Featuring Lady the void! Little out of order but this has been a fun learn.
Guitar -> DOD comp - mini recto 25w -> DC-2W -> chase bliss dark world. Time effects are in the loop, this amp has stupid good cleans.
I noticed some vendors offer amp head-to-cabinet cables that look like regular TS guitar cables, but are optimized for head to cabinet connections.
How are they different than a normal guitar cable?
What are some brands you recommend for head-to-cab cables?
Finally joined the club and got myself a DSL40CR. Haven’t owned more than a practice amp in about a decade, so I’m pretty stoked to log some hours on this.
just snagged this off facebook marketplace for a nice deal! has anyone ever tried this with the Weber DT-10P? Weber claims they come close to the blue alnicos but i’m hesitant to believe that.
hi all, just gonna get my first mic, but i cannot decide between these 2 sm57 or e906? i play heavy rock, punk, and little metal. if u guys can help me with your insights pls.
Hi everyone, I got a Boss Katana 100 Gen 3 on discount to pair with my LTD EC-256. Right now, I’ve placed the amp under a side table near my desk and I play while sitting on my chair facing the monitor.
I kept the volume really low, but after about 1.5 hours my left ear started feeling fatigued and slightly numb. I already have mild tinnitus, so I want to be careful and avoid damaging my hearing further.
Could you guys suggest a better placement/setup for the amp in my room? Should I angle it differently, move it farther away, or place it somewhere else entirely? Maybe where the guitar currently sits or near the lamp angled? I will be connecting my katana to computer so it has to be nearer to desk.
Any advice from people experienced with combo amp placement in small rooms would really help.
I don’t know where they are from, but I am wondering if any of you fine folks think they’re worth putting work into. Are they guitar amps? Could they be used as guitar amps? Any and all help/guidance/advice is greatly appreciated!
I understand that tone is very subjective to everyone’s taste and music genre.
That being said, what is the best clean amp that you’ve heard? And what qualities in the sound are you looking for?
Let’s geek out over each others amp racks! Here’s mine from top to bottom:
- VHT D-50
- Friedman BE-mini (for high gain or short practise moments)
- Ox Box (not an amp but the reason for the rack)
- 2005-2010 Vox AC30
- 1978 Marshall JMP 2203 (with effects loop mod removed, which is why it has 4 ‘inputs’)
- 2012 Marshall AFD100
* I have a Marshall 4x12 in the other corner of my home ‘studio’ for tracking while recording and to have a interaction with my guitar.
I’m on the lookout for a Fender Bandmaster Reverb and a Orange OR15/30 and then I’ll be set (I think).
Hey all, i’m in the market for an amp as my brother and I have been playing in a band together and up until this point have been sharing an amp, so i’ll need my own sooner rather than later.
I’m tossing up between a super crush and a jc120, and would love some advice! They’re both well within my price range, whilst tubes aren’t. I’m playing mostly shoegazey stuff but I also like to dip my toes into doom metal and the like. I’m leaning towards a jc120 but i’m a little unsure as to whether it will be able to sound meaty with a big muff or if pushing muffs with other distortions will make it sound too harsh. Is it worth it to sacrifice some clean tone for a better distortion sound? I run all my amps clean so handling fuzzes well is key.
Thanks in advance for reading the long post, any advice as to which I should go for would be greatly appreciated :)
So I’m sure this is a tale as old as time. I recently upgraded from my OC20 (no reverb) to an OC35RT. I was conflicted between getting the OC35RT or a dark terror with the 1x8 amp. This is mainly for home practice because I’m not a performer. I just play guitar for phone and love the pursuit of tone. I also have a bit of a pedal addiction and am trying to shape my own unique tone but is largely based in punk, pop punk, rock, some blues, and am interested in some ambient angels and airwaves stuff. Anyways, I have 45 days to return the OC35RT to guitar center. I want to get this forums thoughts on the OC35RT or whether I should start my tube amp journey. I live in a condo with shared walls and am concerned the 35RT may be too loud and I have a roommate (my brother). I know what people say about the 1x8 cab that comes with the dark terror, but my goal is to keep to bedroom levels. I don’t mind experimenting with the different tones and am not opposed to upgrading the 1x8 cab in the future, but for now want to keep manageable volume. What are peoples thoughts on this debate.
