tube help

[jon2003]

Hey, Ive only been playing for a bout a year, and i am looking to get into tube amps (currently playing a 30w marshall solid state, which ill give to my younger bro). 99% of the time I will be looking to get a blues or jazzy sound using my mexi strat, I have narrowed my search from reading up reviews to the 15w fender pro jr, crate palomino 5 or 15w, or blackheart little giant (3w/5w switch) If I could have my way I would go with either the 379 pro jr, or the 279 palomino, but I am concerned that 15w of tube would be way too loud for my house, I need volume that can work while jamming with my friends but I also need an amp that can still get good sounds at bedroom levels, should I not even bother with a 15w amp then? I need to get to a guitar center to line up these amps and try them out, but the problem is getting up there since its a fairly long drive, hopefully someone can help me out, and as a side note I will probably never play gigs or anything with this amp and have a lot of friends to jam with, but none of them are drummers so I dont need to worry about having to compete sound wise with a drummer

[elklandercc]

I'd check out Vox, they make great little tube amps.

[jon2003]

the pro junior hits the top of my price range at 380, I dont think vox makes any 15w or under tube amps for less than 500bucks, i could be wrong though

[BrokenJera]

i have the vox ac-30 vt it is 30 watt but it has a power attunator on the back so i can get as low as .20 watts. its a good little amp and plays very well over a noisy drummer. it has classic vox model amps built in and some new ones too even some built in effects. threw my fender strat neck pickup the boutque clean sound on the amp sounds like velvet and with a little chours added shimmers beautfuly.


take it from some one that learned the hard way. dont spend your money on gear that isnt worth it. and just because your not playing with a drummer now doesnt mean you wont be later.if you have a good amp and guitar now that can play well with any setup when you do make new friends you wont say "i cant my gear sucks". and if you have passable gear now save your money for the next step in quality dont buy every cheap pos guitar that comes along.

and even though that vox amp is only $250 it is well worth the buy as an introduction to tubes (it only has one).

[greg1775]

Hey, Ive only been playing for a bout a year, and i am looking to get into tube amps (currently playing a 30w marshall solid state, which ill give to my younger bro). 99% of the time I will be looking to get a blues or jazzy sound using my mexi strat, I have narrowed my search from reading up reviews to the 15w fender pro jr, crate palomino 5 or 15w, or blackheart little giant (3w/5w switch) If I could have my way I would go with either the 379 pro jr, or the 279 palomino, but I am concerned that 15w of tube would be way too loud for my house, I need volume that can work while jamming with my friends but I also need an amp that can still get good sounds at bedroom levels, should I not even bother with a 15w amp then? I need to get to a guitar center to line up these amps and try them out, but the problem is getting up there since its a fairly long drive, hopefully someone can help me out, and as a side note I will probably never play gigs or anything with this amp and have a lot of friends to jam with, but none of them are drummers so I dont need to worry about having to compete sound wise with a drummer


Hey Dude
I think that the best bet for you would be peavey classic 30
it has really cool sound, very versatile-you can play at home as well as with a drummer.
If it's still too loud -take off some power valves to decrease the volume


This amp never breaks down and looks cool.....
If You are concerned about the volume -hook it up with POD
What I do with my marshall- I turn all volumes all the way up
turn the channel volume on my POD up to 10 as well
and then just keep the master volume of my POD on 1
this gives me a killer effect
My students who come to my place just love this sound

[Lordathestrings]

Check out the Epiphone Blues Junior.