One amp to rule them all?

daveww

koneguitarist said:

Carr slant v 6 combo is compact, sounds great clean or OD, loud enough to gig with noisy drummer, but still sounds sweet at home volumes. One for sale on here.

I was never quite happy with it. Yes,could get lots of great sounds but when playing live I was never satisfied and couldn't quite tweak it it to suit the room. Lots of twiddling and felt like I was cheating somehow.

ROOG

TheDarkLord said:

No love for Tone King on here I see?

Love the demos of Metropolitan, but that price tag puts it out of my range

octatonic

Check out 65 Amps Soho High Powered.

It has one of the best clean tones known to man.

crunchman

TheDarkLord said:

I have just noticed that the AC15 Hand Wired has a half power switch?  Hmmmm.  This could be an option.

A guitarist in a band I was in once had an old AC 30 ..... and it was so loud it hurt my head.  He couldn't really get it on its mojo without cranking it, which was never really suitable in the pubs we played.  So he put pedals in front of it and/or used an attenuator - which negated the tone of the amp a bit.

So ..... I'm figuring an AC15 hand wired might be an option?

How does it achieve this?  If it's a pentode/triode switch it will affect the tone.  The half power tone would be muddier than the normal sound.

The best low volume sounds I have heard have been with power scaling that drops the voltage.  My Lazy J 20 with power scaling sounds better at low volumes than my 5 Watt amps - yet with the 6L6s and Celestion Blue it can get pretty loud if you need it to.  I said it before, but you really should check out the Lazy J.

mmaatt25

I've recently got a Mesa Express 5:50+ and that covers a lot of ground. The only thing I would change on this amp is the the clean and crunch are on the same "channel" so I'm using the blues channel for my clean sound. The clean and the crunch are fantastic on this amp.

ICBM

mmaatt25 said:

I've recently got a Mesa Express 5:50+ and that covers a lot of ground. The only thing I would change on this amp is the the clean and crunch are on the same "channel" so I'm using the blues channel for my clean sound. The clean and the crunch are fantastic on this amp.

It's a shame they didn't use the 'channel cloning' idea from the early Dual Rectifier and Trem-o-verb - you can essentially swap the voicing on each channel so either the Vintage High Gain on the same channel as the clean becomes Modern, or vice versa on the other channel - that way you can footswitch between any two of the modes. Presumably that would have put the cost up too much on the Express though.

maw4neu

The blackstar artisan 15 takes some beating . . Simple and versatile and they sound awesome . . I love mine :-)

stickyfiddle

mmaatt25 said:

I've recently got a Mesa Express 5:50+ and that covers a lot of ground. The only thing I would change on this amp is the the clean and crunch are on the same "channel" so I'm using the blues channel for my clean sound. The clean and the crunch are fantastic on this amp.

Yeah, same here with the 5:25. The best clean is on Blues and the best crunch is, appropriately enough, on Crunch.

TheDarkLord

I think my answer to this is a Vox AC15HW1. Button may well have been pressed by the time you read this.  I know it is not the absolutely most flexible amp - but it has a lot of things going for it.

And it's kinda cool.