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Location: ranson,wva | im concidering getting a new low watt tube amp. any recomendations? ive looked at the Eppi' valve jr. and the new fender 600 on line....thanks in advance..jason |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | I'm in the same boat as you, jason, I've been thinking hard on the crate V58 or the V8 palamino, altho I havn't ruled out the epi, $$$ being the major consideration... |
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Location: ranson,wva | ive played my folklore thru a valve jr. head & marshal cab at G.C and it sounded pretty good. ive got 5 or 6 different cabs in the shop so the eppi. head would be a good value. im either gonna get a small tube amp or fender acoustic stereo head....jason |
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Location: PDX | Check out this thread.
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Location: Midland, MI | I built my own:
p1x @ ax84.com
Which you can see here
I had a lot of help from Charlie (thanks again buddy!), but managed to live through the experience. I highly recommend the experience. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Torres Engineering makes a nice low watt amp. What are you going to be playing thru it? Piezo acoustic? Single coil on an acoustic? Solid body electric? |
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Location: Scotland | if you are lloking for a convincing acoustic guitar tone the very last thing you need is a low wattage tube amp. You need something capable of producing an acoustic guitars entire frequency range without distortion and low-powered tube amps ain't it. You need a dedicated acoustic amplifier or a full-range powered PA speaker plus a mixer. |
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Location: SE Michigan | Diddo what Paul said about playing an acoustic through a low wattage tube amp. That being said, for electric guitar I picked up a Fender Blues Junior.
It is the perfect size for my needs. The 15 watts lets you get nice tone without making your ears bleed, but it still has ample power for a small band-practice setting. Unlike some of the other low end valve amps the Blues Junior has master volume and halfway decent reverb unit, that and a respectable 12 inch speaker..
So far I am please with it and highly recommend it, I think they are running about $399 at MF. |
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Location: ranson,wva | i want the tube amp to play my tele thru. ive got a roland ac 60 acoustic amp....jason |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Grab the Epi. Do a search on the board and you will see where we had a pretty good thread going on it about 6-8 months ago.
Templeman and Jeff W have the amp and I have the head. I am sure there are others.
Another one (and my current fav) is the VOX DA5. |
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Location: ranson,wva | thanks stephen,what would be a good cab set up to use with the epi? single 10? pair of 10's? single 12? ive got a few cabs in various configs...jason |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | To my ear two tens work best with single coils. YMMD. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by johnny cash 83:
ive got a few cabs in various configs... In that case, get the Epi head and try them all. You can go with 4, 8, or 16-Ohm configs on that amp. |
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Location: ranson,wva | its a warmoth tele deluxe body,2 humbuckers,cbs strat neck. once the head gets here ill mix and match till i come up with something that sounds good....jason |
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Location: ranson,wva | its a warmoth tele deluxe body,2 humbuckers,cbs strat neck. once the head gets here ill mix and match till i come up with something that sounds good....jason |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I use mine with a vox 2x10 or a THD 2x12 and they both sound good. Just depends on how much meat you want on the bone. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | There are a load of mods that can be done to the EVJ. I have the combo, but the head version is more versatile. I've done some of the mods and they add a lot of gain, crunch, etc. It needs better tubes also. Even if you don't want to mess around with changing resistors/caps on the board, a new set of tubes will do a lot. Fron what I've read, a twin speaker cab, either 10's or 12's, is the way to go. The amp sure is cheap enough - $99 + $30 for the tubes (JJ's from eurotubes.com). |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Great stuff here on these amps, I recently hot rodded a lil peavy predator with some emg's SSH/S, Thanks guys, especially Mitchrx post on hoppin up the epi...phil |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | btw, any recommendations for Miking the speaker cab, I'd like to run it thru my bose...thanx, phil |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Take a look at this 200+ page thread for modding the EVJ on 18watt.com . I did most, but not all of the "silver mods." The biggest gain increase comes from doing the R1, R2 and R6 mods. This thread has had over 177,000 views!! |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Thanks again...phil |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | any suggestions on mikes and cabnet size combo's?thanx...phil |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I've got one of those little Carr amps, 10 watts, 2 watts, 1/2 and 1/10 in 4 settings. Nice little amp. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I know you want a tube amp, but have you tried anything by line 6? |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | At one time I was very interested in line6, but I shy-ed away when I heard about their reliability and quality issues plus their don't give a crap customer support.
That Carr stuff looks like the ticket, but it's WAY out of my range...phil |
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