Lee Revell wrote: Depending on your taste and or purist view of guitar amps....Old Roland JC's were all solid state but a mellow sound. Not a lot of dynamics though....and they are 2x12, which seems to be a conflict for your physical size reqs. The twin rev is all tube (12ax7 and 6L6's) and also 2x12 and they are also VERY loud! The older twins are also becoming quite pricey and considered "rare". Great sound but they dont "breathe" until about half volume which can break windows in a small apt. If you can find an old Music Man RD 50 1x12, they are a sweet sounding amp and very compact. I have an old RP 112 also and it is a EL34 back end but solid state pre amp. The earlier '70's models had a single 12ax7 tube in the pre amp but they were ultimately a solid state front. Still sound sweet though and have good head room for moderate playing volumes. Old Peavey Bandits (tube version) were also a 1x12 and had a nice sound. Recently though, I picked up a Peavey Delta Blues with a single 15" speaker. For some reason they dont command a lot of money but have a nice "not unlike Fender" tone. I got mine for $300.00 and love the thing! They are on Ebay and Craigslist for this kind of money frequently. They have EL84's in back and 12ax7's for preamp. And there is the Fender Hotrod...all tube also....and you can find them for $350 - $450 on EB & CL. Much like anything else in music, personal taste is very subjective. My style and musical taste ranges from Tele and Strat inherent styles (Country Rock, some jazz, pop & Rock) and I would use any of the above mentioned amps for what I do. Hope this helps? R~

Lee Revell wrote: I have a '78 Strat with a set of Noiseless in it. It sounds warm thru this amp. The pre amp overdrive is actually quite nice in this amp too...but the EMG's in my custom Nashville Tele drive it much better. Nice useful overdrive without too much mush on the harmonics but the HSH configured EMG's help that along immensely. I've been buying a ton of gear lately and if I run across one at a reasonable price, I'll let you know. Keep me posted if you buy something else. I hit the Pawn shops in Reno regularly (where I got this one) and theres lots of good gear shows on the SF Craiglist site but you have to jump on the good deals obviously. I'm selling my Mesa Boogie MkII C+ but it's not a mellow amp. It is all original and in great shape but Older boogies tend to be unwieldy in the tone they produce. This one is like fingernails down a blackboard compared to the other 2 amps. R~

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 21:41 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote: Bwahahha, check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/Fender-Twin-style-Music-Man-RD-210-RD210-amp-amplifier_… Man, that's a nice amp... I'm afarid it's too loud for me. The seller's bizarre rant at the end is priceless... Lee

Russell Hanaghan wrote: I don't find the rants of this man funny at all. I wouldn't buy anything from him. It's just sad. c. -- www.cesaremarilungo.com

Jan Depner wrote: Where? In the US? c. -- www.cesaremarilungo.com

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On Saturday 18 February 2006 07:09, Lee Revell wrote: Hi Lee. He sounded like a used car salesman until the last paragraph, and then turned into Mr Angry. All the same, it seems like a nice amp. See. You really have to move. Somewhere with no neighbors. Somewhere nice and quiet, until you start playing that is. The Ozarks perhaps? Perhaps not. How fars Philly from Kentucky? Oh! Damn! There's no electricity. Oh well. Back to the acoustic guitar. Just a bit of harmless fun on a Saturday afternoon in Northern France. Hope you find a nice amp. All the best. Nigel.

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 20:38 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: I am guessing the difference is "Sober" vs. "Pissed" ;-) Yeah my point was that some LAU should snap that up, not to make fun of the seller... Heh, no, I like living downtown too much to move anytime soon. I got the loud out of my system at my last place. Thanks for all the feedback. Lee

Hi I have both the Beryy 112 amp which is ok and a vox valvetronics which is very nice and about the same money. I use the v-amp2 into this and its really nice. Cheers Bob ( missed the rant it s not on ebay anymore!!) Ross Vandegrift wrote:

Michael T D Nelson wrote: To be honest, I think the PODxt sounds much better than the V-Amp... I use a PODxt Live (through a Mesa/Boogie 50/50 power amp and a 2x12 cabinet), and my rhythm guitarist plays the V-Amp... and maybe it's due to his native guitar tone also, but the V-Amp sounds rather plasticy to my ears. It sounds a bit better going into a 4x12 cabinet (a huge improvement over the single 1x12), but it still doesn't sound as clean as the PODxt. -- Brett

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 12:15 -0500, Them wrote: Uh, you don't think the Mesa Boogie has anything to do with the sound??? Seriously though, I have a V-Amp Pro and I have friends who use the POD XT. I don't here all that big a difference when they're played through the same gear. Even if there was a large difference is it worth the $530 difference in price? -- Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner The Fuzzy Dice http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html "As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744

My two cents on this discussion: if you're playing live, and with tube equipment, never underestimate the contributions of the power amp. Regarding pod vs. v-amp, I've owned both, and ended up ditching the pod because I never used it. The more overdriven the sound, the better the v-amp sounds than the pod. The cleaner the sound, the better the pod sounds than the v-amp --- excepting in-betweeny sounds, where the pod is exceptionally good. Most of what I do involves a guitar that's been distorted to within an inch of it's life, and my experience is that the v-amp is hands down superior in that regard. The sound is thicker, warmer, and has more burn --- the pod, OTOH, sounds rubbery, and has a sort of glassy sheen to the high end. However, for in-betweeny to clean sounds, the pod smashes the v-amp. That same rubberiness and glassy sheen makes for a really fat, plucky tone for cleanish sounds. The v-amp sounds thin and anemic, light a fire that's underfed, when it's not being driven. I have no idea if that's at all what the product manufacturers intended, but that's the way it is to my ears, at least. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:32 -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote: Did you know the Line6 Pod has a Linux driver? http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6 Lee

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 02:50:15AM -0600, Jan Depner wrote: I'll put in another vote for Blues Junior, tho I'm not much of a guitarist and it's my first amp. It is a tube amp, but has an IC chip for the effects process for the "Fat" switch. You can find sites where guys claim to be upgrading them with "high-performance" vacuum tubes and a different model of loudspeaker. I nearly passed it by because I reacted badly to the name. -- Joel Roth

On 2/18/06, Ross Vandegrift <ross(a)lug.udel.edu> wrote: I can't vouch for their amps, but I have a Line6 POD 2.0, and it is by far the best investment I've made for my guitar sound, period. My main focus is on recording guitar direct though, and this thing simulates many different amps, speaker combos, and some basic effects. You could use it in front of an amp as well, and get a wide variety of tones out of it. I sold my old Yamaha amp so I could afford it last year. I do almost miss having an amp, but with headphones, this thing rocks. Anyhow, I imagine their amps would sound great too, with a variety of different sounds in them. I'll probably be trying them out when I'm ready to get a new amp again. But I liked Fender's Princeton Chorus the best out of all the amps I've tried thus far. Dana

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 15:59 -0500, Dana Olson wrote: The Line 6 amps are really very good. The other guitar player in one of my bands plays one. Lots of really nice tones. To my ears it still doesn't sound as good as a tube amp but its pretty close. I have a couple of friends in another band and they've solved the amp problem completely - they play Line 6 PODs into the PA. I'm tempted to do the same every time I pick up my ~60 pound RP112 ;-) -- Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner The Fuzzy Dice http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html "As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744