Why I Sold My Amps - Here's the Few I Kept
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So I got asked to do a video of my Amp Collection - but...it's not quite like it used to be...Oh I forgot the Henriksen Bud didn't I.
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I love that all your videos has that vibe and feel like im just sitting by the floor chatting with a friend, i feel like we've been friends for a long long time
Your red Strat at the end, THAT'S the best sound I've heard you get, BY FAR. I would enjoy hearing more of that sweet, dynamic, and dimensional tone. It was SO GOOD, kudos!
That outro was by far my favorite playing that I've heard you do. Great feel!
You should invite Jake to come on one of your videos. You talk about him and his collection of gear all the time - it might be interesting to hear from him sometime.
Love that out-tro, John. Quite tasty. Pretty much as cool as anything I've heard you do. Well done.
Nice bluesy outro John! I have a Fender Twin Reverb that stays downstairs at my house for the same reason you stated! My BACK! Hope your family is all well. God bless you.
Lovely outro ... a masterclass for me that I will watch many times. I could hear the 12" clarity and oomph at the beginning through my good monitors. When it comes to "practice" amps, this septuagenarian who now lives in a quiet neigborhood is grateful for my pedal platform that is an attenuated Vox nutube with a 12" that I typically sit 4 feet away from complemented by a HXstomp and Iridium, both thanks to your reviews. There was a time that I had a basement music room with an older silverface DR that I ran simultaneously with an AC15. With a Mesa Boogie V-twin pedal in front of the DR...those were the days. In a different room I have a older THR here. If you do do the practice amp comparison, the advice I would give is that placement, typically not in your face, matters hugely. If the THR is in a corner (maybe somewhat elevated even) and I stand 5-6ft away, it is a delight. Sorry for the rambling...but I am in your debt for opening so many sonic doors.
Wow what a play out stunning ...many thanks for some great 'real world' advice
I did the same thing. I sold all my amps except for my Synergy amp head, a ToneX w/ a bunch of captures, and a Boss Katana head just for a portable practice amp (since it has a built in speaker and is powerful enough to gig with as well)
I just kept my cabinet and get everything else I need from the various Synergy modules and pedals, either mic’d up or direct to DI w/ IRs. So much simpler than using my old amp switcher with cables everywhere.
OMG! That Fender amp at the end sounds gorgeous!!
Would be really interested to see how close you could come to that with a modeler?
It looks like uh.. "Tokai" strat ...?
@bongo2565 sorry for any confusion. I was talking about the amp, not the guitar, hence the modeler remark I made 😉
👍 Nothing to be sorry..! Amp or Fender or Tokai.. John always nails the tone..!!
I think we are all a little curious how Jake faired with the Super Reverb and what he did and didn’t like. When adding pedal gain at higher volume can be troublesome and not the right break up we generally look for.
Princeton. With a 12” for me!
I narrowed my amp collection down two amps and one modeler. My clean pedal platform is a boutique Princeton hand-wired clone that has a 1x12 speaker. This is great for jams, teaching, small gigs, recording, and is a no hassle setup. My "rock and blues" amp is a Friedman Smallbox. It has two channels: 1. Plexi and 2. a hot-rodded JCM 800. At 50 watts with a great master volume, it is a very versatile amplifier. My sole modeler is the HX Stomp.
These three pieces of kit complement one another. For example, I like using the Stomp in 4 CM to integrate its preamps into the FX loop of the Smallbox. This arrangement lets me turn the Smallbox's Plexi channel into a "virtual" three channel amp. My first snapshot is the Smallbox (no HX preamps), which is set to the edge of break up. The second snapshot uses the Stomp Brit Trem preamp for a bit more gain and edge. Lastly, snapshot 3 the is Brit Jumped preamp, which is vintage, dirty lead sound -- think British blues. For effects, I use analog drive and modulation pedals; however, I get delay and reverb from the Stomp. For electric guitars, I have a les paul, a telecaster, a strat, and a 355. If I cannot get sound with all this stuff, I need to rethink things,. Buying more kit is not the answer.
