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could you recommend a very good lightweight amp? preferably 15-30 watts, not a tube amp

Probably need a bit more information, dude. Multi-channel, reverb, footswitchable, speaker size, decent distortion, just as a base for effects?

I still love my little Zoom Fire 15; flexible enough amp sims for practise/demos, lightweight, features a setting to bypass all digital modelling and basically use it as a very clean solid state amp. It lives at my parents' place, always fun to switch it on for a quick blast.

guitar effects and a few amp modelling, is fender champion 20 any good?

well if money's no object id get some fine-ass master volume tube combo that has a built in attenuator, or i'd buy an attenuator separately

i have a mustang 1 amp which has great modelling but not great for pedals - depends what's most important!

Yeah the princeton recording amps that came out a while back are starting to get cheap now.

In any case if you don't want tube I recommend Tech21 Trademark 10 (or 20 or 30). They have pretty natural sound and amp modelling for a small solid state amp, and they have real spring reverb tanks that sound nice.

AaronGuitarDude wrote:guitar effects and a few amp modelling, is fender champion 20 any good?

Is that not a tube/ss hybrid or am I thinking of another model?

Thomas wrote:

AaronGuitarDude wrote:guitar effects and a few amp modelling, is fender champion 20 any good?

Is that not a tube/ss hybrid or am I thinking of another model?

solid state, with 4 modelling amps and few effects

I was getting it mixed up with the champ 2x.

Just get a zt lunchbox more watts than you need but sounds good at low volume...

I really like my Peavey Envoy 110. I've had a lot of small solid state amps, and this one sounds the best by miles. The EQ on it is a little strange, but once you understand how it works, it sounds great.

I've actually ended up using this little amp on a few recording sessions.

http://soundcloud.com/gabriel-wareing/ ... in-vermont

Gabriel wrote:I really like my Peavey Envoy 110. I've had a lot of small solid state amps, and this one sounds the best by miles. The EQ on it is a little strange, but once you understand how it works, it sounds great.

I've actually ended up using this little amp on a few recording sessions.

http://soundcloud.com/gabriel-wareing/ ... in-vermont

Nice sounds man...

I picked up a Blackstar ID core Beam. Fantastic little practice amp. Sounds great, can plug bass, electric and acoustic guitar into it and stream music to it via blue tooth or use the dedicated line in. Decent sounding FX on it as well. It's just a good fun bit of kit.

Mustang 3 v2 if you want to use headphones, or the Super Champ x2 if you want good tone at low bedroom levels. That blackface channel one on the super champ is superb, and accepts pedals very well.

I used to have a Transtube Envoy 110 (gray stripe, USA made) that I really liked. I could get a ton of different sounds on it.

Lately I use a Vox AV30 as my practice amp. It's got a single tube as sort of a line level power amp. It's a really nice sounding amp. It's analog modeling, which I find pretty easy to operate.

(I also have a Yamaha THR10 that's a more of a true practice amp that I really like but that's an entirely different beast.)

The smallest Jazz chorus-40 or some other roland like the blues cube. They sound really good if you don't want tubes.

If you can find a 90s-era "vintage" Roland Blues Cube BC-30, that's a fantastic amp, often at dirt cheap prices. Made in America, too.

A Fender Mustang II might be up your alley. Any of the other amps mentioned by these dudes will also do the duty.