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Best amp for 5-600 dollars

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Im looking for a tube amp, whats the best deal someone could give me on a really good tube amp for this price? (5-600 buks)

im looking for second hand obviously, and i dont care how beat up it is as long as its sweet on the inside and sounds amazing. i dont use drive channels and am looking for fender/vox clean that takes pedals really well.
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:? will 130 watts of tube amp be loud enough though?

you could help ant out though
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I wish that thing was a little more....how do you say...pretty?
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I'd totally recommend a Sovtek MIG-50 if you can find one, big, beautiful clean, and loves pedals, ESPECIALLY a Russian Black Re-issue big muff. The muff sounds amazing!
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rocklander wrote:
:? will 130 watts of tube amp be loud enough though?

you could help ant out though
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What minimum and/or maximum wattage are you talking?

Volume-wise, what does it have compete with (guitar amps, bass amp, drummer etc) and what size audiences would you be playing to?

Combo or head?
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CustomAudioBoutique wrote:What minimum and/or maximum wattage are you talking?

Volume-wise, what does it have compete with (guitar amps, bass amp, drummer etc) and what size audiences would you be playing to?

Combo or head?
im talking 15 (would rather more clean headroom though) to 50 watts.

playing at the micheal fowler centre and the town hall in wellington, size crowd inbetween 500-2000 and has to keep up with drums, bass, another guitar, the works. note the amp will be miked up whenever im playing so has to be loud enough for on stage volume atleast.

preferably a combo however if a good deal on head+cab comes up i could be interested
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700 gets you a blue jr.... well the last i saw on tm atleast

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Even if you were saying 5-6000 dollars, I would still say a Jansen Bassman 50 (10 of them!).

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NZ__Ninja wrote:
im talking 15 (would rather more clean headroom though) to 50 watts.

playing at the micheal fowler centre and the town hall in wellington, size crowd inbetween 500-2000 and has to keep up with drums, bass, another guitar, the works. note the amp will be miked up whenever im playing so has to be loud enough for on stage volume atleast.

preferably a combo however if a good deal on head+cab comes up i could be interested
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They do weigh a lot.

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snitchez wrote:700 gets you a blue jr.... well the last i saw on tm atleast
Yeah probably not enough clean headroom with the blues j, thats the only problem
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A Rockit is the real deal - provided you can bench press 400kg.
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Just keep a keen eye on TM, alot of people feeling the pinch at the 'mo. Been some great bargains over the last week....
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NZ__Ninja wrote:
CustomAudioBoutique wrote:What minimum and/or maximum wattage are you talking?

Volume-wise, what does it have compete with (guitar amps, bass amp, drummer etc) and what size audiences would you be playing to?

Combo or head?
im talking 15 (would rather more clean headroom though) to 50 watts.

playing at the micheal fowler centre and the town hall in wellington, size crowd inbetween 500-2000 and has to keep up with drums, bass, another guitar, the works. note the amp will be miked up whenever im playing so has to be loud enough for on stage volume atleast.

preferably a combo however if a good deal on head+cab comes up i could be interested
If you're mic'd up whats the problem? don't they provide monitoring at these places?
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