Cheap keyboard amps?

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Cheap keyboard amps?

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What are you dudes using?
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Cheap bass amp, or a behring er keyboard amp would sufice, one of my buddies has one and it sounds good.Also a used roland would be cool. If you have a PA you could put teh keyboards through that. :thumb:
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My sister uses a roland KC150 it's pretty decent so far. They're fairly cheap(used) I think it cost 400NZD = like 250USD? haha
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tube PA. do it.
orrrrrrr just ghetto rig some hifi speakers and a powered mixer for come kewl soundz
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Big Fender amps with reverb were always our choice for the Fender Rhodes electric piano we had in school jazz band. (We also had an analog electric organ, but we usually plugged that into the big PA head + dual 15" PA speaker cabs. Our guitars also usually went directly into that, since we weren't supposed to play with a distorted tone and the band director wanted volume control over our instruments, which the wind instruments had to compete with..)

I'd say even a solid state Fender, 100 watts at least, and you'll be set. It looks like the solid state Fender Frontman 100watt is only $299 on Musicians Friend -- try to find one on Craigslist used? I'd avoid something like a solid state Marshall head. Roland solid state stuff should work, too, and is cheap used.

Or there's the ZT Lunchbox amp + some sort of giant cab. Those are 200watts.
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+1 for the ZT

I'm thinking about getting one of their acoustic models for this purpose. From the videos it sounds like it has better low end than the normal lunchbox. Plus it has two inputs with adjustable eq's for each.

edit: for something that's cheaper and pretty awesome, try to find a peavey tko. I have one that I've used everything through, it has always sounded amazing, and they're pretty cheap (usually under $200).
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