Cheap Tube Amp for recording? / Low volume recording / Importance of room

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Treeline said:
Just traded a couple of amps for the Lil Night Train... gonna have some fun this weekend... :)
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Sweet. The only amps I have around to trade are classics, so nothin' doin'.

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I did trade away my VT-22 for a strat. But I was never going to haul a 104 pound amp anywhere and I certainly wasn't ever going to need 100 tube watts for guitar!
 
oh dude ..... that Premier ......*drooool* .........
I saw a guy up in Detroit played harp thru one and it was ........ perfect. It was the best harp sound I ever freakin' heard. His was probably a little smaller than yours but OMG ...... I wanted that amp BAD!! If it sounded like that on harp I know it would have made me just die of ecstasy on guitar.
 
Hey, I don't know about your budget, but I have a suggestion rather than buying a half stack or a combo... Why Don't you buy a head with the same OHMage as the speaker in your Peavey. take a 1/4" guitar cable, cut it in half, add those handy little wire clamps from radio shack or what have you and after disengaging it from the peavey put it on the speaker and then plug it into the head that you decide to buy... save yourself at least 250 on a cabinet... just a thrifty suggestion.
 
Obi-Wan zenabI said:
Sweet. The only amps I have around to trade are classics, so nothin' doin'.
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Mine weren't exactly classics, but they were fine amps. One was a Trace TA30 and the other an older big-ass Fishman Loudbox. Kind of the alpha and omega of acoustic non tube amps. The Trace had gorgeous low volume tone but the small speaker would distort when cranked with a large acoustic guitar; just too much low end for it. But it was perfect for a church or dinner gig. The Fishman was the only amp that really enabled my Taylor 815C to sound like the same guitar when non amped. And my jazzbox and 335 clone sounded beautiful. But at 250 watts and about 60 pounds, that sucker was simply over the top. So I actually traded 280 watts worth of acoustic amps for... 2 watts worth of tone monster. Pretty good trade all around I think.
 
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