Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
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Johtosotku
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
You should be able to find good deals on Peavey 5150/6505s. They are very good and appear on many good recordings. I loved mine for thrash and metal in general.
I recently got me a dirt cheap Jet City 50 watt head. It sounds very good through V30s. It has a souped up british tone with plenty of gain.
Laneys can also be cheap and very good.
You should be able to find good deals on Peavey 5150/6505s. They are very good and appear on many good recordings. I loved mine for thrash and metal in general.
I recently got me a dirt cheap Jet City 50 watt head. It sounds very good through V30s. It has a souped up british tone with plenty of gain.
Laneys can also be cheap and very good.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
First, you have to define the word, 'cheap'.
IMHO, the best cheap'ish (used off course) hi gain amp is the 5150/6505 amps.
You can get them for $750.00 and up.
But for some even that will be too much of a stretch.
Then there is the Carvin Legacy amps
Also, from $700.00 and up.
If you have to pay $500.00 for a new 50W Jet City, then i would save a bit longer and get the 5150 that is built like an atomic-bomb-shelter !
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jet-City-Am...692?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4176e34b5c
First, you have to define the word, 'cheap'.
IMHO, the best cheap'ish (used off course) hi gain amp is the 5150/6505 amps.
You can get them for $750.00 and up.
But for some even that will be too much of a stretch.
Then there is the Carvin Legacy amps
Also, from $700.00 and up.
If you have to pay $500.00 for a new 50W Jet City, then i would save a bit longer and get the 5150 that is built like an atomic-bomb-shelter !
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jet-City-Am...692?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4176e34b5c
jon the art guy
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
many Peavey heads will get there. Head, not combo. Any of them with numbers will do it.
Carvin Legacy and V3.
If you're getting a Crate Blue Voodoo, get the 120 or better and don't pay much for it; you'd be better off putting that money into and old ugly Peavey Mace and an angry pedal or two.
Hi gain can be accomplished pretty well with solid state amps. You may think about that too.
many Peavey heads will get there. Head, not combo. Any of them with numbers will do it.
Carvin Legacy and V3.
If you're getting a Crate Blue Voodoo, get the 120 or better and don't pay much for it; you'd be better off putting that money into and old ugly Peavey Mace and an angry pedal or two.
Hi gain can be accomplished pretty well with solid state amps. You may think about that too.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
Just add fuzz . . .
I would rather get an inexpensive tube head and get my gain from a stomp.
Just add fuzz . . .
Edgecrusher
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
One of the best metal tones ive ever gotten was a 66 blackface bassman with a Ibanez SM9 infront of it through a Marshall 1960 cab.
I would rather get an inexpensive tube head and get my gain from a stomp.
One of the best metal tones ive ever gotten was a 66 blackface bassman with a Ibanez SM9 infront of it through a Marshall 1960 cab.
Phantasmagoria
watch where you point that sabre
Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
My Bugera 333XL Infinium more than does the trick for not much $$$ ....bucketloads of thick, wet, saturated gain
My Bugera 333XL Infinium more than does the trick for not much $$$ ....bucketloads of thick, wet, saturated gain
Gone_Shootin
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
Peavey VTM120/VTM60 & used Peavey 5150/6505.
Peavey VTM120/VTM60 & used Peavey 5150/6505.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
REALLY ?
. . . i never looked into those before.
For 'Hi-Gain-From-A-Pedal-Only', i usually go to the Metal Muff w Top Boost.
REALLY ?
. . . i never looked into those before.
For 'Hi-Gain-From-A-Pedal-Only', i usually go to the Metal Muff w Top Boost.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
W O W . . . $500.00'ish ?
Man, i wish i lived in the US
W O W . . . $500.00'ish ?
Man, i wish i lived in the US
Securb
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
I used a 100w Fender for metal in the 80's with a MXR Dist+ it sounded fantastic.
I used a 100w Fender for metal in the 80's with a MXR Dist+ it sounded fantastic.
Edgecrusher
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
The SM9 is a strange pedal. Was all in how you dial the 3 band eq it had. I know they have a new version of it but i dont know how like it is to the old one. But with the bassmans volume on about 4.5 and a bit crunchy the pedals gain up to about 7 it made a glorious noise.
The SM9 is a strange pedal. Was all in how you dial the 3 band eq it had. I know they have a new version of it but i dont know how like it is to the old one. But with the bassmans volume on about 4.5 and a bit crunchy the pedals gain up to about 7 it made a glorious noise.
Red_Label
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Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp
A couple of years ago I was gigging an Engl Powerball II in a hard-rock/metal band I was in. That amp is NOT cheap and likely will never be.
BUT... I plugged into a Randall RD45 several months ago and was blown away by the high-gain tones in there. Had that amp been around when I bought the Engl, I would have saved myself half the money and still been able to buy a pair of the Randalls for a stereo rig. I think very highly of that amp for the money. In fact, a friend/former bandmate recently had his Egnater Vengeance die on him and he replaced it with an RD45. He gigged it last weekend for a huge outdoor crowd and reported that it kicked major A$$ for the show.
Were I to join another hard-rock outfit right now, I'd skip the boutique Bogners, Engls, Elmwoods, and VHTs that I've been through for high-gain and just grab the Randall.
A couple of years ago I was gigging an Engl Powerball II in a hard-rock/metal band I was in. That amp is NOT cheap and likely will never be.
BUT... I plugged into a Randall RD45 several months ago and was blown away by the high-gain tones in there. Had that amp been around when I bought the Engl, I would have saved myself half the money and still been able to buy a pair of the Randalls for a stereo rig. I think very highly of that amp for the money. In fact, a friend/former bandmate recently had his Egnater Vengeance die on him and he replaced it with an RD45. He gigged it last weekend for a huge outdoor crowd and reported that it kicked major A$$ for the show.
Were I to join another hard-rock outfit right now, I'd skip the boutique Bogners, Engls, Elmwoods, and VHTs that I've been through for high-gain and just grab the Randall.