I play in a band that's been picking up steam recently, been playing less bar gigs and more proper music venues with good sound, and I've been recently trying to move my rig from a fender mustang with my built in pedal effects and amp modeling to the real version of what I'm using on the mustang. Love the sound of the deluxe reverb, and have been told it would best suit my playing by a couple people now.
Somehow though my mustang has gotten me a lot of compliments, I honestly thought it was a piece of junk for a long while but I'm consistently getting compliments on my tone. My clean sound is a '65 twin modeling and my distorted tone is a marshall stack, they sound kinda close but its pretty clearly a digital amp to my ears and the guitar doesn't feel like it reacts the same way it does through other solid state/tube amps.
Buddy let me borrow his vox ac15 to try and it's just too warm, clean isnt clean enough and the reverb is nothing comparable to the deluxe reverb. Plus tube amps are heavy, I don't hear enough of a difference between a tube and tonemaster deluxe reverb so I'd probably get the tonemaster just so i can carry it around easier. Probably want to get tube screamers for my distorted tone through it.
Is it worth getting a new amp to go for a better sound, or should I stick with the mustang?
Hello, I have a band which is starting and my goal is to get a better sound, what I am mainly looking for is to get recommendations for guitar and bass amplifiers which are useful for rehearsing in a room, the main problem is that we are 2 guitarists and a bass, but the drums overwhelm the instruments,
As for amplifiers, we have two 20W guitar amps and one 15W bass guitar amp. The idea is to get better amplifiers that have decent quality and don't cost a fortune. The second guitarist has a Fender Champion 40, which he sometimes takes to rehearsals and his idea would be to look for a guitar amplifier similar to that one.
Same thing for the bass, get a decent amp with similar features.
In case you are wondering, we also consider using a mixer, but we need to see all the options to go with the most profitable one.
Hi there
Ive got this blackstar artisan 100 and I love it. I usually run my quad cortex into it and thats so Nice and all but i pretty much Only play in my room so it’s got much more power than I need but that also means I cant really crack it with out blow up everything so im trying to find a solution where I can get the good tones but at a Low level please help.🙏🙏🙏
Its 8 ohms
And it has no master volume
Hello there!
I recently got this Fender Champion 600 from 2007, but clearly something is wrong with it. The is like a fizzy sound in the background, no matter if you play light or hard, low or high volume. The amp is all stock including the tubes. I swapped the 12AX7 for a known good one and the problem persists. Any Ideas on what could be?
Thanks in advance for your time!
Hi, I'm new here
I just found this amp at my cousin's house. Do you know this brand? Is it good? Should I keep it or sell it? I searched online but I didn't find anything about It.. Could you help me getting more informations? Thank you!
Hi there,
I've had this Traynor YCV40 for almost 5 years now and frankly as much as I love the sound, I regret how freakin' heavy and weirdly fragile this thing is. I do 20 minute car rides for rehearsals and gigs, and the sounds it makes on very normal roads ain't great to hear. The spring reverb sounds like its breaking apart and I've already had to replace the power tubes.
Now I'm having a pretty bad problem, can someone please help identify what is going on?
It seems like the only channel that works right now is the distortion channel. The clean channel has a loud hum and no guitar coming out, while the distortion channel needs to have the volume up much higher to produce sound and even then, the tone isn't as full as it used to be. There's very very slight volume fluctuations too.
I've looked at the big Power tubes in the back, and it doesn't emit a red plate like the one I had to switch nor does it do any noise when I do the gentle tap test. One of them does seem a little brighter in orange than the other. Is it possible that it needs yet another change (a year ago, mind you), even if the tap test doesn't show anything?
Due to the build, I can't access the pre-amp tubes without power tools. Do these symptoms sound more like pre-amp tube failure? Or something worse....
Please help 😞 This has been so freakin' annoying dealing with a tube amp, and it's at the worst possible time as we have gigs lined up. Thank you!