Show us your Guitar Amplifiers!Music
- Thread starter Tom
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- Indian Falls, NY
- slashfan7964
I own 3 amps. None of them are anything special, but I own:
Tac Thunderbox 28R (is actually pretty good for a 50 watt amp)
Polk Hitmaster (100watt, for gaming)
Crate MX10 (10 watt)
I want better ones for my bands but they are loud enough for what I need with a surprisingly decent sound. The Tac by itself makes the house shake and the Polk and the Tac both all the way up are unbelievably loud, I haven't had the balls to turn up all 3 to max yet...
I actually had a 4th one at one time, just a cheap one that came with my 2nd guitar, but I blew it up lol.
These images aren't mine but look identical and go in the same order as I listed above. The Tac one I broke the volume knob off so I jiffy rigged it and got it to work again.
Tac Thunderbox 28R (is actually pretty good for a 50 watt amp)
Polk Hitmaster (100watt, for gaming)
Crate MX10 (10 watt)
I want better ones for my bands but they are loud enough for what I need with a surprisingly decent sound. The Tac by itself makes the house shake and the Polk and the Tac both all the way up are unbelievably loud, I haven't had the balls to turn up all 3 to max yet...
I actually had a 4th one at one time, just a cheap one that came with my 2nd guitar, but I blew it up lol.
These images aren't mine but look identical and go in the same order as I listed above. The Tac one I broke the volume knob off so I jiffy rigged it and got it to work again.
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- 3,232
- Wales
Atleast those are the main 2 I use, the little handbuilt class A one for recording (it is nothing short of amazing) and the Peavey 5150 for live with the Marshall 1960A cab(though I want to replace it with a Cornford Hellcat eventually). Oh and there is a Marshall AVT150 combo underneath the handbuilt amp, that was my first decent amp, now I just use it for the speaker inside it, connected to the handbuilt for recording.
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- 3,232
- Wales
Bought the 5150 in 2004 for £800 used with the matching cab, I had actually ordered the 5150II head, but the shop had none in stock as Eddie Van Halen had a disagreement with Peavey and they had to stop making them, so they shop werent getting anymore in (even though it was still on their site), luckily the shop had this original 5150 Mk1 for sale for roughly the same price but with the cab. I sold the cab as I already had the Marshall and was quite fond of it. I've since modded the 5150 (removed the front panel but put the grill back in and reattached the 5150 logo, so you can see the valves glowing behind) and had a bias mod done to run the valves a little warmer (a popular mod to improve the sound).
Pretty sure you can get a 5150 for quite cheap now (probably £400 ish on ebay), not to mention that Peavey have since rebadged and reissued the amp with the 6505/6505II.
As for the little handbuilt, I love it. While it does look a little rough and retro, it has some real quality components and does sound amazing, the perfect practice/recording amp (it only runs at around 10-12 watts with 1x 6L6 power valve). FWIW the amp was built by an amp tech in Kent.
- 6,390
- Kent
- tombrookscomms
I think you've got the wrong section.
Just everyone be warned, don't click on those links my McAfee software blocked them as it was potentially risky.
Anyway getting back on topic, I should be taking delivery of the bandit today. 👍
- 305
- Kent
- Bashman_-_
Sorry for the Double Post but...My Peavey has arrived!
Sounds good on the Clean channel so far, will be testing the lead channel tomorrow as it's getting late and the neighbours will be complaining.
Neighbors will be complaining about what a rubbish Guitarist ;-)
- 6,390
- Kent
- tombrookscomms
Better than you on the drums, Ash.
Can you make the gig tomorrow? Would love you to see my band in action. 👍
- 305
- Kent
- Bashman_-_
Better than you on the drums, Ash.
I will see what im doing bro as me dad said i can go work with him aswell:tup:
- 6,390
- Kent
- tombrookscomms
Okay mate, no problem. 👍
- 305
- Kent
- Bashman_-_
But you have been playing guitar longer than iv been drumming lol
- 6,390
- Kent
- tombrookscomms
Very true, what did you think of the gig by the way?
