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Now I will admit that the Rebel wasn't a good-sounding amp . But the Bandit always was, and still is - the later Transtube versions are even better. I'm not a particular fan of the Classic 30, but that's more because unusually for a Peavey, it's not very well built.
You can easily pick up a Transtube Bandit for about £100 now.
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Peavey Transtube eh? I might have to have a look for one on this basis as I kind of trust ICBM's opinion.
That's right, my Vox DA-5! Either on its own in a small venue or miced up in somewhere bigger. Undoubtedly some of that is because when you play amongst other musicians - like open mic nights - they expect it to sound crap but it genuinely punches well above its weight.
FWIW I totally agree with @ICBM about the Katana 50. An over-rated door stop to go with the hyped up Yamaha THR10 series.
IMHO of course.
Spend time listening to people's favourite sounds and albums on the Music section here and you'll realise how varied our tastes really are. Music is about one thing for me - enjoyment. If you're getting that, you're doing it right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=db54CLdBraQ
Sometimes I think it’s great and sometimes I think it’s shit and sometimes I think I spend too much time pissing about with settings rather than just plugging and playing.
That’s when I look at at Fretboard to see what small valve amps are recommended only to discover that everyone either thinks something is great or the same something is shit!
buy the Katanas when they came out. I never played one nor had any interest. I’d rather have a basic one or two channel solid state if I were to go down that road. I’d take a Quilter for the simplicity though for a non valve amp.
're newer modelling amps the Marshall CODE amps, Vox Valetronix, and the Fender Mustang v2's (Not the latest generation) again all sound so much better than either the Katana or ID60, and I was so impressed with the little CODE 20w that a friend of mine has, I'm seriously thinking of getting one for myself.
I actually find the user interface worse then the tone. Why couldn't they make it so the buttons on the effects could turn the effects off after cycling round the different presets. I find programming a Helix far, far easier.
Thankfully for GA-FC owners there's a way around that. I set up my patch, then use the footswitch to turn off the effects, then save the patch again. So those effects are exactly where they should be if I want to kick them in.
On the plus side there's a newer option to change what those effects knobs actually do. For example the default is for the knobs to do several things at once. But you can set them to do just one, or many. So I changed the boost knob to only change gain, and the delay to only do mix (delay length is set with the tap button).
Another thing I've found is that the modelled dirt pedals are very good. Some of my best tones have been these modelled pedals into the clean channel or the crunch channel on lower gain.