John, you get amazing tones out of the modeling gear. I have tried to profit from the example, with limited success. My amps - mostly vintage Fenders from 1963-67, are all very small and do the job for me and allow me to spend more time on my playing. One other advantage of these small vintage amps - they continue to increase in value, whereas the digital stuff becomes obsolete. Anyway, keep the videos coming!
Digital stuff becoming obsolete is just good marketing. Sure new and “better” stuff comes along but, if you like your sound just stick with the unit. I still use a Gt-1 for live stuff 🤷🏽♂️
I keep 2 tube amps and a 1x12 cab. The amps are a Marshall JVM1h (1 watt head) which I can crank at home. When I want to get louder, I have a Victory Countess. For recording, I go direct to the computer with a Line 6 Helix. I found this channel searching for ways to dial in better tones on the Helix.
When it comes down to guitar tone, your tube amp videos have far superior tone.
I don't dislike your modelling stuff, I use a lot of those myself for convenience. But today was a treat tonewise
I've been partial to your California tweed myself.
Would be very interested in your practice amp video. Good stuff.
Amazing sounds available from both modellers and amps/cabs. I mostly play Helix Native or Scuffham through 5 inch monitors when at home. I do still love the feel of an amp with bigger speakers in the room. Having options like we sinks is amazing.
I’ve sold all of my amps and settled on a fender supersonic custom shop with a vintage 30, it’s got everything in one. I had a ‘67 super reverb, vox ac30/tb 6, and a few others. The clean channel on the supersonic has both a Vibrolux and a Bassman tone stack and the burn channel does everything from a slightly broken up deluxe to a full blown Mesa. I use pedals to really taylor the sound, an original Guv’nor and a UA ruby. I’ve got everything I need in that amp and it does them all incredibly.
Best multi-channel amps I've owned: Suhr PT-100 and Bogner 20th Anni Shiva (KT88). Best clean to clean-break-up: Two Rock Studio Pro 35. Best Clean: '71 Fender Twin. Gorgeous amps.
Now that I'm a home player: Neural Bea and Petrucci for drive and a MixWave Milkman Creamer for clean (thanks to your demo) which replaced the Neural Cory Wong as my clean.
Playing my Fractal FM9 nearly exclusively, I decided to keep one Tube Amp. It was a hard decision between the Brunetti Mercury 1 Head and the Naylor Super Club 38 and I chose the latter one, because it is less obtainable. Both of them are phenomenal Single-channel-Amps without any harsh highs or mids that have a great Mastervolume and can be used as a clean pedal-plattform with a lot of headroom or quite gainy with excellent reaction to the guitar-Volume-knob. I recommend trying both of them out.
I had a chance to play Naylor Super Club 38 (2x10s and 1x12) last year at Carter's Vintage here in Nashville and 100% regret not grabbing it.
The red-Strat sound is superb. 👌
I would have guessed the intro was recorded on a modeller! I found the Deluxe Reverb a great gigging amp but a little short on headroom in larger venues. Always sounded great, sits nicely in a band mix and fairly portable.
I have a few amps I am going to sell. I primarily use a Quad Cortex because it is easy to fire up and plug into, it is compact, it has pretty much every thing I need onboard including a great looper, and it sounds great through my desk monitors. The QC stays. The one tube amp I would keep is pretty interesting. It is a Bartel Sugarland by Mark Bartel, former Tone King guru. It is designed to to give you a blackface sound, a tweed sound, a plexi, and a Vox sound just by adjusting the tone and bass controls. I can't vouch as to the accuracy of this, but it sounds awesome. Reverb and vibrato/tremolo are not part of the Sugarland, so you need a pedal(s) for that. Great video!
And it has a master volume
One additional practice amp to consider for the shoot-out would be the Blackstar ID:Core series. We've been blown away at the sound and capability at the guitar shop where I work. Very nice stereo spread with the verbs and delays, great versatility, and excellent price point.
