wee tiny practice amps

[ashdown]

not tiny tiny but my vox pathfinder 15r sounds great. really warm and dynamic for an ss amp and has pretty good tremolo and reverb built in.

[DarkAxel]

VST amps till now

now i have my amp back from rehearsal space, so i'm set...

later i'll probably buy a VHT Special 6 because they're good

ps: in woods i play my awesome acoustic

[CBGB]

Little Alamo 1x10, must be about 8 watts, modded by the marvellous mr Henry Barnes, fucing ace.

[one bad monkey]

I either plug the bass directly into my Macbook and pull out some headphones, or I'll plug in my PJB Briefcase and turn it down.

[dan_abnormal]

ZT "The Lunchbox". Tiny, powerful, big sounding. With its extension cab it's massive! Still can't believe how its 6,5" speaker can sound so good.

[McSpunckle]

What about those weee tiny amps Frequency Central has been making? Not sure what they cost... but they looks realllllly awesome.

Alternatively, why not just use an attenuator on your amp?

[Caesar]

I have a Pignose. My guitars with humbuckers overdrive it too easily.

[grindonomicon]

What about those weee tiny amps Frequency Central has been making? Not sure what they cost... but they looks realllllly awesome.

Alternatively, why not just use an attenuator on your amp?

Don't care for podsound or headphones.

Attenuator is about the same cost as a used Killer Ant and more than a Pignose. Do attenuators cut power output down as far a a quarter-watt?

I have a Pignose. My guitars with humbuckers overdrive it too easily.

There's something to consider, almost all of my guitars have HB pickups, including my bass. What level of OD? I don't play clean that much, but I don't want a pignose crappin' out when I play it.

[dubkitty]

i use my small amp, which is an Electar (Epiphone) Tube 10 that i've modified. it has one 12AX7 preamp tube and one power tube; i had Torres replace the output transformer, which was pathetically dinky, so it's probably putting out the loudness equivalent of 12 or 14 watts into a Jensen C8 which i installed in lieu of the stock speaker. i also had them wire it to self-bias so i can run a variety of 6L6-pinout power tubes. i have an ancient TungSol 6V6 in there now. it will blow your head off through a 2x12"--cranked all the way up into a cab it'll keep up with a drummer, albeit in totally saturated fashion--but is quiet enough to play with the TV on in the background set to 2. they show up cheap on eBay sometimes. they're a little noisy, but that's true of all small inexpensive tube amps.

[univalve]

What about those weee tiny amps Frequency Central has been making? Not sure what they cost... but they looks realllllly awesome.

Alternatively, why not just use an attenuator on your amp?

Don't care for podsound or headphones.

Attenuator is about the same cost as a used Killer Ant and more than a Pignose. Do attenuators cut power output down as far a a quarter-watt?

Yes. But then the tone is also bit dimmed. That may work as practice sound or not. Too much attentuation sucks imho. As example thd Hot plate at more than -12 dB is not that great.

[symbolique]

ZT "The Lunchbox". Tiny, powerful, big sounding. With its extension cab it's massive! Still can't believe how its 6,5" speaker can sound so good.

Seriously this amp is way under-considered. It's volume and tone (more tube like than solid state) is beyond belief for a portable.

[01010111]

ZT "The Lunchbox". Tiny, powerful, big sounding. With its extension cab it's massive! Still can't believe how its 6,5" speaker can sound so good.

Seriously this amp is way under-considered. It's volume and tone (more tube like than solid state) is beyond belief for a portable.

I got one a while back and I love it. It actually has a fair amount of bass at low volumes, at loud volumes though it loses bass real fast. I use the headphone jack on it the most. There's a lot of variety in the ambience and tone knobs. It can get kindof voxey and kindof fendery, not quite perfect sounding but it sounds good to me. No battery option though, so you can't be a madmax style guitar player after the apocalypse with this one.

I'm going to make a cab with a 10" bass speaker so it sounds fuller when I turn it up.

[MEC]

MLC+PipeAmp+Fuzzhugasaurus+Woods= BadAss!

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[Gone Fission]

i use my small amp, which is an Electar (Epiphone) Tube 10 that i've modified. it has one 12AX7 preamp tube and one power tube; i had Torres replace the output transformer, which was pathetically dinky, so it's probably putting out the loudness equivalent of 12 or 14 watts into a Jensen C8 which i installed in lieu of the stock speaker. i also had them wire it to self-bias so i can run a variety of 6L6-pinout power tubes. i have an ancient TungSol 6V6 in there now. it will blow your head off through a 2x12"--cranked all the way up into a cab it'll keep up with a drummer, albeit in totally saturated fashion--but is quiet enough to play with the TV on in the background set to 2. they show up cheap on eBay sometimes. they're a little noisy, but that's true of all small inexpensive tube amps.

I used to have one of these. Meant to modify it but never got around to it. Just okay at best on its own stock. Mismatched the dinky 4 ohm transformer to an 8 ohm EVM-12L in a thiele cabinet and it sounded godly good and L O U D. Sorry I traded it now.

[Gone Fission]

I got one a while back and I love it. It actually has a fair amount of bass at low volumes, at loud volumes though it loses bass real fast. I use the headphone jack on it the most. There's a lot of variety in the ambience and tone knobs. It can get kindof voxey and kindof fendery, not quite perfect sounding but it sounds good to me. No battery option though, so you can't be a madmax style guitar player after the apocalypse with this one.

I'm going to make a cab with a 10" bass speaker so it sounds fuller when I turn it up.

I really like mine. Was completely thinking a few days back about how a battery powered version would be a no brainer.