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ruinedhero posted:In my situation I am looking for a 2x12 combo amp, tube based, for under $1300 that has a great over driven warm distortion sound right out of the package without the need for effect units. From personal experience, what would be a good recommendation? That price range, plus the 2x12 requirement pretty much rules out Orange (which as GorillaSalsa will attest to that I'm hopelessly addicted) and the AC30 (I have an AC30 head) has GREAT chimey cleans, but I wouldn't really describe the overdrive as 'warm'. Personally, I think the Mesa Boogie Heartbreaker is one of the best 2x12 combos ever made. I've been keeping my eye out for another one for a while again now, barely missed one at the Sam Ash in Atlanta (for $999) but they DO pop up from time to time. Very rich, thick and creamy overdrive that you could push pretty hard if you wanted to, without it ever getting that Dual Rec brittle edge to it. Right now my favorite amps for gigging and recording are by FAR Orange. Using a Tiny Terror as a studio/practice rig through a 1x12 (using Vintage 30's in everything but my AC30 cab, which has Blues in it), an AD30 through a 2x12 for higher gain recording/gigging and a Rocker100 through either another 2x12 or (very rarely) a 4x12 for HIGHER gain/outdoor stuff. The AC30 is mostly for studio and/or slide work, anything needing a vintagy/grungy 'round' sound. I'm pondering picking up a Soldano SLO, but honestly, I dunno how much better than the Rocker100 it could possibly be.
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ruinedhero posted:Ferrous Wheel - I have really lost much respect for Peavey gear the past few years. While I like the 6505, I've never been able to get a good clean tone the times I demoed it - the metal sound is great but like the Marshall I talked about before, it seems like it is limited to doing one thing really well. I like it well enough, my Rocker100 just covers enough ground that I don't really have any need to keep it and overall I like the harmonic richness of the Rocker a lot more. With the 6534+ you REALLY have to spend some time dialing knobs with ALL your guitars and pedals, it's a very responsive head, for good and bad. Professor Science posted:I am completely crazy about my Orange AD30TC. iostream.h fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jul 7, 2010 |
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The Mystery Date posted:Seconding microcube. The battery life is long as hell. I left it on without plugging it in overnight one time and it was still going in the morning. It's also so small you can clip it to your belt and walk around and busk with it.
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Jul 15, 2010 03:46
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Three Red Lights posted:I have an aversion to 5150's. Maybe its enirely irrational but nah. If you don't want the '5150' badge, try a 6505.
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Gramps posted:The new 6534+ sounds great too- just a 6505 with el34s and a few things slightly tweaked. Highly recommended. I STILL don't EVER miss my old 5150 combo. Great amp, what a ballbreaker when you have to move it tho'. I would have definitely done the 'head conversion' had I kept it.
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Aug 3, 2010 02:15
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DarkEnigma posted:I hate nu-metal, hardcore, breakdowns...all of that poo poo. I play old school death metal. This amp is great for it. Cranking the clean channel and throwing a Zvex Fuzz Factory through it into a 2x12 sounds glorious.
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Aug 3, 2010 02:55
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Boz0r posted:I've been looking at the Orange Tiny Terror combo. Uhh, I just noticed you want a clean channel, you might want to look at something else, the cleans aren't really anything 'clean'.
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Sep 28, 2010 00:53
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Boz0r posted:Sounds perfect. I only use the clean channel on my current amp because the overdrive channel sounds like hairy balls. If you DO need cleans, check out the Dual Terror.
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Sep 28, 2010 01:55
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Picked up a Mesa Rectoverb Solo 50 and a Fender Twin Reverb today. Haven't had much time to put into them yet, but the Mesa's impressed the hell out of me already.
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Does anyone have any opinions on Granger amps? I'm absolutely regretting selling off my Silver Jubilee and was talking about it to a friend earlier and he pointed me towards them (plus they're local) and either their SLO 100 or the AFD variants looked and sound kind of interesting.