I play out every weekend with a Dr Z Carmen Ghia combo, or a Therapy head/cabinet for larger outdoor venues. If you haven’t tried Dr. Z yet, I highly recommend it. Great pedal platform, high fidelity, hand wired , boutique goodness. And fairly reasonably priced! Cheers!
I would love to get your take on some Laney gear. It tends to fly under the radar, IMO. Especially the Lionheart L5 Studio 5w Head (+ Cab) (it [did?] come as a 12" combo, too). Your thought-process/journey here made a lot of sense! Thanks. :)
I own it and wouldnt trade it for anything especialy as you can use IRs on D.I. output
Your point about the cabinet being the most influential part of your tone is spot on. This realization led me to selling my powered Kemper as there was no point in having an gigging amp that tries to mimic a billion amps when they all sounded essentially the same played into my cabinet. (Admittedly - a Kemper cab would address that shortcoming) . For my regular amp, I'm using a Freidman Dirty Shirley Mini which is amazingly versatile. If you're looking for a "Marshall", the DS can do most flavors of Marshall with a few simple knobs. (used, they are ~$1000).
I had the Kemper and Kemper Kab, and sold them both. I have a Quad Cortex that I like better than the Kemper for recording but my a Suhr Corso, Victory GK50 - with either a 210 Lexicon stereo cab or Mesa 1x12 Thiele - and Supro Black Magick head and cab are hard to beat in a room.
The Yamaha THR 10C from the first range of amps is absolutely brilliant! The five amp models are fantastic; I've owned two of the amps (Blues Jr and Marshall Bluesbreaker) and they're nailed on!
I've got a Princeton ToneMaster. I live in an apartment, so I basically always use it as a modeler with my pedalboard -- alway with headphones through my soundcard. I'm lusting after a proper modeler though.
In my experience of combination of amps/pedals/modellers I'd say that the future is a split system where we use amps as monitors for the feel and "thump". Where I've been the happiest with the sound recently is when I split two lines with modeller going to FOH and send from modeller pre ampsim going to my amp. can keep quiet and hear everything but still have the right feel. any decent amp works at this point as it's not what you hear in your IEMs and it's there just to not make you feel miserable haha! enjoying your videos so far!
I was hesitant but finally tried out a modeler. The Ampero 2 and it sounds damn good. And the form factor is so attractive.
I'm at three right now: A 1954 Gibson GA40 that has never left the house, a Quilter Superblock US that has a lot of vintage Fender in it and takes pedals really well, and a Mark V25 head. The latter, while undeniably versatile, is a finicky and well documented pain to dial in. And as I'm not a thrash metal guy, it also has a lot of tones I never use. I plan to sell it soon to finance a Tweed era Fender Pro or Super clone. Fewer controls, easier to dial in, and any extra gain I need can come from a pedal. The older I get, the more I value simplicity.
Edit: Missed one!... a 5W Trinity Triton. Single ended, class A. So four amps all in.
Just a thought: You'd probably appreciate the JTM45 more than the Plexi. There's something about the tube rectifier that gives the amp a different bounce.
I absolutely love my first gen THR5. It's my main plug in and go amp around the house.
The fewer feature and smaller size makes it a better choice for me than the bigger models. The amp models also seem less heavily compressed when compared to my mate's gen 2 THR10.
I tried a katana mini for a while, but that wasn't for me.
What happened to your California Tweed custom? How did you like that amp? I'm looking to get that dude pedal with the combo California Tweed And maybe in iridium pedal from Strymon If that makes sense.
It's really hard for me when it comes to tone to find out what I need
Favorite amp that you can gig with plus is the lightest cab and head, BlackStar St James with EL34’s 👍🏼
your a very amazing guitarist you play with feeling like the videos ,Thank You
sneaking in that sassy little version of Lenny was a nice touch 🤩
I'm pretty much over expensive boutique gear & so recently I'm using a very cheap Fender solid state stereo combo as pedal platform. I just wanted a stereo power amp & cab to experiment with different tube preamps... Yesterday I decided the Vox Valvenergy preamp pedals are a perfect match, so it's about to be a 4 channel monster rig for ~$550 all in.
