Favourite Amp Company?

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Re: Favourite Amp Company?

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I thought Kemper was a computer company.

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Single coil wrote:I had a 410 classic 50.
It hated pedals and was either too scooped or too harsh. Weird as.
Whhaaaattt???? Hated pedals? My one LOVED them.

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If there’s any amp that works best with just a guitar and a cable going into it (that isn’t an ac15), it’s a classic 50 410.
At that stage I had my beloved sd1 and a maxon od808.
Neither of them sounded much better than plugging your headphones into an expensive tin of cat food.
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Post by Molly »

mr_sooty wrote:I thought Kemper was a computer company.
Amplfies a guitar signal so must be an amplifier.

Appreciate I'm in the honeymoon period with this but if early impressions are anything to go by I've bought my last valve.

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Molly wrote:
mr_sooty wrote:I thought Kemper was a computer company.
Amplfies a guitar signal so must be an amplifier.

Appreciate I'm in the honeymoon period with this but if early impressions are anything to go by I've bought my last valve.
I’m still super happy with mine, though I’ve not totally weaned myself off tubes. Tube amps are great for when you feel like dragging a really heavy and clumsy box around. ;-)

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olegmcnoleg wrote:Tube amps are great for when you feel like dragging a really heavy and clumsy box around. ;-)
as apposed to lugging around a those powered speaker things to run the kemper through?
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willow13 wrote:
olegmcnoleg wrote:Tube amps are great for when you feel like dragging a really heavy and clumsy box around. ;-)
as apposed to lugging around a those powered speaker things to run the kemper through?
Perhaps, for some. I’m happy just to plug directly into the PA, as long as the soundman* can give me some foldback.

* usually that’s me as well!

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Molly wrote:
mr_sooty wrote:I thought Kemper was a computer company.
Amplfies a guitar signal so must be an amplifier.

Appreciate I'm in the honeymoon period with this but if early impressions are anything to go by I've bought my last valve.
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mr_sooty wrote:I thought Kemper was a computer company.
I thought it was an appliance company? Don't they make toasters or something? :crazy:
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Frey wrote:
jaxman16 wrote:Peavey for me! The 5150 is the bees knees
I could live with just a Classic 30. Has to be the old aestetics though!
I've had a C30 for several years now. The only thing I don't like is it's weight. I have it on the channel that bypasses the tone controls and have never been game to max out the volume even with brass and synth in the lineup. I got it second hand. I got a 5150 quad second hand for messing around at home with the C30, it's stupidly heavy so has never been to a gig with me.

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I think my favourite amp company now is BOSS .... the Kat has been in the house for over a year and I think I love it more now than at any other point of ownership
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Re: Favourite Amp Company?

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Jet City.

Brought my first tube amp about 2 years ago, a JCA 22h. Cool little amp, Built like a brick (better than most Marshalls these days) and was infinitely better sounding than the shitty mustang modeler I was using. So I was stoked
Joined the facebook group and about 9 months or so later a fella Bryce became in partnership with Doug (Jet City owner) and offered DIY mod kits for all available JC amps on the market.
I got in contact with him and said I wanted a few things changed (the amp sounded awesome anyway but OCD was kicking in)
Started with a full signal cap change, then a depth and Negative feedback control, then vox high cut control and also some more cap changes to tighten up the low end and removed a bit of fizz. I've developed quite a cool Facebook messenger friendship with Bryce. We talk all the time and he helps with advice on anything I want changed on my amp. The guy is a wizard, he knows his shit!
Fast forward to now, my amp is completely different to stock and I don't regret it at all tbh. Transformer upgrade and full tonal circuit upgrade now too. Channel one is Marshall AFD voiced with a Plexi switch to drop out a gain stage and channel 2 is S.I.R 36.
His website has a host of mods you can go for, ranging from Fender cleans to Friedman to Bogner to more modern stuff like Diezel etc.
https://www.epic-tone.com/online-store
I'll probably never buy a new Friedman, but I can get a 100 watt Jet City and mod it to a Friedman for about $1200 all up.
Anyway, really impressed with Jet City service and build quality of their amps. Their amps have balls too. Very loud 20 watters.
Just wish the Rock shop still had them available.

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