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loving hell, went to pick up a rockerverb 50 and there's a drat silver jubilee here. Quick, opinions? Edit: gently caress it, I miss my old jubilee too much to pass it up. iostream.h fucked around with this message at 19:14 on May 24, 2013 |
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May 24, 2013 18:14
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scuz posted:Hokay so there's a Marshall JCM 900 4502 2x12 combo up for $500 at my local shop. It would be replacing a Peavey VK100 + JCM 900 4x12 and play alongside a DeVille 4x10. How would this hold up? The combo is a must-have, and we just can't get the VK to sound good. We've decided that the options are that 4502 combo, or get a JCM 900 and put it on a 2x12 cabinet, but we'd prefer the combo. I gotta ask tho, why would you prefer the combo?
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scuz posted:Portability. The lovely half stack is such a pain to haul around and we play out weekly. Everyone else has a great-sounding compact setup, so why not this too? I like the versatility of head + cab (but I have a variety of heads and cabs, so that may be just me), they seem easier to transport than most combos (even if they're somewhat unwieldy). Bear in mind, I think the last combo I hauled around was a Peavy 5150, so there's that. I also prefer cabs because the open backs on most combos tend to sound a little anemic compared to a nice sealed 2x12, plus, depending on the venue you can turn a sealed cab around to avoid laser beaming the audience and to keep the sound guy happy. Turning an open back around to do that tend to get a little woofy and can screw the mix up on stage. All this depends on what you're doing, of course. That said, I liked the sound of my JCM 900 combo, I stuffed the back area full of pillow stuffing (grabbed from Wal-Mart or somewhere similar) to make it a little more responsive, that helped a lot.
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nrr posted:One of my buds has a JCM900 hi gain dual reverb head and JCM800 lead series 4x12 cab he wants me to sell for him. Any idea of what price I should be aiming to put them at? I'm up in Canada if that makes any difference
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May 30, 2013 14:11
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Revvik posted:Guy on my craigslist with a Rectoverb combo looking to trade in for an Orange / Marshall / Fender / Vox. I've got an AC30 - comparable price range & power - and I do love Mesa stuff. Also a little redundant since I also have an AC4. Anything bad about the Rectoverbs compared to their higher dollar offerings? INCREDIBLY picky about tubes, like most Mesas.
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Revvik posted:I went for it. Gets great tones at sane volumes and cranks to match my AC30 for volume. Though I guess since I can play at home with it I can liquidate my AC4. And probably all my distortion pedals because, drat Mesa! Take some time, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS and learn how the EQ on that thing works. Mesas sometimes get a bad rap over them because they're sort of 'linked' in a way and it confuses people for some reason. Once you figure it out it's AMAZINGLY versatile and you can pretty much use that amp for damned near ANY genre of music. I've actually been looking at them again (even though I picked up a nice head recently) just because they're loving perfect for throwing in the truck to go jam or something. I miss mine a lot.
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Jun 1, 2013 06:47
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Humbucker music has the best pricing I've ever seen on Orange equipment.
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Jun 6, 2013 16:07
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Francostein posted:Sounds exactly like the jcm800, and I love that amp. I'd like something that has two channels but at this point I don't care too much. Semi related: on eBay there's a Marshall 1922 2x12 cab with included flight case for 475+whatever for shipping. Do you guys think that's a good deal? I'm currently not feeling it that well so I doubt ill pick it up.
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Jun 6, 2013 18:52
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Chalets the Baka posted:What if it's a 4x12 with Alnico Blues? Or does having the ideal sound mean it absolutely needs to be a 2x12?
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Jun 17, 2013 23:26
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Chalets the Baka posted:More concerned about reliability issues than tone, since I plan to do some modifications to it anyway. I've just got to say, I've been through an utter shitload of amps (I've been playing for almost 30 years now) and I've never been as happy with one as I am with my Jubilee. I kicked myself after selling my first one for so long, kept going through amp after amp, mod after mod and now that I've got another one I'm just so satisfied. When you find 'the one', don't loving be a dumbass and sell it, seriously.
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seat chafe posted:
There's just no real way these things ever work out well in an apartment. Edit: Haha, this just reminded me of living in the Army barracks, we had an ADA unit across the quad with a HORRIBLE band one weekend so we shoved each of my 4x12s into a window facing them and I replaced their guitar player for a while. At the time it would have been either a JCM800 or a 900, fun days back then, we were dicks, but it was hilarious. iostream.h fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jun 25, 2013 |
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seat chafe posted:With a power attenuator like the THD Hot Plate, I should be able to run the head without a cab at all, and line-out into my computer.