A Dr. Z MAZ 18 into an Blue is a pretty versatile pedal platform. The EQ section is wide range so lots of different tones on tap. Also, built like a tank. I gigged it over 3 states and never had a problem.
I struggle to understand how to use the Catalyst or Katana. One of the big benefits of a HX stomp or Helix is that you can send FOH a modelled amp an IR/Cab so your tone is perfect. How does that work when you shift the modelling to the amp instead? Do they have IR's built into a line out port or something? If you want to do stereo FX do you need to have 2 of them?
My catalyst has an XLR out that has an IR
I started with a Marshall 100hdfx and a 4x12 back then, went to a JVM205 with a 2x12 Orange Cab. I sold the head because it's expensive to having it checked from time to time, it was heavy, and it was simply too much for hime use most of the time. I sold it, got myself a MicroDark from Orange as a clean platform and started to experiment using pedals. I downsized to a 1x12 Orange Cab, while still keeping the 2x12. It's easier for me to have different flavours of distortion and overdrive in pedals, than having dedicated amps. As soon as I knew what I would want for a pedal platform, I bought the Milkman TheAmp 100, which is powerful, wheighs basically nothing and is pretty versatile for shaping the base sound. I always add a Boss GE-7 before every amp, which I think is the most important thing to me to get what I want.
For now I think that's it. The little Orange for home use and if it's necessary the Milkman for having to play in a band. The possibilitys today really are endless... 😊
I have a Tonemaster Deluxe Reverb, a Custom 57 Champ and an HX Stomp with a Headrush 108 speaker.
Basically a versatile clean amp that is lightweight and practical, a small amp with a ton of the character I love when I'm recording or just want to pack light and go pedal-less, and then an HX stomp that fills all the gaps whenever I'm in the mood for something different.
If I bought another amp, I would like either a fender princeton handwired, just as something to keep and upkeep for life.
I also own a Vox AC15, but I'm probably gonna sell that.
nothing humble about that collection at all. very nice and I LOVED the outro.. favorite sor far
@johnnathancordy for the jam at the end of the video, if sounds like you might be micing the amp in the room (instead of using an amp load box + IR) - is that right? Sounds great BTW, both the playing and the ton :)
A really underrated brand with great amps imo are Carvin. I found a used Valve Master 100 watt head for less than $300. Has been really reliable and the clean sound is immaculate and the drive sound are great as well but, a little weaker than that perfectly clean channel. I used to own a Carvin Legacy, which for the price used now is also a steal but, I thought I didn’t need that kind of headroom anymore. That was a regret and why I bought the valve master. I don’t use it frequently but, every now and again when I want to just feel the rumble I plug it in and rip (but I do live in a house and have a room out back for music so not apartment friendly at all).
I find myself using my Carl Martin Roadie with my pedalboard most of the time. I’d like a Revv D20, because silent recording and other features, maybe for gigging, too.
Overall, I’m probably aiming for a heads solution, and have a speaker solution, - a Harley Benton 2x12, two different speakers. I’m generally not very happy, whenever I’m using sims. No stubbornness or puritanism. I just find, that sims don’t inspire me. Kinda wish I felt differently. Things would be so much easier in so many ways, and cheaper. But, there it is.
I just bought a Morgan MVP66 combo to get rid of the Blues Junior which has literally zero bass frequency...
That Morgan combo is supposedly one of the best tube pedal platform. It's a one channel with a master volume.
This amp blows everything I've ever tried before. Glorious. It's like a nice warm glove you put on your signal... very articulate, very warm.
Anyway. I'm happy.
12:33 - What a wonderful chap Me Williams is!
I think you would love a Benson Monarch reverb, but good luck ever finding one. 15 watt like a Morgan ac20 but with 6v6's that gets darker as you gain it up. Pretty much your lead tone with no high cut required.
