Author Topic: Recommend me an amp damnit! (Read 39687 times)

dave_mc · « **Reply #120 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:04:48 PM »

I tried a crate solid state head a while back (maybe it was a hybrid and had one preamp valve). I thought it sounded sterile. of course, that may be exactly what you're after. But I didn't like it...

BloodMountain · « **Reply #121 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:08:31 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

I tried a crate solid state head a while back (maybe it was a hybrid and had one preamp valve). I thought it sounded sterile. of course, that may be exactly what you're after. But I didn't like it...

i am not 100% sure what sterile means in terms of tone.......

can you remember what series it was?? :)

TwilightOdyssey · « **Reply #122 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:14:32 PM »

Wow, this thread is ... mega.

Are you ready to pull the trigger yet??

BloodMountain · « **Reply #123 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:19:58 PM »

Quote from: TwilightOdyssey

Wow, this thread is ... mega.

Are you ready to pull the trigger yet??

no

we've pretty much covered every manufacturer possible in my price range, and all we can come up with is "try a few out" :lol:

seriously though, i want this amp to be THE amp for me. which is why i doubt a Valve for £350 wouldn't be as good as a £350 SS that rules. i've heard these Crate GT3500H s are teh sex for metal!

dave_mc · « **Reply #124 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:20:02 PM »

^ ^ http://www.crateamps.com/html/product.cfm?pid=94

I think that was the one, but it was a while ago, I'm not certain.

Sterile means it sounds like a solid state, not like tubes... doesn't sound so organic, the tone has hard edges instead of soft, etc.

Hard to describe if you don't know what it means to begin with, lol. As I said though, that might be exactly what you're after. But it doesn't do it for me.

BloodMountain · « **Reply #125 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:21:26 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

^^ http://www.crateamps.com/html/product.cfm?pid=94

I think that was the one, but it was a while ago.

Sterile means it sounds like a solid state, not like tubes... doesn't sound so organic, the tone has hard edges instead of soft, etc.

Hard to describe if you don't know what it means to begin with, lol. As I said though, that might be exactly what you're after. But it doesn't do it for me.

hmmmm i would have to hear it to see if i liked it. but I doubt crate do devon.

EDIT: i love the sound of my Behringer GM108 ( :o :o i know, it's blasphemy!) and that's a SS, so maybe it's a sign.....

dave_mc · « **Reply #126 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:24:01 PM »

^ sound control do crates, there's quite a few of them around, but maybe not in devon...

BloodMountain · « **Reply #127 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:26:00 PM »

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^ sound control do crates, there's quite a few of them around, but maybe not in devon...

thre's one in Bristol, so all i have to do now is persuade my parents to take me there on a "day out"

TwilightOdyssey · « **Reply #128 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:26:19 PM »

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seriously though, i want this amp to be THE amp for me. which is why i doubt a Valve for £350 wouldn't be as good as a £350 SS that rules. i've heard these Crate GT3500H s are teh sex for metal!

Honestly, BM, you're just starting this journey. This is the first amp of many. Go. Try em out. Buy what you like, and then forget about it. Play till your fingers bleed and your heart is full of METAL!!!

BloodMountain · « **Reply #129 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:28:22 PM »

Quote from: TwilightOdyssey

Quote from: BLOODMOUNTAIN
seriously though, i want this amp to be THE amp for me. which is why i doubt a Valve for £350 wouldn't be as good as a £350 SS that rules. i've heard these Crate GT3500H s are teh sex for metal!

Honestly, BM, you're just starting this journey. This is the first amp of many. Go. Try em out. Buy what you like, and then forget about it. Play till your fingers bleed and your heart is full of METAL!!!

it's almost prophetic :lol:

....but true. i will go forth, master! :twisted: :twisted:

time to burn some music shops, i think.

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #130 on:** March 20, 2007, 11:53:19 PM »

Good luck on your quest, hopefully you will come back with a Laney :lol:

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No problem BloodMountain
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the_bleeding · « **Reply #132 on:** March 21, 2007, 05:08:22 AM »

everybody i know has been dissapointed with the crate GX or GHX or whatever.... it gets shitety sounding at high volume.

and sterile... best way to describe it... compare an emg 81 to a passive pickup... the emg is sterile as $%&#: no warmth, no life, no character: just straightforward pushes out the note you play. A non sterile sound will have a colourful note: can be warm or cold, has some extra feeling to it, it wont be a straightforward note, it will have TONE to it vs. just the straight up note itself.

same thing for amps... madisons are sterile as hell... theyre also piles of shite stacked ever so high.

LazyNinja · « **Reply #133 on:** March 21, 2007, 08:28:49 AM »

I agree about the Crate GT amps it felt sterile as if it's like a toy.

How bout a Peavey XXL?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Peavey-XXL-Head-Great-Condition-Still-in-Original-Box_W0QQitemZ180097936269QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

good price (but oh so close to GH50L lol). I've never heard one but I heard it does the scooped metal thing well.

Consider randall as well if youre into that kinda tone.

snipesace · « **Reply #134 on:** March 21, 2007, 03:57:51 PM »

I say the tiny terror, I was quite surprised with how much gain it can pump out.

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