High Gain heads- around £1000

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I was going to go for the bugera 333xl untill the dealer i was going to buy for stopped stocking them due to a "95% failure rate".

I tried a Blackstar series 1 100 head at the weekend, wasn't impressed. Tons of controls on it, couldn't get a distorted sound i liked. Gain had to be on full, and had zero saturation even there.

This weekend i'm going to try a Peavey 3120, and would like to try a 6505. I'm not really sure what other options are open to me, stuff like ENGL's and Mesa's are just mad expensive.
 
I play a 5150 and I'd thoroughly recommend it (aka the 6505) although you MUST perform a bias mod ($5 and an hour) and get some decent tubes (JJs). It's biased very cold at factory spec and they don't sound that great (and the cleans are rubbish). Bias it up higher and it's magic!
 
What kind of sound are you after? There's a heck of a lot of variation in the "high gain" world...
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
What kind of sound are you after? There's a heck of a lot of variation in the "high gain" world...
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There is, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of options around my price range, so i'm just going to try everything i can find that MIGHT be suitable and see which i like, if any.

Added the Orange rockerverb 50 head to my list.
 
I'm pretty F'ing happy with my mesa solo 50 head I scored off of Ebay coupla years back....

I'll buy a new one eventually.
 
chamelious said:
Unfortunatly im using finance so ebay isnt an option :(
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honestly, if you want "gain" and you're not as concerned about the character/quality at this point in time, what I'd do in your shoes is just go out and buy an amp with a really nice, responsive clean channel, and then look for an OD or distortion that'll give you the character of distortion you're after.

Fender-y cleans, with that deep shimmery quality, take high gain pedals REALLY well. I used to use a Metal Zone way back in the day (everyone has a Metal Zone story, I feel :p) and I was blown away by how good it sounded through a small tube fender.
 
chamelious said:
I was going to go for the bugera 333xl untill the dealer i was going to buy for stopped stocking them due to a "95% failure rate".
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So why not just buy one from a different dealer? Or explain to him that the original production Bugera amps had a component flaw which has been fixed. It was just a bad plastic power connector. The new ones don't have this problem.
 
ocnor said:
So why not just buy one from a different dealer? Or explain to him that the original production Bugera amps had a component flaw which has been fixed. It was just a bad plastic power connector. The new ones don't have this problem.
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I mentioned this. Its not just this causing problems, they're been returned right up until recently with all sorts of problems.
 
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