Ever been surpised by an amp?

ddlooping

ROOG said:

Sorry every time I see this topic I picture an amp jumping out of a cupboard at me.

Yeah perhaps it is just me.

No, ROOG, it is not just you, there has been a few jokes along the same line already.

ICBM

I've certainly been shocked by quite a few.

:-O

ROOG

"SORRY" again

impmann

Fender Sidekick 30/35... very surprising little amp, that one! Really great sound... so good, I've just gone out and bought one.

imalone

I've got this little Vox Amplug headphone amp, the AC30 one.
It's pretty cheap and really for travelling or something to use late at night if you can't be bothered going to get something bigger just to plug in headphones.
But, when the battery gets to just the right level...
It makes a ghostly moaning noise. That was pretty surprising.

thecolourbox

I was really pleasantly surprised by the cleans and slight breakup sound of the Backstar HT5 in the shop, sadly it's sounded like turd ever since but hey ho

Pyroman

  To reiterate a comment from another thread:

 Peavey Classic 30.  I demo'd one a year or so ago, and while it sounded good, it didn't make me sit up and take notice.

 I used one a couple of days ago, to demo some pedals, and WOW- I couldn't believe how good it sounded!  All the warm cleans and edge of breakup I wanted.  Plenty of low end grunt, etc- and that's WITHOUT the Plimsoul I was supposed to be demoing.  The C30/ P90 neck p/u / Plimsoul combination damn near gave me wood.

  To be fair, the first time I used a Strat- and got LOTS of clean, and not so much warmth.  I gave up on trying to push it, as it was getting ridiculously loud.  I will say that this EL84 amp does have a very nice clean with a Strat.

  This time, I used an LP style guitar ( Schecter Solo Standard 6, and a Solo Special), and got a tone machine...  I guess this amp is made for humbuckers and P90's.

  Honestly, I'm still surprising myself with the sounds I can get with my Mustang III.  Doesn't matter what guitar I use either- the sss Strat, the hh Strat, the widdly widdly Ibanez, the Tele, or the new Schecter.  The amp loves them all, and rewards me with really great sounds w/o much effort.  It even makes my cheapie Affinity sound pretty decent.  I mainly content myself with the '59 Bassman,  AC30, and Plexi models, but I amazed myself with the '57 Deluxe yesterday.

grungebob

I don't know much about amps and you could argue I still don't judging from the amps I've owned over the years (fender London,carlsbro fat boy,mesa F50, orange rocker and now a Line 6 DT25) but I recently went to demo a jazzmaster and all they had valve wise was a small laney single channel thing and it sounded so so good on the neck pickup that I'm tempted to sell the dt to get one

bertie

about 1999,  bought a tweed Blues Junior (blind on line),   I was surprised how shit it was, considering all the hype