Tube amps with shizzloads of clean headroom...

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:10 pm

mrperson wrote:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Carlsbro-60PA-Rev ... 500wt_1156

this one looks nicer.

fuck, that looks like it could kill a sheep.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:31 pm

stewart wrote:
mrperson wrote:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Carlsbro-60PA-Rev ... 500wt_1156

this one looks nicer.
fuck, that looks like it could kill a sheep.

Aha I want it really badly

Except I think the metal handle looks awful, but that wouldn't be too hard to change I guess.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:54 pm

I've got a Carlsbro 50 Top from 1969, it cost me Â£250 and it's the tits. 1 channel, treble, mid, bass and volume - all you need. Fucking loud, although I assume it would distort at louder volume but i've never taken it above 1/4 the volume and that's plenty loud enough.

DGW · Post by **DGW** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:41 am

Ankhanu wrote:I got my '72 Twin Reverb for ~$750Cdn; my guess is that's around Â£450?
I love the amp... though sometimes I wish it would get a little dirty

If you cant afford a twinn,,The Bugera V55hd can be had for $250 off ebay,,,Has a great clean with a ton of headroom....Takes pedals great,,After a tube swap

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:21 am

this motherfucker has like 60 goddamn 6l6's in it. and you will never use the 'distortion' because it's fucking fuck horrible.

HERE, listen to my shitty T. Rex riffz.
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analvaporz wrote: 4.0ohm humbucker in bridge position mixed with strat copy single coil in neck on Les Paul studio. The amp was run through my 4x12 with Celestion GH75t's and WGS Veteran 30's. Sennheiser e609 and Shure sm57 on bottom left Celestion, Audix i5 on bottom right Veteran 30. Two takes for each clip. All amp eq settings flat with output on '10'. Clean was volume on about 5, Dirt was volume all the way up, Distortion was full volume with distortion control maxed.

Just replaced all the electrolytic capacitors and fixed a few other minor problems. You may notice the distortion is horrible, this is they way it was designed. It's bad. This is a very bass heavy amp and my speakers had a hard time handling all the low end so when I turned up to dirty the clean channel, I had to cut the bass down to '2'. Some people have converted this into a bass head, which I think makes more sense than using this as a guitar amp. Sounds amazing with a bass.