What's your FAVORITE small amp

sonic dogg · Post by **sonic dogg** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:33 pm

I dont recall a budget....Currently my favorite small amps are the Bogner Metropolitan, the Carr Hammerhead and the already mentioned Fender Blues Jr. Theres a 1970 Princeton Reverb amounst the group which is a great amp..

aurelialuz · Post by **aurelialuz** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:17 pm

teisco 71r

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:34 pm

TEISCO?!!?

Thank you Alex for keeping it real. I once had their famous "round amp," a solid state with trem...sucked terribly but looked awesome

Now I'm recording with an Epiphone Pathfinder, same as the Gibson Falcon (this is the version with the tube reverb circuit)...rather quiet and the reverb is noisy, but it loves pedals and looks cool.

RodC · Post by **RodC** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:40 pm

Harmony H400

Nothin like a guitar amp based on an old tube radio!

http://classic-guitars.ca/inventory/lar ... _large.htm

You can hear it on one of our latest recordings,

intothevoidtheband.com

We used it and a epiphone semi hollow for the intro to "Feel Tomorrow Come"

Of course im sure one of you guys could capture it much better, its still a sweet little clean amp.

MD · Post by MD » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:15 pm

BUILT IT BUILD IT BUILT IT

Seriously, if you have a hankering to get your hand dirty go here:
http://www.stf-electronics.com/

and bulid this:

Tweed champ circuit. About $212. Add a speaker and you are golden.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:24 pm

MD wrote:Seriously, if you have a hankering to get your hand dirty...

i can do this with one hand??

seriously, i followed that link and that amp looks pretty sweet!

tempting.

Bill @ Irie Lab · Post by **Bill @ Irie Lab** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:04 am

Correction:

The Fender S/S model I referred to that I had such good luck with on keys wasn't a Champ (which is a cool tube one-trick-pony) but a Sidekick 15.

Its been great hearing about all these fantastic little amps; some makes/models new to me and some fondly remembered.

Bill

cwileyriser · Post by **cwileyriser** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:39 am

justingerardy wrote:
cwileyriser wrote:Silverface Princeton Reverb. There's no difference between a 70's silverface and a blackface except for a ground switch on the silverface.
really? I have a '78 and the volume knob is also a gain pull knob, which adds a whole separate gain stage. It was 'blackfaced' (for what it's worth) by removing the gain stage, but it still doesn't sound as good overdriven as my friend's blackface. It's damn fine, don't get me wrong, but I'm pretty sure they're not entirely the same. The biggest difference was the price (600 vs 850, though now they're much more).

Justin
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Make that "...early 70's Princetons...." My bad.

CR

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:50 am

inverseroom...that round thing looks like a late '60's ice machine / hi-fi.

r0ck1r0ck2 · Post by **r0ck1r0ck2** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:47 am

i have a fan that looks Just like that teisco...people wanna touch it..

in the summer it blows air up you short when you sit in front of it...
rereshing...

and i was just mucking about with a pathfinder the other day..

i settled on a Yamaha Thirty 112...for live...and it has a distortion knob..
oooooohhhh...

well i had the damn skylark...didn't think i'd do better for a small toob...

hammertime · Post by **hammertime** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:52 am

I've got a sidekick 25 -- great practice amp, sounds good in a small room, almost like a tube amp. I saw one on top of one of Ray Charles' pianos in a studio picture once (the same one I have).

Bill @ Irie Lab wrote:Correction:

The Fender S/S model I referred to that I had such good luck with on keys wasn't a Champ (which is a cool tube one-trick-pony) but a Sidekick 15.

Its been great hearing about all these fantastic little amps; some makes/models new to me and some fondly remembered.

Bill

Bill @ Irie Lab · Post by **Bill @ Irie Lab** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:37 am

Hammertime,

Thanks for the tip-off, he was not one to fret about appearance or fad.

Ray Charles, eh?

[Fade in: The sound of goose bumps rising]

Bill

jcooke · Post by **jcooke** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:38 am

I went ahead and bought a skylark 5T on ebay. We'll see how it is. I paid $280 with s/h. Does anyone know what these usually go for?

Jeremy

eeldip · Post by **eeldip** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:07 pm

i got this guy for $70

its pretty great

hammertime · Post by **hammertime** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:22 pm

It was just in a picture, I think an ad around 10 or 15 years ago -- so it doesn't necessarily mean he used it. Some small solid-state amps actually sound more tubelike than many tube amps. The Fender Champ, in my opinion, is sort of a one trick pony -- great if you like the Fender sound. But with a sidekick, or one of those little Marshall solid state combos, actually do quite a few sounds remarkably well, and they respond to my favorite effects better than most tube amps (univibes, vox wah's, tube screamers).

Bill @ Irie Lab wrote:Hammertime,

Thanks for the tip-off, he was not one to fret about appearance or fad.

Ray Charles, eh?

[Fade in: The sound of goose bumps rising]

Bill

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