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Nov 29 2007, 08:09 AM
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My bad /MickeM
  No worries MickeM ... I can almost redo it.I would consider raising the budget a bit and get a Bogner Amp. Link here: http://www.bogneramplification.com/ The UBERSCHALL, the German word for "Super Sonic", is really Amageddon in a box!  The ECSTASY allows the mortal to travel the roads as deep as our souls! Not bad for a box!  
This post has been edited by Twibeard: Nov 29 2007, 09:11 AM --------------------  Guitar: Ibanez RG370DXCE my backup is a Fender Strat. Amps: Marshall MG and Line6 Spider III 75W combo (preferred)  Recording stuff: Cubase SX3, Logic emagic, Novation ReMote SL, M-Audio Pro Synth experiance: Roland, MoTu, Native Instrument, Spectrasonics and Steinberg Main VST's: Kontakt2, FM8, Bass station, Ezdrummer, MoTu EI, Atmosphere, Crystall |
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Nov 29 2007, 08:34 AM
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I'm sure you can pull two tubes out of the Marshall JVM if you got for that one. That's the amp I fancy the most in Marshalls series of amps.
The Vintage modern is supposed to be really responsive to what you're playing. ENGL's, I was really looking at them before I settled for what I have today. I was loking for something Dream theater like at reasonable cost and ENGL sure has the punch, perfect for hi gain and clean playing but I don't care a lot for the crunch. It's special in a way and doesn't really fit in to my world where I compare to Marshall. The Elmwood amps run for around 20kSEK (say 2150 Euro). If I remember well the Bonneville is 19kSEK while the Modena was 22kSEK You're in the UK right? So bang for the buck would in your case then be a british amp, I've compared Marshallas in UK with Marshalls in Germany and the prices in UK is to prefer. Same with Laney, the VH100R is really cheap in the UK compared to rest of the world. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Nov 29 2007, 11:49 PM
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I do go up to asheville pretty often
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Nov 30 2007, 12:13 AM
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QUOTE (JVM @ Nov 29 2007, 10:57 PM)  U.S. actually.  I wasn't aware you could pull out tubes and have it quieter (I assume that's what you meant, if that was even a serious suggestion ).Ok, US, I guess prices for brit amp are rather ok anyway, right? Sorry I wasn't clear but yes, if you have a 100W amp with four EL34's pulling the right two will divide it down to 50W. As soon as warranty runs out on my H&K I'll be pulling out a couple tubes to get my head down to 50W. And I checked with the support exactly which two to pull out just to make sure. It's important. Marshall is actually pulling themselves together, I think for a while their tube amp program wasn't all that promising but now there's DSL, TSL, JVM, JCM, Vintage modern - quite a bit to choose from. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Nov 30 2007, 12:32 AM
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QUOTE (JVM @ Nov 29 2007, 11:59 PM) One thing about the TSL60, after doing a few look ups it seems like the crunch and lead channels share the same EQ, is that a problem for you? I could see that getting in the way of having an awesome riffing tone then a really bland lead tone, or vice versa. Otherwise it looks cool  Now the question wasn't aimed at me but as I see it there never were a problem for me with shared EQ. If you have a responsive guitar you can adjust between clean and distorted with the volume pot. Thus a single channel amp would work fine. What I mean with that is staying in the same channel and adjusting with the volume knob doesn't call for separate EQ's. Just kick an EQ pedal for soloing (to raise mids f.ex) and you got everything covered. But of course, separate EQ's could be more useful than shared, but I never saw it as a problem myself. If that is a possibility for you there's a single channel amp with a gain switch (so two channels really if you like) and possibility to switch from EL34's into 6L6 for a change of sound. This Laney is not that expensive either. There's also a 50W version. So this laney with EL34's is a Marshall, with 6L6's it's an ENGL. Sort of It's rather bright so my guess is that it would do excellent with the Marshall cabinet 1960 that's got GT12-75 speakers... they are set to scoop the mids and I belive that would help the treble on the Laney. Maybe!  The GH50 head is "only" 740Euro in Europe or £400 in the UK, that's approx 580 Euro  Great price!
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Nov 30 2007, 12:33 AM
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I don`t know, TSL is maybe just to little-for-heavy amp. Marshall generaly doesen`t have that much of a clean channel. I think if you have a tube Fender you will be satisfied with something that has a more pure clean channel, maybe some fender head, of Hughes&Ketner. Try those, and see if it fits you. Marshall is too dirty for your needs. Maybe if you get a 200W head you can get a "deacent" (for the money it is just deacent really) cleans. Other that that it will tend to go on crunch.
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Nov 30 2007, 02:34 AM
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I'm a little worried about pulling tubes out to reduce power ...
If you have parallel output stages, they are mathched to the impedance of your output transformer. Pulling out tubes changes this relationship and you end up with an impedance mismatch. Probably not disastrous, but not ideal either ... -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Nov 30 2007, 02:45 AM
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QUOTE (JVM @ Nov 29 2007, 08:41 PM) I must say I'm slightly skeptical as well I still think I would rather have a 50w or below that I just leave mostly stock, perhaps replace the tubes or whatever. Hey andrew, wanna build me one? I'll be your first customer  Cool ! Let me get my first build done then we can talk turkey (need to sort out my garage now we are in the new house, shoudl be able to finish uip my first amp in a week or two, will post clips!) -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Nov 30 2007, 05:10 AM
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QUOTE (Twibeard @ Nov 29 2007, 08:09 AM) My bad /MickeM No worries MickeM ... I can almost redo it.I would consider raising the budget a bit and get a Bogner Amp. Link here: http://www.bogneramplification.com/ The UBERSCHALL, the German word for "Super Sonic", is really Amageddon in a box! The ECSTASY allows the mortal to travel the roads as deep as our souls! Not bad for a box! I Played an uberschall....I was underwhelmed severely. The clean channel is so lacking.. Ecstasy= Awsome. Oh yeah, Marshall JVM...Test drove one for a week....Cant stop thinking bout it. It was really nice. Vintage Modern...test drove one for 2 hours....Blew up....guess they built to much vintage in and not enough modern....."Write that down". Was pretty cool while it functioned....not a high gain amp. -------------------- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat ?
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Nov 30 2007, 09:36 AM
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QUOTE (JVM @ Nov 30 2007, 01:55 AM) @MickeM I like the looks of those laneys. Gilbert plays one of those no? Probably not the same head though eh. I don't think I'd like a cab voiced for scooped mids, I love my mids I'd rather get something kind of neutral so that I can adjust myself without having any real kind of optimal head-cab EQ.Paul Gilbert played the VH100R, the GH is "one channel" from the VH100R. Gilbert switched to Vintage Modern just rescently. -------------------- My bands homepage
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