Guitar Amps

[Dronesandtones]

Sunn Beta mini also caught my eye, but for me hard to justify buying blind and with the shipping and the rest but it looks and sounds the business

[Pentagrimes]

You'd probably save money buying one of the Sunn Beta preamp pedals out there. Moose ocassionally does them locally, or there are various ones (EAR, Fuzzlord,Blue Colander, Kuro etc) that while not cheap would probably get you there cheaper than that amp

[Dronesandtones]

You'd probably save money buying one of the Sunn Beta preamp pedals out there. Moose ocassionally does them locally, or there are various ones (EAR, Fuzzlord,Blue Colander, Kuro etc) that while not cheap would probably get you there cheaper than that amp

Cheers for that. Was also curious about Wampler's pedalhead, their was a lot of hype for it around NAMM but nothing since, that I've seen.

[ochoill]

You'd probably save money buying one of the Sunn Beta preamp pedals out there. Moose ocassionally does them locally, or there are various ones (EAR, Fuzzlord,Blue Colander, Kuro etc) that while not cheap would probably get you there cheaper than that amp

I had a run of similar yokes (Amnesian) that I also keep putting off doing a re-run of, basically the back half / EQ section of a Beta Lead with a clean front end.  They are grand but work better with an OD in front of them.  Probably a sign to rebuild it with a boost built in lol

[decy]

You'd probably save money buying one of the Sunn Beta preamp pedals out there. Moose ocassionally does them locally, or there are various ones (EAR, Fuzzlord,Blue Colander, Kuro etc) that while not cheap would probably get you there cheaper than that amp

I had a run of similar yokes (Amnesian) that I also keep putting off doing a re-run of, basically the back half / EQ section of a Beta Lead with a clean front end.  They are grand but work better with an OD in front of them.  Probably a sign to rebuild it with a boost built in lol

If you do that you have one customer here anyway!
Been intrigued by those beta lead pedals, I see someone on Adverts has been selling handmade ones on and off.
Despite saying yesterday that I love having a small setup, I'm also very tempted to finally start running a bass amp and guitar amp (though a guitar in A through a bass amp has done me fine). Between all members of the band there are 4 sovtek heads floating around, but I still can't justify the boot space and back pain bringing them to smaller gigs. I might just make up a small plaque to put next to the small head that says 'My other amp is a mig100'.

[Shardknife]

I've still got my bigger amp, full size 5150 and a 4x12 but barely ever use that the last few years. I've done a few shows with a mooer baby bomb poweramp and a HX stomp instead of my big pedalboard aswell and it was fine. It wasn't as cool or fun as a big pedalboard and amp but it got the job done fine and I doubt anyone in the audience gave a fuck! It's nice to have such an easy load in aswell. I was worried the power amp might not be loud enough but never had an issue getting heard at the few rehearsals and shows I've used it. I will pick up one of the Harley benton pedal poweramps eventually as it's more power and takes a kettle lead.

For cover gigs I do I just run my guitar into a pedalboard with the hx stomp on it and DI that into the PA. These are low stakes gigs in a bar every month or so and it's great. I walk my guitar and rig to the shows, everyone in the band DI's and we can drink away and have a grand time.

[Dronesandtones]

resurrecting this for the craic..and because i'm about to have an Orange Dual Baby delivered in the next few days. I've had a Marshall origin 50  for the last while that I like but which wasn't quite what I wanted. Also I'm old and tired of lifting big amps so I'm more than happy to get something smaller and lighter. I rarely gig but it'll be nice to have something easier to carry when I do. Excited to try it out.

I got the gain baby a while back and have used it live a few times. Great compact amp. Stereo outputs so you can run two 4x12s. Takes pedals well too. I've run an empress heavy menace into clean channel.
Enjoy!
 

Tbh I think I might go for the gain baby, it seems to tick all of the boxes. Maybe a Jackson surfcaster to go along with it as well 

[Pentagrimes]

Yeah, haven't had a huge amount of time to put the Dual Baby through its' full paces yet as rehearsals ended up being cancelled but finally got it plugged in last night for an hour or so - sounds whopper on first play. Mainly using the A channel (which is similar to the Supercrush) and it sounds great - a bief foray into the more distorted Channel B was  ridiculous in terms of gain.

With the gain on the cleaner channel at half way and the volument at about 11 O'clock it was hefty enough that I had to put it on the floor next to the head because it was moving because of the vibrations off the cab.

So thumbs up, basically. Will delve into the gainier channel next week.

[moose]

I'm nearly full in on the Class D amps now. To the point I'm looking at building out a stereo/dual mono amp for myself. Currently using the Harley Benton Block 800 for power then my Cosmic Trigger and Sunn Beta Preamp for bass and an Jfet OR120 preamp for guitar.

I do still have at least three big valve amps that I'll never part with.

The dual amp I'm thinking Cosmic Trigger and JFET OR120 as I own both designs and I think they'll compliment each other well and make the whole thing usable for bass and guitar or both at once.

Both the Sunn Beta bass/lead and JFET OR120 preamps are available for custom order.

[Pentagrimes]

Actually I have a Harley benton GPA 100 I bought ages ago as a kind of emergency back up, must try running that and the Dual Baby together at some stage  for the craic.

Tube amps are great, but honestly, I don't really need one given I barely gig nowadays and wouldn't use it enough to justify the price.

Gonna have to buy bungee cords to strap this amp to the cab though

[Eoin McLove]

I went into the local music shop in my town and asked about the Orange Dual Baby. What is it with young lads over here, their only reference to metal is Slipknot. The dude (teenager) clocks my metal tshirt after I ask him about the head, and he says, oh yeah,  Slipknot use them!

I'm like... cool.

Then he goes, oh and eh... oh, emmm... SEVENDUST!

I go, cheers, and make for the door 

[Pentagrimes]

Good lord. Ah well, the hellchild likes both those bands so I can drop that in there next time she starts off about them ha!

[Eoin McLove]

I wouldn't mind having a muck about on one at some point. I reckon I could do with some new gear.

[Smythsonian]

Have been testing out a more portable/pedal based set up lately also,

Joyo Chopper-Z Preamp > Zoom G2 Four Multi Fx > Harley Benton GPA 100 into a 2x12 with v30's

Getting a great death metal tone out of it though I'm finding I have to crank the GPA near max to be heard at rehearsals, think the signal going into the power amp is a bit low so must experiment with boosting it.

[ochoill]

Yeah, haven't had a huge amount of time to put the Dual Baby through its' full paces yet as rehearsals ended up being cancelled but finally got it plugged in last night for an hour or so - sounds whopper on first play. Mainly using the A channel (which is similar to the Supercrush) and it sounds great - a bief foray into the more distorted Channel B was  ridiculous in terms of gain.

With the gain on the cleaner channel at half way and the volument at about 11 O'clock it was hefty enough that I had to put it on the floor next to the head because it was moving because of the vibrations off the cab.

So thumbs up, basically. Will delve into the gainier channel next week.

How clean does the A channel get?  I am also now looking at these but on the fence between the gain baby and dual baby.  It will be a few months before I get my hands on one but I am mostly sold on it now I think.