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i was wonder whats a good electic gutiar amp thats has a lot of effects,yet that sound decent. price range is about $300, give and take $50.
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Originally Posted by justincase711 i was wonder whats a good electic gutiar amp thats has a lot of effects,yet that sound decent. price range is about $300, give and take $50. Check out the Roland Cube amps and the Vox Valvetronix amps...thuogh they might be more of modeling amps than effects amps.
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Originally Posted by justincase711 i was wonder whats a good electic gutiar amp thats has a lot of effects,yet that sound decent. price range is about $300, give and take $50.
Yeah; it will help if we know what you'll be using it for.
Also, what style of music do you play? ...and are you grouping 'distortion' as an effect?
Originally Posted by thesteve Check out the Roland Cube amps and the Vox Valvetronix amps...thuogh they might be more of modeling amps than effects amps.
Yeah, the Vox seems to be a modeling amp with effects thrown in as an after thought (although they are all fairly nice). Its got the basics; reverb, delay, chorus, tremelo, phasor, flanger and compression.
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Originally Posted by tht00 Yeah, the Vox seems to be a modeling amp with effects thrown in as an after thought (although they are all fairly nice). Its got the basics; reverb, delay, chorus, tremelo, phasor, flanger and compression.
The Vox Valvetonix amp and effects pedalboard is Korg technology. I don't know if one company bought the other or they just made an agreement.
Also there's the Line6 SpiderII. But let the buyer be aware, stuffing all that amp, modelling, and effects technology into one neat package, and at that price point means compromizes were made. The effects aren't very configurable, but the companies did a fairly good job in setting them to be pretty good sounding with just a twist of a knob.
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Originally Posted by justincase711 i was wonder whats a good electic gutiar amp thats has a lot of effects,yet that sound decent. price range is about $300, give and take $50. You might be able to find a used Marshall AVT-50 or 100 in that range. I tried the 100 once. It's not a modeling amp like the Vox, and its effects are decent. Myself, I decided not to get an amp with onboard effects. I wanted a good inexpensive Tube amp and got a Carvin Vintage 16 for about $400 new. It has great tone and distortion, and has reverb. This left me free to add effects independently.
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Originally Posted by wwjdnow You might be able to find a used Marshall AVT-50 or 100 in that range. I tried the 100 once. It's not a modeling amp like the Vox, and its effects are decent. Myself, I decided not to get an amp with onboard effects. I wanted a good inexpensive Tube amp and got a Carvin Vintage 16 for about $400 new. It has great tone and distortion, and has reverb. This left me free to add effects independently. ehh...the AVTs generally get bad reviews.
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If you like the modeling stuff, the Line 6 Spiders are decent. I back the reccomendations for the Rolands and the Voxes. The upper Epi Vallve series have chorus, delay, and flanger.
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The Line 6 Spider is probably the best sounding amp in it's price range. I use one every Sunday when I play at church. With a bit of tweaking, you can get some very usable sounds. It has four preset spaces too, so you can have quite a range of sounds at your disposal when playing.
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Originally Posted by tht00 Yeah; it will help if we know what you'll be using it for.
Also, what style of music do you play? ...and are you grouping 'distortion' as an effect? ill be using it mainly for praise&worship. i play though the main system, right now, but it sounds really bad. ya im grouping distortion as effects.
i was thinking about Vox AD30VT or the 50w
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Originally Posted by justincase711 ill be using it mainly for praise&worship. i play though the main system, right now, but it sounds really bad. ya im grouping distortion as effects.
i was thinking about Vox AD30VT or the 50w
I have the AD30VT. Very nice amp, great modeling (both cleans and distortion), and decent effects. The main downside is that you can only save 2 channels (use up to 3 channels with a footswitch).
Distortion on 'real' amps is not built as an effect. Distortion is something that happens as the tubes(or transistors) get fed a signal hotter than what they can actually amplify, resulting in a waveform that is clipped at the top and bottom. Usually, a gain control or volume control is used to control the volumes between gain stages (and thus the distortion level, if any).
In any even, modeling amps are a whole different moster; all you need to know about them is that they emulate (usually famous) amps, mimicing their tonal behavior and characteristics though digital methods. Tonally, everything is most likely done with code and a microprocessor, rather than analog (tubes/transistors). Digital can be good or bad, depending how it is designed.. but any analog amp can be just as good or bad; it is all about design.
Anyway, the 30w version should be more than enough for anything your wanting to use it for. I wouldn't want the 50w at all... its just that much bigger, and I wouldn't want to lug it everywhere. and I used my 30w for church all the time (unmiked - 200 or so people) easily. Maybe I would use 1/4 of the volume. For winter percussion, I only used 1/2 master volume and was plenty loud. I've only pushed it to full power a couple times... more than enough for nearly anything. The only advantage you might get with the 50w is the 12" speaker rather than the 10"... I would save the $ and the hassle and go 30w (if you go down this path).
Keep in mind that I haven't played the Line6 spider or Roland cubes, so I can't tell how they compare.
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I have the Line 6 SpiderII 210. It's a 60 watt amp that I got for $300 (usual price at guitar center, musiciansfriend, etc.). It's great, and so far I don't have any complains. I bought the FBV2 footpedal for $30, and I use it whenever I play. With tax, it'll add up to probably $360-370, but I'd say it's worth it. And it has enough sound for any place small enough that you wouldn't be micing.