100W Electric Guitar Amp

Indigo_blues

Indigo_blues

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Hi there, can anyone recommend a versatile 100W guitar amp for a medium sized auditorium? Davis is selling their Marshall AVT100 for about slightly less than $1k.. are there any other amps i need to check out for around that range? Thanks!

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well.. .if you are going to mic it up ... a 30 watt tube amp will suffice. For solid state.. perhaps not even neccesary to go into the 100watt zone. A mid size audit will require proper P.A for everything to be heard clearly.

but if you really want a 100watt solid state. Do consider Smarvo (cheap) and Peavey amps.
 
ahhh, let me rephrase my question.. any good recommendations for an amp for around 1-1.5k? Cleans are important. Only need a light crunch tone. Won't be doing any too heavy distortions either. thanks!
 
if the auditorium has in-build PA, then a DI comes to mind... something like the Tech 21's SansAmp GT2 or Behringer's GDI-21...

if u'd prefer to use an amp direct well... not too sure bout that... wouldn't lugging it around be a headache?
 
MadWereWolfBoy said:
if the auditorium has in-build PA, then a DI comes to mind... something like the Tech 21's SansAmp GT2 or Behringer's GDI-21...

if u'd prefer to use an amp direct well... not too sure bout that... wouldn't lugging it around be a headache?
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It's going to be a semi-permanent item in the hall(its not for me personally) so even if its big its ok. Not going to lug it anywhere...
 
personally i tink the smarvo amps are quite crap..... If its a medium sized auditorium you'll prolly have PAs and monitors on stage. Your Better off getting a 30 to 50 watt tube combo and mic it up, you'll get the same vol as a 100watt SS amp even if your not micing it. You won't change tubes like strings every other week, you prolly only change your tubes once a year or so, but SS amps are really no maintence and if changing tubes once in a while bothers you thn get an SS amp but thats a price to pay for a better tone.
 
guitar77 is selling their JCM900 for 1.7, if you can, bargain them down to 1.5 and you've got yourself a huge half stack...
 
5f you want sweet cleans, then the Twin's your baby and you can easily get a second hand one for less than $1.5k. If you want Marshall crunch then try and get a JCM800 combo, the original 1980s ones. The 50 watt version is best and plenty loud enough, only five tubes too. There are a couple that have been on Luthers and around the past couple of months and they are very sturdy amps. Get one if you can.

cheers,

Mark.
 
mudmechanic said:
5f you want sweet cleans, then the Twin's your baby and you can easily get a second hand one for less than $1.5k. If you want Marshall crunch then try and get a JCM800 combo, the original 1980s ones. The 50 watt version is best and plenty loud enough, only five tubes too. There are a couple that have been on Luthers and around the past couple of months and they are very sturdy amps. Get one if you can.

cheers,

Mark.
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If we have time we'll check out the 50w marshall at luther's too. Thanks for the suggestion man. Are they also less than $1.5k?
 
ciel21 said:
personally i tink the smarvo amps are quite crap..... If its a medium sized auditorium you'll prolly have PAs and monitors on stage. Your Better off getting a 30 to 50 watt tube combo and mic it up, you'll get the same vol as a 100watt SS amp even if your not micing it. You won't change tubes like strings every other week, you prolly only change your tubes once a year or so, but SS amps are really no maintence and if changing tubes once in a while bothers you thn get an SS amp but thats a price to pay for a better tone.
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yes we have 4 stage monitors + house speakers. Currently running through a yamaha 01v digital mixer for the house mix. Our regular setup includes drums, bass, keyboards, flute (miced of course), and the guitars, excluding the vocalists, of which we usually have 3 or 4. We are lacking in a nice guitar amp. For bass we have a hartke bass combo which is pretty decent. We run our acoustic guitars through the stage monitors which is not a problem but tone wise i think electric guitar still better to have its own amp. Currently, all our guitarists have their own multi-efx which they plug directly into the system through DIs. If we do get a nice amp, we'll probably be micing it up too.

thanks for all the suggestions.. cheers! The fender sounds like the deal... :lol: :lol:
 
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