Gig Amp Recommendations?

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by beauzooka » Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:00 pm

jthomas wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:33 pm
Twin Reverb = loud and clean. Back in the 70s and 80s, a close friend played lounges in the Holiday Inn circuit. Pretty big rooms and the Twin did well.
The OP wants under 45 lbs.

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by jthomas » Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:42 am

beauzooka wrote:
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jthomas wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:33 pm
Twin Reverb = loud and clean. Back in the 70s and 80s, a close friend played lounges in the Holiday Inn circuit. Pretty big rooms and the Twin did well.
The OP wants under 45 lbs.
Sorry, that didn't jump out at me. Much of the weight of an amp comes from the transformers and you need big transformers to get loud. If I had to meet the weight requirement, I'd build a custom head from a Weber 6A80 kit ($660) and use a separate cab. (80 watts) That probably would meet the weight limit.

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by MechaBulletBill » Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:06 am

the right answer is a vibrolux.

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by Embenny » Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:02 pm

j mascis wrote:
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Hey all.
I'm playing live more these days, and I'm looking for something that can fill a medium size room without a mic on it.
Are you?

Gatherings have been restricted to 5 people where I live. It will be months before we can or should try to fill a medium sized room with people...

But as for the amp, the suggestions of a vibrolux or HRD sound moldy practical to me (I find PRs a bit underpowered and twins too damn heavy to be useful).
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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by garyfanclub » Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:55 am

mbene085 wrote:
Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:02 pm
j mascis wrote:
Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:27 am
Hey all.
I'm playing live more these days, and I'm looking for something that can fill a medium size room without a mic on it.
Are you?

Gatherings have been restricted to 5 people where I live. It will be months before we can or should try to fill a medium sized room with people...

But as for the amp, the suggestions of a vibrolux or HRD sound moldy practical to me (I find PRs a bit underpowered and twins too damn heavy to be useful).
These are good suggestions. People complain about the HRD amps, but the best part about showing up and having them as your backline is that they're a "known quantity" i.e. you basically know what you're going to get out of it. Is it flashy? No. Is it going to get your through the night? Yes. Does it beat having to lug your own amp to the gig? YES!

If I had to get a "new" amp, I'd probably buy one of those Supro Edit: Tremoverbs! - can be found around $700, decently loud, great verb and trem, versatile 1x12 at 15W. Don't see the need for anything louder than that for the kind of music you're playing (I'm in a similar genre, but more 60s pysch).

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by BlueSparkle » Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:36 pm

I'd still love to know what defines "medium sized room"

I have a small practice room - essentially 3.5x3x2.4 and in it I fit a JC-120, two twin reverbs, a quad reverb, a Sound City 120R with a 2x12 two marshall 1960a 4x12's with a 1959SLP and a hybrid fender head (bastardized by me) a vox NT15H and a Boss katana 100 1x12.

I regularly use the twins and the 4x12's in stereo wet/dry at medium volumes. Heads into cabs changes depending on my personal taste. SPL's aren't absurd, but I can make a room shake and buzz rather easily. Makes 'getting a feel for it' straightforward and simple. ;)
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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by Larsongs » Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:31 am

BlueSparkle wrote:
Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:36 pm
I'd still love to know what defines "medium sized room"

I have a small practice room - essentially 3.5x3x2.4 and in it I fit a JC-120, two twin reverbs, a quad reverb, a Sound City 120R with a 2x12 two marshall 1960a 4x12's with a 1959SLP and a hybrid fender head (bastardized by me) a vox NT15H and a Boss katana 100 1x12.

I regularly use the twins and the 4x12's in stereo wet/dry at medium volumes. Heads into cabs changes depending on my personal taste. SPL's aren't absurd, but I can make a room shake and buzz rather easily. Makes 'getting a feel for it' straightforward and simple. ;)
It certainly isn't 3.5x3x2.4! That's not even a Closet...

IMO a medium sized Room is a Club that holds a couple hundred people...

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by Sauerkraut » Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:13 pm

Tremolux is the correct answer. Beats a Vibrolux cause it’s exactly the same but head + cab, so better.

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by kalipigeon » Thu Apr 09, 2020 4:38 pm

I run an Egnater Tweaker 88 into a 2x12 Avatar cabinet with Eminence Lil Texas (neodymuim) speakers. I play in a punk band so I'm not chasing headroom, but it has a ton of it. I've never had the clean channel above half and that was for an outdoor gig in a stadium parking lot at a car show.

More linear tubes like KT66 or KT88 options will help with the ability to turn up and down to match a space without a huge shift in tone from power tube saturation changes. Just wanted to throw a non-Fender option out there.

The new Twin Reverb with the solid state power section and neodymium speaker would represent an extreme weight to headroom ratio option, I would think.

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by Larsongs » Fri Apr 10, 2020 9:51 am

Did the OP ever get an Amp? Seems like a good time to score deals....

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by Gonkboy » Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:27 pm

I've got a different recommendation.
Buy a cab with 12inch speaker(s). Run the Vox speaker out into the cab and it will sound bigger. Run the Vox line out to the PA.

The bigger speakers will give you a fuller sound and running into the PA will make sure you have plenty of volume.

Plus it could be a lot cheaper.
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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by 2002standardmat » Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:44 pm

Straight forward gigging amp, I’d go with the Fender Hot Rod series.

Cheap 2nd hand and quite east to find.

I’ve used and gigged with them for years and they just work.

Might not be my home or dream amp of choice but a great workhorse, easy to work on or have work done on and they can do clean or dirt and take pedals well.

And you don’t have to get t too precious over them if they get ridden hard and put away wet.

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by ElephantDNA » Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:54 pm

2002standardmat wrote:
Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:44 pm
Straight forward gigging amp, I’d go with the Fender Hot Rod series.

Cheap 2nd hand and quite east to find.

I’ve used and gigged with them for years and they just work.

Might not be my home or dream amp of choice but a great workhorse, easy to work on or have work done on and they can do clean or dirt and take pedals well.

And you don’t have to get t too precious over them if they get ridden hard and put away wet.
Yeah, I used to tour with those because they are cheap so if they get stolen or break you won't care. They sound decent enough, fenderish tone not too expensive or heavy. I've gone off of the deep end into British style amps lately, so I no longer use anything fender. Getting fancy in my old age.

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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by Embenny » Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:23 pm

Larsongs wrote:
Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:31 am
It certainly isn't 3.5x3x2.4! That's not even a Closet...

IMO a medium sized Room is a Club that holds a couple hundred people...
I'm willing to bet he's speaking in metric ;)

That's roughly 11.5x10x9.
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Re: Gig Amp Recommendations?

Post by Larsongs » Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:51 am

mbene085 wrote:
Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:23 pm
Larsongs wrote:
Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:31 am
It certainly isn't 3.5x3x2.4! That's not even a Closet...

IMO a medium sized Room is a Club that holds a couple hundred people...
I'm willing to bet he's speaking in metric ;)

That's roughly 11.5x10x9.
LOL That's got to it! So, he's talking about a Bedroom? What's the connection to a Gig Amp? I thought the OP was referring to an Amp for Medium sized Gigs?

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