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Small Amps - Great Sound (Part 2)

By Andy | November 27, 2008

Ok I think I’m getting closer with the amp, but as ever I’ve been thinking a little too hard about what I want and inevitably I’ve gone down the ‘what if it could do this route’.

What I want is to prove a point. I’ve come to the conclusion recently that most guitar players in church only need about 7-8 watts in a small, easy to carry and great sounding tube amp which they can change sounds and colour with a few well chosen pedals. A well built 7 watt tube amp can compete with a drummer and be driven hard enough at church volumes to sound like it should without the sound man, backing vocalists and Pastor all saying ‘can you turn it down please?’ So many of us have bough the amp of our dreams only to find we can just about turn it up to 1.5 in the worship band.


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Small Amps - Great Sound

By Andy | October 2, 2008

One of my missions in life is to get guitarists involved to consider buying a low wattage tube amp instead of aspiring to their favourite valve icon (some say I should get involved with more meaningful topics!). I’ve owned most of the most of the stuff that every guitarist wants including a 64 JMI AC30, a blackface Fender Twin, a 100watt Marshall 2203 stack + plus some nice boutique stuff.

Now while whilst these all sound great, every amp has the two very same problems. First to get any tube amp to sound at its best, even when you want just a clean sound, it needs to be turned up. In fact it needs to be WAAAYY louder than in any church I’ve ever played (with the exception of a couple of outdoor stadium services) and second, all the above are so flipin’ heavy to carry that even if you don’t get a bad back you’ll get fed up pretty quick unless you have an army of groupies/roadies/interns.


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