My Small amp shot out
I've a spent a couple days comparing sound, features, value on 4 of my small amps
Legion for each amp to save keystrokes.
Epiphone Valve Junior EVJ 5W, JJ gold pin tube upgrade
Epiphone Valve Junior Special EVJS 5W JJ gold pin tubes
Vox R15 R15 15W completely stock SS
Traynor YCV20 Custom Valve 20 YCV20 15W completely stock
All of these amps sound great through the Carvin Vintage 2 12" cabinet I tested with.
However with only the original speaker I would rank them in this order
YCV20 Celestion Greenback 12"
R15 8" Bull Dog "only at low volumes"
EVJS 10" Special
EVJ head only
Noise factor, important for studio work.
YCV20 extremely quiet
EVJ almost middle of the road with JJ's in it.
EVJS actually quieter with effects and reverb turned off than EVJ
R15 lots of hiss with turned up to moderate levels.
Quality of clean sound and tone "think bright country type sound"
R15 not factorin in background hiss
YCV20
EVJS
EEVJ
Quality of slightly broken up sound and tone "think blues and classic rock"
YCV20 by a hair over the EVJS due to better tone calibration.
EVJS really tough call between this and the YCV20
EVJ good but could be better with a tone control
R15 very limited
Over all raw blasting volume.
R15
EVJ JJ's did some powerful magic here
YCV20
EVJS
Cost compairson to what you actually get for your buck
EVJS weighs in at about $240 decent speaker but don't forget the tubes
R15 really nice amp lots of features that need to be turned off $140
EVJ for around $100 all you need is a speaker cab, and some JJ's but needs tone pot.
YCV20 probably the quietest amp with the most features on the market $550-$635
So I guess my winner is the EVJS just seems to be the best overall and the bigest bang per buck. I do plan on dong a tube swap it the traynor. I like it
better than the small fender amps blues jr, hot rod etc. It reminds me alot of a low power version of the bassman channel in my supersonic but with no hiss.
I've a spent a couple days comparing sound, features, value on 4 of my small amps
Legion for each amp to save keystrokes.
Epiphone Valve Junior EVJ 5W, JJ gold pin tube upgrade
Epiphone Valve Junior Special EVJS 5W JJ gold pin tubes
Vox R15 R15 15W completely stock SS
Traynor YCV20 Custom Valve 20 YCV20 15W completely stock
All of these amps sound great through the Carvin Vintage 2 12" cabinet I tested with.
However with only the original speaker I would rank them in this order
YCV20 Celestion Greenback 12"
R15 8" Bull Dog "only at low volumes"
EVJS 10" Special
EVJ head only
Noise factor, important for studio work.
YCV20 extremely quiet
EVJ almost middle of the road with JJ's in it.
EVJS actually quieter with effects and reverb turned off than EVJ
R15 lots of hiss with turned up to moderate levels.
Quality of clean sound and tone "think bright country type sound"
R15 not factorin in background hiss
YCV20
EVJS
EEVJ
Quality of slightly broken up sound and tone "think blues and classic rock"
YCV20 by a hair over the EVJS due to better tone calibration.
EVJS really tough call between this and the YCV20
EVJ good but could be better with a tone control
R15 very limited
Over all raw blasting volume.
R15
EVJ JJ's did some powerful magic here
YCV20
EVJS
Cost compairson to what you actually get for your buck
EVJS weighs in at about $240 decent speaker but don't forget the tubes
R15 really nice amp lots of features that need to be turned off $140
EVJ for around $100 all you need is a speaker cab, and some JJ's but needs tone pot.
YCV20 probably the quietest amp with the most features on the market $550-$635
So I guess my winner is the EVJS just seems to be the best overall and the bigest bang per buck. I do plan on dong a tube swap it the traynor. I like it
better than the small fender amps blues jr, hot rod etc. It reminds me alot of a low power version of the bassman channel in my supersonic but with no hiss.