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Yeah, even without haggling that's not an 'omg scam' price for that rig. I honestly don't get why an AC30 would ever exist WITHOUT Alnico Blues, but different strokes I guess.
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Remulak posted:Rule of thumb is that a 15 Watt SS amp is roughly the same loudness as a 5 watt tube amp. I honestly think it's less with wattage and tubes/ss and more to do with the fact that those ss amps just produce less of the sound spectrum overall, less 'harmonically rich' maybe, and that's why they're perceived as being much quieter. Maybe, anyway.
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What's your budget and what/where will you be playing? I lean towards the Orange AD30 as being the damned near perfect gig amp myself.
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jwh posted:15 watts is going to be pretty loud, but if you're looking for a clean platform with which to put effects on, it should be just great.
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Francodipshit posted:How does the tiny terror sound for metal? I was thinking of getting one but I think just manning up and getting a 6505+ or a ENGL Fireball with a 2x12 cab would be better for playing with a dummer or live. I know the 6505+ is built like a tank though. The beauty of the TT isn't that it compares favorably to a 6505+ or ENGL, but that it works well enough and takes like 1m14s to set up pre-gig.
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rt4 posted:Also check out the very similar Vox Night Train That one gets some pretty cool cleans.
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What do I want to do for a boost on my Jubilee? Rat, Tube Screamer, BBE clean boost, something else? Someone else decide, too many options. I have a gift cert that needs spending.
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comes along bort posted:The diode clipping stage upsets the corksniffers and bluesdads. They're perfectly fine.
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Francodipshit posted:Vox AC-30 Not empty quoting this.
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field balm posted:Turn up your mids while you're at it too!
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comes along bort posted:The 900 has a slightly different tonality from a boosted 800 though, which along with some quality issues is why a lot of people stuck with the older model. The first "serious" amp I ever played through was my cousin's 900 50w combo. No matter what you played it came out sounding like Morbid Angel. Yeah, believe me I know about the diode bullshit on the Jubs. Mine's everything from 'not a real Marshall' or someone ALWAYS feels the need to inform me that AFD was recorded with a modded Super Trem (or whatever, something like that, I don't understand why people need to tell me what was used on that album, and I LOVE AFD, just because I'm using a Jub) or that (and this is my favorite) 'Slash doesn't use P90s' (I don't understand why this even matters, I'm not in a Slash cover band) and on the other hand a lot of people absolutely flip their poo poo over it. It's a great amp, not the holy grail for everyone (although I absolutely love it) but again, I dunno. I don't get people sometimes. It's a rather uncommon amp, but especially in this day and age of such choice in EXCELLENT clone makers (Ceriatone's Jubilee clone sounds INCREDIBLE) there's no reason to really spaz on ANY particular model from any maker. It may be common in death metal or whatever, but for an average bar band playing on Fri/Sat at the local hotspots mids HELP so people can freaking HEAR you. People comment all the time about how quiet my rhythm player is when I drop out to play lead and the problem is, I'm NOT any louder than he is, we're both at roughly the same level, he just has absolutely no presence to his sound.
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If you want loud I've got a Bugera 333 I can hook you up with for around your budget. It's actually a drat fine sounding head.
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We may be able to work something out, let me poke around a bit on amazon.
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Francodipshit posted:Or is there some other dumb poo poo I'm not including like "start her up on a variac so you don't blow a tube" or something? 
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Francodipshit posted:But seriously, other than basic electronics safety poo poo is it really as easy as "pull tube out, put new tube in, play amp" because some of the instructions I've googled are either that simple or are incredibly spergy about the whole affair. Once you know how your amp runs it's not a huge deal, you kind of learn how it reacts and you can generally tell if something's off. Edit: Incidentally, for tube amps, power conditioners ESPECIALLY in random venues, are amazing things. iostream.h fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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the wizards beard posted:Yeah this isn't true.
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gargamale posted:Email me at gargamale at gee mail if you get any bright ideas. Goons sure are awesome!
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Cool Blue Reason posted:Lol dude is selling a 70's Bassman 10 for 150 bucks on craigslist. Says there are just some "minor issues with the master volume". Is it just me or should something like this be going for a lot more? I'm kind of skeptical. I'm pushing him for more info about the problem right now.
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