Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

[dominus]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

Uber High gain amp -- check

Tube amp ----------- check

Well under $500.00 -- check



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Randall-RG5...953?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27e5255e31 - $400.00 BIN

The RG50TC isn't that high gain. It'll do metal when you hit it with an overdrive, but it's not going to get into death metal territory.

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

Dwarvenaut 20 from hovercraft.

 

[trevorus]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

Dammit, that's not helping. That Hovercraft has some sick doom tones... I was looking for tighter, like the sound of duct tape being ripped off of a roll, but that Dwarvenaut sounds like a wolf being pulled through its own bunghole. I love it.

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

lots of different versions of the Dwarvenaut too. Anything from uberstoner Sunn to a Laney Supergroup "ultramarshall" I think he called it. He also did a voicing that sounded like a Boss HM2. Entombed without the pedals.

Hand wired and built in Portland by a crazy guy who eats some of the worst meals I've ever seen on Facebook.

 

[Big Flannel]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

Dammit, that's not helping. That Hovercraft has some sick doom tones... I was looking for tighter, like the sound of duct tape being ripped off of a roll, but that Dwarvenaut sounds like a wolf being pulled through its own bunghole. I love it.

I am doing everything in my power not to buy one.

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

I am doing everything in my power not to buy one.

Do what I do. Get married and/or stay broke.

 

[Demanic]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

A while back I saw a used Peavey Triple X at a local Sam Ash for about $400 bucks. I don't know how common it is to find them at that price, but I would look into it.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

STOP DODGING ME I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE OP IS PLAYING A JOYO PEDAL THROUGH A KEYBOARD AMP BY THE END OF THE NIGHT

I love you


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[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

The RG50TC isn't that high gain. It'll do metal when you hit it with an overdrive, but it's not going to get into death metal territory.

OK, did not know that !

So dies the Randall T2HL have more gain ?

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

Dwarvenaut 20 from hovercraft.

GOOD CALL . . . how did i overlook that one !

 

[dominus]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

OK, did not know that !

So dies the Randall T2HL have more gain ?

Is that the silver faced one? I haven't tried that one, but I did have one of the black faced T2s a while back. That one would work just fine for high gain. The V2/VMax ones are just okay.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

Is that the silver faced one? I haven't tried that one, but I did have one of the black faced T2s a while back. That one would work just fine for high gain. The V2/VMax ones are just okay.

YUP, referring to the black faced models.

 

[dr. ad]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

line 6 spider valve, lol

is a 50W marshall DSL cheap?

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

line 6 spider valve, lol

is a 50W marshall DSL cheap?

Hey, that is actually a decent option, IF, money is an issue.

At the very least, this thing CAN do High Gain.


https://reverb.com/item/195671-line-6-spider-valve-hd100-mkii-guitar-amplifier-head-100-watts-bogner - $440.00

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Marshall-Mo...621?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3a93384515 - $515.00 BIN


Marshall Mode 4 perhaps ???

 

[trevorus]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

The Spider Valve stuff is ok, but I want none of the digital stuff in it. I want to be able to open this thing up and solder on it if I feel the need.

 

[JeffB]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

My local GC got in an old 900DR 2x12 combo..100 watter. It's under 6 bills in decent, but definitely used shape. Probably can talk em down a bit. If it had been a 50w, I might have pulled out the plastic.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

The Spider Valve stuff is ok, but I want none of the digital stuff in it. I want to be able to open this thing up and solder on it if I feel the need.

Then go Hovercraft.

Or save longer !

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

It's not uber high gain but I've seen a few bands use the Peavey Valve King with a ts9 or similar in front and it sounds just like Killswitch engage (Laney Ironhearts). They're real cheap too, around $400 used for a 100w head.

 

[dystrust]

Re: Your favorite cheap high gain tube amp

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Marshall-Mo...621?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3a93384515 - $515.00 BIN


Marshall Mode 4 perhaps ???

STAY AWAY. $515 is an absolute rip-off for a hot-rodded Valvestate. It only has a single 12AX7 in the preamp, so I wouldn't consider it a tube amp. Second, their reliability is terrible. A friend of mine used to have one as his gigging amp, but it spent more time in the shop than in his hands. After the 4th or 5th time it crapped out on him, he finally sold it.