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Makinglemonade
Username: Makinglemonade
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 10:38 pm: | |
This is a great forum and from reading these threads I can tell there are a lot of owners with some astonishing equipment and while I'd love to be able to aford a very expensive amplifier but I can only budjet a Maximum of $450-$550 for a tube or valve amp. I play blues, some jazz and some fusion and I love tube sound. I play only for my own and my friends enjoyment so volume is not a consideration but depth and crispnes of tone is. Have you any recomendations?? Thank you in advance, Steve |
Funkle
Username: Funkle
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 1:33 am: | |
It's not a tube amp, but I'm in love with my Yamaha DG80-112. It's a versatile 8 channel amp, and it's perfect for fusion (whatever that means), and has a decent Jazz tone. And you don't have to crank it to 140dB to get buttery smooth distortion.
-Sven |
Guitartim
Username: Guitartim
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 10:21 am: | |
Fender has some nice tube amps in your price range (Blues Jr. is my personal favorite little Fender)and a 5 year warranty; Also smaller tube'd Peavey's are very inexpensive and cool too.
Lot's to choose from so look for the features that you want and try to play as many as you can beforehand. Good hunting.
Tim |
Roadartstar
Username: Roadartstar
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 11:30 am: | |
here are some suggestions
Traynor YVC40 or YCV20 great tube sound
Tech 21 trademark 60 nice amp non tube though great tube sounds versatile and in your range
peavey classic tube 399 i think getting good reviews solid tube amps these days
for jazz an old Roland JC120 might be in your range to however the distortion not so great solid state amp here but incredible clean chorus jazz tone
just some alternatives!
good luck with your search |
Benito1300
Username: Benito1300
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 11:51 am: | |
i'll have to agree with guitartim here. i've got a fender hot rod deluxe tube amp that's 40 watts with one 12" speaker and it works really great. i got mine used, so it was only $400 or so. a new one from musicians friend looks to be around $600.
it's a great amp for the bluesy kinda stuff i play and is the perfect companion for my AS73.
it'd probably do jazz just fine too, that's just not really my thing, i guess. |
Aroee
Username: Aroee
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 11:21 am: | |
I'll second the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe which I was using for years in all kinds of settings and I was always pleased. It has a round, warm tube tone which is well suited for jazz and blues/rock. Upgrade the tubes and the speaker for even better sounds but it does sound good right out of the box. The second chn. is not the greatest so I added a tubescreamer for the rock stuff. |
Craigjc
Username: Craigjc
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 11:57 am: | |
I own a Hot Rod Deluxe and just replaced the preamp tubes with JJ/Telsa. V1=ECC83S, V2=ECC832, V3=ECC83S-balanced. It made a HUGE difference in the amp. Now it sounds how a Fender should and the second channel is actually useable. Power tubes are next, but I have to wait for my amp tech to come back from vacation. Bob at Eurotubes.com has entire retube kits for this amp which are designed to achieve certain goals (blues, high gain, etc...). Highly recommended. Advice: always the amp rebiased if you replace the power tubes, regardless of what anyone says.
I also played a used Peavey Classic 50 (2x12) yesterday and it sounded great. The price on that was $495. I'd expect to be able to get the amp (with negotiation) for $400 to $450. |
Makinglemonade
Username: Makinglemonade
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 9:07 pm: | |
Hi everybody and thanks for all thr great recomendeatin. I opted for the YCV20 in wine red. I comes eith a celestion greenback. I can't tell you how pleased I am with this beautiful amp. It is soooooooooo clean. I does many other things very well also. I am delighted. Thanks to all who posted and gave me great ideas. Thanks again, Steve |
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