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Jedrick posted:Could anyone ID this amp for me? (Awful cellphone picture incoming.) Haha, I have wondered the same thing. A few years ago I helped in the recording of a punk band that used that as their recording amp. The tone sucked solo-hard. Mixed well with the rest of the band however.
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Philthy posted:Possibly this? http://www.harmonycentral.com/products/96783 You are the man. With a little more research, it is the Stage 400- http://www.gbase.com/gear/univox-stage-s400-1978-black
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Dec 29, 2010 20:44
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The guy who I know who had one in his studio to record with used to use a distortion pedal into it but also had the distortion on the amp turned up-not usually the right way to go, but it sounded really good. It makes sense now reading that, as the fuzz was parallel, making the secondary fuzz controllable instead of simply distorting the original signal.
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Dec 31, 2010 00:08
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Ferrous Wheel posted:Okay, so I'm looking to downsize in both wattage and weight from my ValveKing 112. Even though I'm going smaller, I still want decent clean headroom since the plan is to get my OD from pedals. I play mostly single coils (strat copies, Epi Casino) and use a bridge humbucker for more defined distorted stuff. I play all kinds of music so versatility is good but I'm not concerned with emulating any particular sound. I just want an amp that has 15-30 watts of largely clean headroom and takes pedals well. The Tweaker is stupidly versatile, the Jet City is a one-trick pony (but oh what a trick!!!) The Tweaker covers pretty much all your needs as far as American to British, Vintage to Modern, but you do have to play with it a lot to get your "perfect sound" as the options can kind of make you overload. The Jet City basically does Clean-ish to brash, almost early Metallica metal tone with less low end, and very little in between (and does get angry sounding pretty early). Also, the fact that it is single channel could really limit you. That said, it is half the cost and sounds just KILLER. Keep in mind that, with the money saved you can get an extension cab for larger gigs.
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Jan 5, 2011 00:46
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Zakalwe posted:I fixed a noisy wah pot with the teflon oil stuff I spray in my bike lock. Rocked it back and forth a few times and it's been fine since. It's probably not optimal, but it worked perfectly. I've heard of people using WD40 and getting good results. At least the pot will smell great if it doesn't work Never use WD40. It is a penetrating lube (insert dick joke here) that will soften your carbon tracks and kill your pot faster.
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Feb 19, 2011 11:14
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cheap sunglasses posted:They're not that loud, but yeah definitely a little on the big side for a combo. The first 5150s had American made tubes. When they switched from the block-lettering, they also went with Ruby Tubes, the idea being that, while they weren't the best sounding, they could take a loving beating. That is why people seem to think that the block-letter 5150s sound better-they had better tubes, but no other components were different. JJ's are a good (comparable) swap to what they used to have.
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Feb 22, 2011 22:44
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cheap sunglasses posted:When I bought the head it had Tung-sols in the preamp and Sovteks in the poweramp, but it was like 10 years old at the time, so it'd be amazing if it hadn't been retubed. I have nothing to compare it with but it sounded right, so I haven't bothered to try anything different. The 5150 gets 90% of its distortion from the preamp-the power amp on it is actually really sterile sounding (biased really cold, hence the crap clean sound). I would actually use it as a bedroom amp before I would the Classic 30, which needs to be cranked a bit to get some life out of it. (And that is coming from a person who would pick a Classic 30 any day of the week for gigging)
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Feb 23, 2011 03:18
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TyChan posted:The WD-40 didn't work that well. That poo poo is just mineral oil-it doesn't do much (though you can use it to make yourself crap). Seriously........people, just use De-Oxit. It is a dielectric lube, and also cleans your pots/sliders through the naphtha that it is suspended in (which evaporates to leave no evil residue). The Radio Shack spray is just a dust trap, and WD40 will literally destroy your pots.
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Feb 23, 2011 19:54
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TyChan posted:Are you sure you're thinking of the right spray? The stuff I used says it has only has Isohexane and Ethanol with CO2 as a propellant. I stand corrected, and think it is pretty damned swanky that Radio Shack now has a proper electronic cleaner spray. Thank you for the correction. 
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Feb 23, 2011 20:16
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Manky posted:I've actually heard a lot of good things about the Danelectro Honeytone. If I didn't already have a couple of battery powered amps, I'd be tempted to get one. The Honeytone is a cool amp, but it sounds like a fuzz pedal with a speaker. You get a REALLY cool sound, but don't expect anything like dynamics, etc. Think more Big Muff cranked with your phone speaker hooked up.
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Mar 9, 2011 21:17
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TyChan posted:Did you try these at Guitar Center? I play with 2 guys who both have these and they seem pretty nice. They are good but kind of boxy sounding. I always thought that, side by side, the Pro Jr smoked the Blues Jr (even with the 10in speaker and lack of features).
