Music Gear Discussion

[arjue]

I'm not very knowledgeable on guitar amps but its crazy how closely they can emulate tube sounds these days, I'm sure you could just get any decent solid state amp and a good overdrive or pre-amp pedal. I've been looking at a Wampler Tumnus for my guitar recording because micing an amp in my house isn't feasible.

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[Fe 26]

A peavey envoy or bandit is a good buy if you want a simple solid state amp (s) that can sound kind of tubey.

[icarusfall]

When I play solid state, I just shoot for whatever’s cheap with clean headroom, and get all the grit from pedals.

[Jed]

That's pretty much where I'm at. As long as it's loud enough and can take pedals well, I'm good. I've been using this weirdo Vox AC15VR, it's got a tube in the power amp section. It's a nice sounding amp, just not loud enough. I have to crank it and it gets pretty squealy when using fuzz.

[Fe 26]

Meh at your pedals into clean amp. Run your shot straight into a power amp, PA or mixer if you want to do that.

[Josh]

There is a pedal out there that’s a 20 watt solid state amp. I know a few pedal people that keep one in their board In case of tragedy.

[icarusfall]

I’ve got an Orange Bass Terror that’s a hybrid. Tube pre, the size of a lunchbox, and weighs like 10 pounds. It’s my favorite workhorse amp, but they’ve gotten expensive.

[icarusfall]

Now I’m looking at an Orange ad200b with my tax return.

We’ve started doing “Sunn” gigs where everything is eardrum rupturingly loud.

[Josh]

I had one. It was cool, but why not go with an SVT if you want to kill some people for around the same price?

[icarusfall]

I love the distortion at high volume on the Orange. SVT is cleanish.