Recommend me an amp for gigging with

electrogrimey

Decided I definitely need a new amp, as I've been using my mate's Fender Princeton 112 for ages. Most of the time it'll be mic'd up, so I'd prefer a smaller good quality amp than one that's far too big for what I need. I think 50-100 watts would be perfect, that way I'm covered if I'm not mic'd too.

I'll only be using the clean channel because I use pedals, and I don't need any effects or anything. Mainly be used for a funk kind of sound. Under €500 would be perfect, but I could possibly go a bit over if needs be.

rcaz

Would you like solid state or valve state? My guess is valve state would suit your funk sound more. If you're going valve state, there's no way you'd need 100 watts.

What guitar players do you like the sound of? I guess a funk guitar would be played through an American-style amp, like a Fender or Peavey or something. Fender Hot Rod Deluxe is a little over your budget from Thomann, but you could definitely find one used for a nice price. I like the look of the Peavey Classic 30 too.

electrogrimey

El Pr0n wrote: »

Would you like solid state or valve state? My guess is valve state would suit your funk sound more. If you're going valve state, there's no way you'd need 100 watts.

What guitar players do you like the sound of? I guess a funk guitar would be played through an American-style amp, like a Fender or Peavey or something. Fender Hot Rod Deluxe is a little over your budget from Thomann, but you could definitely find one used for a nice price. I like the look of the Peavey Classic 30 too.

Wassa difference between solid state and valve state? I'll take your word that valve's better. Judging by the Thomann sound sample alone that Peavey sounds lovely.

Squidgy Black

if i was you i'd go for this : http://www.adverts.ie/254339/guitar-and-bass/peavey-classic-30/ just under your budget.

Sandvich

stetyrrell wrote: »

if i was you i'd go for this : http://www.adverts.ie/254339/guitar-and-bass/peavey-classic-30/ just under your budget.

That wouldn't be a bad choice at all.

electrogrimey

stetyrrell wrote: »

if i was you i'd go for this : http://www.adverts.ie/254339/guitar-and-bass/peavey-classic-30/ just under your budget.

Cheers for the spot! If he can get it to Dublin that seems like a good bet.

rcaz

Neither valve/solid state is 'better', though you'll get a lot of tone snobs telling you that valve is better. They sound different, and there are good and bad examples of both. The stereo typical rawk guitar tone is an overdriven valve amp, and the stereotypical 'warm clean' tone is a clean valve amp.

Sandvich

El Pr0n wrote: »

Neither valve/solid state is 'better', though you'll get a lot of tone snobs telling you that valve is better. They sound different, and there are good and bad examples of both. The stereo typical rawk guitar tone is an overdriven valve amp, and the stereotypical 'warm clean' tone is a clean valve amp.

The stereotypical Jazz tone is a clean Jazz Chorus, Polytone or similar.

To be fair valves do get used a LOT more, which is the main reason they're also generally better, people don't take SS seriously enough to invest some serious R&D into them(Except a few, like Peavey, but even then they don't make any high end ones).

Johnny Greenwood uses an SS Fender I think.

rcaz

Good point about the R&D side of it. Annoying how markets work.

Sandvich wrote: »

Johnny Greenwood uses an SS Fender I think.

He has a Vox AC30 for clean stuff and a Fender Eighty Five for distortion (Marshall Shredmaster and Boss SD-1 I think). Which I always thought was a weird way of doing things?

Sandvich

Not necessarily, if you consider it's hard to get an SS amp that does the "clean breakup" thing satisfactory, which is what Voxes do best. A lot of SS amps tend to be Jazz Chorus Cleans/Lots of Dirt.

I find myself in a similar situation.

rcaz

Sandvich wrote: »

Not necessarily, if you consider it's hard to get an SS amp that does the "clean breakup" thing satisfactory, which is what Voxes do best. A lot of SS amps tend to be Jazz Chorus Cleans/Lots of Dirt.

I find myself in a similar situation.

I understand the Vox being good at the very bitey clean thing, it was the sending distortion pedals to the Eighty Five bit. So the super clean SS amp would give a better representation of the distortion pedals or something. Or just Jonny's taste I guess

Quatre Mains

I'm in a similar predicament as the OP. I use a POd XT religiously for all my FX so i'm only into clean channels. I've never owned a valve amp though as I'm worried about reliability issues - i used a banged up Peavey Express for over 10 years without any problems. I'm probably just paranoid. I was thinking about a Roland JC120 or something like that, anyone any thoughts on those, or any alternatives I could consider? I would be primarily into classic rock and yes I know people would generally be into Marshalls for that but I never got into using amp dist channels.

-=al=-

vote some sort of fender, be it the hot rod or the blues one, they#re damn good and veryyyy loud

electrogrimey

-=al=- wrote: »

vote some sort of fender, be it the hot rod or the blues one, they#re damn good and veryyyy loud

If I can find a second hand one they look great, bit too pricy though

Sandvich

El Pr0n wrote: »

I understand the Vox being good at the very bitey clean thing, it was the sending distortion pedals to the Eighty Five bit. So the super clean SS amp would give a better representation of the distortion pedals or something. Or just Jonny's taste I guess

Voxes can get very muddy with distortion pedals.