Does this amp exist?

[adamj]

im looking at providing some basic guitar lessons to friends and a few others, and got thinking of the practicality behind it. I would want to take one of my electric guitars, which would therefore need an amp, and i would assume the majority of my potential clients would choose an electric over acoustic. I thought it may be practical to take a small cheap but decent sounding amp to lessons with me, on the off chance the student doesnt have their own.
A side note to this would be that while playing through my amp, hopefully of higher quality than the general starter pack amps, the student would see that better gear can help them sound great and help their inspiration when they think they sound dire through their own amp.

Do amps with dual guitar inputs exist which can be used simoultaneously? iv seen lo and hi input sockets, whats the difference here? (never fully understood them).

Alternatively, what would be a great, 10 or 15W amp, solid state would be fine, for taking to lessons?

[choucas09]

1 or 2 watts would be more than enough. Blackstar HT1 maybe. In your position I'd use a Roland Microcube, highly portable and very acceptable tone. Can run off batteries too.

[HTH AMPS]

Gallien Kruger

actually, 5 mins on their website and ebay show that they don't make guitar gear these days and there is nowt on ebay.  my first guitar teacher had a pair of them - very small, portable and sounded great (in an 80s rock kinda way - think Def Leppard)

[Dmoney]

Hi and Low input can do a few things.
Normally using one renders the other useless, so no, you can't use them at the same time. They are probably switching jacks and can be bypassing a gain stage, or switching other components to get you more or less gain. Using a high or low input on the same amp usually relies on you not plugging anything into the other jack in order to achieve the desired functionality. it would depend on the amps circuit.
It might work on something like a super lead where you can jumper the inputs, because the input stage becomes a valve 'mixing' stage of sorts. but it wouldn't sound good. obviously, a superlead isn't what you want. Just trying to explain the 'hi-low' thing.
when I had some lessons recently the teacher had two Line 6 combos, I guess cos they were small, did the job, and they are capable of providing a lot of different sounds since not everyone will want to learn the same style of stuff.

[richard]

Personally I don't think 2 guitars through on amp is a great idea. In your position I'd go for 2 Microcubes. They sound very good, they're more than loud enough and they're cheap.

[WezV]

a lot of vintage amps have 2 inputs because they expected more of the band to plug in - seems like a good excuse to buy a vintage vox ac15 to me! 

of course you could just use a splitter box/pedal to put two guitars into any single amp

like this one
http://www.palmer-germany.com/130-1-duetto.html

the tone may not be perfect with 2 guitars playing through the same amp at the same time, but i cant see why it would do any damage

[WezV]

or one with the ability to mute signals as needed and do up to 3 guitars in one amp
http://www.palmer-germany.com/120-1-trinity.html

but i would check it is possible to have both instruments on at the same time with that one, it may mute the others when selecting each guitar.

[Transcend]

there are also the old carlsboro amps that have 4 inputs that you can use simultaneously as well as sound city

[WezV]

there are also the old carlsboro amps that have 4 inputs that you can use simultaneously as well as sound city

what sort of size do they come in though, i guess it needs to be portable as well.  

there are things like the old scala's, dallas's wem's and various other companies who made small practice amps with more than 1 input

[Transcend]

That is a very good point.

They are NOT portable in any way

[Elliot]

The Fender GDEC 3 Fifteen is fifteen watts and has two guitar inputs (although only 1 amp sim at a time) - as well as a SD card input for backing tracks, built in tuner, looper, and click tracks.

[Shag101]

This is a cheap alternative.   Don't know any UK stores to check prices though...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/141978-REG/DOD_VAC240_AC240_Resistance_Mixer.html

[murraymurray]

How about something like a pod x3, you can have 2 guitars input with separate signal paths i believe? Then run that into a powered speaker or something

[Telerocker]

Two Fender Mustangs, cheap, lightweight and loaded with a lot of sounds.

[adamj]

thanks for the suggestions folks, a lot to ponder over there!