Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

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I was looking through muscians friend and noticed this little amp, and was boggled by the price.

Im wanting something with less dB than my roland (Im playing in a room about half the size of a bedroom, and its hurting my ears badly.)

But a little more tone.
How would this little amp be?
Pignose G40v

Its about the most money I can afford to spend on another amp.

Or would I be better off trying to find a SovTek Mig-50 on ebay for the same price or less? (I know I need a cab, thats the only thing that kinda ticks me off.)
 
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Re: Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

I've heard good things mainly, but i hear the speaker is crap and the tubes arent great.
 
Re: Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

I havent played either so i can't really say. There was a stock pignose g40v at the local store, but i didnt plug into it. The store owner was playing it and i thought it sounded pretty decent. You would have to turn it up pretty loud to get a real good tone from it. I dont know if it would sound better than a cube though. Have you thought about a fender tube amp or something like that?
 
Re: Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

hey man, i play at home only. so i can tell you what i learned about using amps for home use. i wanted a tube amp for a while, but no matter which i played or what wattage it was, it was too loud to use in my house for what tones i was trying to get out of it. if your cube 60 is too loud, i imagine just about any tube amp will be also. i got a vox ad30vt (a modeler just like your cube) but it has a knob in the back to reduce the output from 30 watts down to 15 or even 1 watt. great for late night playing. i also had a cube 30 but then sold it and kept the vox. not that the cube was bad, i just liked the vox better. the vox 30 watters are about that same price as the pignose brand new also. maybe play one of those if you can find one to test. it still sounds good even with the wattage turned down....

just 2 cents from a 40yr old basement player who finally realized a tube amp wouldn't work for me, no matter what the tube snobs say.
 
Re: Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

Yeah, wise words from smauk. If you arent gonna need to play loud, dont go tube. You gonna have to crank a tube amp up to get the tone. Have you tried anything like a behringer v-amp? They have good amp models.
 
Re: Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

As long as its good quality, I dont care what the O/D sounds like, I'm going to be using pedals and stuff for it anyway.

Im just looking for a cheap intro into tube amps, that will make me happy and allow me to get a good tone without breaking the windows. (Looking to tube for the tone, not the loudness, I know you can have a quiet tube amp, my teacher has a fender twin, and it sounds great even when you can just barely hear it.)

And aren't all the VOX's, a hybird amp anyway? I know most of em have atleast 1 tube.
But the attenuater, built in, that's just awesome, 90% of the time I play other people in the house are asleep. I'll have to look their way.
 
Re: Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

That Pignose wil definately be loud. It will take more volume to sound good, even clean. Valvetronix are sposed to be very nice.
 
Re: Would this be a good intro to tube amps, for me?

yes, the vox has one tube. some say it doesn't really make any difference. i think it does, somewhat. it's not a tube amp, but i do hear a difference between it and a solid state. if you like the tones your instructor is getting out of a twin at tolerable volumes, just keep playing everything you can get to. i played a twin and it does sound nice, clean that is. i just play a lot of 80 and 90 rock and i couldn't get that mid level distortion out of it, definately not at house volume. a lot depends on what kind of tone you want out of it. good luck on your search.
 
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