OK Guitar guys,,,, I need a small guitar amp. What should I get?!

[pan60]

Originally Posted by Uncle GroOve

Man...don't take it so personally, I'm not trying to stir up a sh*tstorm or anything.


Best...

nothing personal just saying to make a amp of that quality and pay your rent the price ain't bad at all.
and when you see the build quality and realize what the amp is you find it is nothing short of a bargain.
i have put a few clone amp together but it is just not worth my time to do and i would bet many lack the time or possibly the skill and would prefer just to get a amp already ready to rock, or jazz, or what ever.
but trust nothing personal.

[FFTT]

It's all about having the best tools of the trade at your disposal.

You kinda need 4 basic amps anyway to cover most of the tonal spectrum.

These smaller 5-30 watt amps earn their keep in your sonic arsenal.

Just look at the top 5 all time studio amps thread and you see numerous
smaller pro studio amps along with the vintage stuff.

[RCM - Ronan]

Another Jule Amps owner here.

I have the 12 watt Brenda K, and I have no problem saying that it is the best recording amp that I have ever used. About 90% of the records I have done in the last year (as a producer), the guitar player of the band and I have decided to use the Brenda K over all of the amps the band brought into the studio. This has been the case with funk, hard rock, singer songwriter.... The current record I am doing right now is a band that is sort of like Tool meets Incubus and the Brenda K is about 90% of the guitar sounds, and the guitarist is planning on buying one once the record is done.

The Brenda K (head used with a boogie cab) and a Maxon OD9 (tube screamer) pretty much cover all my bases. The two things I can not get out of the Brenda K are insane Nu Metal scooped crunch, and ultra clean bell like tones. I use a old Rivera for the ultra clean, and borrow stuff in the few times I need Nu Metal sounds.

Jule's prices are higher than most PCB printed in China amps, but when you compare them to other boutique amps and considering that it is one guy in a shop building everything by hand, with beautiful woodwork, the prices are pretty reasonable.

The Cool thing also is that Jule Amps is "Jule". There is no staff or anything, and he is so obsessed about making amps that people love that you can talk with him about what your into and what sort of tone you dig, even what sort of wood you think it pretty and he can build you one from scratch based on your input. Since his shop is only about 100km from my studio, after I got mine I was able to have him tweak it a little to my taste.

I had a client from Italy over here and after playing my Jule, he ordered two.

[Fretbored]

I'm the idiot that didn't check the date of this thread. Whoops. I think I'll invite my old school friends over to finish that basketball game from '89.

[FFTT]

That's OK, lots of options to choose from in smaller amps, so it's always a subject worth discussion.

[GPl]

I'd like to add the 5w Swart. Sweet little amps for sure.

[FFTT]

There are so many really great amps to choose from.

It really all comes down to personal needs and taste oh and that budget thing.

$1,200.00-$4,500.00 easily for anything really special hand wired.

Then you have to look at pure Class A options with and without self bias and or effects onboard.

Then consider Class AB when you need more volume and greater clean headroom.

1 or more channels, master volume, foot switchable clean-dirt.

and then what kind of clean and what manner of dirt.

I'm already buying my 4th amplifier this year.

THEN you get into speaker enclosures and that's another tone quest in itself.

Best to have deep pockets when you're configuring a versatile sonic arsenal.

The best little screamers are all straight Class A matched with a wee powerful 8" 10" or 12"

I'm learning one amp at a time.

Still might mod my Valve Jr one day, but the one I'm having built is the priority.

The final draft is getting close and we're just down to locating the aluminum trim to go around the faceplate.

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[GregoryC]

Originally Posted by Nevelicious

I am looking for a 1x12 or smaller amp with some huge clean tones and some vintage burn to her + a great verb. I have been out of the loop for awhile and have not heard too much so I need some suggestions on what to look at. I actually heard a Fender Blues Junior that sounded good... this is the Jensen equipped one. Any others that I should check out..... I play classic era feeling rock, blues, jazz and funk.

NO HEAD/CABs please... just a small combo.

you MUST check out www.swartamps.com AST Tube reverb & tube trem 3D sound