Tube Practice Amp ?

[majortoby]

Get an epiphone valve junior. Swap the stock OT for a Hammond 125ESE. Replace the 12AX7 with a 12DW7, and the EL-84 with a 6BQ5. Get an attenuator for blasting into a power amp, giving you that sweet, sweet tube sound, including the heralded power tube distortion.

 

[majortoby]

or is that feasible?

 

[JimmyM]

can't be cheap. have no idea if it's feasible, though.

 

[dlmarquez]

FWIW, the old school model 1 (20 watts, class A operation) weighs 18 lbs....
Hook it up to a wizzy 10 and you have a 20 watt class a tube amp/cab and the whole deal weighs under 40 lbs.
If you are hooked on tube sound, this might be the holy grail of lightweight

 

[majortoby]

That sure sounds killer. But, my EVJ suggestion hinges on the fact that they can be had for ~$100 brand new, and are about as complex as a stomp box. I might just be peeing up a rope here, but I think that it would be an option for all-valve sound at volumes "adequate" for *me*. As Jimmy stated, it might get expensive, which defeats the purpose entirely, IMO.

 

[chunkstyle]

the swr interstellar overdrive preamp is also a 5 watt all tube practice amp.


i was playing mine through an ampeg 4x10 last night. it sounded full, rich, warm... big.... i've also used it through various single 12 cabs as well as a big ampeg 4x12 cab with very similar results. i think through a single fifteen it would sound allsome.

 

[majortoby]

Interesting. Sounds like a pretty neat product. As it turns out, Weber makes a pretty cheap attenuator that could reduce the EVJ output to a "preamp" level. I just have no idea about the speaker motor vs. resistive attenuators.