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07-28-2011, 10:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | cheaper ish tube heads..help me shop!
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im looking for a clean warm thick yet versatile tube head for around 400ish bucks.
im debating maybe a 100 watt clean oriented head (originally made for guitar is ok) more watts would be good.
will be run through a classic ampeg 410 cab.
will be played everywhere from outdoor festival stages, small clubs, midsized clubs, theaters...
thanks dudes.
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07-28-2011, 11:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Danville, VA | | | From memory, the Peavey Windsor was around $249 when new(I think). Bugera and Jet City make guitar heads around that price. A warning though, once you get past 3 on the preamp on the Windsor, it doesn't stay clean for long, IME.
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07-28-2011, 11:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: South Florida | | Traynor Bass Tube heads are lower in price and have favorable reviews. I have both Fender and Ampeg Tube heads. Do your own homework and shop around in the used dept. Somebody here on this forum was selling a Fender Tube head for under $1000. Good luck . .  |
07-28-2011, 11:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Portland, OR | | | I just picked up a Peavey Alphabass for $200. For the price just a ridiculous amp.
Early returns are good, but I don't have but an afternoons worth of miles on it to give a good thorough review.
For $200 though, I wouldn't have found many deals much better for a comparable SS amp. |
07-29-2011, 12:12 AM
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Simply put the words tube Head, and cheap don't go together.
There is a reason they cost more $$$$.
You have to pay for tube tone.
A 100 watt tube head will run in the $700-$1000 range.
More if you go custom made.
Look for a used Ampeg V4BH, or maybe a fender Bassman 100.
Or a Sunn 200s. |
07-29-2011, 10:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: SOUTHEAST, KY | |  You could always buy my Fender Bassman 300 that's in the TB classifieds. hehe...  |
07-29-2011, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: northeast Ohio | | | I use a windsor. You can find them used for around $200-250 depending on condition. They sound better on bass with some coupling cap increases in the preamp and at the PI, but are usable stock. Dude's right, you can't stay clean on them very easily... if you're looking for a clean head you should probably look elsewhere. Most guitar heads are going to be the same way- not very clean for very long.
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07-29-2011, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sidney, Indiana | | | Bugera 1960. It's the only respectable product they've made. 100 watt Marshall Super Lead clone, that is loud and stays clean to ridiculously high volumes. Plus it has that warm marshall tube tone. Can be had around $300 or so.
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07-29-2011, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | The Peavey VB-2 regularly turns up for $500-$600 on craigslist & is 200W. That'd be my first stop, anyway. |
07-29-2011, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by zachoff  The Peavey VB-2 regularly turns up for $500-$600 on craigslist & is 200W. That'd be my first stop, anyway. |
Agreed - in that price range, that's an awful lot of amp for the money...
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07-29-2011, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cheapbasslovin I just picked up a Peavey Alphabass for $200. For the price just a ridiculous amp.
Early returns are good, but I don't have but an afternoons worth of miles on it to give a good thorough review.
For $200 though, I wouldn't have found many deals much better for a comparable SS amp. |
I had one of those for awhile, too - it was a nice rack mounted all-tube head with decent power, and a few nice features like an effects loop, tuner out, and plenty of EQ'ing ability...
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07-29-2011, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: MD | | | You can try to hunt down a Peavey Classic 400.
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07-29-2011, 02:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by zachoff The Peavey VB-2 regularly turns up for $500-$600 on craigslist & is 200W. That'd be my first stop, anyway. | 225 watt !! I got mine for $499 at GC. It was a display model. Still came with the 5 year warranty. It rocks!
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08-06-2011, 07:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: yorktown, indiana | | | I use two peavey windsor amps. Picked them up for less than $350 for both! I run a sans amp bddi into the effects return of one, and a rusty box into the effects return on the other. These are run into a sunn 215 and a sunn 610 respectively. It's a crap load to move but man does it sound good. |
08-06-2011, 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by MOTORHEADBANGER Bugera 1960. ... | Absolutely! It's a beautiful sounding amp!!! I link the inputs, have the normal channel do most of the work and add some sparkle with the bright channel.
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08-06-2011, 09:23 AM
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I agree with Mobina. The trick is to get your favorite preamp with plenty of bass, I have a GK 300. Run strait into my Windsor return. That sends your signal strait into the clean power tubes. For 250-300$. Works for me. Pics on the eps-15c post. On the left o  n my 69' Peaveey. Good luck. VF fan.  "the object is to get there firstest with the mostest" NapBonaprt 
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