What kind of Tubes are in it?Pacafeliz wrote:I picked up one of these VS heads a couple weeks ago, über-cheap cuz of rough shape. But the tone is to die for!!! I was playing the Explorer thru this one and an old 4x12 yesterday - all of a sudden, 2 hours had passed! It's so versatile, and the Valve Sound thing is glorious!!!UlricvonCatalyst wrote:I stumbled across the Buzzcocks guitar sound a while back more or less by accident while messing around with my H/H V-S Musician. The IC100 is great too, but for my money the V-S is the one if you want the amp, rather than pedals, to bring the dirt. That said, I was playing my IC100 through a Marshall 4x12 at the weekend and it roared nicely even without an OD pedal in the chain.repoman wrote:A SS amp that I'd like to get my hands on is a H&H IC100, Marc Bolan used them a lot. I think the Buzzcocks guy and Yngwie Malmsteen used em too.
Any solid staters here?
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NO TUBES! it's 100% solid state. the Valve Sound is a "simulator" of tube sounds.Larsongs wrote: What kind of Tubes are in it?
i'll try to make a video demo over the weekend.
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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This is a long thread, so this has probably been said already, but the clarity of transistor amps is way way underrated by the general guitar world.
My current go to amp is a yamaha RA50 rotary, and I can get exactly what I need from it- good variety of tones, including nasty distortion with my colorsound powerboost in front of it.
Valve stuff, well one mans 'warm' is another mans 'dull'.
My current go to amp is a yamaha RA50 rotary, and I can get exactly what I need from it- good variety of tones, including nasty distortion with my colorsound powerboost in front of it.
Valve stuff, well one mans 'warm' is another mans 'dull'.
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It's like, 20-30 watts SS, but stupid loud through that 1x12" speaker. Really clean, and comes with tremolo and reverb. Need to get the tank fixed on that thing though.rhythmjones wrote:Tell me about the Ace Tone!loveinathens wrote:.
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I picked up a boss katana after playing with my sisters after she bought it. I was really impressed so I picked one up to try and it blew my fully Mod'd billm fender blues Jr in cleans. I ran it for a while I'm a stereo setup with my beloved Ac10 and it was great, I got a lot of crap for having a solid state amp in the rig but it sounded good and of course it was reliable and had lots of clean headroom which is what I wanted...and it was cheap. Recently replaced everything with a Helix but I still have the katana, plan on upgrading to the katana 100 to use as a power amp / cab for my Helix in the future.
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Best amp ever, sold all my Fender and Marshall amps after i got this one:
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Still swear by my Vox Pathfinder 15R - want to get another to go stereo
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I use an 80's Roland JC-55 for practicing at home - it's pretty stiff and unforgiving, and I like to think that makes me focus on technique a bit more than I would with an amp that sounds good no matter how poorly I'm playing.
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In lieu of snagging a TS-50B locally on the cheap...
Who out there is using a Rusty Box/ss power amp combo? Likely going to piece one together when I can decide on a speaker/cab to share for bass and guitar.
Who out there is using a Rusty Box/ss power amp combo? Likely going to piece one together when I can decide on a speaker/cab to share for bass and guitar.
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the other day i needed another smaller combo for my other band project (2-man noise electro thing), and i can't haul along the big 2x12ers and so on.
saw an ad for a wonderful old Roland Cube 40 for 100 euro. went there, tried it out, haggled it down to 60.
because it had a buzzing speaker i got a used Weber one for it (another 50 euro), but now i have one hell of a cool high-quality portable amp!
coolest thing is, it's really "aged" and just about as old as me! ('79)
saw an ad for a wonderful old Roland Cube 40 for 100 euro. went there, tried it out, haggled it down to 60.
because it had a buzzing speaker i got a used Weber one for it (another 50 euro), but now i have one hell of a cool high-quality portable amp!
coolest thing is, it's really "aged" and just about as old as me! ('79)
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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Those are great amps - I grew up flat-sharing with one of those and loved its portability compared to the AC30 head and cabinet I had at the time. The chorus and reverb were a godsend too - just about everything on our demos went through that little amp. Would love to find one at the right price, but they're surprisingly thin on the ground these days.Pacafeliz wrote:the other day i needed another smaller combo for my other band project (2-man noise electro thing), and i can't haul along the big 2x12ers and so on.
saw an ad for a wonderful old Roland Cube 40 for 100 euro. went there, tried it out, haggled it down to 60.
because it had a buzzing speaker i got a used Weber one for it (another 50 euro), but now i have one hell of a cool high-quality portable amp!
coolest thing is, it's really "aged" and just about as old as me! ('79)
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me.
forever and ever.
Orange CR120H, Tech 21 Trademark 10, and Orange 20RT.
i want ANOTHER CR120H.
forever and ever.
Orange CR120H, Tech 21 Trademark 10, and Orange 20RT.
i want ANOTHER CR120H.
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For my shop I use an older Fender red knob ultimate chorus amp as well as an older small Crate SS amp, easier than firing up tube amps which I don't really want to for short periods of time, both the SS amps sound OK for the purpose of clients trying out guitars, as far as for gigging with the Fender red knob is super clean and is a combo and takes pedals well ,other than this I really don't do SS amps per say.
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My Tech always has a little SS Amp to use when I check out my Guitars after he works on them. I understand the thinking behind it but I'm not getting to really hear the results of the work I'm hoping for thru those crappy sounding SS Amps.
I have to take it home, plug it into my Tube Amps & hope for the best.
Lars
I have to take it home, plug it into my Tube Amps & hope for the best.
Lars