Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

looking to spend around $200 (preferably less) for a tube amp so I can use it for practice and maybe running into my lexicon lambda on my pc for recording (cubase). Was looking at an epiphone jr valve amp but can't really find any reviews. Any other suggestions? I play a gibson flying V then through my distortion pedal to amp to lexicon. Any one have a similar setup so I get a good pairing.

love my crate v18 112. $150 and real spring verb if they still have em

Everyone told me that the fender blues jr is the best tube amp in it's price.

Can get one for around $250 used, it's on my GAS list.

That Fender Blues Junior is a great little amp it only has 1 channel thow and is great for playing blues orianted music and is okay for classic rock and ranges from $250.00 to $350.00, I have the Crate V30 and love it, it has plenty of volumn and has 2 channels with a boost for each with 1-12 inch speaker a great amplifier with a real warm creamy rich sound on the dirty end and chimey bell like tones on the clean end it will handle almost any kind of rock if you use an overdrive pedal with it for the heavier stuff. I have heard the V18 is the same thing just lower wattage. The V30 will handle any size venue as long as you are miking it and running it thru the p.a. it runs $499.00 to $599.00 the V18 ranges from $150.00 to $250.00.

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correction Crate V32

For about $250 you can get the Epiphone Valve Jr. 5W Head and Cabinet. All tube and one knob, "volume". With a humbucher equipped guitar its instant Billy Gibbons circa 1974.

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Marshall 8080.

And here's why. If you're just going to use it for recording, or playing at bedroom levels, then generally the power tube section isn't going to do you much good. They really only sound great when they're cranked.

In my opinion, at bedroom levels, solid state amps rule. Especially amps in this price range. But the killer thing about these amps is that they are solid state/ tube hybrids. Meaning that the clean channel is solid state, and the distorted channel runs off of 1-12ax7. So you can still tailor the sound of the distortion by using your favorite NOS preamp tube. (for this amp my personal favorite would be an RCA 12ax7 Long-plate.

Power tubes really have very little to do with the sound of a tube amp, but rather the feel and response. So basically it's the preamp tubes that create the different sound of them. At lower volume levels they don't seem to have much bite. That's because the power tubes aren't being driven enough.

With these amps you can have one sound in the Dist. channel, and in 5-minutes, change the preamp tube and get a whole different sound. Depending on the different preamp tube you swap it with. I believe that someone at the Mesa Boogie forum said that there are roughly about 50- different sounding preamp tubes in existence within the preamp tube world. So your options are quite a bit. Either way, because of the hybrid design, the gain sound can sound full and crisp at lower volumes.

Great Marshall Distortion tone that is tweakable. Awesome amps for the money.