Best LOW wattage valve amp for metal

[MDV]

I just re-did the numbers for a Chimera + shipping with the current exchange rate: £1900.

yeah, now's the wrong time to buy anything from abroad, unfortunately.

just to check, you included customs and VAT in those numbers, right?

:)

No I didnt!

DOH!

Well, thats it, no way I'm getting a peters now.

[juansolo]

I'm waiting for more reviews of the Blackstar HT-5 before I bite the bullet. A 5 watt 2ch valve head. Looks like it could potentially do everything you're after. Sadly the only demos of it up at the moment have it being run clean or a bit rocky. Not real high gainy stuff. Cheap as chips too at a shade over £200.

http://www.musicradar.com/gear/all/amplification/instrument-amps/guitar-stacks/ht5-s-mini-stack-179251/review

Yeah, I read that and it pretty much made the decision for me. Given their scarcity right now (combo and stack are already pretty much out of stock everywhere) I thought I may as well snaffle one in the knowledge that if I don't like it, I reckon I won't lose a great deal selling it on.

[dave_mc]

No I didnt!

DOH!

Well, thats it, no way I'm getting a peters now.

yeah, that's going to up the price by around a quarter... on ~£2000, that's about £500. Sorry, man... :(

[MDV]

No I didnt!

DOH!

Well, thats it, no way I'm getting a peters now.

yeah, that's going to up the price by around a quarter... on ~£2000, that's about £500. Sorry, man... :(

Well, its certainly crossed into excessive x indulgencexrisk coefficient now. The moneys  better spent on other things.

[HTH AMPS]

MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!! - this will...

Oh - you tease!

HTH is building me a 10w version of the Tim Caswell/SIR Number 39 modified Marshall that Slash used on Appetite and George Lynch used for most of the Under Lock and Key Tour

We are using an 80s Transistor Marshall as the donor amp - giving us a nice stable cabinet , Chassis and Celestion 12" speaker.

I've got that #39 preamp in one of my own amps and its a face-melter for sure if you want to play 80s metal.  It'll do other stuff too, but it's really tricked out and voiced for that hi-mid crunch that typifies 80s metal.  I have another mod of my own that suits pretty much everything else (Catalyst77 has this in his 2204, as does Tim)

The amp me and MDV are talking about will come in somewhere between a Recto and a 5150 in terms of tone/gain.

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[AdamB]

Krank Rev Junior?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200274972548&cguid=dc48342d11c0a0e205364046ffce828c

Clip review

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VVPv8WUKE

[MDV]

If you're after metal distortion and tightness at lowish volumes, but have  an amp to run through, you could try a Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Mayhem. I have one, and it pretty much does what it says on the tin, and does it very very well. Retails at around £130.

Just took a look at that. Looks good. I like.

I think I'll get something like this (all-valve-signal metal preamp) as well. You can never have too many distortions/tones available. So it might not be this exact one, but thats for the reminder that such things exist

[hunter]

A bit on the dear side, but as you asked for the BEST, I think you should take a look at the new Voodoo Amps 10 Watt versions, they have released for most of their big amps.

Here is the VRock 10W:
http://www.voodooamps.com/home/Products/Amplifiers/VRock/VRock10watt1x12Combo/tabid/287/Default.aspx

[jibidy]

I have the HT5 and it'll need a pedal for *&^%$£" metal!

I use the distortion channel for a slight gain and have a pedal (thanks to twinfan) for distortion.

It works very well and i am very happy with the sound. Its darker and warmer than any amp I have had before. Great for Muff like tones and takes pedals very well.

[MDV]

Oh, I got the duncan mayhem. Dont bother with them. Its ok, I suppose, but nothing special, and it broke really fast.

Hunter - 80s high gain =/= high gain!!! ;) We're talking low gain BR00TALZ here :twisted:

Anywho, HTH has something evil cooking...

[exoslime]

i suggest to you to get a preamp unit only,

like:
damage control demonizer
engl e530
engl e570
vht gp3
mesa boogie rectifier preamp

and that you can plug in whatever you want..
for example i have my demonizer connected to a compact mixer (mackie onyx 1620) , and that is connected to a small fullrange pa.. i can play over headphones, or over the pa, very quiet, our very loud too.

for several times, when i was at a friend for a jam, i had plugged my demonizer into tthe fx return of his 2dn amp he had, voila...works too.

and for recording you can also work with impulse-responses if you like.

cheers
exoslime

[hunter]

Oh, I got the duncan mayhem. Dont bother with them. Its ok, I suppose, but nothing special, and it broke really fast.

Hunter - 80s high gain =/= high gain!!! ;) We're talking low gain BR00TALZ here :twisted:

Anywho, HTH has something evil cooking...

Yeah allright, I'm from yesteryear y'know :)

[dave_mc]

duncan mayhem broke? what happened?

[MDV]

Went very, very noisy, and moreso with slight taps of the finger and moving wires not connected to it nearby, so I figure a valve went microphonic on me.

[BareKnuckleJack]

Dude, What about the Cornford Roadhouse????