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Mar 31, 2011 18:30
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Sweeper posted:Thanks, I'll look at these after work tomorrow. I found a tiny terror on cl for ~$600 and it isn't too far away. I'm hoping that it doesn't get sold before I have a chance to check it out. The Pro JR is kind of the hidden gem of the Fender line. It was actually designed by Bruce Zinky (the story I was told by the one of the execs there was that he was told to make a good, simple amp on Friday, and came back on Monday with the prototype), and is an amazing sounding amp for the money. Basically sounds like the bastard son of a Champ and an AC15. Not a huge amount of gain but it is loud for 15 watts and EXTREMELY controllable with the volume knob. Because of the one volume/one tone setup, you have to fight really hard to get a bad sound out of it. Also, it takes pedals like a pro.
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Apr 1, 2011 07:25
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Globochem posted:Fellas, maybe you can help me make up my mind. I've got the option to buy a Vox AD30VT off Craigslist for $115 or I can go buy a new Vox 15VT for $130 and tax. Having seen cold solder breaks on the "tube" circuit of my AD30....yea, different amp. The AC4tv is stupidly great sounding.
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Apr 2, 2011 05:52
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TyChan posted:Do Ampegs have a certain guitar tone that they're famous for in the same way people seek out the SVT bass sound? Clean as gently caress. Apparently the execs at Ampeg didn't like distortion, so their early amps were made to be clean to ear-splitting volumes. The later V series amps had a sort of HiWatt mojo going on-bright, clean with just the right amount of hair. Think Queens of the Stone Age and mid-era Rolling Stones.
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Apr 18, 2011 23:53
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Walked posted:Anyone played with the Fender Champion 600? The biggest upgrade you can make is to the speaker-the tubes are actually pretty decent, but the stock speaker blows. Webber makes a great replacement.
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Apr 27, 2011 02:20
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Boz0r posted:If I have a Peavey Bandit 112 Combot and I get a proper tube head, can I have both amps use the speaker in the bandit combo and switch between them in some sort of fancy way until I get a proper cabinet? If your amp has a slave out (or parallel FX out) you can send to the bandit and use your Bandit as a slaved power amp, or you can solder on some speaker leads to your bandit with a speaker jack (though, then you would have to deal with impedance issues potentially) I would PERSONALLY run your amp with a splitter pedal, as you can then use the Bandit as an extra clean amp, or do some cool stereo FX stuff.
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May 16, 2011 21:08
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Gh0st_Preacher posted:I checked through the thread and saw no mention of the Line 6 DT50. Their page for it is here: It is the real deal. The power-amp modeling is actually disabled for everything but "low power" mode, so, any power amp grit you hear at normal to loud volumes is coming from the amp. It sounds like the fist of god.
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How dreadful! posted:1) I've had a tube amp made custom (allegedly a Mesa Rect-o-verb clone) and I'd like to play it at night without going to jail. It has Line-Out for handy use with a cabinet emulator, but the master volume on the head also controls the Line-Out volume, so I can't turn that up without also turning it up through the real cabinet. 1.Webber Mini-Mass or THD Hot Plate. Webber makes the best sounding, THD is the most available. Stay away from the Marshall, I've heard nothing but bad things both for tube burn and tone. 2.Whoever built your amp is full of crap. Chances are the mute is there because they had a "pop" when switching that they were trying to cover up in a sloppy way. Don't know how it was rigged though, if it is done with a hard relay then you may be SOL. Take it to a good tech and see if there is something they can do.
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TyChan posted:I've played with guitarists at small bars/club venues and the Blues Jr. was more than adequate. I thought they sounded really good and if you're willing to put in the time with pedal tweaking, I think it's pretty easy to get a lot of different kinds of sounds out of those Fender tube amps. Yup. The Pro Jr. is really one of the best amps that Fender has made in the last 20 years, period. The Blues Jr. is a pretty boxy sounding amp clean, and a nasal (think cheap distortion pedal) amp on the drive channel. The 12inch speaker is a little wasted on the circuit. The Pro Jr. is a super organic amp, very much a hybrid of the classic Champ and Vox tones, and it absolutely SCREAMS when cranked. Also, the choice of preamp tubes has a huge effect on the tone-when I had mine, if I wanted a more tame clean tone, I would put a JJ 12at7 in the PI slot and a JJ 12ax7 in the preamp tube slot. If I wanted something totally ripping, I would put high-gain JJ ECC83's in the preamp and PI slots. It was subtle nuances like that that I appreciated, which wouldn't come through nearly as much on the Blues Jr.
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