Author Topic: Marshall AVT150X - Looking for opinions please. (Read 7508 times)

hamfist · « **Reply #15 on:** January 16, 2008, 05:02:24 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

what about a laney vc30 or peavey classic 30?

Yup, the Peavey is a pretty reasonable amp. With a new speaker it becomes a GOOD amp. For me, the Classic 30 would have the adge, due to slightly better reliability.

Machinehead, what we really need to know here is your BUDGET !!
How much are we playing with ??

Do you have a cab already ? Do you have an attenuator ? I'm guessing probably not, but we need to know !!

Scotty477 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 16, 2008, 07:00:20 PM »

Thanks for all the replies and advice. It's very much appreciated.

At the moment I dont have a gigging amp. My current band setup has us all going straight into a mixer, via Boss GT 6's.

It's not as bad as it sounds. The amp is a 3.4 gig Peavey rig.

My budget is up to around £500-600.

I use a Roland Cube 30 for practice in the house.

I went into my local store today and tried out aan AVT150X and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 112.

The HRDX totally blew away the AVT, as expected and had a really sweet tone, using my LP ... but it didn't sound so great at low (house) volume.

I'll take a look at smaller tube amps shortly but I think I'm not going to get the mix of giggable tube amp that can be used for mIked up recording in the house.

Scotty477 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 16, 2008, 07:01:00 PM »

Double post.

hamfist · « **Reply #18 on:** January 17, 2008, 07:40:44 AM »

If you are looking at a budget of £600, then I would seriously look at getting a secondhand Hotplate (about £175), leaving you £425 for an amp. The Hotplate would really open up the possibilities of good lower volume tone from a tube amp of around 30W. 30W is definately plenty to gig with (if you're being miked through a PA), but also tameable with a Hotplate for lower volume at home.
Something like a Hotplate with a Classic 30, VC30, or even a Spider Valve 1x12 (which I have heard plenty of good things about if you are able to push the power amp at all - whci you would using the Hotplate).
One thing I'm not sure of is whether any or all of these have easy access to the signal path between the power amp and speakers, for inserting a Hotplate.

Alan

sgmypod · « **Reply #19 on:** January 17, 2008, 11:01:56 AM »

Again I'll say the Koch stidiotone...can do fender to really driven tones sounds great low vol and when driven..is 20w has D.I. etc out..if I had 600 would prob get one...2 channel and gain boost I think

Hell Hound · « **Reply #20 on:** January 17, 2008, 07:24:43 PM »

I have a Studiotone head and I can confirm it's exactly what you need. It sounds great at low volume, does Marshall AND Mesa style sound (thx to the voicing switch), clean is very Fendery, it got a DI out with speaker sim and a speaker load so you can play totaly silent.
It's the best option IMO, I ordered blind based on specs for the money and I don't regret any.

Scotty477 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 17, 2008, 07:44:27 PM »

Ok.. Studiotone has my attention.

I'll see if anyone has one in Glasgow so I can try one out.

badgermark · « **Reply #22 on:** January 17, 2008, 07:51:44 PM »

I have a Tiny Terror, and with a MI Audio Crunch Box it nails a good loud Marshall. Oh and it looks pretty in my living room, and sounds awesome at low volumes. AND! It coped at a rehearsal being heard over a metal guitarist and a heavy drummer.

Merchant City have one in stock, and I imagine Sound Control also have some. As for the Crunchbox, only GuitarGuitar stock them and they are out of stock, new ones will be more expensive apparently...

Gizmo · « **Reply #23 on:** January 17, 2008, 08:09:32 PM »

http://www.theguitarstoreonline.com/

in southampton stock them. I ordered one in Dec but stupid royal mail lost it. After chatting with the shop and reading the reviews in this forum and in several mags i changed my mind and went for the Blackstar dual pedal. The crunch box is a great pedal but if your budget stretches then the blackstar offers the whole range of soundsand will cover all distortion/crunch marshall sounds. Its won all the awards and sounds really good.

If you still fancy a Crunch box they got an order in yesterday they are £69.99 new. I should get my blackstar tomorrow and then pickup my guitar with BKP's on Sat to try it out :-D cant wait

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Mr Ed · « **Reply #24 on:** January 18, 2008, 10:05:14 AM »

DO. NOT. BUY. AN. AVT.

The following words sum it up:

cr@p.
Awful.
cr@p.
One-dimensional.
cr@p.
Flat.
cr@p.
Lifeless.
cr@p.
Boring.
cr@p.
Utterly without tone.
cr@p.

... did I mention cr@p?

Scotty477 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 18, 2008, 12:05:36 PM »

So ... I'm getting the slight impression here that you're not that keen on the AVT?

:D

Seriously though, I agree. I played one right after a 40w Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and there simply was no comparison.

I won't be getting an AVT.

Mr Ed · « **Reply #26 on:** January 18, 2008, 12:10:56 PM »

Haha yeah, I'm amazed you picked it up through my immense subtlety. I was forced to use one during my amp-downtime and the only thing I liked was the acoustic modelling, purely because I like acoustic modelling sometimes but the more i used the amp the more apparent it became that its just plain cheap.

dave_mc · « **Reply #27 on:** January 18, 2008, 02:49:53 PM »

you forgot muddy, mr ed. :lol:

Mr Ed · « **Reply #28 on:** January 18, 2008, 02:53:46 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

you forgot muddy, mr ed. :lol:

Damn. :(

Scotty477 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 18, 2008, 03:03:08 PM »

Ok, ok you two ... We all make mistakes :D