The Ultimate in Tube amp Faceoffs

MIKA-the-better-one · 2010-06-01T15:15:05+00:00

So I though this may be a bit fun, and the thread has sometime to develop..... as some know I am moving back to the USA next year... So The ncomes the question What Amp Should I Buy? Upon Return..... I will probably be living in a tiny apartment with my son to be wife... who does on a bad day hate loud guitar to the point where she swears its just noise that I intentionally make to irritate her..... I however will be playing music live and in studio, so I need some nice tone and volume (with the sort of music I play) So Ile put a few amps here for all you to review, some may know them or have experience with some of them, all in all I wold like to just talk through some of them with you fellow guitar people..... So here are some of them.. note I use single coil guitars.. and like that slightly broken up clean..I like to layer fuzz and drive ontop of it Vox Ac30 (with blue speaker).... Great tone/ lower wattage= quiter more breakup/ classic............ BAD Points..... Chinese and unreliable Fender Bassman RI LTD...... Great Amp apparently... never tried one... look nice.... I am always a bit skeptical to Reissue Amps while htere are some amzing Vintage amps.... Fender Super Reverb...... Great Amp.... LOUD.... LOUD ..... LOUD .... But Sonic youth use them ?.... Heavy... But sonic youth use them... Again RI or Vintage??? they just have so much nice fender bite to them..... Orange Dual Terror with Orange 212 CAB) or a Orange rockverb 30 ....... amazing demos... can be 7, 15, or 30 watts..... so thats GREAT.... But does it have volume and headroom... Also not many of the bands I enjoy use them which means will I like it? Fender Vibroux... so far this is my fave.. its 2 by 10 inch..... 40 watts.. and the silverface models sound great on youtube..... But in typical "me" fashion ... is that enough.. and will I blow it up.... also heard they can buzz a bit ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS?

MIKA-the-better-one

thats a sweet looking amp you had..... From what I have heard of them they just seem to sound great!!! Fair enough not being a apartment amp... But in the end I wold sacrifice playing in my apartment for a good live amp. The idea of not playing live is not so nice...... for me.

The new Vibrolux custom I have read does not sound so sweet.... in regard to the enormous amounts of buzz it produces...
The vibrolux is probably the best option for me
followed by the bassman ri ltd
maybe the Super reverb

Fender champ for home use

Vick

If you like the bassman,and you decide to buy one,just go check out the sovtek mig 50,there 1955 bassman clones if I remember correctly,hand wired add there prices on ebay start at like 700 last time I checked, I really wanted to try and ship one in,after hearing one in person,but logic prevailed... :'(

AndrewD

....RIVERA....

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