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Rissan	Date: January 11, 2006 @ 5:35 PM what amp do u use now? willing to chane it soon? with what?
sparkotronic	Date: January 11, 2006 @ 5:56 PM As I don't play live, I dont use any amps. I use NI guitar rig, amplitube and lots of other VST's. Far easier to record. and I dont miss the volume either!
Distilled1	Date: January 11, 2006 @ 6:54 PM Well.... I play a Laney AOR II head through a Peavy stereo Chorus2x12 with Scorpions for the cab and on the other side of my stereo efects nothing I think I may go through my live sound rig (di boxed) live again if I dont over power the sound guy That way I can use my mixer and stereo every effect and place a speaker on each side of the stage one for me and one for the our keyboardist (he just loves hearing my Guitar too loud!!! Actully looking to get a new Laney head and a stereo cab set up
Distilled1	Date: January 11, 2006 @ 6:56 PM Although a small twin like the peavy stereo 12" cabs do a great job for gigs even un miced they can really put the sound out
edg	Date: January 13, 2006 @ 3:59 PM Pretty much I just play at home. For recordings I usually go direct thru an effects unit. The main amp I use is a 3 Watt (yeah THREE) all tube Boogie-Mite with BOSS GT-6. Getting a Tone Tubby Cab for it soon. This has fantastic sound. I think a lot of people think more watts = more power = better. Not so. Unless you can drive that amp, you're not getting full tonal benefit. I can crank that Boogie-Mite up to 10 and the neighbors won't complain.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: January 14, 2006 @ 10:13 AM I don't use an amp. I play through Boss GT-8 to my computer's line-in. I used to play with an amp, but this is better way to record.
zedsalt	Date: January 14, 2006 @ 10:54 AM Right on, edg; a lot of our favorite HUGE sounds from "arena rock" style bands were cut on tiny little amps!
tsand19151	Date: January 14, 2006 @ 10:57 AM ... I use Guitar Rig as well... kool software.
GeneHilbert	Date: January 14, 2006 @ 12:06 PM Fender Cyber-Twin, 72 Silver Face Twin-Reverb and a Peavey Musician. I have pods, a JStation, Digitech effects. Nothing touches the Cyber-Twin. Best amp purchase I've ever made.
laalaaloo	Date: January 14, 2006 @ 12:21 PM Vox AD30VT Gorrila 150 watt (bass) Lookin to mod my Vox and getting some Mongoose cabs.
Mojosnake	Date: January 14, 2006 @ 5:12 PM me likey my fender blues jr but would likey an ampeg
Alecs	Date: January 14, 2006 @ 6:04 PM I use a weak lil' peavey rage 158. I haven't had money to get a new one in between all my guitars
jof1029	Date: January 18, 2006 @ 9:39 AM at the moment im sitting next to my Crate GX-20R, which isnt great but i needed an amp for my dorm. at home i have a nice Peavey Classic 30, and i dont plan on getting a new amp any time soon because i love it.
tossom	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 8:46 AM Fender Blues junior JCM 900 50w dual reverb Head JCM 800 2204 50w Head Heads are run through either an old Marshall 4x12 with greenbacks or a 2x12 with vintage 30s. Favourite amp is the JCM800: it's old, crackly, only has one channel and no reverb but my god what a tone!
Bhairava	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 11:04 AM Marshal 100DFX which is fine apart from annoying fan sound and... Marshall Mini Stack thing I got for £20 has a terrible sound but hey its easily portable runs on batteries. Also a small little fender practice amp I got to start with which does its job I guess clean sound is good for its cost I think might jus be my guitars pickup sound thats good though.
zedsalt	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 11:10 AM Do you think that if I keep mentioning Reverend's amps with the Schizo Switch, they'll eventually give me one? I mean, it's not that much of a drive; I could even go pick it up, if they like...
JeraldHenry	Date: March 24, 2006 @ 3:53 PM I have 2 right now, a Marshall JMP-1 tube rack preamp through a Marshal rack 50 watt amp with a Marshall 2x12 with one of the speakers being vintage. And, the old American classic, a Fender Twin. I did have a Trace Eliot acoustic amp but, it got stolen. Sure wish I had it back!
