Xmas present help...

samzadgan

So its Xmas, and am thinking of adding an amp to my set up.

I wanted a smallish head and maybe a 1x12 cab (or may just use current 2x12).

the ones I'm looking at are VHT 12/20 and the Ampeg GVT 15w...i like the idea of a S/H Orange Thunder 30, but not sure how much low-end it will give with those EL84's.

I basically need a single channel amp as i play wth fuzz, so most of my dirt sounds come from pedals.

Any ideas on any other heads?

Budget is about £300 max, low wattage...with a dark sounding clean tone.

ThePrettyDamned

Mooer little monster *ahem*

Actually, it can be quite warm, but I wouldn't say 'dark' as such... 

Those ampeg ones are pretty dark (well, er...Muddy).  But my muddy might be your warm and dark?

samzadgan

i would love to try the ampeg...and the VHT...only thing i'm going on is spec and youtube videos.

The one reason i like the VHT is the self biasing ability to put in 6L6/EL34...

with Biasing...can one put EL34 into an EL84 amp? is that possible and costly?

Dave_Mc

^ el84s use different number of pins (9 instead of the more usual 8), so no, at least not without massive mods. you can get adaptors to use el84s in octal socket amps, but i'm not sure I've seen anything to let you do it the other way round.

samzadgan

thanks mate...i did some research since posting that, and yeah, its not worth the mod.

the reason i was thinking about that was because I saw a second hand Orange TH30.

i need to look at that Mooer little monster as well

Dave_Mc

no problem. and yeah unless you were capable of doing it yourself it'd be a false economy.

ThePrettyDamned

samzadgan;97102" said:

thanks mate...i did some research since posting that, and yeah, its not worth the mod.



the reason i was thinking about that was because I saw a second hand Orange TH30.



i need to look at that Mooer little monster as well

Truth be told mate, as much as I'm looking to sell it, it's a 5 watt el84 amp. Might not be what you're after! It is a warm sounding amp, but it isn't what I would consider dark.

The darkest sounding clean amp ive heard would be the blackstar ID.

Edit: if you happen to pass Cambridgeshire, I'll let you try it out.