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I’m fed up with using borrowed amps for gigs in London and having to make do with crap sound. I would like to buy a small, easily portable amp that sounds good and that I can carry to gigs, or pull on a small trolley, together with my guitar/guitars and pedalboard. It would need a decent amount of volume but would be mic’d so doesn’t need to be super loud. It would need to have a nice clean tone and be able to handle pedals well.

Anyone got any suggestions for amps, and trolleys to move it with?

Blues Junior? Or is that too big?

I was thinking that might work, however I would prefer something a bit cheaper.

Blues Junior,Tiny Terror,Vox Nighttrain...

Or maybe...

johnnyseven wrote:I’m fed up with using borrowed amps for gigs in London and having to make do with crap sound. I would like to buy a small, easily portable amp that sounds good and that I can carry to gigs, or pull on a small trolley, together with my guitar/guitars and pedalboard. It would need a decent amount of volume but would be mic’d so doesn’t need to be super loud. It would need to have a nice clean tone and be able to handle pedals well.

Anyone got any suggestions for amps, and trolleys to move it with?

do you have a prefence for a head + cab or combo? and what are you wanting it to sound like? Will all your dirt be coming from pedals? Will you care if its tubes or solid state?

also see doogs recent thread where he was looking for something similar.

XLSEEORZ

His needs seem to scream solid state to me.

laterallateral wrote:XLSEEORZ

endsjustifymeans wrote:His needs seem to scream solid state to me.

thats what I thought and wondered about the new orange micro terror

HH AMPS LIEK YOU GUYS DONE TOLD ME

lorez wrote: do you have a prefence for a head + cab or combo? and what are you wanting it to sound like? Will all your dirt be coming from pedals? Will you care if its tubes or solid state?

also see doogs recent thread where he was looking for something similar.

I'd consider either, head or combo. Not bothered about solid state or valve as long as it sounds good. I do have a Marshall 1x12 so maybe head would be better.

All my dirt comes from pedals so the emphasis would need to be on clean volume and taking pedals well, something like a Tiny Terror won't work for me. I have thought about the new champ head but i'm not interested in all the modelling stuff it has. Something I can pick up used fairly easily would be good too.

endsjustifymeans wrote:

Love mine, but it doesnt take pedals too well, so you'll have to be prepared to experiment to find something that works.

Tech 21 Trademark 30. That and the Trademark 10 have D.I. XLR outputs too, so you also have the option of running it to the board if there's a mic shortage at a gig.

johnnyseven wrote:

lorez wrote: do you have a prefence for a head + cab or combo? and what are you wanting it to sound like? Will all your dirt be coming from pedals? Will you care if its tubes or solid state?

also see doogs recent thread where he was looking for something similar.

I'd consider either, head or combo. Not bothered about solid state or valve as long as it sounds good. I do have a Marshall 1x12 so maybe head would be better.

All my dirt comes from pedals so the emphasis would need to be on clean volume and taking pedals well, something like a Tiny Terror won't work for me. I have thought about the new champ head but i'm not interested in all the modelling stuff it has. Something I can pick up used fairly easily would be good too.

Try to find an Epiphone Valve Senior Head - they´re amazing, just the reverb is not that great....

I have one of these for sale if interested.

Marshall Master Lead combo 30 - 5010, first year of production !!

Actual photo of my amp:


Someone elses demo:
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It's a lot lighter that it looks and many gig with them, yours for £75.... and I'm London based.

I'd like to say a word for the Pro Junior over the Blues.


To my ears the Pro just sounds nicer (for what I wanted anyway) so it is worth checking both out.

Excelsior

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Vox VT-50 (Older one if you can get it). I use it, and it keeps up well with the other guitarists head/cab's (both use 4x12's) I sometimes have to turn down. I'm currently looking at options for some sort of extension speakers, but thats more for getting rid of the pokeyness of using a combo with the others playing through cabs.


Because you can adjust the wattage, it means you can get the best possable sound at low volumes aswell. Its good with amp simulation also, mine is constantly on the AC-30 setting.

The VT-100 has 2 speakers, but runs/weighs a lot more.