Ok so currently i am on the hunt for a new small gigging combo.
I have very few specs that i need, such as it being a 1x12, somewhere around 20 watts or 15 if it has quite a lot of clean headroom, smallish cab, lightweight if i can help it, and with EL84s.
So obviously i have seen the popular options like the Fender blues junior or bassbreaker 15, Blackstar HT20, Vox AC15, Hughes and Kettner tubemeister 18 twelve, but i like to look at alllll of my options first
So do any of you good people know of anything that will fit the bill that i might not have come across?
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Regarding the Blues Junior I honestly don't understand all the negativity and snobbery towards them. Some of the best musicians I know use them regularly for smaller gigs (players that are on some of the biggest gigs, not hobbyist). Granted they still take their Kemper or boutique amps out for bigger gigs, but the Blues Junior sounds great if you know what you're doing with it (and aren't expecting it to do the Mesa Rectifier thing).
Yerasov GTA15, you could have two.
My dislike of them is largely for this sort of thing - the tone is a matter of taste (although I do find them boxy and one-dimensional, I admit), but the build quality is a more objective issue. This failure is caused by very poor board layout.
My dislike of them isn't snobbery, it's because I think they are a not very well-designed, fairly poorly-built, and very overpriced amp for what they are. Unlike its bigger brother the Hotrod Deluxe - which is less than 50% more expensive but has almost three times the power, roughly twice the features, and is noticeably better-made. If the Blues Junior was less than half the price of the Hotrod that would be closer to its real value.
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