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This is the first time I have seen an amp post on a forum.

Yer dad's tube amp can't even figure out how to log in.

ThurberMingus wrote:This is the first time I have seen an amp post on a forum.

Yer dad's tube amp can't even figure out how to log in.

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+1 for yamaha. if you somehow come across a YTA series i would pounce as there aren't many out there and they sound better than any tube amp i've ever played. i probably have shit taste but whatever, tubes are so vanilla.

i really wanna try some newer ones like the Polytones and Quilters and that DV Mark jazz cube thing.

Another vote for the Fender solid states. I picked up a Princeton Chorus for about $100 last year and I'm very happy with it. It takes pedals great and the onboard reverb and chorus are really really good. It's 2x10 but I see the Ultra and Ultimate Chorus go for well below $300 regularly. The stereo effects loop is a LOT of fun to play with also. I also hear awesome things about the Peavey Stereo Chorus 212. Some people think they're better than the JC-120s. I've been on the lookout for one but always miss the ones that are reasonably priced.

Seance wrote:

ravencore wrote:

fever606 wrote:Lab Series are my sleeper solid state amps of choice...

+1

That's what I use. I've got a Lab L7, which has four 10" speakers.
But the L5, which has two 12" speakers, will do what you want.

I've been eyeballing those for a while but haven't been able to make up my mind if I'd rather have a 2x12 or 4x10

I use an old Marshall VS102R solid state combo. Has a valve in the preamp that is just being used as a clipping diode so I just consider it a full solid state amp. Got in brand new about 16 years ago and it has only in the last few weeks started giving me trouble. It started to hum more loudly and there was a pop in the power switch. And sometimes the signal would get a real ugly nasty distorted sound that I could stop if I hit it hard enough. Over the last week I carefully took each board out, looked it over with a magnifying glass for bad solder joints. Re soldered any that looked bad, re soldered all the jacks, pots and switches and tube socket. Pulled out the tube and cleaned the pins and the tube socket then refitted it again. Then I put a bit of metho on a 1/4" plug and used it to clean all the sockets. Then I reassembled it.
I don't know what I did but I must of got the offending parts because it sounds like it did when I first got it. No excessive hum, no switch pop and no ugly distorted sound. Well worth the time I invested.
Let's hope I can get another 16 years out of it I really love that amp, though it doesn't seem to get much love as far as what I've read on the Internet.

I just got my orange cr120, this thing is hella dope,I'm totes digging it. Using the drive channel as a clean gets me what I like about tube with none of the annoyances.

Another vote for Yamaha SS amps. I had a VR6000, which was Yamaha's JC120 killer and it was a fantastic amp. They are a steal because most are priced at well under $500, if you can find one.

zeravla wrote:

Seance wrote:

ravencore wrote:

fever606 wrote:Lab Series are my sleeper solid state amps of choice...

+1

That's what I use. I've got a Lab L7, which has four 10" speakers.
But the L5, which has two 12" speakers, will do what you want.

I've been eyeballing those for a while but haven't been able to make up my mind if I'd rather have a 2x12 or 4x10

Can't go wrong with either, obviously. Just a matter of taste. And what you want to haul around. I like the 4x10 setup.
Eventually, if my amp doesn't die before I get around to it, I'd be interested in upgrading the speakers in my L7.
But... noisemaker pedals always seem more alluring than speaker upgrades. Even if the sound quality benefit might be
larger with a speaker swap.

currently using a Sunn Stagemaster 212 that i bought for 150 off craigslist. great pedal pusher.

A few years back I sold my Fender Stage 112 on craigslist. After about 20 years in a closet, I had turned it on a few times only for it to make a horrible howling noise. Some dude drove out quite a ways to pick it up for basically pocket change. I went to show him the howling problem and it worked just fine, but he had drove out so far that I just sold it to him for whatever. Kinda wishing I hadn't done that. No idea whether it was a decent amp or not, but feel better qualified to judge these days.

They're solid amps - that era's Fender stuff is very, very decent as a pedal platform.

When I moved out here and started from square one on gear again over fifteen years ago, ran Deluxe 112s and a "Nobody wanted this piece of shit" Sunn Solos II without complaint.

I'd still consider using that rig today if it dropped in my lap!

I haven't owned that many amps, but the Roland JC-160 I picked up not long ago (which is my first proper solid state) is giving me eargasm upon eargasm. It cuts through a mix like a warm knife through butter. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Also, I've never heard an amp take pedals like that. Might just be the cleanest amp I've heard. Very impressive.

I think it's safe to say that I'm not relying on tube amps anymore.

DO SS amps take some fuzzes badly? Or is the High pitch harmonics in my silver rose just inherent to the superfuzz?