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Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

AndrewP posted:

Just a basement player that occasionally jams, no gigs. Blues, country, rock. I have an HX Stomp that is great for headphone playing, but I'm tired of headphone playing all the time and I've never had a tube amp before.

100% do not need a loud amp, this is all about me wanting a tube amp for once. The 15 and 40 watt amps I tried at the store sounded good to me with the master volume turned down, but I definitely need to try some very low wattage amps. Also want something with an effects loop so I can run the Stomp through it to use its power amp and speaker sometimes.

Bottom line - I want a tube amp that has a nice full sound at bedroom levels. Easy, right?

Obviously hard to check out in person, but the monoprice stage right 15w is usually about $260, has a 1 watt attenuator switch built in, spring reverb, and it has an effects loop.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=611815

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 23:06

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

This just came up on Craigslist lol

# ¿ Jan 12, 2024 22:05

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

Milosh posted:

I just got a benson monarch +. Power scaling is ridiculously good.

Those are so nice.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2024 23:47

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

H13 posted:

So I've been working on a big holiday project about how and why the Marshall JVM is good actually.

Plenty of online nerds hate it. Marshall nerds especially hate this amp. I decided I would try to prove them wrong by recording a bunch of music and ranting at them.

So here's a long-form video where I talk about how much I love this amp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1PoTB5-m7Y

But if you don't want to hear a nerd rant about an amp for half an hour and instead wanna hear how kickass the amp can sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5qF04PbRps

There's all the bits of music I recorded for it.

ENJOY.

I'm very excited to watch this later

# ¿ Jan 22, 2024 18:57

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

The only people who give a poo poo about tubes are in hospice which is Friedman’s target market.

I'm under 40 lol

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 23:56

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

AndrewP posted:

I was playing my buddy's Marshall Valvestate last night. Might not be a real tube amp, but it sure sounded great at low volume. plus it had a 2x12" speakers, can get loud as gently caress and costs like $300

Marshall is really great at modeling Marshall stuff. Vox is really good at modeling vox stuff. Fender is really good at modeling fender stuff. Everything else is pretty good now too from what I've heard and played.

I'm mostly interested in tube stuff as a DIYer and an ADHD collector thing now and I'm fully willing to admit that.

But you have to admit it feels really cool to play directly into a big rear end vintage amp in front of a nice 212 or 412. It is so choice. Sucks to move though. I'm glad it has wheels.

Armacham fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Apr 27, 2024

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 23:06

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

Post the guts of that AIMS. I bet it’s lousy with glass!!!

My amp tech who fixed it and sold it to me has some really good pictures of the other one he fixed that he kept.
https://www.kentonelectrix.com/1971-aims-vt100a

Each of the four channels has its own 7025, then mixed with another 7025. Then there is an 12AT7 for the reverb driver and for the phase inverter. Finally two 6550 or KT88 power tubes.

Armacham fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 27, 2024

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