what amp to buy?

Mister CCJ · #1 04-29-2006, 11:26 AM

my apartment is basically a basement and i have the lady upstairs so i cant go too loud but i want a good sounding tube amp, like i guess a 1 or 2 speaker combo. any suggestions?

Mister CCJ · #2 04-29-2006, 02:11 PM

anyone? i was going to try to figure this out today since im off i might check out a few stores

Ant1981 · #3 04-29-2006, 02:33 PM

If you can't go too loud but want a good valve tone then I would have one 12" at the most and go something under 50w maybe even under 30w.

ibanez2005 · #4 04-29-2006, 03:37 PM

Marshall AVT50, mines the dogs, 50w and its as sweet as a nut, quiet or cranked up.

dave_mc · #5 04-29-2006, 04:00 PM

^that's not all-valve though...

what's your budget and what tones are you after? also, what guitar do you have?

Kontalonis · #6 04-29-2006, 04:37 PM

If i were looking to have great tube sound without a lotta racket i'd prolly look at this little amp from carvin:

http://www.carvin.com/products/singl...AGE16&CID=VINT

Celestion speakers, great looks, and low wattage...........yes it's all there!

Epicus Furor · #7 04-29-2006, 05:04 PM

Laney do some great little all valve combo's, i'd stay away from marshall valve combo's as they have to be CRANKED to obtain best results and/or get any decent kinda distortion out of them

Mister CCJ · #8 04-29-2006, 06:52 PM

that carvin looks pretty cool... so far what ive heard that i like the most is the legacy then the 5150 after that, but like i said i cant have a stack in here so i might look into the carvin. do you think its at all similar?

**elcid** · #9 04-29-2006, 07:43 PM

Peavey Classic 30 or Delta Blues

dave_mc · #10 04-30-2006, 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mister CCJ

that carvin looks pretty cool... so far what ive heard that i like the most is the legacy then the 5150 after that, but like i said i cant have a stack in here so i might look into the carvin. do you think its at all similar?

FFS do you even read our posts?

what tones do you need, and how much cash do you have?

there's no point in me recommending, say, a cornford carrerra, if your budget is $200, and you play uber-modern death metal...

Ant1981 · #11 04-30-2006, 08:44 AM

Chill out, Dave.

dave_mc · #12 04-30-2006, 08:51 AM

^yeah, sorry, but it annoys me when you go out of your way to help people and they don't even read your post.

If he doesn't know what type of music he plays and how much cash he has, he probably shouldn't even be looking into buying an amp...

If we don't know his budget and what music he plays, we might as well not even make any recommendations at all. I know a load of amps that'll sound great at bedroom volumes, but they're pricey. And also aimed at a certain tone. Also, if he's willing to shell out for it, an attenuator would pretty much make most valve amps crank-able at bedroom volume.

But again, they're pricy.

So yeah, sorry about the outburst (a bit strong a term, but still, apologies), but I think I had a valid point.

cheers!

Ant1981 · #13 04-30-2006, 09:47 AM

Well what I did was, look at his needs when I reccomended just on a whole, to go for no more that one 12" speaker and keep the power low, well below 50w, perhaps even 30w.

Then he can look at amps that match that critera and decide for himself if he is prepeared to spend whatever money such amps cost that fall under that critera.

S-man · #14 04-30-2006, 10:33 AM

I have a 15w Vox valvetronics. It's plenty loud enough. It models. Has a tube. Is inexpensive (approx. $179.00US) and sounds great. I highly recommend it.

They also have a 30watt model with a knob on the rear of the amp to adjust the wattage (Kinda whish mine had that). That way you can still crank the amp to get that nice tube warmth without blasting the neighbors (or the lady above you in this case).

BTW....I never would have thought I'd wind up with a vox. It just sounded the best to me. I played comparable Marshalls, Line 6, Crate, Fender, etc. Basically, I went into Guitar Center and played everything.

AD15VT and AD30VT

FastRedPonyCar · #15 04-30-2006, 10:57 AM

If you can find a dealer, I HIGHLY reccomend going to find a Traynor amp. I just bought one of their 50 watt 1X12 combos and it's incredible. Amazing cleans and really good hard rock overdrive.

Built in solo boost for the overdrive and a bright switch for the clean channel. Excellent accutronics reverb, separate EQ for each channel, celestion V30 speaker.

It's the YCV50 model I believe. It's blue. I tried the 40 watt 6L6 version and while it was also very good, it didn't have as much gain as the 50 watt EL34 version and the overdrive wasn't quite as tight. When I played the 6L6 version, I couldn't help but think that this was the amp that fender was trying to produce but failed so miserably at when they designed the hot rod deville.

But yeah i really like mine and it keeps it's composure very well when cranked to the max. It's got a separate speaker output you can use or unplug the internal speaker and use both outputs. There's also a master volume so bedroom jamming can benefit from as much tube saturation as you want.

Here's a sound clip I made.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/song...songID=3849935

I can go from zeppelin to satriani with the flick of a switch. The clean when pushed hard gets a great warm driven vox/fender style overdrive.

Pics

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...uitar/Traynor/