Good bedroom amp (thinking of Vox VT20+)

[firefox87]

Hello all! I just want to get some opinion before I make my purchase on a Vox VT20+. Is there any users of this amp? Some feedbacks will be greatly appreciated.

Anyway, is there any other amps that I should consider apart from this amp? the factor that really attracted me to this amp is the tube driven circuit and not forgetting the LOADS of presets!! for the price of $196 at citymusic, it feels damn worth it.. even so, i'm not sure if this amp is an overkill for just a practise/bedroom amp.

 

[I_M_Ken]

Tech21 Trademark 30 is a good bedroom amp if you dont need to connect all your pedals together to just practice.
Has its own build in gain in different modes. I dont think there's any small solid state amp better than this, IMO.

Also then depends if you wanna go tube or solid, high gain kinda amp or great cleans tones, built in efx would seem preferable from your post, etc etc So more details would be good.

As for the VT20+ never tried, however amps with built in effects (like everything..chorus, gain, high gain, flanger, etc), dont usually sound too good. Rule of thumb though, always try it and hearing it out before buying it. The way we perceive nice sounding tones is really up to individual preference.
While at City Music you can also try out different amps they have there.. well, probably only line6's spider series, but at least theres some sort of comparison.

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

personally, i prefer cabs fitted with bigger speaker drivers as they give significantly more oomph to the low end. the vt20+ is fitted with a 8-inch driver, it's the smallest of the three most common sizes for guitar cabs, namely 8", 10" and 12". this is similar to a vox path finder and from past experience with this amp, it sounds good when you play it by itself, but pales in comparison when it's put side by side with amp cabs fitted with larger speakers.

if you can fork out $50 more, i would highly recommend considering the VT40+ or a Spider IV 30. there's no such thing as overkill for solid state modelling amps because they can sound good at pretty low volumes, whereas for tube amps, they need to be cranked to a certain volume to reach their maximum potential.

 

[dodgethis]

whereas for tube amps, they need to be cranked to a certain volume to reach their maximum potential.

My JVM already sounds very good at the levels I play at in my bedroom, no need to crank it up any further. Moreover, modern tube amps get most of the distortion and tone stacking from the pre-amp sections, unlike the older tube amps that did not have a master volume control.

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

true about the pre-amp. i'm using a ht-5 too for bed room practise and it sounds great at low volumes, but i had used it for jamming sessions in studios and a gig at a large hall and i realised putting the post gain past 12 o'clock opened up the response of the amp in slightly overdriven mode. i don't think i'll ever hit that kind of volume for room practises though cause it was way to loud.