Question about how pickups work

[gordiji]

frank lives 8)

[SRChrono]

Do you guys really think I need a tube amp? I live in a small apartment with two roommates who are patient enough with my incessant practicing. I was thinking about just getting a PODxt and some headphones/speakers for practice. 

[ratspeak]

It depends what you want to do. If you're going to play with a band at some point in the future it sucks not having an amp.

[SRChrono]

I don't see myself with a band any time soon.

[BigB]

Do you guys really think I need a tube amp? I live in a small apartment with two roommates who are patient enough with my incessant practicing. I was thinking about just getting a PODxt and some headphones/speakers for practice. 

I don't see myself with a band any time soon.

Duh... Then no, a tube amp is probably not what you need - even a low-wattage one would be overkill. You'd probably be better with a good modeling amp like a Vox DA5 or VT15.

My 2 cents...

[ToneMonkey]

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I have a Vox AD15VT for sale at the minute.

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[BigB]

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I have a Vox AD15VT for sale at the minute.

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A good friend of mine (ex band mate when we were young) has an old VT30 I had time to try this and previous summer (total 4 weeks - quite enough to get an idea of what a piece of gear is worth), played it with my Vox standard 25 (strat-like), my Telecaster, and my friend's Gibson ES 135 and Guild S70, and while it's not quite as good as a true valve amp, it really comes close. They definitly did a great job on these amps. And I've heard the AD series were even better...

[ToneMonkey]

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I have a Vox AD15VT for sale at the minute.

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A good friend of mine (ex band mate when we were young) has an old VT30 I had time to try this and previous summer (total 4 weeks - quite enough to get an idea of what a piece of gear is worth), played it with my Vox standard 25 (strat-like), my Telecaster, and my friend's Gibson ES 135 and Guild S70, and while it's not quite as good as a true valve amp, it really comes close. They definitly did a great job on these amps. And I've heard the AD series were even better...

I did have an AD30VT as it had the attenuator on the back.......... until my brother stole it and replaced it with the 15W version.  :? 

Good amp for bedroom, certainly did everything I needed