Feel free to laugh at my tiny £200 (including cab) amp, but I played tonight for 40 people at the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden* and I had the thing at less than 9 o'clock on the volume and it was close to being too loud for the venue. How can it be so tiny and so loud?
It sounds brilliant, by the way. It's missing fx send and return and it has no onboard reverb and just high and low knobs but there's only so much you can fit, I guess. I'd describe the sound as Fender tube clean. Not exaggerating on the tube bit either as the ZT Lunchbox sounds very solid state by comparison.
If it fits your music, then I heartily recommend this amp. I haven't tried the other versions as my intention was always to do the grit through pedals anyway.
* - I guess that means I'm a West End musician now?
BTW, I bought the guitar in this forum from
@prudd
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The guitar is a Peerless Manhattan.
My experience of poetry cafes is that they ALL need more stoner/doom metal riffing.
The cab is probably pretty efficient too, despite only having an 8” speaker. Traditionally these were pretty weedy when found in typical 10W practice amps, but small-speaker technology has improved, both for volume and tone.
This sort of thing is the future. Bass players have been using tiny Class D/SMPS amps with highly efficient small speakers for some time now - I’ve got a 500W 1x10” combo which isn’t a lot bigger than your rig. The entire amp is smaller and lighter than the 30W valve *head* the guitarist in my band uses...
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