Traf	Date: March 26, 2006 @ 5:16 AM I only use Line 6 gear now : I wouldn't use a valve amp any more if you paid me.. World war 2 technology..
zedsalt	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 11:12 AM That's kinda comic/ironic, isn't it? I mean, some bright fellers start a company based on their abilities at "faking" real tube tone, and we've reached a point where some artists actually prefer the replicated sound. I'm not poking fun at anybody. I know it likely comes across as such, and I apologize. There really is no such thing as "better" when it comes to these things, and when it comes right down to it, most of the things I prefer about real tubes are the way they react when one does something "wrong" to them. It's not that big of a deal, these things we lose when things get too prepackaged for my tastes. And while I'm at it, I'll mention Reverend again. Yup, Reverend in...what is it? Warren, Michigan? Michigan, anyway. Yup, one of them amps, even the little one, would be a really cool addition to my studio...
EchoMinor	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 4:44 PM well when you are stuck with a b-52 solid state halfstack combo you welcome tube faking in open arms! yeah for the PODxt
Traf	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 5:55 PM Who's on about faking zed...? I have the sound I want now and I've not been able to get that before, so it can't be a fake sound... and believe me, I've had nearly every valve amp going over the years including Marshalls, Fenders, Laneys, Orange, H&H (semi valve), Mesa Boogies (about the best I reckon), Cornfords (supposed to be the bollocks, but I thought they were crap) etc etc. I've never been so happy with the sound I have now... If people think it's fake, then that's up to them...
celtaidd	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 6:00 PM TO the computer thru korg AX100G. But have a Peavey 112 for fun
EchoMinor	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 6:17 PM only tube amp i would buy anyways are VOX's.
zedsalt	Date: March 28, 2006 @ 11:11 AM I'll bet I could come up with some killer tones through a B52. Just leave it in a room with me, alone, for about...say...twenty minutes. True enough, Traf, I don't hear a modelled amp sound and think, "fake"...more like "homogenized", "done to death", "predictable", "jizzless", etc. It doesn't prevent me from enjoying the music, but if the music IS interesting, it makes me wonder what the same artist could've come up with by experimenting with his/her equipment a little. Most of the "Classic" tones something like the Pod emulates were originally arrived at by doing something previously considered "wrong". "Voxish" tubes, plates, biasing, etc. are one of the actual physical combos accessible with Reverend's Schizo Switch...even on the little switchable 5/15 watter, which, if I were to get a free one, I'd record with all the time and talk about incessantly.
EvilPicnic	Date: March 28, 2006 @ 11:32 AM I agree with everything zed's said (apart fom the 'schizo' amp bit which I've never heard of before), so I could probably cut and paste into this space. But I'd get weird looks, so I won't. It may just be snobbishness. Maybe I just mentally can't accept that an emulation is better than the real amp... I like experimenting, I like finding new sounds, I like messing around, basically. Which is something you can't do with a POD, because you know that for it to sound the way it does someone must have programmed it, been there before you. A sympathetic quote from Roger Mayer (Hendrix's effects guru): 'Modelling is always working backwards and is a detatchment from reality. It can't ever react forwards.' If you know the sound you want (as I'm sure you do, Traf), then modelling works. But you can't ever do more than recreate something that's come before, a real amp that's come before. I like Orange amps, btw. Don't have one, can't afford one, but I want one.
victorsskull	Date: March 28, 2006 @ 11:53 AM dont use amps and the 2 I had well my son wrecked one and I pawned the other
Traf	Date: March 29, 2006 @ 4:29 AM I love these discussions about amps.. My arguament on this is that why do people think that a solid state amp is not an amplifier in it's own right and it's not a 'real' amp unless it's valve. I don't understand this. They do the same thing. They make our guitars louder. The difference is that valves work slighly different to transisters because they have to be heated up so are much bigger... and less reliable.. but they do the same thing... What a crap qote from Roger Mayer. It just does not make sense... but then I've heard his playing... I've found since using something like a Line 6 stuff that there are so many new sounds available. They're not copies of any oither amp, they are new sounds. and they are 'real' sounds.. and of course they are creating something new... why can't people see that? You may not like it, just as I don't like a lot of valve amps, but it's certainly different.. Yes, they are given names and amp models of older amps. but that's just to get all the retro boys (and girls) to feel they are not betraying their old valve amps. I also agree that when you fisrt try one of theses new toys, they can sound pretty awful, and some of the presets sound like an angry wasp in a tin.. but delve into one and the possibilities of new sounds is endless. and back to this 'modelling'... isn't that what all amps do no matter what they are.. There ya go.. ;lol:
EchoMinor	Date: March 29, 2006 @ 9:23 AM "I like experimenting, I like finding new sounds, I like messing around, basically. Which is something you can't do with a POD, because you know that for it to sound the way it does someone must have programmed it, been there before you." cant do that with a POD? lol you can come up with some rather awsome sounds with a POD accually. at least with the PODxt models. combine different heads, cabs, mod petals, stomp boxes, delays...all at once. my favorite is the RAT stomp box through the acoustic amp model, with a line6 cab lol. and to zedsalt...i have the original B52 halfstack, the first one that came out. you can tell the company was new at making amps lol. but i thank the PODxt for making it sound 100% better. without it, the tone would be horrid. although the overdrives are perfect for death metal
JeraldHenry	Date: March 30, 2006 @ 10:55 AM 2 different rigs. A Fender Twin Reverb & a Marshall rack mount rig with Marshall's JMP-1 preamp.
