Practice Amp purchasing help - who is top dog?

[DonP]

I've got a marshal mg15 which is pretty solid, but recently started playing on the 30 watt peavey vyper which I find incredible for nailing screetching hair metal to incredibly clean and lovely warm overdrive...I just can't see past it at the moment

I need to mess with the vyper some more.

I got the Marshall single channel stuff covered.

[DonP]

A Fender Princeton Chorus makes great inexpensive practice amp.

I'm guessing it's transistor since it has Chorus. what the hell, I'll give it a try.

[Dreamland_Rebel]

the new marshall MG line is all the rage at this years NAMM.

[drixll]

I already have 3 Micro Stack Lead 12's. They don't sound good IMO until the volume is at 12 oclock. Too loud.

hmm; well if that one is too loud, the mg15ms2 is great-sounding, even at low volume. i have one at home and one at the rehearsal studio, and love the tone.

[dirtyroadie]

I tried a Vyper recently and for what it is, it sounds great. I would definitely check it out if I were you.

[DonP]

hmm; well if that one is too loud, the mg15ms2 is great-sounding, even at low volume. i have one at home and one at the rehearsal studio, and love the tone.

I did give the Zakk micro stack a quick tour. Is that the same amp?

[drixll]

I did give the Zakk micro stack a quick tour. Is that the same amp?

pretty much. i think that his has circle graphics on the head and cabs, and they charge you like $50 more.

[broken_fusion]

I'm guessing it's transistor since it has Chorus. what the hell, I'll give it a try.

it is transistor but it sound good.Especially at low volumes. I have two tube heads but the volume needed to get them to sound good is no good for late night practice. Sometimes i use a tube preamp in front of the Fender if i really want that tube sound but it is a very versatile amp. Clean, blues, Rock, Metal. Nice limiter and reverb too. It has 2 10's and when you get the clean channel going with the stereo chorus and the reverb it sounds sweet.

[j2379]

why not run your pod thru your micro stack? use only one cab. in my apt, ive got a GNX running into an old marshall master lead 30. most of the time i have the volume on the amp set just below 2, EQ basically flat & use the GNX for all the tone or lack of.

[Slik_Karl]

After trying out many small practice amps I finally settled on the Vox AD30VT. I can get all kinds of sounds outta this little thing. For a low volume practice amp I couldn't be happier!

[ozzuk1]

Cool I was also going to recomend the AD30 or VT 30, I plan to get the VT30 at some point fora quieter practise Amp I bought a Blackstar HT-5 but the Cleans arent loud enough or Clean enough....

I have always found the vox's to sound good even with minimal tweaking in store, I really dont like the spider II/I's even when they are tweaked to sound thier best they still lack something for me.....

Vox's are definately a good and warm sounding alternative, they also excell in the low/mid gain tones where imo the line 6 stuff just cant cope as well with...

[DonP]

why not run your pod thru your micro stack? use only one cab. in my apt, ive got a GNX running into an old marshall master lead 30. most of the time i have the volume on the amp set just below 2, EQ basically flat & use the GNX for all the tone or lack of.

I could try that, but I thought the Marshall Micro Stacks would color the sound too much and I'd end up with mud. I was thinking the POD needed a clean bright (tube?) amp because it sounds very good through my decent quality Sony headphones.

I'd really like to compare my Micro Stacks against a Vox and Cube side-by-side to see who would win.

Another choice gaining momentum is to get off my lazy ass and build a low watt 2203 into one of my Micro Stack heads. I've already yanked the SS stuff, but just need to build the tube circuit. I have the trannies and parts. I've been doing a lot of research lately on how to finish this project.

[DonP]

After trying out many small practice amps I finally settled on the Vox AD30VT. I can get all kinds of sounds outta this little thing. For a low volume practice amp I couldn't be happier!

I went through the gammut of small amps again last night. Vox AD30VT, VT30, VT15, Cube 30 (not the 30x), Marshall MG15DFX, Peavey Vyper, Line 6 Spider 30 and 75.

There are so many good little amps out there it's a really hard decision. Why the F didn't they have these back in 1985 when I was stuck with a Gorilla TC-25?

Originally I wasn't going to consider an amp with less than a 10" speaker, but the little Vox VT15 sounded really good. I'm curious now as to how a Cube (Micro?) with smaller speakers would sound.

[DonP]

Vox's are definately a good and warm sounding alternative, they also excell in the low/mid gain tones where imo the line 6 stuff just cant cope as well with...

Yep, I'm thinking the Vox might be the best compliment to my POD. The Vox has a Line In, so I need to try it with my POD.


I'm curious to more people who've compared the old AD30VT to the new VT30 and see what they think. I think I liked the newer amp.

[Dogbone]

I tried out a Micro Cube yesterday. For the size, it really sounded great. I'm really thinking about picking one... Cool that it can be battery powered as well