Tiny tube amps?
Tiny tube amps?
Can anyone recommend some small amps (4 to 10watts) that have a really dirty/vintage sound? Thanks.
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this thing is neat: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Blackheart ... 1427216.gc
and this kit:
http://shop.dobermanamps.com/product-p/kit-p1.htm
and this kit:
http://shop.dobermanamps.com/product-p/kit-p1.htm
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I can't speak about the Killer Ant, but one of our guitarists is using a BH5H Little Giant at the moment, and it sounds great. There isn't much clean headroom, because it only has tone and volume, but it does sound dirty after 9 o'clock on the dial. I built an Se5A kit from ampmaker.com which has a full tone stack plus gain and volume, fantastic sounding amp and Barry ( who posts on AX84 as Loverocker ) was always willing to help when I ran into problems, so I'd recommend that if you're handy with a soldering iron.
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See if you can track down one of those little 6 watt Fender Champs -- seems like there are a bunch to be found floating around out there.
I've got an early-'70's silverface that's pretty cool and dirties up nicely when pushed. 3 knobs: Volume, Treble, Bass.
I've got an early-'70's silverface that's pretty cool and dirties up nicely when pushed. 3 knobs: Volume, Treble, Bass.
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+1 on older champs.
Obscure but extremely multi-useful: the hughes and kettner series that included the blues master, crunch master, and cream machine. A mini tube amp head including a small power tube, has a speaker out to drive whatever cabinet of your choice (or can run fine not plugged to a speaker), plus a swiss army knife of various DI outputs including a speaker simulator that sounds really good. I use the heck out of mine (blues master) for both DI and to speaker cab for low volume tracking that still has power tube saturation.
Obscure but extremely multi-useful: the hughes and kettner series that included the blues master, crunch master, and cream machine. A mini tube amp head including a small power tube, has a speaker out to drive whatever cabinet of your choice (or can run fine not plugged to a speaker), plus a swiss army knife of various DI outputs including a speaker simulator that sounds really good. I use the heck out of mine (blues master) for both DI and to speaker cab for low volume tracking that still has power tube saturation.
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I mistook this thread for being about a new Don Ho song..."Tiny Tube Amps"
...sorry.
I love my '76 vibro champ.
Gets dirty enough for blues on it's own easily, nice and clean leads at lower gain, very dynamically responsive when you "push" your guitar and there's nothing like tube driven vibro IMHO.
6 watts of Fender juicy, not too much $$ really. $400-$650 depending on the condition of the amp. Reissues are less than $300 I think.
...sorry.
I love my '76 vibro champ.
Gets dirty enough for blues on it's own easily, nice and clean leads at lower gain, very dynamically responsive when you "push" your guitar and there's nothing like tube driven vibro IMHO.
6 watts of Fender juicy, not too much $$ really. $400-$650 depending on the condition of the amp. Reissues are less than $300 I think.
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The zvex Nano head is a great amp. It has many different sounds depending on how you have the switches. It doesn't do cleans at all unless you turn down your guitar volume. It also can be put through different cabs for different tones. It reminds me a lot of an old supro/ vlaco amp when I use it through a fender type cab. The only problem is that is has a little computer fan built into it to cool it down. But zvex has noted that you can dismantle the fan and it won't overheat in normal operating conditions. I have taken the fan out of mine and I haven't had any overheating and it sounds really good.
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There isn't a millimeter of space on the Nano head to install anything. It is smaller than any of my pedals(!)vvv wrote:FWIW, I installed fans in some of my amps (Marshalls, Musicman) and my Boogie came with one; I just put a US$2 toggle switch in line with each fan to turn it off for recording.friendlybunny wrote:I have taken the fan out of mine and I haven't had any overheating and it sounds really good.
Normally a fan wouldn't bother me, but this amp isn't very loud at all, so if you are recording semi-clean tones, you will hear the fan. I like how quiet it is... you can use almost any mic with it.
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