I like my Yamaha thr30. I use it more than my little fender superchamp valve. I find the whole amp collecting thing kind of goofy. I completely agree with you that it’s mainly about the speaker and the head room … and the physical room itself.
Guitar wise. Twin reverb all day bass wise svt do I use these live. Hell no not anymore in the studio sometimes but as of amps they stay in the house and used very little. I use a hx stomp with either a back line amp or a headrush frfr12 it does the job the headrush works great for bass but I rarely use it as a amp unless the pa really sucks. But for monitoring and rehearsals it works fine.
The guitar tone on the opening track of every single video he puts out sounds identical. Proof enough that you can make any rig sound the same.
Im down to 3 tube now. A modded Blues Jr (with all of the old BillM mods, done by Bill) and reaplced speaker (Emminence Swamp Thang). A Goodsell Super 17 MKIv, which is my #1 and a Mesa Rectoverb 25, for bigger venues. I find the 17 wayts the Goodsell puts out, plenty to play with a loud drummer. The tone is outstanding (think Vox), and it only weighs 28 lbs (with a spring reverb tank).
i highly recommend my home setup: marshall 1974x loaded with vintage mullard tubes + cx extension cab at 8 ohms. this will slaughter any modeler it's like a hybrid between a vox and a jtm 45. the openback oversized 1x12 cabs sound unlike any marshall you know. the 64 deluxe reverb is handwired and sounds great as well if youre after clean tones .dr z and dave friedman have great designs that i like as well. enjoy!
Speakers matter...some. Took a Hamstead Artist 20 speaker (G12M Creamback) and put a spare I had into a new ToneKing Imper Mkii...and it 'improved' the tone of the TK...made it closer to the Hampstead...but the Hamstead still blew me away whereas the TK was merely improved.
Was makin coffee while listening to the intro. I had a hunch it was real amps being used.
John - what about your Henriksen Bud 6? Do you still have that? And if not, why not? It seems to me like a great little amp - is there an issue with it?
That red tokai from the end didn't make it into the guitar collection video I don't think? Unless it was the one you mentioned you had from Rose Morris to demo. Lovely either way.
That Pro sounded incredible.
I sold all my amps (A Morgan PR36 and a Marshall Astoria Custom) and got a FM9 which I love and don’t miss them at all. I’ve owned loads off Mesa Boogies over the years (DC5, Nomad 100 Head, F50, Blue Angel and a Mark 5:25) out of all of them if I had to get one it would be the F50. It had such a beautiful high headroom clean channel and the lead channel was huge. I can see why it got at Gold reward at Guitarist magazine. If I still had one I’d have the effects loop changed from Parallel to Series but that was my only criticism. Fantastic amps. But I’m a Fractal guy now. 😊
I have had good success getting nice overdriven tones out of a modeler. I wish I knew the secret to those big cleans that you achieve.
Same here, have sold most of my tube gear the last year. What has stayed, my Ecstacy, my 69 Superbass, my 80s fuzzy X100B, a few handwired mutts, and both my Kemper Stage & Headrush Prime. The Kemper sounds better but the Antares stuff does sound great for the vocal stuff (i.e. harmonies, etc).
Once you know the sounds you want, and find out what gear you need to get them, the GAS is lessened. IME.
If you can justify having tube amps, do it. I have tube amps, including a 100W Marshall full stack (with MV), digital modeling including full rigs in a box, amp and effects, and software plugins.
All of my gear options provide variety to make my noise.
Yup. My search for tones ended with the HX Stomp. It gets me 90% of what I want. The other 10% isn't worth the thousands and thousands of dollars it would cost.
Love to see you play a Magnatone amp especially the Panoramic Stereo !
I thought you also had a Henriksen Bud that you used with a modeler. Did you sell the Henriksen?