- 305
- Kent
- Bashman_-_
Was alright but not to keen on ya bass player 👎
I own two guitar amps which I bought from an EBay Store. The first ROL-30
-30 watts
-8" speaker
-Reverb
-Gain Control
-Independent level controls
-Headphone jack
-Treble, middle and bass controls
-Frequency Range: 90-8KHz
-Input Impendance: 1 M Ohms
-Dimensions: 332 x 331 x 230mm
-Weight: 8.5 Kgs
And the ROL-75B
-75 watts
-12" woofer
-Gain control
-Treble, middle, bass control
-Shape and Presence controls
-Level Controls
-Inputs: High: 48mV/ 1Mohm
-Low: 100mV/ 50 ohms
-Frequency Range: 70-6 KHz
-Limiter LED
-Headphone jack
-External output signal on rear panel
-Dimension: 575 x 340 595mm
-Weight: 21.5 Kgs
This is a really great amps. It packs power that will smoke some amps compareable in size!
-30 watts
-8" speaker
-Reverb
-Gain Control
-Independent level controls
-Headphone jack
-Treble, middle and bass controls
-Frequency Range: 90-8KHz
-Input Impendance: 1 M Ohms
-Dimensions: 332 x 331 x 230mm
-Weight: 8.5 Kgs
And the ROL-75B
-75 watts
-12" woofer
-Gain control
-Treble, middle, bass control
-Shape and Presence controls
-Level Controls
-Inputs: High: 48mV/ 1Mohm
-Low: 100mV/ 50 ohms
-Frequency Range: 70-6 KHz
-Limiter LED
-Headphone jack
-External output signal on rear panel
-Dimension: 575 x 340 595mm
-Weight: 21.5 Kgs
This is a really great amps. It packs power that will smoke some amps compareable in size!
- 5,198
- UK
- marunda/GTP_FordMKIVJ5
Sorry for the poor picture quality.
My baby:
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 40w valve amplifier.
My baby:
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 40w valve amplifier.
- 1,255
- Indiana
- camaroyenko
- No....just no.
It's so big and bad@$$, isn't it?
It's pretty quiet when my distortion is hooked up. Looking to get the 25 watt (this one is 10 watt) Fender Frontman 25R.
- 1,255
- Indiana
- camaroyenko
- No....just no.
Well, I'm kind of on a tight budget Plus my parents don't think I need a louder one..
Plus my parents don't think I need a louder one..
- 1,255
- Indiana
- camaroyenko
- No....just no.
True. I always play with distortion though, so wouldn't the louder ones sound better with it?
Scaff
Moderator
- 29,748
- He/Him
- ScaffUK
Not always, depends on what you are playing, where you are playing, the guitar, pedals, etc.
Even on a budget you can waste money on a crappy amp or get something good for the money you have. Don't just drop a load of money on a cheap solidstate amp just because it has more watts (which is what the Frontman is, and generally if you want solidstate to stand a change of sounding good then you need to play it clean).
You will normally get a better sound (with or without distortion) from a smaller all valve or hybrid amp.
All valve at lower watts will also allow you to get lots of lovely valve overdrive at lower volumes.
For similar money you could look at:
Bugera V5 - 5w Valve amp
Blackstar HT-1 - It may be more money and only 1w, but its a stunning little combo and far louder than you think.
Or modelling amps
VOX Valvetronix+ VT20+ (Semi valve and a nice bit of kit - I have its bigger older brother)
Above all I would strongly suggest trying as many amps as you can (with your own guitar and pedals of course) and see what suits, but you don't need lots of watts to sound good or loud. That Blackstar will murder you current amp (and the Frontman) in just about every way.
Scaff
- 3,232
- Wales
I just bought one of these, Its a Cornford Hellcat 2x12 combo, gonna pick it up on the weekend! Can't wait, I've always wanted a Cornford, It's been my dream amp for over 10 years and I've finally made the leap to buy one. Quite a big thing for me as a guitarist, this thing is like amplification royalty.
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