Suggestions on Amps?

[burnfire9]

I'm looking to buy a new amp. My perfence is it has to be under 400. Anyone know of a good amp with good tone, loud enough, and isn't crap.

[Lordathestrings]

Take a look at Pignose. You're going to get a lot of people telling you that you've gotta have 50 or 100 Watts to be heard, but it ain't so.

Lately, I've been feeding my Peavey Rock Master preamp into the power section of an old tube radio I picked up at a flea market. It puts out maybe 4 Watts. Its plenty loud for practice, and if I use it on stage, I'll just mic it into the PA. And it sounds BOSS!

I finally get some time off between Christmas and New Year's Day, so I'm going to do some work on the WeeBeastie 5 Watt amp I've been trying to get around to for a couple of months now. I'll post the results in Tech Talk.

[vic486]

I have played through peaveys for years, and while they are a very road worthy (can fall of truck, withstand a brawl etc) they are still solid state and tone can get thin at times, of course that depends on your style and who you are playing with. I changed about 8 years ago to Fender tube, then I got so tired of hauling that heavy tank around. Last month I found a new name to me in amps.. TRAYNOR, the company has been around since the 60's and they make tube amps. I thought I would chance it and bought one, site and sound unseen. This little 40 watt tube amp kicks butt, and is light compared to the fender tanks. I LOVE IT. If you are into heavy metal you will still need a good pedal, but for everything else, jazz, classic rock, blues, hot country, this amp will do the job. Traynor is a canadian company so they are not real popular here in the states such as some of our standard names in amps, but I did notice there was a dealer on ebay selling new ones for $469. So you may want to check it out. Good luck in your new amp purchase.