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Jan 28 2010 10:00am
or a blackheart little giant/ant
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Jan 28 2010 10:46am
Quote (juliusjuice @ 27 Jan 2010 19:28)
how could i forget. epiphone tube amps are pretty damn nice for the money.

buddy got an "epiphone valve junior tube amp" i was blown away considering it was like $130


how exactly does this work?
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Jan 28 2010 12:46pm
i would advise against the valve jr.

It is a tube amp, 5 watts. But it only has a volume knob. There is no equalizer or gain knob. So you will need to turn it up to max for any type of distortion and even for 5 watts it will be plenty loud. And how it sounds is how it will sound no matter what you do to it (unless you plan on buying pedals but if you are gonna spend more you may as well buy an amp that gives you more options)

I would suggest you look into something with gain and eq. The hodrod deluxe and deville have this and so does the blackheat little giant.
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Jan 28 2010 01:05pm
Quote (aokmaster15 @ 28 Jan 2010 11:46)
i would advise against the valve jr.

It is a tube amp, 5 watts. But it only has a volume knob. There is no equalizer or gain knob. So you will need to turn it up to max for any type of distortion and even for 5 watts it will be plenty loud. And how it sounds is how it will sound no matter what you do to it (unless you plan on buying pedals but if you are gonna spend more you may as well buy an amp that gives you more options)

I would suggest you look into something with gain and eq. The hodrod deluxe and deville have this and so does the blackheat little giant.


i currently have a couple pedals.. but yeah there no knob for bass mid and treb so i guess its not that good?
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Jan 28 2010 03:42pm
Quote (aokmaster15 @ Jan 28 2010 01:46pm)
i would advise against the valve jr.

It is a tube amp, 5 watts. But it only has a volume knob. There is no equalizer or gain knob. So you will need to turn it up to max for any type of distortion and even for 5 watts it will be plenty loud. And how it sounds is how it will sound no matter what you do to it (unless you plan on buying pedals but if you are gonna spend more you may as well buy an amp that gives you more options)

I would suggest you look into something with gain and eq. The hodrod deluxe and deville have this and so does the blackheat little giant.

watch the demo/go try it for yourself. one of the coolest practice amps ive ever seen. as you turn the knob the tone also changes, very interesting and sounds freaking amazing.
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Jan 28 2010 03:49pm
yea ive played one before, not for very long but im not saying its bad. The tone changes because frequencies dont increase in perceived volume equally so as you turn the volume some frequencies will sound louder than others hence the perceive change in tone.
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yea ive played one before, not for very long but im not saying its bad. The tone changes because frequencies dont increase in perceived volume equally so as you turn the volume some frequencies will sound louder than others hence the perceive change in tone.


can i run this into another amp with knobs?
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Jan 28 2010 06:43pm
no, never run one amp into another
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Jan 28 2010 08:28pm
Mesa triple rectifier
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Mesa triple rectifier


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