question about fender Pro Junior...

[ibanezrocks]

Diogo I believe that epiphone amp is solidstate, it says evalve tube tone circuitry, which either means that it emulates tubes, or it might have a tube in the preamp.

 

[wx3]

For a KICK ASS tube recording amp with NO PEDALS you need to try out the Gibson Goldtone Ga-5 Les Paul Jr amp. One knob (volume) and 5 watts of the most beautiful distortion youll ever hear. Its hand wired and looks cool as hell too.

http://gibson.com/Products/Amplifiers/Gibson Amplifiers/GA5 Les Paul Junior/

I'm in the same situation, moving into an apartment and my 350 marshall mode four just wont do. Do you think I could get away with this amp in the closet of my apartment? If I isolate the closet as well as I can? *using blankets and such *

 

[Clive Hugh]

There are 2 other possible solutions, if your amp has a line out dfrom the first stage you can unplug the speakers and substitute a resistance. On my Twin I have a kettle element that normally draws 32 ohms so it was cut in half and draws 16 ohms which is trhe same as my speakers draw. This allows me to plug in to my mixer at 2am and totally scream but apart from some serious brain damage thru the headphones no-one else can hear it but me.
The diadvantage is that you are only getting the first stage sound, there are also commercially made boxes that you can plug into the speaker outlet and di into them and they will give you a simulated speaker sound, I believe the Hughes and Kettner allows the choice of a closed back 4x12 or open backed 2x12.

 

[hiwatt357]

But for the amp, a tube in the preamp doesn't make it a tube amp anyway you cut it. I will sound better no doubt than a all solid state amp, but volume wise it won't affect a thing. All of that is in the preamp circuit where the signal is being taken from instrument level to line level...the same level a CD player is at. A power amp or the power section (or the powertubes) is where the output volume is concerned.


Since you need to gig, for a solidstate I would stick to 60-100 watts. For tube, no less than 22-30 if you need a clean sound live, becuase it will be loud, but it will break up into distortion quicker the less watts there are.

Acutally, the Vox VR30 (as well as the VR15 and all of the Vox Valvetronix stuff), the tube is in the power amp section. There's plenty of info out on the web on the way these Valve Reactor amps work.

I just got a VR30 a couple of weeks ago, and I'm quite impressed. You might not be able to play a stadum with it, but I'd be willing to bet that in most clubs, you could get away with it with no issues.

Here's a thread on the Vox VR series from The Fender Forum.

 

[Outlaws]

Acutally, the Vox VR30 (as well as the VR15 and all of the Vox Valvetronix stuff), the tube is in the power amp section. There's plenty of info out on the web on the way these Valve Reactor amps work.

I just got a VR30 a couple of weeks ago, and I'm quite impressed. You might not be able to play a stadum with it, but I'd be willing to bet that in most clubs, you could get away with it with no issues.

Here's a thread on the Vox VR series from The Fender Forum.

This thread is way old but you are wrong. Yes there is a 12ax7 for the 'power section', but it is not the same thing as other tube amps.

 

[hiwatt357]

This thread is way old but you are wrong. Yes there is a 12ax7 for the 'power section', but it is not the same thing as other tube amps.

Yeah, I know the thread is old, but I did a quick search for the Vox VR30 because I had just gotten mine.

And yes, I know that it's not the same thing as a 100% tube amp...but it seems to sound better than just about any other solid state or modeling amp I've plinked around with. Except, maybe, a Tech 21 Trademark 60.

And this isn't the first time an old thread has been dug up on here.