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Thanks everyone. I should have been more specific.
I am looking for a tube combo that can get dirty tones at low volume. I'm not interested in digital modeling or solid state amps. I realize there are good arguments to be made for those things. I already own some pedals. I just want to plug and play through a tube amp. That's what worked for a lot of my favorite music. I think it will work for me. I am also looking for a quality cabinet that I can leave in my living room. It needs to be small so it isn't in the way when I am not playing. It's the living room. Looks count at least a little bit. I know 5W can still be too loud, but some do break up at lower volumes. There are some amps that use built in attenuators. Believe it or not, Portland has no dedicated boutique guitar shop. We do have several good used guitar shops. |
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Get a Blackstar
Blackstar HT-1R
This will do everything you want. The only drawback is the small speaker. It does have the tone though. My buddy just bought the 5 watt version and it is awesome but probably overkill for your needs.
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At the top end, probably the Swart. I have played the little one with the 8" speaker before. I thought it sounded nasty ( in a good way) with an American Standard Tele.
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Other makers I'd recommend are Roger Goodsell (Goodsell Amps), Steve Carr (Carr Amps), John Suhr/Steve Smith (Suhr Guitars and Amps), and Brad Jackson (Jackson Ampworks). Jackson Ampworks has an amp called The McFly, which can do both tweed and blackface tone in one amp....and it has power scaling down to fractions of a watt. I don't have one (yet) but it's on my short list. And they have some pretty stunning cabinetry options that would be a real conversation piece in your living room. Brand new they're going for around $2750 (head and cab), but can be had for around $2000-2250 on the used market, in the ballpark of the Swart Space Tone. Here's a demo of the McFly:
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Does anyone own a Vintage 47 they could tell me about? Looks pretty cool.
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I'm doing a lot of practicing with the Jamey Aebersold Jazz series right now, trying to grow some new skills. There is a Vintage 47 that has my attention. I could probably afford to buy that for jazz/blues sounds and then eventually add a Champ for more classic rock sounds. |
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You'd have to figure out what exact kind of tone you want. I have a Tele, I love the Orange with it. Great country type tones out of the clean channel, and then flip over to the dirty channel and get just about any kind of dirty tone you want. But you might hate that British distortion sound. I can't really turn the clean channel up loud enough to put it at the edge of breakup in the house, but I can make it do that with a pedal at a lower volume just fine. The dirty channel can actually do that fine too at lower volumes if you just dial the gain way down. You'd have to get a black cabinet to keep it in your living room though.. I tried a Blues Junior at the store when I was looking at the Orange.. it was horrible from a "in the house" standpoint as it has no ability to cut the power down and it was getting deafeningly loud very quickly on the volume dial. I couldn't see getting anything except a glassy clean tone at home out of an amp like that. I really really love Fender amp tones but they need to make something that can be run at lower power. I kind of liked the Bassbreaker 007 too but I feel like that would have also been hard to get good tones out of at the volumes I can run the Orange at. |
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For ease of use, I think the Helix is the best of all the top-tier modelers. To my ears, its amp modeling is not quite as realistic as the Kemper (but almost), however, it effects, routing options, and software are better, making it a better all-around package for my needs. FWIW, I have both a Helix Rack and Control for my studio work and a Helix Floor for gigging.
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Look for a Peavey ValveKing Royal 8, 5 watts, 8" speaker, and very musical tone control. It also has seperate gain and master volume so you can get some nice preamp distortion going before hitting the final output tube.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ampli...tube-combo-amp |
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I cranked a HT-5 at a music store and was blown away at how loud that thing was. Didn't buy it because it was just too loud for home. |
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There was a company in Connecticut years ago that made adapters that allowed the use of 6AK6 tubes in place of 6V6 for power tubes. It took my Deluxe Reverb from 22 watts to about 1-2 watts, and it was still plenty loud, and pretty toneful, too. Smicz Engineering was the name of the company; if you can find the adapters, they work great in Princeton Reverbs, too.
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http://www.thetubestore.com/Parts-Ac...ducing-Adapter
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