What is your "holy grail" amp?

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This would be my Holy grail. Although they cost over 20K now I would never own one, I have the next best thing.... a Komet. Designed by Ken Fisher, it is the most articulate amp that I have ever played through.
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I actually A/B my Komet with a Bogner Shiva. It is tonal bliss.
 
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misterwhizzy said:
I don't know why you'd say this...

When you could have one of these. I think I like the Soldano voicing more than any other amplifier manufacturer.
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Easy ... I've played both.

Yes the SLO is probably one of the greatest amps ever, but when I played the Decatone I had a visceral reaction that was "this is the sound I've been hearing in my head". The SLO didn't do that for me.

If I could ever justify spending that cash on an amp, that's what I would get.
 
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I probably played through one of these at Woodwind and Brasswind nearly 10 years ago...it still haunts me to this day!

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I've not really tried enough amps to have a top of the list 'Grail' amp. There are a few I'd like to spend some time trying out, but for now I'm more than happy with my JTM45 Reissue. (Although I'd love to have a blast through one of the originals... :D)
 
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I am pretty content with my amps (thankfully)

My Friedman modded '73 Superlead is pretty much the bench mark, but I have been using my stock '72 Superlead more and more.
 
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I already own my first love; Marshall JCM 800 2204. I also have my guilty pleasure which is a Randall RG80ES... that thing is hilariously good and cheaper than almost all my pedals lol.

I do gas for one of those Electric amps with KT88s and a 4x12 and 4x15, but there is absolutly nowhere I could even play it and use it... It'd be an expensive unusalbe toy like my dad's corvette was!
 
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I did play one of those late 90's early 2000's Offset Marshall JTM45 heads and 4x12s with alnico speakers...

That clean to mean with just my pick attack was something I've never felt or heard since... I had the thing up at about 6 on both channels (bridged) and that was one helluvan amp.

Not my main style or sound, more classic rock and roll, but I quickly understood why it's so fun clanging out slightly out of tune chords with a drink in your hand and playing with no pedals and winging it.

I wish I coulda afforded that amp. I was holding it ransom for my sister in law at the time. I got to play with so much cool and rare stuff for a year or so.

I had an original historic les paul, an aluminum tele and a 50's gibson student model jazz box with a single p-90... along with a dc 24 fret gibson les paul. My two favorites were the Jazz box and the DC les paul. I did some sabbath on the jazz box for fun and it was sludgy and noisy but awesome.
 
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All right, I am going Dumble.

Then I can sell it and get a tweed twin, a 64 bassman, an original JTM45, a plexi and a SLO with plenty left over for a few high dollar cabs after taxes and beer money.
 
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I'm really not sure, there are a lot of good amps out there and I can get usable sounds out of most of them. I would definitely like a nice AC30 clone though (or the vox hand wired reissue if I was really in the mood to burn some cash)
 
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erksin said:
Ridiculous amp - perfect break up threshold for me at a manageable volume, twin 10" JBLs for the punch, sexy as hell. I've played a 6G6-B Bassman quite a bit and it's too much in the low end for my taste - the Tremolux is perfectly balanced IMO.



I assume you've seen this:



Get his album if you don't have it.

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That link went to a blog about the Australian Stock Exchange.
 
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This thread has made me ponder a SLO preamp with a Model T power section. That would be my holy grail amp.
 
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I'm rolling with a Windows Laptop, a Tascam US-122MKII MIDI/Audio USB card, a Behringer FCB-1010 Footcontroller and S-Gear Amp Modeling software (http://www.scuffhamamps.com/product) through a Xenix 1222 mixer with a couple of Behringer EUROLIVE 210D active FRFR cabs.

Not traditional, I know; but finally I can use the same sounds for both studio AND live.

I've done fifteen gigs with this rig, so it's too early to talk about reliability, but so far, so good; not a single problem whatsoever.

Life is good, and so is tone! ;)
 
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Some guys have a "holy grail" and their tone needs/wants rarely change. Others of us find that our holy grail one year, gets boring the next and we're off looking at other pastures. I could not be happier than I am with my Engl Powerball 2 at the moment. And it's been that way for a couple of months. But I've been through enough great amps the past several years (Shiva, XTC, Pittbull, Triamp, etc) to know that there's a possibility a new amp will catch my ear. No worries. Just enjoying the tone journey and being thankful that I'm still alive to keep trodding down the path...
 
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There's no way I could narrow it down to just one.

If I really had to, it would be a Mark V and I already own that.
 
If I only needed one sound and no channel switching it would be the orange channel on a 2ch Dual Rectifier cloned to red.

Since I need channel switching my grail is the Roadster.
 
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