Alecs	Date: April 1, 2006 @ 10:39 AM As I said before in this thread I use a peavey rage 158 which I do like, but I've been looking at the Carvin Legacy model that was built for Steve Vai. I want it !
Alexsy	Date: April 6, 2006 @ 12:38 AM i've got a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. I'm about to change out the Eminence speaker that it comes with to a Celestion. and i also have this tiny little solid state fender frontman practice amp, which, by the way, is one hell of a fine-sounding amplifier, both on clean and dirty channels. But my amp wishlist: Fender Musicmaster bass amp Vox Ac10 or Ac30 I'm currently bidding on a little Marshall extension cabinet right now on eBay, it's like a 12" thing.
Kramer80	Date: April 6, 2006 @ 11:10 AM I have a Marshall valvestate vs100 with a 1960AX cab. any one know anything about vavle amps? I was reading that you need to change the vavles on them every 1-2 years and im pretty sure the amp was made in 1998, I bought it used so im just wondering. thanks in an advance.
Wizzard123	Date: April 7, 2006 @ 12:28 AM Does anyone have a good used Fender amp they would part with 50 watt or more but not to big and that works that I dcould buy from them?
Traf	Date: April 9, 2006 @ 3:59 PM Hmmmmm. no.
EvalLin	Date: April 17, 2006 @ 1:27 PM I have a vox amp, it has a line out, i paid about 60 for it
panicstrickin	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 2:52 PM Fender Hot Rod Deluxe...all maple....all tube....warm clean and it screams
BasicBoy	Date: June 15, 2006 @ 6:03 AM i got a nice marshall mg15cd it was cheap and does everything i need
jewsus	Date: June 25, 2006 @ 6:14 PM Hartke B15 practice amp and for shows, a Peavey Mark 3 Series 800W head with a Peavey 400W cab. i know, i still have 400W to use, but i don't have another cab. the one cab is good enough though. its got two 10" and one 15" speaker.
thedarkestso...	Date: July 18, 2006 @ 9:09 PM i was using a crate blue voodoo 120hb halfstack for a long while as well as a randall rg 80ph head, but now im using a line 6 pod xtlive modeler with the metal add on pack through a crate gx 130c into a blue voodoo 4-12 cab and a smaller crtae 4-12 cab. also using a line 6 spider 150hd half stack.
zedsalt	Date: July 19, 2006 @ 11:29 AM It's been a while since I last petitioned for a free Reverend amp, so I'll mention them again. Reverend Reverend Reverend
8111	Date: July 19, 2006 @ 12:53 PM Amen Traf: Solid state amps are far more reliable and hassle-free than tube amps. PLUS, these days, amp makers are making some killer stuff without tubes. The difference in sound is definately there, but it's so subtle, it's not much of an issue for me. At the moment I'm shopping for an amp, I've been doing the home recording thing and havent needed an amp for live stuff for a while. My taste in amps revolve around my preference for a good, punchy, metal/suitable distirtion... I had a few Marshall heads, but the best was a JCM 800 50 watt with a matching slanted 4/12 cab. The thing had awesome freaking tone, and so much balls it was un believable. Never heard a Marshall that sounded as good as that one. it was kinda limited though, no effects loop, no reverb, and just try and and plug your effects in between the guitar and amp, sounds like crap except for a wah-wah or a gain/distortion pedal (and that has to be the right one). I had a Crate GS150 150 watt combo amp once, which was loaded with a 300 watt electro-voice 12 inch speaker that could totally drown out my drummer...badass little fucker, weighed a ton though... Last combo amp I had was a Kustom 65 watt with a 12" Celestion and built in digital effects. Loud, sounded really good all by itself, used it for some gigs and like it alot. I might get another in a larger model sometime. probably the best live set-up I ever had was a 160 watt crate half-stack. The amp by itself wsn't anything special until I put a BBE Stinger (can hardly find 'em anymor)in the effects loop. Seriously, this thing sounded better than any marshall or boogie I ever played thru... The Stinger was kind of the original floor version of the Sonic Maximizer with only two knobs: Hi boost and Lo boost. It was a monster. I like the Line Six stuff too, I'd like to know if anyones had any issues with them. a friend of mine has a newer solid state Marshall half stack that has a decent sound. The cabinet and head are slightly smaller than the full-size Marshalls, but for the price, it's a pretty decent set up. I'd love to hook a Stinger up to it and see what happens...
