Hah, yup! Haven’t been since pre-Covid but damn their food is delicious. Love Portland ME, wouldn’t mind living there for a summer some time.Jonesie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 3:02 pmSo I love Ampegs and have an old jet myself. But I need to give props for the Rose Foods tote bag. Holy fucking shit their bagels.garyfanclub wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:57 amYep, 15W is a sweet spot for me. Cringe at the idea of playing most amps over 20W; usually way too loud and stiff feeling. Love a softer, spongier attack for my style.
An 67 SG Special into this 61 Reverberocket has been my go-to for a while now. Love this damn thing, fat and glassy, and absolutely rips once you get the volume past half way.
Usually paired with a volume pedal, a DMM and Percolator clone for live stuff - covers all the bases for me! It *does* need to be mic'd, it's not particularly loud in its own right.
Go for it, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. Seems like we’ve got similar tastes tonally, so I think you’ll like the midrange vibe on this amp. Not really the same as an old Ampeg, but a nice variation of muscular clean.hexes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 2:55 pmFunny, I was just simulating tone stacks and wanted to try something very similar to that traynor while I build a princeton reverb for a friend. I haven’t had many el84 amps.
I do love my V series ampegs. I did use my V2 as a bass amp when recording with a surf band for that growl. v4 and vt40 on guitar were used primarily for loud surf music, or effects heavy big loud instrumental space-rock. lately I’ve gotten back into the blue diamond era stuff and I play much differently these days. my love of small amps is a recent one.
Mine’s got a replacement Pyle driver speaker, so not sure how that’s impacting how it’d sound otherwise, but I dig it. Some have mentioned having to use bizarre EQ setting to get it to sound good, but that hasn’t been my experience; I’m just rolling with noon on treble and bass.
That said, I’ve barely used the treble boost circuit, which absolutely peels paint off the walls (no go for me), so who knows, YMMV.
I’ve held off on buying a VT40 a couple times, back when they were like $400, and only *kind of* regret it. Realistically there’s absolutely no where I’d be able to use that nowadays, hah! The VT-era Gemini is already brutally overkill for almost any band I’m playing with now, but they all just look *so cooooool*.