Yes legit quiet! Funnily enough everyone's favourite pair recently did a video on this: -
The point they make that is unique as far as I can see is that everyone has different definitions of home volume and many (including Chappers) don't understand that in many enivornments, home use volume is really very quiet indeed.
I'm not sure I agree with them you need to drop £250 (though obviously Lee can clearly afford to) to get a little praccy amp, and in fact they start at £50 for the Blackstar Fly 3.
However, the comparison to the valve amps is a bit scary, though neither are considered the best in the world, at those volumes they sound sierra hotel india tango.
So the rest of you who, like me, play so quietly when not simply forced to use headphones, how do you fix the problem? My Katana 50 never gets above about 8 o clock on the 1w setting.
I'm a bit like Lee in that I want to play guitar through an amp, not through my PC...
I know a lot of posters here like me are home players with wives and children who are in roughly the same boat, so... thoughts, comments?
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Debating a bigger amp as a lot suggest they play all sorts of valve amps at home with pedals but need to try some.
Edit - I would add the THR sounds great and has reverb/tremolo etc but not a patch on the champ at daytime volumes in terms of warmth, champ with tubescreamer = loveliness.
Main bonus for me with the Vox is that I utilise the Bluetooth on it for all my knob twiddling needs. It sits opposite me, its in the TV cabinet, I'm on the sofa, and I've had it months now without actually turning physical knobs on it at all. I just use either my phone or my ipad to adjust volume and presets (and everything in fact) from an app so I can keep my fat lazy ass planted to the sofa or the floor. Great.
In the same room I have a Bassbreaker 15 for using on the weekend when I want to plug in a few pedals. Yes, its much louder but not as instant a fix.
In the bedroom I persuaded wifey to let me have a Blackstar 1watt valve amp with a 12 inch cab (hard to fit it in but managed it!) - the HT1R sounds very nice but doesnt really get much use, its still really loud and in hindsight I'd probably have been better keeping one of my THRs for that room, although the best place for an amp is on top of a unit where its easier to use Bluetooth than reach up and twiddle knobs.....so if I could do it again Id love to have a second Vox Adio there!
Here's hoping Vox make a new one that doesnt look so shit, then I'd be tempted to get it and lose the Blackstar.
Other than that, I was considering getting a Boss Katana Mini or something. But I'd rather have an almost full sound in headphones than a quiet practice amp.
I'm sure there are other one or two watt valve amps out there.
Pedalboard into THR10 with headphones is my standard practice regimen. Laptop plugged in via USB for backing tracks, and for recording my practice sessions.
Not very rock n roll but the best solution for me.
Well, I did love it until my 2 year old ripped it apart with his bare hands. So not the most durable but whilst it was alive I never got any noise complaints from the wife or kids
Are the guts of the thing salvageable? You could retrofit into a chic Silk Cut pack, or similar?
I’ll just buy a new one with the birthday money his Grandparents gave him...that’ll teach him!