GreatGooglyM...	Date: July 19, 2006 @ 2:15 PM Solid state amps are far more reliable and hassle-free than tube amps. PLUS, these days, amp makers are making some killer stuff without tubes. I disagree with you Bill. I like the Line Six stuff too, I'd like to know if anyones had any issues with them. Played Line6's PodXT in a shop before buying my Boss. Those effects are really bad quality IMO. I even played it through a very nice tube amp, but still had a horrible sound. Can't even imagine how it sounds when plugged into line-in...
8111	Date: July 19, 2006 @ 3:07 PM thats cool, I just never had a solid state amp go tits up on me... I had a carvin tube amp that I had endless tube issues with...sometimes they just overheat, eplode etc.,... had a Marshall 100 watt that I bought for six hundred bucks from a 'friend' that went to shit...after re tubing...biasing...more problems. three hundred fifty bucks to repair it...could have bought a new one. I've blown up a couple other tube amps too, actually saw fire shoot out the front of one... dont get me wrong, I like 'em, but as far as dependability, solid state, for me, wins hands down. Thanks for the info on the Line six tho.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: July 19, 2006 @ 3:19 PM You know, I'm losing my faith in all this digital crap and transistor amps. My ears bleed when I plug my Gt-8 to my Mac's line-in. I've had a couple of solid state amps, but they just sound so cold and spiritless. Currently, using my dad's really old no-name tube amp. The tone is marvellous! Line6 just falls into this same fake tone category. The have a lot modelling stuff like Variax, but they never replace the real thing.
Traf	Date: July 21, 2006 @ 7:38 AM the best sound I getis when I plug into my old dads gramaphone.
IronheartFab	Date: July 25, 2006 @ 1:24 AM Marshall DSL 100. Would not trade it for any other Amp. Well maybe a TSL 100.
mdearing	Date: July 28, 2006 @ 3:20 AM I have a Marshall AVT 275 which I use live and record with. I also have a pod 2.0, vox valvetronix, johnson j-station and a boss dr 880 with a guitar modelor on it. whoooo.. I need to see ebay and do some selling. i like the idea of modeling. it's so 21st century and easy to use. i used a pirated copy of guitar rig, but it ate up my memory. as far as the modeling goes i think guitar rig is where its at for recording. just listen to tim sanders. The line 6 and most other modeling amps have a weird sound on the distortion. the actual tone is great, but there is some about it that is a little weird to me. Kind of a weird scratchy sound. How many times can I say "weird"? I'm sorry I can't put it into words. I don't hate them at all. As a matter of fact I recorded a whole album with them. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?band ID=121226 I do like how Traf is plays blues but has a state of the art sound with the line 6. It's an interesting twist. Of course Traf can shred with the best of them and the line 6 is very suitable for that style. But Traf rocks though and his fingers make the POD sound better than most. my avt is a hybrid amp, just one small tube. the reason i got it was because the price and the built in effects are useful on stage. but it's got a good tube sound. it's not as good as all tube, but it's very close in my opinion. It does loose the tone at louder volumes though.
mdearing	Date: July 28, 2006 @ 3:22 AM http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=121226
ThePurified1	Date: July 28, 2006 @ 7:14 PM Roland Cube-60
guitaroo	Date: July 28, 2006 @ 8:17 PM ThePurified1 said:Roland Cube-60 Hehe me too!
hate9wicket	Date: July 28, 2006 @ 9:25 PM the thing about those line 6, whether it be a pod or whatever, when you connect it to whatever amp you use, you got to spend some time tweaking, the more you tweak, the better off you are, however, everyone has their little idiosynchrocies.
JeraldHenry	Date: August 8, 2006 @ 5:23 PM Rig #1, Marshall - enough said! Rig #2, Fender Twin - also, enough said! I love em!

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