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stay away from marshall mg series.yeah, the roland cube sound pretty good and have several sounds. also they are small and easy to carry from room to room.

I mentioned it back in this thread, and I still love my little Vox Pathfinder (the 15r). Can go from nice and clean to really gnarly and over the top. Decent EQ, built in trem and spring reverb. $119 from banjo mart, and I bet theres a used one out there for a little less. A very nice little amp.

A friend of mine has asked me to recommend her a practice amp from these three:Marshall MG10CD: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar\_amplifiers/marshall/mg10cd/index.html Roland Cube 15 watt: http://www.roland.com/products/en/CUBE-15/Randall RG25RXM: http://www.adirondackguitar.com/amps/randall/practice/rg\_25.htmAnyone used any of them? Much of a muchness? Thanks.

The NEW Vox AC4 is excellent as well.It's quite loud tho (even at 1/4 watt) but it sounds super. Out of the three listed I would go for the Korg also.

I have never once been unhappy with my silverface Champ.Ben

killyourself wrote:I mentioned it back in this thread, and I still love my little Vox Pathfinder (the 15r). Can go from nice and clean to really gnarly and over the top. Decent EQ, built in trem and spring reverb. $119 from banjo mart, and I bet theres a used one out there for a little less. A very nice little amp.I have some version of this and I agree with it being good. Mine doesn't have a spring reverb. I really like the line out on the back.The best practice amp I've ever had was the Fender SP-10. I broke one and bought another 10 years later. This might have even been in the strat packs for a while. The most recent one I got for under 30 dollars.

killyourself wrote:I mentioned it back in this thread, and I still love my little Vox Pathfinder (the 15r). Can go from nice and clean to really gnarly and over the top. Decent EQ, built in trem and spring reverb. $119 from banjo mart, and I bet theres a used one out there for a little less. A very nice little amp.I'll second this, in the $100 range this is probably your best bet.

I have an excellent old solid state Ampeg practice amp that slays face. Semi-closed back, 8 inch speaker, 10 watts or so. Sounds glorious.Looks like this, minus the stain:Also, count me amazed that we are having the practice amp discussion and no one has yet mentioned Peavey. Many fine, and by "fine" I mean "more or less tolerable," practice amps from that manufacturer over the years.

One time I saw a guy playing in a bar who had a little Squire solid state practice amp with either an 8, or more likely a 6 inch speaker, with a hole drilled into the bottom of it, and mounted on a straight microphone stand, with it lifted to his ear level (he was sitting down while playing). He was playing either a Jag or a Mustang or one of the hybrids through it, and it sounded incredible!It was mic'd up with an EV408, and going through an EAW 4-way PA. Not sure what the model was, but damn I'd like to find out.

The Vox Pathfinder 15 is a wonderful practice amp. Surprisingly versatile - does brutal distortion to Andy-Gill-style scratchiness (my favorite) to jangle to jazzy, all with different combinations of pickups and gain settings. My only complaint is that it can sometimes sound unmusical and plinky, but that's as much a question of the guitar I'm using as anything else (quite a trebly Telecaster). Mine doesn't have reverb, unfortunately, so I'd spring even more for one that had reverb.On second glance, I didn't mean to make that pun.