Why did Epiphone stop making amps?

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ratherdashing

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I'm kind of thinking of getting a Valve Jr for a practice amp/modding platform. There's one at my local shop, but I can't find any info about them or any other amp on Epiphone's site. Based on some Googling it looks like they've discontinued their entire amp line.

Isn't that a bit weird? The Valve Jr was a very popular amp for a while. The 3rd generation model with the Eminence speaker actually sounds very good stock.
 
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Cool little amps, I wish that modded one was still for sale on here, now that I will have some money.
 
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Weren't Epi amps actually made by another manufacturer?

Wasn't it Marshall/Korg/Vox making amps for Epi?

(I could be waaaay off. Its happened before.)
 
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seemed like the amp everyone loved to buy and then sell, or buy and turn into something else.

it sort of started the lunchbox revolution, so it is a bit odd it's no longer part of the current crowd in production.
 
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lex666 said:
Weren't Epi amps actually made by another manufacturer?

Wasn't it Marshall/Korg/Vox making amps for Epi?

(I could be waaaay off. Its happened before.)
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They were made in China, so I'm 99% certain they were built by another company.

Heck, there was a time when Gibson didn't manufacture any Epi branded stuff themselves. The guitars were outsourced to Cort first, then a Chinese company. They have their own plant in China now though.

I don't think this has anything to do with why they stopped being made. It might be, but I doubt it.
 
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They were piss-poor excuses for amps IMO. But then again, so are some other companies that have stuck around, so who knows.
 
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ItsaBass said:
They were piss-poor excuses for amps IMO. But then again, so are some other companies that have stuck around, so who knows.
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Stock, they are a bit rough. My church has a Valve Special (Valve Jr with effects), and I did some mods, increased the bass in the circuit, and put a 35 dollar output transformer in it. Increased the preamp gain just a smidge, and plugged it into my Marshall 410. Damn, that thing sounds awesome. I'll have to take a clip of it sometime soon.
 
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make a clip of it sometime soon. .

p.s. it's not a valve jr. the valve standard has 5 tubes and 15 watts.
 
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To get to the other side.
 
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ItsaBass said:
They were piss-poor excuses for amps IMO. But then again, so are some other companies that have stuck around, so who knows.
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I have the Valve Senior Head. It's somewhat limited but as a master volume simple practice amp it fits the bill and when I am too lazy to drag my rig out for rehearsal, it is a pretty passable substitute and plenty of headroom when needed. Not a tone monster but not bad either for 235 dollars.
 
Re: Why did Epiphone stop making amps?

They needed the cabinet material to make guitars. They ran out of table tops from the employee cafeteria.
 
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Aceman said:
They needed the cabinet material to make guitars. They ran out of table tops from the employee cafeteria.
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There's an employee cafeteria? I thought they were fed intravenously so they could work and eat at the same time.
 
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hey guys I have a few Epiphones and they are far from bad guitars. My masterbilt acoustic is actually a lot nicer looking/sounding imho than a great deal of gibson acoustics priced at 3-4x the price of my epiphone
 
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They had something with the VJ...I once had a studio engineer tell me he thought mine did the little amp about-to-melt-down thing better than many amps he'd recorded, costing WAY more.
 
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I had the 5 watt head with one knob for awhile. I couldn't stand it and sent it back. Never explored beyond that but I suppose the higher output ones with more tone controls might be better than the one I had.
 
Re: Why did Epiphone stop making amps?

Starting with the Galaxie 10 and the Galaxie 25, they had significant quality control issues.
 
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