley the best amps Crate has ever built. I like the BV 60 and 120 watt amps but the new 300watt BV amp is overkill. Who needs 300 watts of tube tone?

Apparently Hagar and Friedman need it

 

[Skullkrusher]

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Doesnt Marty Friedmen use Bogner amps now?

 

[kmcguitars]

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I have a Crate GX-15R It's a great little practice amp for $79 bucks. I almost brought
a Crate Club series around 10 years ago. The clean channel was warm and sweet. I
was just gonna pull the trigger, and buy it when I switched to the O.D. channel Witch
I found was harsh and buzzy sounding ?? It's funny Cuz' if it was a one channel amp I
would have gotten it.

 

[ultimatum79]

Re: views on crate amps??

alright guys i just ordered a crate glx212 which the music store said was the top series for crate and it only cost me 800 bucks pretty cheap for the quality