Best/Favorite SOLID STATE Amp (poll)

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Best/Favorite Solid State Amp?

  • Peavey

    Votes: 30 10.4%

  • Fender

    Votes: 45 15.6%

  • Marshall

    Votes: 33 11.4%

  • Crate

    Votes: 25 8.7%

  • Randall

    Votes: 14 4.8%

  • Vox

    Votes: 27 9.3%

  • Line 6

    Votes: 21 7.3%

  • Ibanez

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Roland

    Votes: 44 15.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 50 17.3%
  • Total voters
    289
I voted line 6...even though this poll is like 2 years old, its a good poll.
 
my laney gc60c is killer. i love the thing. 2x10 is the perfect medium sized combo for me, and the torrodial transformer really helps the tone sound more tube-like that most solid states. it also has a very nice sounding stereo chorus.
 
hiwatt357 said:
No Tech 21? I think the Trademark 60's and 30's sound great. Heard a lot of good things about the Trademark 10 as well.
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Seconded! Wouldn't swap my Trademark 60 for anything, valve or SS
 
My Stone amp kicks ass...Its got tone for centimeters....

I also like to run my Boss metal Zone pedal into the aux on my sony boom box. It sounds better then any marshall tube amp ever....Sony makes the best amps ever..Emerson is a close second..
 
I must say that even as a fan of tube amps and the owner of a fair selection of same, that the Jazz Chorus 120 is a must-have SS amp.
 
i had a crate for quite some time as well as marshall im partial to marshalls as far as solid state goes
 
Roland Cube 60 are pretty cheap these days... Good bang for the bucks...
Apologies from another lefty :)
 
Standel amps were the best solid state amps ever made.

Too bad they cost a bazillion dollars these days.
 
My fave of the week is a tiny Marshall MG10cd that I got in a trade for stuff I haven't used in years. Definately a Marshall and sounds great mic'd. Too small (10 watts) for giging but fantastic in the studio.


chazba
 
thisaintnodisco said:
Standel amps were the best solid state amps ever made.

Too bad they cost a bazillion dollars these days.
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I don't have a clue as to what these amps cost these days. I am an old fart and when I was gigging back in the '60s I knew a lot of cats who used Standel amps Including yours truly ( I 'borrowed' it for 6 months). SS or tube if you can find one in good shape you can't go wrong with it.
 
What? You mean people actually like solid state and aren't using it simply because they can't afford tube amps? :)
 
I'm a Roland JC-120 owner for about 20 years. Great amp. Does it's job well. And stupidly loud. Pretty durable, too. I've got casters on mine and I rode it down a relatively steep street once. No shocks built in and the reverb springs were boinging like crazy. I also dropped it down the stairs once. They're on the heavy side.

I've used mine for electric, acoustic, and even vocals. Sometimes I use it as a floor monitor. I was going to sell it when I got my Marshall, but I couldn't pull the trigger. I"ve ran sansamp pedals through it and a mesa boogie v-twin tube pre-amp. Worked well. Still had that "transistory" sound on the higher notes, though. I haven't ran my digital amp modeler though it yet but I think I will this weekend.

Even though my Marshall gets 90% of the workload, I cherish the 10% I run through the Roland.
 
I remember when Yamaha introduced a line of solid state amps back in the 1970s. I didn't like ss then and still don't like it now. I would choose a hybrid amp, before a ss one.
 
I voted for Peavey 'cause my TransTube 258 EFX combo is a decent little practice amp. Have tried several of the Vox ValveTronix combos, and while (initially) not as "intuitive" as my Peavey, I caught on fairly quickly for just a "test drive." For true portability, I do have a Vox DA-5...mucho wickedness in such a small package, that one.

Matt
 
JR#97 said:
I'm a Roland JC-120 owner for about 20 years. Great amp. Does it's job well. And stupidly loud. Pretty durable, too. I've got casters on mine and I rode it down a relatively steep street once. No shocks built in and the reverb springs were boinging like crazy. I also dropped it down the stairs once. They're on the heavy side.

I've used mine for electric, acoustic, and even vocals. Sometimes I use it as a floor monitor. I was going to sell it when I got my Marshall, but I couldn't pull the trigger. I"ve ran sansamp pedals through it and a mesa boogie v-twin tube pre-amp. Worked well. Still had that "transistory" sound on the higher notes, though. I haven't ran my digital amp modeler though it yet but I think I will this weekend.

Even though my Marshall gets 90% of the workload, I cherish the 10% I run through the Roland.
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JC-120 is a classic amp,you can't sell that.:eek:

The JC 120 is probably the flagship of SS amps.
 
sound125 said:
I remember when Yamaha introduced a line of solid state amps back in the 1970s. I didn't like ss then and still don't like it now. I would choose a hybrid amp, before a ss one.
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Like anything it's not that simple and you certainly can't judge all SS amps by those horrible Yamama's.
Dean Markley made some very 'tubelike' sounding SS amps and I really regret that mine has died.
Also ...... Traynor made a couple of SS amps that sounded awesome.
I'm sure there are others but these are the only ones that I've personally used.
All my amps (13 of 'em) now are tubed but I'd pay a chunk if I could find someone who could set me up with a replacement circuit board for my Dean Markley.
 
After years of tube-only amp ownership, I got my first solid state guitar amp last summer: a Fender Jazzmaster Ultralight.

Very cool, with the signature Fender clean sound, and a useful drive distortion. I tend to the clean side, so I won't make any claims about the distortion, but what little I've used sounds good. It's also small and lightweight, has 250w and a 12" speaker. I believe it's the Super Reverb of the XXI Century. And, yes, I have A/B'd it with a '67 Super.

My tube amps still outnumber s/s (actually, there's only one other solid state in my arsenal, a bass head), and, in fact, my FENDER tube amps outnumber my single Fender s/s, but it definitely has a place when I need clean, loud and unobtrusive.
 
Has to be the JC-120.

I'm a tube guy but my Fender Acoustisonic gets a lot of use with my acoustic.

Also like the old poytone Brute amps. Very sweet deep tone.
 
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