Guitar amp poll

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Favorite guitar amp

  • Marshall

    Votes: 276 19.8%

  • Mesa Boogie

    Votes: 203 14.6%

  • Fender

    Votes: 301 21.6%

  • Vox

    Votes: 133 9.5%

  • Soldano

    Votes: 27 1.9%

  • Peavey

    Votes: 104 7.5%

  • Anything but a peavey

    Votes: 34 2.4%

  • other

    Votes: 316 22.7%
  • Total voters
    1,394
jndietz said:
Dude, some guy gave me shit for the same reason.

Anyways, I bought a Peavey VK100 head and its blown up on me twice. Yuck. So right now, I have a Crate Powerblock and its working out okay, I guess. Oh yeah, I have a Crate Vintage Club 30 all tube combo thats pretty nice, but needs new tubes REAL BAD.

Not sure what I'm going to go after if I get rid of this VK100. Maybe an Orange.
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I just picked up a Peavey Classic 50/212 for $500 the other day. Amazing amp.
 
lol, I hate old threads. I dont even own a Fender amp anymore. My main 3 are a Divided By 13 and 2 Vox amps.
 
of course marshall
theres no better combination than fender strat and marshall amp
 
PEAVEY all the way however I prefer the JSX over the triplexxx or the 6505
the jsx kicks ass! I will put it up against everything except diezel or vht
 
It really depends on the type of music, but Peavey has 4 great Rock/Metal heads, XXX, JSX, 5150 and 6505. Aside from Mesa they have the most to choose from IMO for Rock/Metal.

Crate's Blue Voodoo 120 and 150 dialed in are great, must be too old or something if everyone thinks Crate blows.

For those on a budget, the Hafler T3 kicks some ass with a Mosfet Power Amp ( $250 combo there ).

I didn't read all 11 pages but Randall has to have the weakest tone right now, it's stuffy crap that a 31 band eq would have a hard time making sound any good ( except the X2 for you metal heads ).

Hard to diss Bogner or Soldano for rock and say what you want about Kranks Krankenstein for Dimebag but that has a unique tone.

IMO the Marshall AVT is not worth keeping alive in the Marshall family.

And if anyone mentions Line 6 and good tone then you need to spend a day in a pro recording studio, no Line 6's are used for recording pro tone.
 
Crate - That company is on my shit list forever, and I don't give a rats ass what they make. It's all cheap junk.
 
mike474 said:
PEAVEY all the way however I prefer the JSX over the triplexxx or the 6505
the jsx kicks ass! I will put it up against everything except diezel or vht
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Right.:rolleyes: Tell ya what. Bring your Peawey over and stack it up against my Mesa Dual Rec. Then we can start with page one in your lesson book.;)
 
MrStitch said:
Crate - That company is on my shit list forever, and I don't give a rats ass what they make. It's all cheap junk.
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The Crate Palominos, Blue Voodoos, and Black Voodoos are fantastic amps, but everything else they make is junk, yeah.

Most companies just don't know how to make a good solid-state.
 
Toker41 said:
That's because there is no such thing.:D
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I think it depends on the sound you are looking for. In my 50 years of guitar playing I have used soling state and tube amps for different sounds.

I even used a hybrid rig of a Kustom 200 and a Supro tube amp back in 1970 because it produced a certain sound that I needed.

Right now I own 13 amplifiers some are solid state, some are hybrid and some are all tube. Each performs a role when needed.
 
Toker41 said:
That's because there is no such thing.:D
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ROFL!!! All I own is a ST, and I'm beginning to think the same thing.

Didn't Dime Bag Darryl (spell check that) play a solid state? Don't remember the brand off hand, and I could be wrong.

As far as solid states giving you the sound you want... well.... I think there's a difference between 'what you want' and 'what is pretty acceptable at the moment'.

All I know is, it seems that just about every great band and every great recording uses tube amps. So... 1,000,000 musicians can't be wrong, right?
 
Forgot to mention.... I played on that Blue Voodoo once, and it stunk.

Or was that the Red Voodoo.... heck, can't remember now. I just remember seeing the Crate sign, and hearing this thin, over priced, sound puking from the cab..... just like all the other crate products I've used.
 
Henry Mars said:
I think it depends on the sound you are looking for. In my 50 years of guitar playing I have used soling state and tube amps for different sounds.

I even used a hybrid rig of a Kustom 200 and a Supro tube amp back in 1970 because it produced a certain sound that I needed.

Right now I own 13 amplifiers some are solid state, some are hybrid and some are all tube. Each performs a role when needed.
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All you need is one Boogie Road King to do all that.
 
Toker41 said:
All you need is one Boogie Road King to do all that.
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Mabey ..... but I got a lot of old toys. What I really need is a new ES335 not another amp. I mostly just use my Traynor YCV40WR these days and it sounds great with my old Gretsch. I also like the YCV50 and I just might buy one for my new ES335 .... now if I only had some money.

Old musicians never fade away they just die of starvation eventually.
 
As a proud owner of a Mesa Dual Rectifier, I have to say that if price/irresistable deals weren't an issue I would be playing an Orange.
 
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