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I was told since im in the US i need a adapter or transformer... Explain this to me please???

UK uses 230V, US uses 120V.

you'll need a step down transformer to use a TT made for the UK in the US.

thats another reason i would love to live in the UK.
thanks zaphod ill have to settle for another little amp head.

i meant step up transformer, not sure why i thought step down.

orange amps are one of the few things we don't get shafted on, 'tis good.

do you have to get them for fender amps?
Also could i buy them pre-modded over seas?

It wouldn't be a modification (I think). It'd be a block type thing that'd go between the walll and the amp, like you get in the power lead of some consoles.

oh. and there expensive?

I wouldn't imagine so. It's the shipping that'll be your main problem.

I think that for the cost of shipping one over, getting a transformer, and then having to put up with an amp that you need a specific power set-up for, it doesn't make sense. I think you'd be losing whatever value you'd gain by the cheaper cost.

i guess ill have to find a a different small amp head
any suggestions shortscale?

As far as I know, there are plenty in America. The Epiphone Valve Junior's great, as is the Fender Champion 600 (although the Fender's not a head). There's something else too, but I can't remember the name of it. Whatever the something else is is supposed to be the market leader.

What about one of those Fender Frontman amps.

They're awful.

I've only played thru one a few times. So don;t really have much experience.

I used to have a Frontman 25R. It was shite. They're very solid state amps, really harsh and fizzy sounding.

At least mine was. Dunno what they've done to them since.

I played thru a 65watt one, and it seemed pretty good, but some times gear is faulty I once had a DS-1 and it was terrible it wouldn't turn on when I activated it or any thing, and it was connected to power so, maybe you just had bad amp.

it was doing you a favour.

silly_rabbit_band wrote:I played thru a 65watt one, and it seemed pretty good, but some times gear is faulty I once had a DS-1 and it was terrible it wouldn't turn on when I activated it or any thing, and it was connected to power so, maybe you just had bad amp.

Yeah, that's probably what it is. I have difficulty telling the difference between what sounds good and what doesn't, which is probably why I don't have a DS-1.

I'm with Zaphod on the DS-1 thing, the DS-1 is terrible.
And Paul was that last post sarcasm? Or am I just reading it that way.

Wait, what's going on here? Is there a reason you can't get the US version of the TT?

silly_rabbit_band wrote:I'm with Zaphod on the DS-1 thing, the DS-1 is terrible.
And Paul was that last post sarcasm? Or am I just reading it that way.

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