Downgrading

Gary ITR

Right I'm currently using a 100watt amp in my bedroom, it's too big, taking too much space and needs to be cranked to get a good sound. I play through a boss gt6 for my clean sound and have separate overdrive and distortion pedals.

So now I want an amp thats got a nice sound but is small enough to stick in the storage cupboard when i'm not using it. so i'm looking for suggestions. Maybe something around the 30watt mark.

any help greatly appreciated

darrenw5094

I have a 15w Roland Cube......more than loud enough for home.
€100 from www.thomann.de

Comes in 30w too with even more fx built in.

Dord

You could go for a Roland Microcube which is about €100. You wouldn't get a Cube for €100!

Gary ITR

I've never tried any of the cubes. Wouldn't be looking for an amp that has effects on it, I'd rather pay for an amp thats good quality rather than be paying for effects on the amp.

Dord

How about one of these?

Fender Champion 600

All tube 5w amp. Its basically the Champ circuit but hotrodded.



http://www.thomann.de/ie/fender_champion_600.htm

€177 on Thomann!

Alanstrainor

Joe Robot wrote: »

How about one of these?

Fender Champion 600

All tube 5w amp. Its basically the Champ circuit but hotrodded.



http://www.thomann.de/ie/fender_champion_600.htm

€177 on Thomann!

WOW, that looks sweet and it's not too expensive too, i want i want:D, might be a nice one to go next to the blues deluxe:rolleyes:, i wonder what she sounds like. Off to youtube to check it out.

feylya

Get yourself some good headphones, plug them into your GT-6. Success

deaddonkey

Joe Robot wrote: »

How about one of these?

Fender Champion 600

All tube 5w amp. Its basically the Champ circuit but hotrodded.



http://www.thomann.de/ie/fender_champion_600.htm

€177 on Thomann!

no tone control at all
i know my guitar has a tone control. but still. give me some kind of icepick/not icepick selection on the amp. otherwise what's the point?

i like simple amps a lot, plug in and rock out with no fuss is great. but there's a limit. and no tone control is that limit.

Gary ITR

That fender is a little low on power for me. Saw a crate amp in town. Sounded pretty nice. I was trying out a few distortions on it so wasn't paying too much attention to it. I know it was around the 300 mark

Quattroste

Was in a music shop in the UK yesterday and a lad was playing one of those Vox AD5 or something with 2 speakers(6 inch) and the usual Cube like effects. It was quite impressive!

Johnny Storm

Quattroste wrote: »

Was in a music shop in the UK yesterday and a lad was playing one of those Vox AD5 or something with 2 speakers(6 inch) and the usual Cube like effects. It was quite impressive!

Probably one of these?
http://www.thomann.de/ie/vox_da10.htm

Quattroste

That's the one Johnny! What did you go for in the end or have you chosen yet?

Johnny Storm

Quattroste wrote: »

That's the one Johnny! What did you go for in the end or have you chosen yet?

I actually managed to take my soldering iron to the broken Cube and for once not make things worse . So now the EFX knob is an ex-knob and the delay/reverb knob does not work (I'm not sure why) but the rest of it does work. I miss the reverb and someday I might have a go at it again to see if I can get it working. But otherwise it's working well enough now that I'm not going to buy anything else.


EDIT for the OP, this yoke appears to be very good value. 5 valve watts (loud) and a tone knob. AFAIK it is a re-badged and even cheaper Epiphone Valve Junior.
http://www.thomann.de/ie/harley_benton_ga5.htm

Frankiestylee

Microcube ftw! Hurrah! You can get a big on "I'm rocking a stadium" sound with minimal volume. Good times.... you can jump up and down on your bed and do those Pete Townshend windmill things! YUS!

Gary ITR

I was looking at a fender princeton 65. Sounded quite nice. It's a bit smaller than the marshall and quite a bight lighter so it might suit my needs!! any opinions on this amp?

Grolschevik

You could check out the Laney VC15. Has 2 pseudo-channels, shared EQ, reverb. Footswitch sold separately. Plenty loud enough if you need it. Nice little valvester. Great reviews on HC. Bit hummy, but me likes...

Kenny_D

How about a Blues Junior??

BostonB

I'm looking for something similar. I feel the Cube and similar amps sound very processed in the overdrive. Clean channel is nice though. The small Valve practise valve amps sound nice, and my favorite on the web is Epiphone Valve Junior. Theres one on youtube being used with a Weber Attenuator. Which is the problems with this small amps. Too loud for quiet practise when cranked to get a good tone. They usually have no headphone out. So you need to use a powersoak/attenuator to drive them at low volumes.

In Dublin, Godwins have a Fender Champion 600 and Waltons a Epiphone Valve Junior if you want to check them out.

I think myself I'll compromise and get a cube.

BostonB

Onkle wrote: »

Right I'm currently using a 100watt amp in my bedroom, it's too big, taking too much space and needs to be cranked to get a good sound. ....

Use a powersoak/attenuator?