Small valve combo

timmysoft

I'm not a fan of the Blackstar sound I find it very bland!

stickyfiddle

I found my VC15 was absolutely fine at home.much less "hair trigger" volume than the VC30

Cacofonix

ICBM said:

timmysoft said:

I should probably mention that the stuff I'm recording for the solo project is kind of anywhere from weezer to mastodon. Any other amps I should be checking out?

Mesa Trem-o-verb.

Thought you hated these?  

ThePrettyDamned

timmysoft;255390" said:

I'm not a fan of the Blackstar sound I find it very bland!

Seems to record well though, and allows silent practice.

I don't find it bland, a bit dark but easily brightened with an eq pedal.

That said, a jet city combo is still my pick for your criteria you can easily get one and replace the cheapo speaker in it. It won't have fender cleans, but it'll sound nice I reckon.

timmysoft

ThePrettyDamned said:

timmysoft;255390" said:

I'm not a fan of the Blackstar sound I find it very bland!

Seems to record well though, and allows silent practice.

I don't find it bland, a bit dark but easily brightened with an eq pedal.

That said, a jet city combo is still my pick for your criteria you can easily get one and replace the cheapo speaker in it. It won't have fender cleans, but it'll sound nice I reckon.

I'm just not keen on the core Blackstar tone, it's a bit nothingy to my ears. I'm leaning towards the laney cub12 or the ibanez tsa15 at the moment

mrn1989

I'm selling a Koch Studiotone which is geared for the studio with emulated output, direct out, headphone out & speaker mute... It has 2 channels and a gain boost

timmysoft

mrn1989 said:

I'm selling a Koch Studiotone which is geared for the studio with emulated output, direct out, headphone out & speaker mute... It has 2 channels and a gain boost

Gotta shift my marshall half stack before I purchase anything

RowlandwithaW

Not sure if you're sorted or not, but I've got a 4W MATAMP valve which I used in my home studio with an Axetrak, which is a speaker in a box with a microphone and an XLR output. Means you can play loud without disturbing the neighbours or di'ing. If you're interested, drop me a message.

jackio

Have you considered the fender scxd champ? I have just leant mine to my cousin, I changed the stock speaker to a weber ceramic blue from Watford valves. It's cheap and great, small, not boxy, great blackface clean and crunches up well. I miss it...

dindude

If your at all a Marshall fan then maybe a DSL5C - 5 watts can be turned down to 1 watt, has emulated output. Have to wade through the on line demos though because most of them sound truely terrible (the Andertons one is the best), but I can testify that in person it's a great little Marshall. Does clean and hi gain and use pedals for the in between bits.