Good amp for a 15yo metal head?
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get him the best clean sounding amp he can afford and a metal zone pedal. providing a setup with SHTLAODS OF FXS that all sound of ass only contributes to the wealth of idiotic n00bz who know nothing about how tone works. if/when the kid decides to wander into sound with mids and. . . MUSIC, he won't be required to ditch his entire setup again. this combo will also allow him to add pedals as he wants and control them conveniently with his sneakers instead of twiddling knobs on the amp (which is a pain in the ass when jamming w/ others).
telling ya, spider iv and footswitch
http://line6.com/spideriv/sounds75.html
so many good sounds in there
YES you can achieve better with a clean tube amp and the individual effects but cost would kill you by the time you get every sound that the spider can
PLUS IT HAS WHAMMY SETTINGS, COME ON FOLKS!
JOHNNY MARRRR
http://line6.com/spideriv/sounds75.html
so many good sounds in there
YES you can achieve better with a clean tube amp and the individual effects but cost would kill you by the time you get every sound that the spider can
PLUS IT HAS WHAMMY SETTINGS, COME ON FOLKS!
JOHNNY MARRRR
+1, I tried explaining this to a friend, he bought a spider, now that he wants to play different music he's looking for a valve amp.dots wrote:get him the best clean sounding amp he can afford and a metal zone pedal. providing a setup with SHTLAODS OF FXS that all sound of ass only contributes to the wealth of idiotic n00bz who know nothing about how tone works. if/when the kid decides to wander into sound with mids and. . . MUSIC, he won't be required to ditch his entire setup again. this combo will also allow him to add pedals as he wants and control them conveniently with his sneakers instead of twiddling knobs on the amp (which is a pain in the ass when jamming w/ others).
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ive got one. trying to get rid of it too. cant abide by modelling amps, i want something real.Freddy V-C wrote:Thirded.laterallateral wrote:secondedhotrodperlmutter wrote:vox valvetronix!
I'm trying to get rid of mine at the moment, but for the price it's a great amp at bedroom volumes and an okay-ish amp at gig volumes. It has a load of different sounds which I found useful until I started to get more into using pedals.
Crate GT212,
great solid state, cheaper than the peavey bandit, way louder. The cleans are great, and the overdrive channel has a great low-gain sound when you tweak it just right. The 'solo' channel is super high-gain. You can get one for less than 500(Canadian), a great amp for starting a band. When I do upgrade to a fender tube amp I would have no qualms about splitting my signal into this amp ..
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great solid state, cheaper than the peavey bandit, way louder. The cleans are great, and the overdrive channel has a great low-gain sound when you tweak it just right. The 'solo' channel is super high-gain. You can get one for less than 500(Canadian), a great amp for starting a band. When I do upgrade to a fender tube amp I would have no qualms about splitting my signal into this amp ..
a windsor with a tubescreamer sounds awesome in metal kinda sounds ( this is a Ts9 -> Peavey Windsor -> Mesa Rectifier 4x12 http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/963137/No%20 ... 20mast.mp3 it's from another forum... sounds awesome, he's using a rectifier cab but...) and also new 5150's combos are coming out about 500 euros...
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