How do I British Amps?

[The_Active_Conundrum]

I have a silverface Bassman
early run Road King
Gibson Super Goldtone

I feel I missed out on the Stilletto.

How do I achieve more british flavor? What' the difference between Marshalls and Oranges and Voxes and Laneys?

Is one of the aforementioned the Crate of the British Amps?

I think that if Im going to GAS for an amp, I ought to GAS in the right direction.

[D.o.S.]

What kind of tones do you hear in your mind's eye when you hear 'British amps'?

[O Drones]

What kind of tones do you hear in your mind's eye when you hear 'British amps'?

Carcass

[friendship]

I've never thought that the British/American dichotomy is a very useful way to think about how amps sounds.

Incidentally, your Goldtone is a Trace Elliot circuit that is based on the Vox AC15/30, so you're actually already getting the British sound, if by British sound you mean Vox sound.

[rustywire]

Vox: upper mid/treble emphasis (with no negative feedback)
Orange: lower-mid emphasis
Marshall: upper-mid emphasis

Also Selmer, my favorite has a little "all of the above"

You really cant go wrong with 60s/70s amps from any of these names.
Those are most commonly the amps associated with "The British Sound"

Another crucial element are cabs with Celestion Greenbacks at 16ohm; aside for the Vox which should (mandatory) be paired with Celestion Blues.

[O Drones]

Considering picking up a 50w Selmer for £200. Dat font.

[D.o.S.]

DO IT YOU ASSHOLE DO IT NOW.

[O Drones]

Been stripped and varnished, should I

[D.o.S.]

DO IT YOU ASSHOLE DO IT NOW.

That's basically the Syd Barrett amp. If you buy it and don't like it I could probably take it off your hands.

Don't buy it just to sell it to me, though.

[rustywire]

DO IT YOU ASSHOLE DO IT NOW.

That's basically the Syd Barrett amp. If you buy it and don't like it I could probably take it off your hands.

Don't buy it just to sell it to me, though.

It's close, but the Syd Barrett amp is the TNB 50 mk2.
In any event, the mk 3 and SV are still worth it. Both channels sound great, and almost nothing like one another.
You get a lot of amp for the money.

[theavondon]

JCM 800 though, in case you dig more gain.

[cheesecats]

british vs american sound = load of bollocks

[rfurtkamp]

My easy reference card, assuming you go with the normal sounds of the makers:

Marshall: Hello, cockrock
Orange: Hello, doom
Laney: Hello, I'm cheaping out
Vox: Hello, Beatles
Hiwatt: Who?

I know, somebody will be pissed by my characterization of Laney, but well...they were always the budget "Should have got a Marshall" amp in stores when I tried them.

Of the bunch, I only really have use for the Hiwatt but can't justify the $$$ given I already have the moon and the stars and I'd never crank it. Marshall and Vox I have in modellers if I wanted to go there, and I just don't have the doom gene.

If seeing St. Vitus in back when the earth was young didn't give it to me, nothing would.

[tuffteef]

hello im cheaping out

[goroth]

Tony iommi must have been a cheap bastard then...