I've been trying to get into modelers for over a year now. I've demo'd a few Neural and STL products (which I just couldn't get on with) and bought AURORA Digitals Mr Hector for heavy tones. Its mainly the feel for me. When I track parts with sims, compared to say my MK5, it always feels like sex with a condom comparatively. With this said it is getting better and I'll admit there is a good chance of personal bias at play here but with the amp, it just always feels like I'm capturing my sound compared to some generic sound.
I sold my last amp few weeks ago, honestly i am using Fractal since 5 years and i am really happy with it.
I have a Marshall Code 50, a Blackstar ID Core 100 and a Spark 40... I'm desperate for a nice Marshall valve amp but I don't think it would get much use. Incidentally, I'd happily lend you my Spark 40, if you fancy having a look at one.
Get that valve amp and you'll never look back.. 😊
If you have one clear sound you’re after then nothing beats an amp, but if you’re like most and your preferences change frequently, it’s hard to beat a modeler these days. Churning amps is a pain in the ass and costly.
This may make some laugh, last week I used my Mustang micro plugged into the aux input of my stereo system. It sounded great and I probably played to backing tracks longer than I ever have. Best 99$ I ever spent on gear. 🤘🤘😎
Great playing ! You need to try the Revv D20 or G20 !!!
I must have missed it, did you stop using the Henriksen amp?
You should see if you can get Boss/Roland to send you a BluesCube and the Robben Ford capsule. Would like to see you’re take on that version of a Dumble thing.
I have the Roland Blues Cube Artist....absolutely unbelievable sound. Gives one of the most beautiful clean sounds I've ever heard from an amp...the perfect pedal platform
@@GLENLYNAS I have a Stage and agree, incredible amps. I did get the Ultimate Blues capsule and I alternate between that and the Stock amp whenever there's a voice saying I need another amp lol.
@Jeb_binch there is so much I love about their amps Jeb apart from the awesome sound. The presense control really pushes the sound forward ( rather than make it more trebley like other amps do )..the reverb is voiced so beautifully...and the power switch is such an asset which allows you to push the amp, but with control over the setting you are in. One of the best kept secrets in the amp world
THR series are great practice amps. I'd say the Katana Air is probably pretty close, but the THR30ii is bigger and probably puts out a little more volume. But it doesn't come with a line 6 wireless transmitter, I believe the Katana comes with its own. Being that you have the K Air would be a good comparison candidate.
@MusicalExperimentations hello I own a THR30ii and I really love and enjoy working with it. I've bought a Line6 transmitter to work with the build in receiver of the THR30 and I can work without any cable, any... outside, inside, at the back of my kitchen or anywhere else in my house, and with a Airturn BT200S you can select one of the 5 Prestes (for that you must have a portable device (iOS in my case) with the THR Yamaha app OPENED) and that said (the only limit I find to this - the fact you need the app opened to transmit MIDI orders to select the preset) you can buy one the eyes (or the ears???) closed for working completely free of everything (except your guitar...hihihi) well enjoy it (and the sounds are really really really goods and impressives (impressionnants in French ;-) musically Philippe (from Paris)
@MusicalExperimentations Yes, I have a THR and it rules. Great practice amp.
John, did you keep the Henriksen Bud?
I still think you should try a PRS Archon 50 combo!
Didn't you have a Mesa "Blue Angel" combo??
Nice blog dude.
I thought no amp. You said amp, but was it with a mic'd cabinet?
Cornford Harlequin, 6 Watts of sumptuous, hand wired brilliance for not much second hand. Peavey Delta Blues for big venues. That modelling stuff just boggles my poor brain. Oh, and Two Notes, Le Clean for tight space. All I need, thankfully - actually all I can handle.
Did you keep the Henriksen?
Best sound you’ve had on a video I’ve seen of your was that pro reverb. You every worry about not being able to get a sound back when selling gear? That worries me.
Stellar outro
I just use a Dr Z JAZ and does everything I need. Well and a handful of pedals for overdrive, fuzz, etc.
