fat_fleet
Swollen Member
You know, I was going to post that here but chickened out when folks started throwing around names of pricey designer tube amps.
I thought it might be like posting "McDonalds" to a Best Hamburger thread.
You know, I was going to post that here but chickened out when folks started throwing around names of pricey designer tube amps.
I thought it might be like posting "McDonalds" to a Best Hamburger thread.
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Greg_L
Banned
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
They pop up on CL here and there and I've thought of getting one of the smaller 2-speaker ones, like a JC77 or 90, but just can't justify it for the occasional 30-second song part where it would actually come in handy.
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Greg_L
Banned
They are ridiculously clean. I like them for what they are, but I've never had any interest in having one.
ocnor
Lord Of The Thighs
Those are great if you want to sound like you are playing through a Rockman.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
The JC is the obvious choice, but miro is a boo-teek tube amp snob.
Neither do I.
If I just wanted the "clean" part...
....but I also want it to be a really nice tube guitar amp, that can do sweet clean tones, but also good for other stuff.
I do think a tube amp "clean" sounds different than SS "clean". Just a personal preference.
I may have already found a nice speaker combination this past weekend with my Rt. 66 and Hammerhead amps, so the clean amp quest may not be that critical at this point...but I may still get one, just to get another amp.
Heck, I may just try my SansAmp and H&K Red Box combination for the clean sound.
If I recall, it sounded pretty darn good.
Really, this all started juts because of some rhythm tracks, where I wanted "0" breakup during harder chord strums.
I went with the single coil on the guitar side...but the way I was setting my amps, everything was leaning into the crunch zone...so now, I think I have at least two amps dialed in for cleans and nice tone following the speaker swaps.
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Greg_L
Banned
No doubt there.
aaronmcoleman
The truth is out there!
Again, I think the twin is a great choice here. Maybe not for miro, but it's clean, got some character (not a sterile clean), and not the boo-teek price tag.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I considered the Twin a few times in the past...but I've known two guys who got the Twin, and ended up getting rid of it because it was just so loud, and they said you would go from quiet to loud at just a nudge on the volume knob.
That might be great for live use, but in the studio I want a little more subtke control/flexibility out of an amp. I play failry loud in the studio, but not that loud. I also think that most tube amps sound better when you run them in their mid-to-upper range, at least that's what I've found. When you have the volume barely at 1-2...they almost all seem kinda cold/sterile to me.
I use to have a Traynor (one of the newer ones) and it was the same way as the Twin...you went from barely audible to way loud with just a touch of the knobs, and it had the chicken head knobs and pots that were so "light"...they would practically move if you just walked close to them.
I also had a vintage Traynor 100W head (four EL34 power tubes, four/five(?) 12AX7, and an EL84 for the reverb) and 412 cab. I bought it new back in like '75, and did a lot of gigs with that amp (never failed me). That amp had some really nice cleans, and sweet reverb, but I sold it off when I was heading more into the lower wattage stuff, and it was just sitting unused for a long time. It was a tough decision to sell it...but I replaced it with some newer amps that I really like, so no deep regrets.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
I have an Ampeg Reverrocket reissue and it does clean the best outta my 14 amps but my 70's era Ampegs do a great clean too and you can pick up a V2 head or something like that for cheap. Or you could just buy one of mine ...... I'm selling off some stuff.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I've been thinking about the Ampeg stuff too.
Had a guy come over once to do some demos...and he had one of the newer rockets...very sweet sounding amp!
Had a guy come over once to do some demos...and he had one of the newer rockets...very sweet sounding amp!
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
yeah, that's what I have ..... about 10 years old. It's a VERY nice twangy pristine clean with good definition in the bottom end. I DO have some kinda mechanical rattle where something in the cab makes noise. If it were my recording amp I'd have to sort that out but for gigging it's no biggie and, like I said, it's a mechanical noise so it would simply be a matter of tracking it down and tightening whatever it is.
But the clean is really pretty and the OD channel isn't too bad either.
CoolCat
Well-known member
I was looking at a used one of those. Sublime guitarist used that for awhile, but eventually went to the Marshall's.
For rough live bars, and no roadies a solid state can be pretty reliable and maintenance free for the most part.
Fender Ultimate Chorus was known to be pretty loud and clean, 2x12, 100-150 watts, nice combo.
$200-$250.
That JC 120 is $400 used , many want $500 on CL. 2x12, 2qty 60watt amps......I assume.
Fenders were invented for Clean, Leo and crew spent their days trying to obtain loudness without distortion, it was then the goal of the design.
Anfontan
Banned by eurt
Ampegs can definitely give a nice clean tone, I used a VT-22 (100 watt-2 x 12) back in the 1980's but I had to use a power attenuator to keep the audience from going deaf. And the fact it weighed 95 pounds made me decide it wasn't a keeper.
A Reverb Rocket might be a good alternative.
A friend had a black face Fender Twin with JBLs-that thing was ungodly loud at any volume!!!
A Reverb Rocket might be a good alternative.A friend had a black face Fender Twin with JBLs-that thing was ungodly loud at any volume!!!