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FELINEGUITARS

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Re: Little amps
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2014, 12:59:14 PM »
I have a pair of Vox Lil Nightrains that I am about to get shot of.
They have had the treble mod done , so they sound much better , and Martin at MJW converted the headphone jack on the rear to a power amp in socket , so you could use them with a preamp or a Pod type thing.
I was trying to do a mini Brian May set-up with 3 amps (one for main and the other two for delays) but have run out of space for such rigs and am having to rationalise my rigs.

As Ben said they don't do metal - unless you feed a preamp or modeller into the power amp facility I had added.
Good fun though and work best with strats and teles, just like big Voxes do in my opinion
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Re: Little amps
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2014, 03:46:37 AM »
I'm using Orange Dual Terror going through  Zilla 2 x 12 cab with vintage 30's ....working for me  :D
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Re: Little amps
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2014, 01:21:05 PM »
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Re: Little amps
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2014, 02:00:53 PM »
http://revolutionamps.com/

I'm sure the amps are great, but my god that is an appalling looking website.
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Re: Little amps
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2014, 02:31:50 PM »
If you have a cab look at the V30 amp from Victory amp out in the few months. £799
 
"The Victory V30 Countess is a super compact but incredibly powerful 30w all valve amp hand-built in the UK.

The two channels offer the incredible Victory sound with crystal clear clean channel and a huge amount of dirt on tap on the overdrive channel. The V30 features more filth than just about any other amp but cleans up beautifully as you back off the gain to give you the classic British barking EL34 loaded poweramp breakup."

Specification
30W-Push Pull/15W-Single Ended/9W-PushPull/2W-Single Ended
All valve
Two channel
Power Amp: 2 x EL34/6L6 (The Countess is shipped with EL34 output valves)
Preamp: 4 x 12AX7/ECC83
A bias switch is situated on the top panel of the amplifier so that the bias voltage can be set to a range more appropriate for EL34 or 6L6 use.
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Re: Little amps
« Reply #20 on: March 07, 2014, 03:23:27 PM »
The Victory amp looks 'sick' to quote some youth speak. With a cab to so it justice I suppose we are looking at £1000 ...

Does anybody have any experience with the ENGL gigmasters? They look well-built and although I would prefer EL34s I think that they seem to be good value. Actually, there is one on Ebay right now.

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Re: Little amps
« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2014, 04:50:03 PM »
^ I haven't tried them but I don't think they're all-tube, if that's important to you.

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Re: Little amps
« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2014, 06:17:15 PM »
I currently have two amps. One is a lightly modded Epi Valve Jr.

The other one is another lightly modded Epi Valve Jr :)

I run both in stereo using a delay pedal to split the signal. Had no trouble jamming with another guitar + bass + drums.
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Re: Little amps
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2014, 12:45:00 PM »
I have a Marshall Class 5 and a Vox AC4.  They both need a few mods (changing the speaker in the Vox is a must really), but they aren't bad for the price. 
So many pickups, so little time