Originally Posted by: jon2003Hey, 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