Anyone playing around with a small 5-20 watt tube amp?

[Nitro Express]

I bought a Epiphone Valve Jr. combo about two years and did the Mercury Magnetics mod on it and it's one of my favorite amps. It sounds great with a Strat and takes peddles well. I play my bass through it and it sounds great with that. It even gets the roar from my Jack Casady signature. I've dimed it and ran it into a load box, EQ'd the line signal and then run it through a Carvin power amp and it sounds like an old Marshall. With some delay and pushing the front a tad with an overdrive you can get a VH sound happening. You get that same cranked amp vibe without all the volume of a big head. I love the sound of an EL-84 clipping. They sound close to an EL-34 but without the volume.

[jhale667]

I've got my Boogie switched down to 15 watts, does that count? :hee:

I do kinda want a Mercury Magnetics-modded Valve Jr. though...those things kick ass....even without a pedal in front of it...;)

[Nitro Express]

That they do. Mine really growls when dimed. It also sounds great clean. I actually dime it and put it in a closet and it sounds great without rattling my wife's doll collection around the display case. LOL!

[GAR]

"dimed" = fuckin' gay..

I used to practice downstairs with a half-stack Marshall 74 JMP / 25w Celestion 4x12: and at low volume, it basically SUCKED.

So what I did was take my 78 Fender Vibrochamp speaker out, into the Altair Power Attenuator, direct out from that and into the Marshall input with Channel 1 and 2 "jumpered" or running a small patch cord between inputs.

That was a great sound, from the Vibro Champ. I recommend it as a great value; only about 7 watts, and can be had around $150-250 private party in silverface panel. Blackface Vibro champs go for about double or more.

It's a great amp, but it suffers from the stock 6" speaker sucks - but the cabinet is so small the best thing one can do is rig a patch-between speaker output and speaker so one can plug into a 4x12 with Celestions

[Diamondjimi]

"GAR" = fuckin' gay..

I used to practice downstairs with a half-stack Marshall 74 JMP / 25w Celestion 4x12: and at low volume, it basically SUCKED.

So what I did was take my 78 Fender Vibrochamp speaker out, into the Altair Power Attenuator, direct out from that and into the Marshall input with Channel 1 and 2 "jumpered" or running a small patch cord between inputs.

That was a great sound, from the Vibro Champ. I recommend it as a great value; only about 7 watts, and can be had around $150-250 private party in silverface panel. Blackface Vibro champs go for about double or more.

It's a great amp, but it suffers from the stock 6" speaker sucks - but the cabinet is so small the best thing one can do is rig a patch-between speaker output and speaker so one can plug into a 4x12 with Celestions

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/ssj2raider/STFU%20and%20Other/c7924ec9.jpg

[GAR]

I quit using that STFU in 2005.. and you saved it to your photobucket and think I care?

April Fool, motherfucker.

[Diamondjimi]

Eat shit, Faggy!

[jhale667]

I quit using that STFU in 2005..

Perhaps you'd prefer this one.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h217/jhale667/Insult%20comic/stfu2.jpg



April Fool, motherfucker.

Again, keep your mom off the streets, then no one will have a chance to fuck her...

[GAR]

So seldom on this site does one see a Moderator both inactively discipline a hijacked thread, but continue the hijacking with pix from his owned family album.

[jhale667]

Reminding you to STFU does not a "hijack" make, spunk-guzzler. ;)

[Hardrock69]

I quit using that STFU in 2005.. and you saved it to your photobucket and think I care?

April Fool, motherfucker.


Telling you to SHUT THE FUCK UP is a timeless activity, Garfuckle.

[jhale667]

And then there's always the THD Hotplate...;)

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/regular/9/2/2/567922.jpg

[GAR]

Telling you to SHUT THE FUCK UP is a timeless activity.

With twice my post count in half the time registered, anything you do online is a waste of time so don't blame your neurosis on me.

Quizzling.

[GAR]

And then there's always the THD Hotplate...;)

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/regular/9/2/2/567922.jpg

I recommend attenuators for any amp, even the smallwatters.

[jhale667]

I recommend attenuators for any amp, even the smallwatters.

I tend to agree...must be a sign of the apocalypse....:biggrin:


With twice my post count in half the time registered, anything you do online is a waste of time so don't blame your neurosis on me.

Quizzling.

It ain't about numbers, or the fact that you're old...:lmao:

[GAR]

Anytime you wanna join in on-topic Jay without buttsexing your friends posts is welcome.