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04-22-2007, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | "treble" guitar amps.
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My cousin is looking for a new guitar amp and has enlisted my help.
His price range is up to about $550 CAD (a bit less than 500 of your american dollars).
He hasnt specified much but one thing he wants is a very very very good clean channel as he usually doesnt use distortion (and he can just buy a pedal is he starts to use it more).
His main guitar is a Ibanez Articore if that makes a difference.
Thanks. |
04-22-2007, 05:22 PM
| | | | Roland cubes have amazing cleans and there not very expensive.
By the way i'm talking about the x series not the regular cubes
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04-22-2007, 11:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | anyone else? |
04-22-2007, 11:54 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | Sounds like he needs a Fender Blues Jr.
Tube amp, about 30 watts, but it gets darn loud.
Do a search on it, I believe our own Munji has one. |
04-22-2007, 11:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | hmm yeah, I've heard of Blues Jr.s before, only good things aswell. |
04-23-2007, 01:08 AM
|  | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by steve21  Sounds like he needs a Fender Blues Jr.
Tube amp, about 30 watts, but it gets darn loud. | More like 15 watts, but it does get quite loud for its size. Most of the guys I know who use 'em like 'em for the way they break up though.
As usual, I'd recommend getting something used rather than a new amp though. The Fender Hot Rod Deluxe or DeVille amps do very, very good clean a lot better than the Blues Jr does, IMHO. But your friend may easily prefer something with a classic tube-driven reverb stage, which none of these amps have. |
04-23-2007, 01:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Yuma, Az | | | Peavey Classic 30, if they're still available. Great clean or overdriven. They were Billy Gibbons and Joe Satriani's secret studio weapons of choice when it was still humiliating to admit to owning a Peavey.
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04-23-2007, 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by WalterBush Peavey Classic 30, if they're still available. Great clean or overdriven. They were Billy Gibbons and Joe Satriani's secret studio weapons of choice when it was still humiliating to admit to owning a Peavey. | good call! the little traynor tube combos are nice too |
04-23-2007, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Passinwind More like 15 watts, but it does get quite loud for its size. Most of the guys I know who use 'em like 'em for the way they break up though.
As usual, I'd recommend getting something used rather than a new amp though. The Fender Hot Rod Deluxe or DeVille amps do very, very good clean a lot better than the Blues Jr does, IMHO. But your friend may easily prefer something with a classic tube-driven reverb stage, which none of these amps have. | I have a hot rod deluxe and I'm very happy with the clean sound of it, especially together with my Hughes&Kettner Tubeman. It's 40 watts but really loud if necessary. I once borrowed it to a reasonably famous swedish guitarist who was playing at a gig in a club here. He first tried another (more expensive) 40w fender tube amp but it started to dist way too early so he refused to play with that and switched to mine instead (originally intended for the fender rhodes) and didn't complain anymore. But I guess he wanted a bigger cab...
Anyway, the sound of it don't fit everyone's taste... the guitarist who owned that other amp (IMO a fabulous jazz guitarist) don't like the hot rod series at all...
A Peavey classic 30 is good too, but I like mine more  except for the dist channel that is way better on that one.
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04-23-2007, 08:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bel Air, MD | | | Used Polytone Mini Brute....doesn't get any cleaner or louder! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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