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Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:55 pm
by oldangelmidnight
You'd never want to gig with it but for around the house, I love the Yamaha THR10C.
The Deluxe sound is really good. It takes pedals well.
It's really nice for recording. Very customisable with the computer editor and it works as an audio input device if you're recording on a computer.
It can run on batteries if you want to play in the backyard or whatever.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 11:17 pm
by rfurtkamp
Yea, I used SF and BF champs with SS rectifiers (they came out around that same time) for max headroom.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 11:22 pm
by ancientbones
rfurtkamp wrote:Yea, I used SF and BF champs with SS rectifiers (they came out around that same time) for max headroom.
Aren't there like replacement rectifier tubes that are solid state? Think I could stick one of those in a champ and get more clean out of it?
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 11:31 pm
by rfurtkamp
Yea, that's what I used. You couldn't find any current production rectifier tubes back in the late 80s/early 90s that didn't die almost instantly under load, hence the sudden production of drop-in "copper-cap" type stuff.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 11:32 pm
by rfurtkamp
One word of warning on any of the old Fender stuff - check the fuse. Check the fuse.
It *must* match (slo-blo of the right ampage) or bad things happen, and over the last 50 years or so you never know what was swapped in.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:38 am
by Bon Hoga
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:49 am
by soapbars
I've got a couple of small amps for bedroom playing, either one of these:
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 8:45 am
by blakestree
Umm, WEM so sexy.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:45 am
by ancientbones
That WEM is sick looking.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:04 am
by soapbars
It's like new, and that's because my Grandad bought it new in the early 70s.
I've had a couple of years, it only goes to 8, but that's fine by me.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:27 am
by rfurtkamp
My HRD goes to 12, you can borrow a couple and I can still go to 10.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:28 am
by soapbars
I have a sound city that goes to 12, or it used to, all the numbers wore away.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:07 pm
by frodog
Bon Hoga wrote:
Nice bedroom set-up. While I don't play guitar in bed, I have a chance to buy a TS-15 right now... it's between that and a Marshall Master Lead Combo from the early '80s.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:25 pm
by Bon Hoga
Get the Traynor.
Re: Bedroom/recording amps?
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:23 pm
by Gone Fission
frodog wrote:It's between that and a Marshall Master Lead Combo from the early '80s.
The Lead 12 model 5005? Fun little amp, including at bedroom levels. The high gain input does a pretty good go of the JCM-800 sound, and the low gain input does surprisingly good clean to pushed 60s Marshall sounds and plays well with pedals while doing so. Sellers who know what they are charge to much, but sellers who don't have a clue that there's a fandom will let them go for peanuts.