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Post subject: Good amps for $100-$200?
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:43 am
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I need (do not want, literally need) a new amp. Can you guys recommend some good amps in this price range? Any brand is fine.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:48 am
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Browse Craigslist (with your mom's permission, you're like 14, right?) and find a good Peavey combo amp from the 80s. I highly recommend an Envoy 110.

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One of these. The other ones suck. This is by far the best solid state amp I've ever played through.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:29 am
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What's wrong with your Frontman 25


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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:37 am
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an old friend bought a peavey backstage that i used to use when iwent over his place for 100 bucks a while back.. nice amp for the price and very loud. i bought a newer cambridge reverb for a couple hundred a few years back. nice little amp. and also got a used vox pathfinder for a hundred that was ral nice. its all in what you want everyone has different preferences. i like my amps to be clean as possible and if i want to dirty up may sound i use pedals.


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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:14 am
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tbazzone wrote:
What's wrong with your Frontman 25


Good question. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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My little guitar/bass amp and overdrive/distortion effect maker (in Texas Red!!!). It's the Fender Frontman 25R, and this thing, despite the size, is a killer. Normal volume on 4 is enough to make the house shake, and don't even get me started with Overdrive volume on 2. On TWO it will literally knock things off shelves and break glass. It's my one and only amp, but it's all I am going to need for years to come. Thank you, Fender, for making this quality amp. (Sorry for huge photos)

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:32 am
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Don't know if they really made it over there or not, but you can't go wrong with a used Award Sessionette 75 - cheap as anything now, but you'd be surprised just how many platinum selling albums they've been on. Great sounding little things.

Loud enough to cope with pretty much any gig as well - not to mention pretty hilarious when playing with another guitarist with a 100w 4x12" rig, and having to turn down your tiny little carpeted 1x12" solid state box just to avoid drowning him out entirely. :lol:


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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 1:23 pm
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In that price range, even on craigslist, you are talking solid state. So the question then becomes:

1. Regular amp vs a modeling or effects onboard amp?
2. Practice sized vs. giggable-sized?

For solid state modeling/effects amps you could do a lot worse than a Fender Mustang (the V2s are now out and therefore people are selling their V1s for next to nothing - you can score a V1 Mustang III for under $200 used easily.) Also the VOX Valvetronix amps are quite nice and can be had used under $200 all day long. Also Line 6 Spider IIs, IIIs and even some solid state IVs are all over CL in that price range... good versatile amps for that kind of money.

If you are wanting a tube amp and only need it as a practice amp, you might find some low wattage tube amps like a VOX AC4TV or Epiphone Valve Jr. for under $200. But in that price range I would go for a higher wattage solid state amp with some effects and modeling versatility.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 1:28 pm
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Vulpinity wrote:
Don't know if they really made it over there or not, but you can't go wrong with a used Award Sessionette 75 - cheap as anything now, but you'd be surprised just how many platinum selling albums they've been on. Great sounding little things.

Loud enough to cope with pretty much any gig as well - not to mention pretty hilarious when playing with another guitarist with a 100w 4x12" rig, and having to turn down your tiny little carpeted 1x12" solid state box just to avoid drowning him out entirely. :lol:




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The British Solid State Mesa Boogie

They had the supremely usable ability to have the distortion channel and clean channel on at the same time making for some very deep sounds

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 1:40 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
tbazzone wrote:
What's wrong with your Frontman 25


Good question. :lol: :lol: :lol:

M1KE wrote:
My little guitar/bass amp and overdrive/distortion effect maker (in Texas Red!!!). It's the Fender Frontman 25R, and this thing, despite the size, is a killer. Normal volume on 4 is enough to make the house shake, and don't even get me started with Overdrive volume on 2. On TWO it will literally knock things off shelves and break glass. It's my one and only amp, but it's all I am going to need for years to come. Thank you, Fender, for making this quality amp. (Sorry for huge photos)

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:35 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
tbazzone wrote:
What's wrong with your Frontman 25


Good question. :lol: :lol: :lol:

M1KE wrote:
My little guitar/bass amp and overdrive/distortion effect maker (in Texas Red!!!). It's the Fender Frontman 25R, and this thing, despite the size, is a killer. Normal volume on 4 is enough to make the house shake, and don't even get me started with Overdrive volume on 2. On TWO it will literally knock things off shelves and break glass. It's my one and only amp, but it's all I am going to need for years to come. Thank you, Fender, for making this quality amp. (Sorry for huge photos)

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My parents got divorced and I don't want to lug around the amp back and forth between the two houses.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:52 pm
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Sorry to hear that, I see little champs on CL around $75, and frontman25 around the same price. Shop there, but as someone said earlier if you are that young, involve a parent for the meet. Not sure where you live, but in my area there is a frontman 25, a champ 300, and a princeton for all within you price range, a few of them even cheaper. Anyway check CL in your area, and if you have questions post the link here, and we'll try to help you out.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:15 pm
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Hey guys I looked up amps on CL and didn't find many things in my price range. However I did find an 80s Marshall 5005, made in England. $125. Is this a good deal? I'll keep looking anyway.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:18 pm
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Talk him down. It's not the best deal on an amp like that. I'd throw a $100 dollar bill on it if you like it enough. PLAY THROUGH IT FIRST. Mess with every knob, switch, and jack.

Hey, maybe if you like it enough, it'l over take your FM. It happens with amps.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:24 pm
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It sounds good and all, but I'm not sure if it has things like reverb or a trem (which might be desirable to you)

Get it if you can dial a tone you like.

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Lead 12, 12watt amp. Probably the first serious bedroom practice amp. Somewhat collectable now. Very collectable in years to come.

Get it, don't play it, sell it in a few years.

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