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I'm thinking about selling my twin and going for two smaller amps. Solid state or not what do you guys suggest?

i would keep the twin and get another amp to complement it. i play a stereo rig with a twin and a musicman seventy-five/60s bassman cabinet setup. i'd suggest finding another clean sounding amp to match the twin. my alternate setup is two fender deluxe 85 solid state combos (red knobs). they sound great but are difficult to find.

Just grab a pathfinder to play with your twin in stereo. they are like ~100 bucks and sounds great.

If you really like stereo, then you can decide then what amps to keep, etc.

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AC15???

Laney VC15s and VC30s are EL84 combo amps with a similar form factor to Vox AC15/AC30s, but have a Marshall-style tone stack which IMO makes them more versatile and are a couple of hundred dollars less expensive. if you're determined to go to two smaller amps, they're worth a look.

I like two sonically different amps. I run a twin in stereo with a darker muddier amp (Diabolical LFO-17), but I find most people lean towards two sonically similar amps. Personnel preference kinda thing.

Ya I'm thinking about goin for two smaller amps really.

bronzetalon wrote:Ya I'm thinking about goin for two smaller amps really.

Two Swart STR's? What's your budget?

I don't have a budget originally I was thinking of tracking down some small fender combo amps but wanted to know what else was out there.

what kind of wattage/speakers/etc.?

Clean or mostly clean is a big factor. Two 12 in in speakers is what I want total.

One super sweet head and two small 1/12 cabs spread apart...

Right this second I'm playin a '67 Kalamazoo Reverb 12 with a '65 Kalamazoo Model 2 on top, across the room I'm splitting off my delay into an '80's Crate Cr-112... All three are set really clean and I use the Flashback to and El Cap as splitters so it sounds wide and AWESOME with whatever I'm playin... HUGE WALL OF FUZZ LOVE...

my favorite small amps are Fender Princetons, but at 15 watts each through a 10" speaker they're not going to give you a lot of clean headroom unless you run extension cabinets, and that defeats the whole purpose of smaller amps. the obvious Fender solution is the blackface-style Deluxe Reverb; i find them rather nasal and brittle in clean mode compared to a Twin, but thousands disagree. tweed Deluxes will not be happy in clean mode...trust me on this. they also don't have enough headroom, since they only go a couple of watts more than a Princeton. Bassman heads with 1x12" cabinets might also work.

AC15s are another obvious recommendation, but again at 15W your cleans are questionable. Laney make the VC30 in a 1x12" configuration which could be your new best friend, seriously, they're extremely underrated amps. the new Ampeg 15W combo amp also seems promising, though it's pretty crunchy...there's a jazz guitarist demo on YouTube that shows its clean capabilities. caveat: i have not played one. i'd swear that the Marshall Class5's i've played were as loud as a typical 15W amp, though again you're kissing Clean goodbye after about 4 on the volume knob. and there's always Peavey (hi, Peavey!)...the world is FULL of used Classic 30s.