So I asked for the Vox. I'll let you know how it sounds. Thanks all!

I don't care if you wanna use pedals to get your tone! Knock yourself out.

I still think I answered your question better than anybody else by recommending that you go solid state. If your focus is on low noise, a solid state amp is gonna beat a tube amp in that regard 90-something percent of the time. If you want to get your tone from your pedals (which is fine) then the key is clean headroom, which small tube amps don't have... in fact, small tube amps are mostly all about the exact opposite of clean headroom; they're all about breaking up at low volumes.

I would gone with something like, I dunno, a TS-25 or TS-50, both of which can be had for less than $200.

That being said, I'm very much in a low-wattage-tube-amp kinda mindset lately. I'm trying to get wise on the best way to use 6V6's and/or 7591's for implementation in the amp I've been designing for whatever it is, 2 years or something. The amp I've had my eye on is the Laney AOR 30-watter. I have the 50-watter and it fricken rocks. The 30 uses 6V6's and I imagine is one of the best amps for mad distortion at lower volumes. Low-wattage tube amp and breakup at low volumes. Yep.

scott wrote:I don't care if you wanna use pedals to get your tone! Knock yourself out.

I still think I answered your question better than anybody else by recommending that you go solid state.

You did, and I do thank you. And, I hope I didn't mis-identify you with the "pedals/tone" statement. I just remember someone saying they laugh at people who get their tone from their pedals, and I thought that was you. If it's any comfort, I'm using the same tube pedal that Billy Gibbons gets his "tone" from.

otisroom wrote:

D'Piucchstre wrote:Not really a guitar amp but, Line6 Pods can get somewhat close to the tones that you might be looking for cheaply.

That being said, they'll never respond like a real amp, but if you need versatility, and quiteness for late nite recording w/o torturing any neighbors, this is a good route to go.

I hate mine but it has saved me several times when amps were not an option. Actually I don't hate it I just have a lot of contempt for it.

I like to come out of my Pods headphone out into a little casio speaker I have sitting around and mic it. It has that things are blowing up sound. I usually use the Fuzz setting and crank the reverb while doing this. I used to hate my Pod until I started using it for everything except the reasons it was made... Now I like it.

Yay- it's muh birthday! Got the Vox, and it rocks. Friggin sweet tone, clean as a whistle, and the overdrive is nasty enough for most practice. Will be trying different pedals throughout the day. I love the real spring reverb! Nothing sounds the same. Joy.

Thanks folks

eliya wrote:

Boombats wrote:Yay- it's muh birthday!

it's the fifth or the sixth? happy birthday bro!

The 6th. thanks

Boombats wrote:Yay- it's muh birthday!

it's the fifth or the sixth? happy birthday bro!

eliya wrote:it's the fifth or the sixth? happy birthday bro!

Fuck, Eliya, was it not your birthday yesterday or something? Your brother was telling me when I was down at the studio. Happy Birthday. And Boombats, you too. Enjoy the amp.

Yeah it was yesterday. I turned 21. thanks!

he, eldad, told me you fixed the amp and that the inputs sockets were bad. I knew they might be the problem! awesome!

eliya wrote:Yeah it was yesterday. I turned 21. thanks!

Cool. Get anything good?

he, eldad, told me you fixed the amp and that the inputs sockets were bad. I knew they might be the problem! awesome!

Yeah, those switching jacks are crap. They had bad joints too since they are soldered directly to the board. I don't fancy repairing one of those later Fenders again soon - the whole thing is a nightmare to disassemble.

Rodabod wrote:

eliya wrote:Yeah it was yesterday. I turned 21. thanks!

Cool. Get anything good?

no. well, at least not yet

he, eldad, told me you fixed the amp and that the inputs sockets were bad. I knew they might be the problem! awesome!

Yeah, those switching jacks are crap. They had bad joints too since they are soldered directly to the board. I don't fancy repairing one of those later Fenders again soon - the whole thing is a nightmare to disassemble.[/quote]

Yeah, they seem to be hard to disassemble, he should replace the jacks with regular ones and connect it to the pcb with wires.
btw, it sounded good(when it worked) having the the input gain cranked all the way up.

ok, sorry for really hijacking this thread!