I still love the tone of my Pro Jr.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

What? No heated discussion. Just "I want my money back, this band is going to suck."

I have been enjoying my 5-Watt Swart Spacetone 6v6 immensely ever since I bought it. Five Watts is enough for any man, I say! It's actually rather loud for home use, but I manage. I wanted something that I could carry on public transport when I get around to easing myself back into playing out... some of my effects knick-knacks are more unwieldy than this amp...

You gots to FEEEEEEEL the music!

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA

More Power

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"Life is like eating jalapenos. What you do today may burn your arse tomorrow"

mondo, I can dig it. My Egnater Rebel dials from 1 watt up to 20, and let's you choose 6V6's or EL84's for power (or any blend thereof). Those 6V6's dialed in at about 5 watts or so are a thing of beauty, like a tweed Princeton with a better tone stack!

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/F ... orded-521/

It's a list of famous guitar sounds from small amps

Does anyone know what amp Duane Allman used during the Layla sessions, my guess is that it's a champ as well?

Gibbons and beck use 100 watt marshalls live these days. Gibbons uses a mix of jcm800's and 1959SLP's. Though if you look at his gear you'll probably find a cardboard box with a speaker and some valves thrown in it. He's a real gear head and uses everything that you could ever dream of owning and everything you wish was never invented. Beck uses DSL's.
Claptons best work was through a jtm45 during his john mayall stint or plexi's during his cream years. Thats where woman tone came from, something he's been trying to get out of a strat ever since. Of course he was a very different player in those days and managed to get a bit of aggression into his playing before drink made him disappear into himself.

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Marshall stacks in the old days were most probably used to compensate for sub-par PA's. I think Hendrix also used Marshall stacks to create his signature sound i.e. feedback, his distortion (with the help of fuzz!). I do think that huge amps are the basis for modern rock, because they also sound best when cranked. Tell me one time at one point where you didn't dream of playing in front of a 100 watt stack cranked to the max.

Good loud bands: Cream, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin, etc.

Also i think that Monterey is one of Hendrix's non-sloppy performances. Take a look at Killing Floor.

BTW, he uses showman amps, too

On the other hand, i have one question: why did Clapton get bored of blowing his audience away with sheer power? Is it because it doesn't allow a variety of sounds?

-The Screamin' J

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CURRENT RIG:
2008 Squier bullet stratocaster modified with Rumpelstiltskin pickups -> Dunlop GCB-95 Original Crybaby -> Fender Vibro Champ XD

"Could you take the stain from this pair of pants, and put in on this pair of pants?"

Nah i get more variety out of the clean channel on my jcm800 than my vibrochamp. Just by working the guitar controls. Something clapton was/is a master of. Just try and control a clapton strat for further proof. Its a very interactive control panel on that guitar. He stopped using them when he gave up the drink and drugs and began writing sub standard country songs. After he left blind faith.

Hendrix used lots of amps. Fender, sunn, soundcity. He was never happy with the sound out of any of them so went back to marshall. He usually tried other brands when in the us because shipping 5 marshall stacks (his 3 and reddings 2) was too expensive for mike jeffery's. Plexi's would have been super rare outside of england at the time.

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Lemmy from motorhead was his roadie. Well more of a 'go and get me some acid' guy.

I heard that about his views on amps, couldnt substantiate it though. He used a p90 equipped V into a bassman for axis. Not the swirly patterned V he used live around may 70. There was a twin used on ladyland too. Any exact info on that in the biog' Jay?

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These days I am all about no amp at all!! I have been using a Line6 POD XT LIVE run directly into the PA for almost a year now and couldn't be happier! I use a small 18 watt tube amp pointed directly at me as a personal stage monitor just so I can hear myself. It's nice to not have to lug around my old Marshall that just seemed to get heavier every time I carried it. And now I have about any classic amp sound I want through the POD!

It's certainly not the word of final authority on this, but for what it's worth I thought you might be amused to see what Pete Townshend said on this very subject (in the August 1994 issue of Guitarist magazine):


Cheers - C

Funny to think than when Chas asked Jimi to come to England early on, he asked if Fender amps were available there.