Help me spend my tax return!

gunslinger · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject: Help me spend my tax return!

Thanks to an absolutely huge tax return Im now ready to go out and buy my first tube amp. The only limitation is that I need to be able to keep the volume down while Im playing in my apartment. With my newly inflated budget i'd been thinking about a Deluxe Reverb, but I'd like to get the opinions of some experts first.

Country Dually Showman · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

Try out a Vibrolux.They are great at low volumes.Deluxe is nice too.Do you want vintage?Do you play out with it?

McGillman · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject:

I like my Blues JR. Small enough for the home and still a great little amp for small venue gigs.

gunslinger · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:27 am Post subject:

I just started playing guitar less than 2 years ago, so currently I'm not playing out. I would really like a vintage silverface, but I wasn't sure if the price differance was justified. I would like to stay around a Grand. I will admit I've been looking at the Blues Jr, but unfortunatly at this stage of my playing (and newly married life) I can't justify having more than one amp, so I was looking for the most bang for my buck.

McGillman · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject:

You want to stay with a lower watt amp if volume is an issue. Tube amps don't give full performance if you keep them turned down. You are going to love the tone a tube amp will give, and a 45-50 watt tube is like 100 solid state watts. A grand will get you a 4x10 bassman that is not neighbor friendly. Let us know what you decide.

Happy hunting!

johan · Newbie Alert Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

Don't know how much you wanna spend but go out and try a Dr Z MAZ jr. or Mazerati. Both great amps. Voxy Fendery tones with a twist on it's own. Lots have been sold around Nashville the last couple of years.

Listen to Brad Paisley. He's playing all sorts of Dr Z amps.

tele_jake · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:42 am Post subject: Keeping the volume down...

Fender Blues Jr... awesome amp. Or if you wanna go a bit bigger, maybe a hotrod? single speaker or two... can still keep it down. By the way, has anyone played those new VOX VR30's or 15's? That might be a option... wouldnt mind a 30 myself

allmorg42 · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject: tube amp

I have to disagree with people who want you to get the blues junior, but only because you live in an apartment and have to worry about noise levels. Its true that it is very small and all that but you have to turn it up loud(and it is very loud trust me) to get some good sounds(not distorted, just good clean sounds). The problem is that there is no headphone jack. I live in a house and I played with my window up during this summer with the volume on master 7 and volume 7 ( I think, this is way too loud normally, i usually just play on around master 3 and volume 3), and my dad could hear me playing a quarter of a mile down the road(no joke, a quarter mile down the road lol, I had to quit because of the possibility of the neighbors, haha). I would suggest finding one that has a headphone jack though, definately.

Guitgator · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:

Brother...skip the blues junior and get a Palomino V 16 (Crate)....it's a class A tube amp....a loud 15 watts through a 12" speaker....loud enough for small clubs and you can get reall tube sound. For $1000 you could buy that AND the bigger V32 with two 12" speakers and still have some green left over. I don't like the sound of the smaller Fender tube amps....units like the Vibro King sound terrific but they're much bigger amps.