A few weeks back Paul Davids had 10 artists play their own backing to a track (he’s done this before). The ability of all the artists is clear, wonderful players… but if you listen to the tones… most are using modelers… they don’t sit quite right (imo) in the track. This to me is the problem… the sonic possibilities are endless… but most ppl aren’t sound engineers. My last album was all modelers and this one I am using amps… for me I can get the tone in my head recorded easier (with amps) and it sounds ‘right’ (to me anyway, lol). I’ll always use both… I’m not anti-modeler, but amp preferererer, lol.
Sold all my amps and now just use a deluxe reverb tonemaster. It just works.
Re practice amp - must try the NUX Mighty Space
Try the Nextone range from Boss😊
End jam is super tasty
Explain your setup when recording your video content. Do you mic your amp and as well when you use you modeler, what are your connections? Thanks
We have different views what "few" means.😉
How about attenuators? Something line a Tone-King Imperial 2 has a built in attenuator so could conceivably be both a practise and a gigging amp? You really nailed that SRV tone at the end!
Attenuators are still way too loud for the house
@@princephilip-v5tnot at all. I had a hb ps100 and it was good but tone went a little darker and lost the feel. Now have toneking ironman it's transparent and feels fantastic like playing my tubes loud and I have the power section at about %80. Much more enjoyable than playing my Katana plus I can now silently record also amp head to cabm+ to attenuator.
@@RG-yz8ov…and if you ever dare to try the expensive Fryette PS2 or PS100, you won’t notice losing much if any tone tone at all because it has it’s EQ tweaks. Plus it has the volume control for any volume level rather than preset db reduction. I had a plethora of IronMan ii attenuators with my high powered amps. Wondered what the forum fuss was over the Fryette’s, dared to try one and quickly unplugged all the ToneKing attenuators. Considering how happy I was with Ironman’s I was not prepared for how much better the Fryettes retain the raw/original amp tone. I use them at home constantly to enjoy all
kinds of beasts like a TR CRS 100w. They are expensive, but also simply fantastic at what they do 🤷♂️
@@djt6546 yeh I've heard ps2 is great but it's a re-amper big bonus would be the effects loop. You could use a little ac4 5watt amp and turn it into a 100 w ac amp with effects loop!! I've never tried a ps2 here in Australia you could get a 2nd hand one for $1000. Do the 6l6 change the tone on say a marshall with el34's or is it really not noticeable. I do like how my ironman mini does not need a power supply, but it does leave me being bound to my 20w marshall head ,ac15 and superchamp.
@@RG-yz8ov I am a firm believe that the type of tube does very little by itself. Now if (like any minute theoretical differences) you design a circuit to specifically exploit certain characteristics that’s why we have some classics and why nowadays people like to generalise about certain amps with specific tubes and other gear. So take any amp, the tonal charm and characterises of the circuit have been finalised by the point of exit at the speaker output. If you then have another power amp that has been designed to do nothing but neutrally re-power, it keeps the original signal as complete as can be. Sure anyone would rather have something passive doing the job. A purist might argue Fryettes are re-amping so it’s not the same as a fundamental attenuator. But like anything in life, we can all read the specs and reviews but seeing/hearing is believing. Try a Fryette power station and I bet you won’t care how it’s doing it, only that it manages to retain your driven amps tone and feel as true as can be while reducing volume to taste. It just works better at retaining the raw/natural tone of an amp and yes they are an even better investment for pairing with vintage amps to add an effects loop. 👍
I can tell it is an amp. in the beginning, there is NO FIZZ.
Why keep a head and not a combo?
Probably because you can just use the backline cab.
I don’t think the tone you used in the intro was a real amp, but it’s not like it wasn’t a killer sound, especially coming from your fingers.
EDIT: I was wrong!
I wouldn’t say owning an amp that was possibly owned/used by David Gilmour in The Wall concerts was humble, but good vid 👍🎸
I mean it is an interesting piece of info on his amps… which the video is about.
I guess its time to sell your guitars too now
'64 was the first year for Blackface.